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s17tnet··on Firefox Enterprise
And yet, still no simple way to self host the their syncserver (syncstorage-rs) without the mozilla account abomination.
s17tnet··on Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy
Partially true, the largest uranium mines are in Canada, Australia and Namibia, but it is a commodity market and it is way more managable than oil market.

Also, you can stock pile uranium and forget about the market for ten years. Oil strategic reservers requires large infrastructures and usually last only few months.

s17tnet··on Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy
I doubt that number but it would be an improvement: the MW in Italy is far beyond 200 USD/MW in wholesole market.

Btw, it is not completely about price/MW but it is also about sovereignty and... No, there is no U mines in Italy but a commodity market is much more managable than the oil market.

s17tnet··on I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated
This is discussed here [0]. It is possible and there are a couple of options but there are some catches: LTE is UTC only, GNSS requires much power.

[0] https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/cheapest-way-to-get-datet...

s17tnet··on The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics
Users will have even have more dump devices and will be forced to use remote and cloud services.
s17tnet··on Googlebook
Their history of committment in supporting their hardware is too far from pleasing. I wouldn't touch Google hardware again (other than Pixels) with the tip of my toe.
s17tnet··on Rediscovering the Handcart
Stroller can be seen has specialised handcart.

There is a guy ( Nicolò Guarrera ) who completed a world tour by walk and his tool of choice to transport stuffs was a trekking stroller.

s17tnet··on Norway EV Push Nears 100 Percent: What's Next?
Good for them. Good for "the planet" (and uh... Tesla I suppose). But... most of incentives for the transition has been substantially funded by the nation's massive oil and gas revenues.

I wonder what they will do next with that obscene amount of money.

s17tnet··on Lego announces Smart Brick, the 'most significant evolution' in 50 years
This smells like DRM and planned obsolescence to me.
s17tnet··on The Unified IntelliJ Idea: More Free Features, Better Experience, Smoother Flow
In a side news, they announced the death of Fleet.

This is sad for me because I found it good enough to integrate it in my daily workflow.

I hope they at least consider to drop it on GitHub and allow people to give it a chance as community project.

s17tnet··on The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs against information asymmetry
This will be transient. Marketing and companies eventually will find a way to pollute LLMs to bend, comply to their strategies and fuck consumers.

SEO wasn't a thing before '97.

s17tnet··on Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI
Probably a "scramble suit" [0] or just a tshirt or hoodie with patterns engineered to escape AI recognition [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Scanner_Darkly [1] https://medium.com/data-science/avoiding-detection-with-adve...

s17tnet··on Linkwarden: FOSS self-hostable bookmarking with AI-tagging and page archival
https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox
s17tnet··on Maria Montessori
Families who choose Montessori school for their children usually avoid them have access smartphone, TV or internet in general.

Also, they are often in the wealthy, upper class so can enforce that kind on environment.

s17tnet··on Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphics with Linux support
What about sharing GPU across multiple VMs? Isn't Nvidia walled this feature behind unreasonably high price features?
s17tnet··on Jellyfin 10.10.0
Keep them airgapped or use a smart HDMI stick, their support typically outperform anything from the TV vendor and you can install apps (e.g. Jellyfin) on them. If you dislike Google or Amazon there are some Linux based options.

There is also HDMI over-radio but I don't know its limits (range, bandwidth, latency).

s17tnet··on New tech can make air-conditioning less harmful to the planet
Is this still true in 2024? AFIK, modern ( everything after 2010) ACs, pumps and refrigerator use ozone neutral gas like HFC.
s17tnet··on Live Objects All the Way Down: Removing the Barriers Between Apps and VMs
Pharo has this [0].

[0] https://pharo.org/features

s17tnet··on Apple's Blue Ocean
The productivity after the second screen decrease because the software sucks at support those configurations.

With specialized software ( multi track AV) and/or ad hoc setup ( e.g. deeply tuned Linux) the more the screens you throw at it, the better.

s17tnet··on Delta finds fake jet aircraft engine parts with forged airworthiness documents
Anecdtoal, my retired relative worked in civil avio jet engine industry and they got reports like that since mid-00.

Probably it is more common.

Highly regulated, certificated sector where a single bolt can be dozen time expansive "just" for a FAA approval is an honey jar.

s17tnet··on A place where no humans will tread for 100k years
I hope I won't spoil it (it is a book saga from decades ago) but that is a major plot point of Shannara cycle.
s17tnet··on Ask HN: Why are there no traditional language compilers that target the JVM?
HAXE also targets JVM [0] but it is not traditional.

https://haxe.org/manual/target-jvm-getting-started.html

s17tnet··on Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney
Technology is far from it yet but when I read about AI generated children's book, my thoughts go immediately to The diamond age's "Young Lady's Illustrated Primer: a Propædeutic Enchiridion".
s17tnet··on CernVM File System
Yep, I figured it out. I suppose your images are made of large dataset to crunch, for the most part and a smallish part with the R/python/whatever code do execute.
s17tnet··on CernVM File System
Digging their repos is interesting. They also proposed a docker driver to lazily download image bits as the files in the overlay are accessed [0] from CernVM-FS; they claim significant drop in process start up time.

[0] https://indico.cern.ch/event/567550/contributions/2627182/at...

s17tnet··on Ask HN: Why can’t I block all incoming calls that aren’t in my contact list?
Uh, I can do in my cheap old Moto G5 plus with almost-stock Android.
s17tnet··on InfluxDB 2.0 Alpha and the Road Ahead
They quote something like 8 grand-a-node. It is a bit off the the 'popular' zone.
s17tnet··on InfluxDB 2.0 Alpha and the Road Ahead
I totally agree, I am a developer too but their offering is outrageously expansive.
s17tnet··on Entering the next phase of Project Valhalla
Have you even considered OpenJDK and adoptopenjdk.net ?
s17tnet··on Ask HN: How do you backup your files without depending on a third party service?
I use duplicity for create, encrypt backups. To store them I use two USB SSD drives (in two separate locations); for off-site I use AWS' glacier.

The backups are scheduled with jobs in self-hosted Jenkins instances.

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