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frafraon Transform your Android device into a Linux desktop

I just plugged a USB-C docking station, and I can almost use the smartphone as a standalone computer, if it wasn't for the very low resolution that Android decided to use for the external monitor. It does not look like this is configurable on Android, isn't it? Has anyone tried this kind of setup?

frafraon MdBook – A command line tool to create books with Markdown

You might be interested in https://kroki.io and https://github.com/JoelCourtney/mdbook-kroki-preprocessor.

frafraon The lesson about the end of nuclear in Germany

"Nuclear requires the huge volumes of storage/flexible capacity provided by large scale hydro": sorry, what?

frafraon Oliver Stone Releases Trailer for His Pro-Nuclear Energy Movie

IPCC AR6 synthesis report shows otherwise: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/static/2f8a061eaef8dbfc9c.... The graph considers the effect of various actions and technologies in reducing emissions before 2030, and the estimated costs. Nuclear is there, even if building new reactors would have a limited effect before 2030, but we would still need to further reduce emissions afterwards.

frafraon Analog computing may be coming back

Almost one year ago, Veritasium interviewed https://mythic.ai/ in one of his videos on YouTube: https://youtu.be/GVsUOuSjvcg?t=898.

frafraon Pip and cargo are not the same

pdm is almost a drop-in replacement for Poetry, while being much faster on solving dependencies; look for "A Review: Pipenv vs. Poetry vs. PDM" if interested, or try it on your project.

frafraon GeoServer is an open source server for sharing geospatial data

I would also like to share https://pygeoapi.io/ which relies on the new OGC API standard to share geospatial data.

frafraon How to improve Python packaging

I would like to add that PDM also supports having multiple dependencies groups, and the developer is superfast at fixing issues.

frafraon Shell script best practices, from a decade of scripting things

Thank you, you are right. SIGTERM and SIGINT then :) https://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/sect_12_02.ht...

frafraon Shell script best practices, from a decade of scripting things

Define a cleanup function to nicely handle SIGTERM/SIGKILL/... maybe?

frafraon Ask HN: Any open source stack exchange clone

Latest release is from 2015: https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel/tags.

frafraon Ask HN: Any open source stack exchange clone

I tried that. Containerized setup require running a custom script of theirs using root. The Docker image is a monolith running multiple servers and database within it. Those are a dealbreaker for many sysadmins, unluckily.

frafraon Freezing Requirements with Pip-Tools

I tried, thanks! :) And I also suggest to evaluate PDM https://pdm.fming.dev/

frafraon How Google got to rolling Linux releases for Desktops

Firewall bypass. Terrible performances when using Docker while accessing files stored on a Windows folder.

frafraon MIT scientists think they’ve discovered how to fully reverse climate change

The goal is not to maintain an ideal temperature and stop the world from changing, but having the climate changing too rapidly, because many animals and plants do not have the time to adapt. This is why a 2~3 degrees changes over a century is way more dangerous than an ice age that took various thousands of years to happen.

frafraon Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy

There were no plans and decisions on the taxonomy regarding gas or nuclear before, which is part of the Commission action plan on financing sustainable growth. The taxonomy still needs a final vote to pass, actually, and it does not replace any previous taxonomy or regulation. Check your sources before moving accusations.

frafraon Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy

It is a definition, which is needed when you need to make plans and decisions, as in any other case. It does not mean that reality changes because of an agreement, of course, even if mixing the two might be tempting when trying to discredit politicians as a whole. That is an evergreen :)

frafraon Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy

"Essentially pausing the whole green energy effort for the next 8 years (at least)" [citation needed]

It is green energy as long as the criteria are met. Even solar could be not considered green, depending on where you set the emission bar. There is no black and white. There is a long transition process, with timelines, budgets and targets. Rules on gas are very strict. The regulation is an improvement. Some countries prefer to rely on gas than on nuclear, and there isn't much that the commission can do.

frafraon Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy

From the article: "gas-fired plants built through 2030 will be recognised as a transitional energy source as long as they are used to replace dirtier fossil fuels such as oil and coal."

"The technical screening criteria ensure that any new gas-based power/heat plant (or refurbished combined heat and power plant or heat/cool plant) is either below the technology-neutral 100g CO2/kWh life-cycle emission threshold (i.e. using Carbon Capture and Storage technologies) or meets a number of stringent conditions and obtains a construction permit by 2030." -- Questions and Answers on the EU Taxonomy Complementary Climate Delegated Act covering certain nuclear and gas activities

frafraon I disabled WiFi on the new Samsung fridge

I know, there are plenty of cases (and this is why we should defend our rights and support associations like https://noyb.eu/ in my opinion), but I would object that having an app, running on an always-connected smartphone, which register and share data, poses a potential higher risk than an embedded device with a much smaller task that is tested and validated before being sold on the market. There is almost no data record in this case, thus a leak would have a minimal impact, while a backdoored/tampered/non-compliant hardware would still be problematic, but less likely (hopefully).

Your previous car could have had a non-compliant implementation, but it could be that the system run a passive network scanning from time to time, without trying any connection, just because it would be way faster to connect to a network and send a message if there is an up-to-date list of the compatible available operators. Having a better understanding about the specifics of the various implementation would be interesting. The devil is in the details :)

frafraon I disabled WiFi on the new Samsung fridge

It would still need to respect EU privacy regulations (as any other instrument, of course), which include consent. Nobody is forcing you to be tracked.

frafraon I disabled WiFi on the new Samsung fridge

Sure, so? Is that mandatory? No. Would it require explicit user permission? Yes, as any other device or service in EU. The user or the manufacturer always have the ability to put extra devices which do whatever, if they respect the current regulations. This has nothing to do with having eCall installed by default.

frafraon I disabled WiFi on the new Samsung fridge

The device is built and tested according to some well-defined specifics; it is not connected to the network, and it is not capable of recording more than 3 positions and send them if an accident occurs, as well as establishing a phone call. Anything else is a violation perpetrated the manufacturer, as well as faking the specific tests that are formulated to check if the device is compliant: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:32...

Abuses can always happen, and we should put reasonable checks in place to avoid them. Is the current regulation good enough to minimize the risk of having them? I hope so.

frafraon I disabled WiFi on the new Samsung fridge

As reported, installation of such device is mandatory (first link), but it does not need to be active. This is why some car manufacturers disable it upon request (see the third link). I mean, BMW and Porche disable that if requested.

Devices that allow tracking when no accident occurred, violate the current regulation. This is stressed multiple times. "not connected to the mobile phone networks until a serious accident happens" -- https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection/document/5963

"it is not permanently connected to mobile networks" -- https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/fr/MEMO_1...

"not connected to the mobile phone networks until a serious accident happens" -- https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection/document/5963

There is even a technical test to check if the device is compliant with the privacy regulations: "Procedure for verifying the lack of traceability of an eCall in-vehicle system", where the "Failure to establish the connection can be attributed to the 112-based eCall in-vehicle system not being registered on the network" -- https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:32...

Registering the SIM on the network before an accident occurred could be considered a violation indeed.

frafraon I disabled WiFi on the new Samsung fridge

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/security-and-em...

https://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/documentation/opinio...

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/general-discu...

It is mandatory to have it installed for new cars, but it looks like it can be disabled if the owner prefers to be left alone while dying, instead of calling an ambulance :D

frafraon Makeabetter.computer – Microgrants for projects that make computers better

Correct URL: https://github.com/numcommand/num

frafraon Nixery – Docker images on the fly with Nix

Thanks for clarify your point.

> If you have two layers installing an individual packages like /nix/store/x and /nix/store/y, stacking them as [x, y] and [y, x] would result in the same docker image contents

This is an assumption which is valid for nix, but not for most of the package managers. Whenever such assumption can be considered correct, Dockerfiles can achieve similar results using multiple stages, but you would probably need a pre-processor to have a stage for each package. Something like an `INCLUDE` directive could help too: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/3378.

frafraon Sweden sends just 1% of its trash to landfills

Which part is false? "any kind of incineration" could be a broad definition, and I should have specified "any kind of incineration process compliant with modern regulation" maybe. I do not know about regulations in the US, but in EU they are pretty strict, thus incineration of non-inhert waste should be done (look for "Waste prevention and management" on the European Commission website)

EU waste legislation is based on false premises, according to your comment. There have been plenty of disasters related to landfill disposal. Complexity is also there, as a lot of chemistry happens and toxic subproducts can be generated, even if the waste is not toxic in the first place, just because of interactions with the ground. The sheets used to cover the ground are easy to scratch, costly to replace, and accidental damage is often ignored. Monitoring lasts for decades or more, with greenhouse emissions. The stability of the terrain under and over landfill could also change, as there are processes that run for a long time.

I would highly suggest attending a university course on waste management if your country allows you to do that for free and without registration.

frafraon Sweden sends just 1% of its trash to landfills

That is a big family of chemical compounds, so it is not easy to give an easy answer.

I think that you are referring to a specific subset, fluoropolymers, also called "forever chemicals", like PTFE/Teflon/Goretex. They do not release in the air the most studied PFAS (like PFOA) under controlled condition, but more studies are needed to see if the same happens in commercially run incinerators.

What is the alternative? Landfill. PFAS are more concentrated in landfills, which accept non-incinerated ashes/waste.

What seems to be a valid general guideline for incineration? The higher the temperature, the better.

I found a nice report if you are interested: "Disposal of products and materials containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): A cyclical problem"

frafraon Nixery – Docker images on the fly with Nix

> You can just download a bunch of packages in parallel, extract them in parallel, and finally "merge" the prefixes to get those combined bin/ and lib/ dirs.

docker pull achieves the same result: layers are fetched in parallel, and they are extracted using pgiz (parallel gzip). It just uses a pre-defined order, which does not harm performances, but it is not useful either in case nixery is used.