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- Comment on What's up with all the "___punk" stuff? 4 months ago:
Thispunk.
- Comment on Billionaire bets big on largest solar project ever proposed to deliver power across oceans: 'At the forefront of the clean energy transition' 5 months ago:
I’d describe my feelings around the current solar boom as cautiously positive with a good sprinkle of skepticism.
I’d like to see billionaires investing in education towards self-regulating communities. I’d like to see them heavily investing in funding coops, not buying up startups. Billionaires investing in renewables means more money in billionaire’s pockets, because they will just sell the clean energy back to you for a profit while remaining the owners of everything and then some.
I’d carefully agree that more solar panels are good, but I’ve now lived through enough eco hypes to not have at least a few concerns. In the worst case we will now quickly and thoughtlessly plaster solar panels over hectares and hectares of useful farmland, important ecological reserves, and poor people’s homes, just because line go up. And probably trash them all in ten years when maintaining them proves too costly, or the next hype comes along. In the best case we actually start polluting less and use the time we buy to seek for more energy-saving ways of living in general.
- Comment on Billionaire bets big on largest solar project ever proposed to deliver power across oceans: 'At the forefront of the clean energy transition' 5 months ago:
No. I don’t want one giant Billionaire-backed project. I want a million small scale projects backed by local communities.
- Comment on Online Content Is Disappearing 5 months ago:
It’s a technological and a physical issue. We just can’t store every bit of information plus a picture of everyone’s cat. We can’t guarantee that no information ever gets lost. We’ve also not really stored and archived every shopping list, advertising, pamphlet, silly poem, ugly drawing etc. since the time of the printing press and that’s okay.
It might be a good idea to store and archive some written material as time passes but we want to be a bit picky about what we store. That said, I wouldn’t mind to find more shopping lists and less posh documents in museums.
- Comment on Online Content Is Disappearing 6 months ago:
Yeah, just like most material that was ever printed or carved into a clay tablet. It’s the way of things.
- Comment on Server as heating device - how do I do this? 6 months ago:
I wonder how to take on the efficiency question when considering waste heat. Would and older model generating more heat be the better choice? Has anybody started to dig into the complexities of calculating efficiency for circular systems?
- Submitted 6 months ago to diy@slrpnk.net | 24 comments
- Comment on Water is running again, ram pump installation year 2 6 months ago:
Hmm I would personally categorize both the portable hydro as well as the capsule as junk gimmicks. I would want something reliable and farm-worthy for permanent use.
- Comment on Water is running again, ram pump installation year 2 6 months ago:
I’ve looked into some models I can purchase, but haven’t played with them. I like the rams because they are so low tech even a stupid like me can handle them, and the energy supply is direct. The one I’ve set up the other day (dumped into the river and tied to a stick) is still pumping.
I also love solar thermal, for the same reason. To me it just seems to make more sense to develop tech that doesn’t transfer energy from one form into another a million times, because that is something pitifully underdeveloped in our electrical monoculture. That’s why I keep building and advertising the rams.
For my daily life micro hydro power would be a useful addition, really want to get into that when I have time.
- Comment on We're all a little crazy 6 months ago:
No, conciseness is the ability to describe things in few words. You probably meant to say consumption.
- Comment on I have so many lists... 7 months ago:
oh no you just reminded me
- Comment on Water is running again, ram pump installation year 2 7 months ago:
Oh there’s a lot of info in this that I didn’t have, thanks for sharing!
I don’t think anybody knows them around here. I showed mine to my neighbour and explained her that it doesn’t use electricity or fuel and she looked quite impressed. The mountain areas here with water running from every hill are just ideal grounds for the rams. I’m still trying to figure out how they could be not just used for gardening, but wisely integrated into fire prevention. I know I can’t just water an area indiscriminately with a ram pump - the pump works till July or August, grow lots of vegetation, which then dries out and is a fire hazard. But maybe something with restoring vegetation around old waterlines first, or storing the water in reservoirs. Ram pumps in combination with reservoirs make great energy harvest and storage as well.
- Comment on Water is running again, ram pump installation year 2 7 months ago:
Exactly, I’m working with just 60cm head, which is on the lower end of it working at all. Maybe next year I add another 100 m of tube to reach a spot where the pump can sit outside the stream.
If you have been diving into ram pumps before, I’m curious if you have found any infos about one thing I haven’t had time to research or experiment with: does the distance between the two valves make any difference in terms of efficiency?
- Comment on Water is running again, ram pump installation year 2 7 months ago:
IBC for collection, I plan to set another on top
Sorry, just those two for now. I’ll need to gather courage before I wade into the stream again for a closeup, especially with my phone in hand. With the heat returned I also was busy installing the hose from IBC to garden to water the veggies. I’m still figuring out the connection between the two IBCs and mixing water coming from a heating panel, and waiting for a washing tank to arrive to go next to it. And then the summer heat and the corn field will dry the stream out in no time … I hope this system runs till End of July at least, but to be honest I don’t know. But even if I have this running only one month on ‘stream energy’ and 11 on electric it will be worth it.
I think ram pumps are lovely, they are so robust - it just took a couple of hours to get it back into the stream and back working (it also got a couple of hours of maintenance in the workshop, of tightening the connections again). This year it runs on a really slow frequency compared to year 1, and it seems to pump the water higher. I’d like to get some numbers one day, but it’s hard to measure anything exactly around here with our installations. Only thing I know is they run so robustly. They find their rhythm and then they just go and go and go.
- Submitted 7 months ago to diy@slrpnk.net | 14 comments
- Comment on 1000 years from now physics is forgotten and all that remains is the legend of two hobbits, Charm and Spin, and their quest for the Higgyboson. At this point, is physics true? 7 months ago:
This reminds me very much of Riddley Walker, have you read it?
Is physics true now? Is truth something with exactly defined borders?
- Comment on Comparison: Coop Cloud, Yunohost, similar platforms 7 months ago:
It’s great to be able to run a server with functioning stuff on it when one doesn’t know anything about servers. Anything else around self-hosting would have been too much of an intimidating learning curve for me, but in the meantime I’ve picked up a lot of knowledge and terminology just by running the YH. It’s like training wheels, it’s great if you know a bit of tech stuff, but not enough.
I think it will last me a while before I outgrow it, don’t have enough time to really sit down and study server administration to the point where I feel safe to not fuck it up. I’ll let you know 😅
- Comment on Comparison: Coop Cloud, Yunohost, similar platforms 7 months ago:
Are they anti-container or just anti-Docker, I wonder?
- Comment on Karrot - Start a group, become a community 7 months ago:
Just before your post about Karrot I finally (re-)installed Agora on Yunohost as a collaboration suite. First few users onboarded and praying it works. It’s a bit ugly but does the job. Karrot looks to be more map-focused than Agora from a very fleeting look, I don’t think I’ve seen it in the Yunohost catalogue.
- Submitted 7 months ago to selfhosting@slrpnk.net | 8 comments
- Comment on Karrot - Start a group, become a community 7 months ago:
Is this a self-hostable platform? I just see a signup option.
- Comment on Solar-Powered Farming Is Quickly Depleting the World's Groundwater Supply 8 months ago:
It’s getting better. We have become pretty good at sharing cat pictures. I guess it’s just time to direct our focus more efficiently. This instance is just one of many tiny efforts in that direction.
- Comment on Solar-Powered Farming Is Quickly Depleting the World's Groundwater Supply 8 months ago:
Our local aquifer didn’t need the introduction of solar pumps. They manage with fuel powered pumps and corn, all along the stream. In August the water is gone.
The farms without accessible water just drill a deep well, 120m or thereabouts, and now you have magical water - and the problem gets worse!
The solar just makes it more accessible, so even the remotest areas can participate in the destruction.
At same time there is only very little collection of rainwater from any roof and/or water storage for use in the dry season, and not much education about drought resistant plants. I think that’s where efforts need to point towards: share knowledge of different people all over the world as to how to farm with less water and how to farm in respect of the existing aquifer.
- Comment on Community server for a local community 9 months ago:
Interesting writeup, thanks for sharing! Friendica seems … friendly and reassuringly boring, I did a test install and will have a look at the details in the next days.
- Submitted 9 months ago to selfhosting@slrpnk.net | 5 comments
- Comment on Average website visit in 2024 9 months ago:
Mushroom
- Comment on Average website visit in 2024 9 months ago:
Captcha buster is taking care of the captchas now at least. A robot that proves I’m not a robot. Is this the singularity yet?
- Comment on Average website visit in 2024 9 months ago:
What if I ask my averagely smart child to ask an AI for me because my idiot luddite brain can’t be arsed to do it myself? I just hope all the different sorts of stupid cancel each other out.
- Comment on From heat pumps to pumped heat: Octopus backs tech that reuses data centre heat 10 months ago:
This is something I’ve been waiting for. It seemed a little absurd that water is wasted for cooling the stupid things while elsewhere necessary heat is generated.
- Comment on LinkedIn Isn't Just for Jobs Anymore. It's Now a Dating App Too. 10 months ago:
I decided to check if it was any better than my current specialized job portal, which has enshittified a little in the last years. But Linkedin enshittification can’t be beat. It’s like prostitution level of job seeking for brainwashed people. What jobs are you applying for?
