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solarpunk··on Montana Has More Cows Than People. Why Are Locals Eating Beef from Brazil?
in america the meat processing companies use prison labor paid in pennies an hour. (along with child labor)
solarpunk··on Montana Has More Cows Than People. Why Are Locals Eating Beef from Brazil?
inspections/regulations aren't the cost center here. the big guys (a 4 company cartel) get to use literal slave labor to do the butchering, processing, and packing.

meanwhile a local farm has to hire a local butcher.

solarpunk··on Montana Has More Cows Than People. Why Are Locals Eating Beef from Brazil?
processing.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2024/january/concentrat...

solarpunk··on Astronauts take shelter in Starliner, other spacecraft after satellite breakup
starting to see symptoms of something that could lead to Kessler Syndrome
solarpunk··on DoorDash and Pizza Arbitrage (2020)
I think doordash drivers have to pay for things like gas and cars.
solarpunk··on The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets
COOL
solarpunk··on Show HN: Lady Deirdre 2 – Rust Framework for Compilers and LSP Servers
I like the Alpha Centauri reference here lol.
solarpunk··on OpenBSD, the computer appliance maker's secret weapon
>Nix without Nix is what we need.

OStree exists and is used in lots of places: https://ostreedev.github.io/ostree/#operating-systems-and-di...

solarpunk··on Tesla's FSD – A Useless Technology Demo
whoa, welcome to the war on cars, hn.
solarpunk··on The ‘Network of Web Trees’ in Gaza
seems like a mix of both.
solarpunk··on The ‘Network of Web Trees’ in Gaza
I went to the NGO to see if there any further technical specifications to read about, it doesn't seem so: https://www.acs-italia.it/gazaweb-e-gli-alberi-della-rete/

it seems to be purely built upon cellular connectivity and hotspots!

I'm shocked there's no meshnet stuff involved here, but I suppose we can't see much details beyond the backbone, last-mile connectivity methods are probably extremely hodgepodge.

solarpunk··on The ‘Network of Web Trees’ in Gaza
this is pretty neat, reminds me of cuba's meshnet system.

i was wondering how all the efforts to buy gazan's eSIMs was going, this seems to be one of the results.

solarpunk··on Intel pauses work on $25B Israel fab
UNRWA has a pretty good breakdown of how much aid reaches IDPs here, it goes into better detail than the Israeli government site on this matter: https://www.unrwa.org/resources/reports/unrwa-situation-repo...

The ynetnews article you linked is one sentence with a link leading back to itself.

solarpunk··on Intel pauses work on $25B Israel fab
These articles are all from 3 or 4 months ago.

Which was prior to Israel's Rafah invasion.

solarpunk··on Intel pauses work on $25B Israel fab
I wouldn't be so hasty to say this, it's still underway.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip_famine

solarpunk··on The aging U.S. power grid is about to get a jolt
V2G solved this yeah: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-to-grid
solarpunk··on Microsoft AI spying scandal: time to rethink privacy standards
you are basically making the same old "digital fentanyl" argument that nancy fucking pelosi has been making for the last year.

it's just not that compelling.

solarpunk··on Civil society in Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland targeted with Pegasus spyware
trying to understand the BSD linkage here and I'm coming up empty
solarpunk··on GRC SpinRite
https://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/steve_gibson/

https://radsoft.net/news/roundups/grc/

https://radsoft.net/news/roundups/grc/20060123,00.shtml

solarpunk··on Ghosts in the Machine 2 [video]
tl;dw. lol.
solarpunk··on The Basque Country’s Mondragón Corporation is the largest industrial co-op
oh damn, I completely forgot about utility co-ops!

I'm envious of those, they're all over the state but they're only out in the sticks.

solarpunk··on The Basque Country’s Mondragón Corporation is the largest industrial co-op
I'm afraid I don't understand. My state is chock full of co-ops that compete with their corporate counterparts.

Hell, there's (at least) 3 separate co-op grocery stores in my city, they each compete with an Aldi, and multiple local grocery chains in their respective neighborhoods.

solarpunk··on Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles
we can probably skip prostrating at the rich's feet and just tax them and build nice shit.

if they don't want the tax they can hurry up and build the nice shit first.

solarpunk··on What Happens When Hyperscalers and Clouds Buy Most Servers and Storage?
If companies are seriously considering this, they should instead figure out how to distribute applications across their workstations to begin with, no need to distribute extra hardware if you can ensure security, connectivity, and uptime of a single laptop at each employees house.
solarpunk··on Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince buys local paper, feuds over mansion build
what do you mean?
solarpunk··on Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract with Israel's Government
Some still remember their old motto, I suppose.
solarpunk··on The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet
They're the ones that cost-cut the operations of aforementioned critical infrastructure to the point of it being so vulnerable...

Just look at catastrophes caused by PG&E in 2018, ERCOT in 2021, or First Energy in 2003. Not a single one was caused by an attack on critical infrastructure, they're just cutting corners!

solarpunk··on We need to rewild the internet
my friend has a thing that really fits the vibe of "digital gardens" well: https://greenhouse.server.garden/
solarpunk··on 350 tons of of chocolate and wine arrive on world’s largest cargo sailboat
all in all it's gotta be cheaper to ship time-insensitive things via a vehicle that consumes no fuel. I'm curious if they can turn around and monetize their lack of emissions thru some kind of carbon markets or whatnot
solarpunk··on EVs are lowering Bay Area's carbon footprint
Wasn't this one of the reasons behind the Amazon walkouts
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