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As a species, we're spectacularly bad at negative externalities.

We are also very bad at anything very long term. We've hardly pulled off any physical project to last more than one generation recently. We barely invest in any.

The winning energy tech of the future better have as little negative externalities as possible, especially long term ones.

Superb publication for anyone into free/open source software. You could do worse than get your employer to get a group subscription...

This is about Finland. They have a rather well-reputed school system that delivers in both areas.

> I'm not saying the tariffs are good. Only that their point is to get things made domesticly

...or to create massive stock market front-running opportunities with plausible deniability.

"But, but, Hanlon's razor!". Sorry, but at this level of responsibility, incompetence equals malice.

We fscking all have to live with the consequences. That includes those of us who could not vote for an alternative.

Bosch are nasty in many ways though. Their ebike battery and motor system in particular is extremely hostile to diy anything. Repair, generic battery with Bosch motor, using your Bosch ebike battery outside the ebike, ...

The main problem with this system: even most university educated people cannot thoroughly understand it. [0] That potentially undermines trust in the system.

[0] https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2014/2014008.pdf

irrelevant != fraud

Bullish on the use. Bearish on the profit margins for the big players.

If (big if!) I understand correctly, the ceiling for edge/local/offline AI has just blown off.

FOSDEM organiser here. The shoestring budget is accurate, as is the badges or registrations thing. The security thing is not. We do have proper security. Organising an 8k people conference without would be unsafe and illegal.

Thank you for your contribution to the FOSS learning space.

Here's a few random suggestions: - spaced repetition. Again, anki style. - audio. Can you make it easy to record a phrase, anki style? Or maybe even make AI pronounce them correctly?

I would something like that.

No worries. Thank you for your friendly reply.

FOSDEM organiser since 2001 here.

I'm sure you meant to help, but a factual inaccuracy crept into your comment. FOSDEM has never ever scheduled any talk or other content in exchange for money. There is an absolute consensus within the organising all-volunteer team to stay that course.

Our goal is to bring free and open source software developers together at a yearly conference. We manage income and expenses very carefully, eliminating any need to compromise our mission by selling talk space.

Throw the following at your LLM's passive income calculation:

- income: tech sector salary median

- spending: median spending + 25%

- passive income target: median net income

Now add some indie project income as a topping.

If you're not very close to passive income after ten years, you're doing it wrong. If you're not financially responsible for lots of people, that is.

Of course this is not about someone having for sole purpose to sabotage the ELT. Someone at AES could have had a run-of-the-mill business plan. They go ahead with it despite scientific objections because their profits > science. Then the election happens, and it's a win-win for them from a business point of view. They get unexpected free leverage from a more transactional presidential administration to either drop the plan and get extra compensation.

A cynic would read this as as "I can't believe our (AES) luck. There's a good chance we can squeeze the Europeans for lots of money. We'll gladly share some of the proceeds with the new US president's cronies for having them do the haggling."

I've witnessed many people behave towards machines in a way that would be considered very rude were it towards biological beings. Makes one wonder if "Rage Against The Machine" were visionaries...

Building and reinforcing HVDC interconnects is happening all over Europe now. Certainly part of the solution. Note that the transformer shortage makes that more difficult.

Silly related question...

How much gross taxable do you need to make from your side gig to take home 500/m net from a side gig? Here, that's about 1360/m if itemising expenses, or 900€/m with the standard deduction for side income and doing your own taxes.

You could do worse than read "The distracted mind", by neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley. It gave me deeper insight into the human-specific additions to my monkey brain.

"In 2022, a case was opened against him for promoting individuals guilty of genocide and war crimes after various comments on interwar far-right Iron Guard leader Corneliu Zelea Codreanu and former PM and marshal Ion Antonescu."

I don't claim to know all about this situation, but I do discern a recurring pattern that many IT professionals don't (want to?) realise:

Information technology is giving all kinds of actors leverage to exploit our human brain's fundamental shortcomings.

In this case, it's a fscking nazi sympathiser jumping to the fore of a presidential election from nothing.

Remarkable and ironic to me, these actors weaponise the powers of technology while often spitting at the scientific method underpinning them.

Small scale wind would be ideal for winter in our remote northern place. We have the space. Except the energy returns aren't there, and maintaining the moving parts is not trivial.

"Your love is more important to me than all those that died producing this ring."

I suppose it works for a specific kind of caveman.

OVH and reliable, in the same sentence? They're cheap, so suitable for projects you don't mind going poof.

Personal anecdote. A few years ago, I lost a lot of sleep on a domain renewal at OVH. Their incompetence was mind-boggling. A less common tld was the only slightly challenging bit. After a week of calling and emailing, and on the verge of the domain lapsing, I gave up and sent someone to the tld registry with cash.

Also, do search for OVH SBG2 should you have missed that.

The Baltics are disconnecting from the Soviet era BRELL grid with Russia and Belarus in two months [0].

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/baltic-countries-leave-...

I also heard this was partly to do with demand moving towards LiFePo4 batteries and their setup being completely unprepared for that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belaruskali comes to mind...

NATO filter blockade on Öresund?