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I believe raised beds for kids have a lot of space beneath them for putting servers. Just make sure they can’t pull the plugs 😜

The rate limit is a bit pointless as the scrapers cycle through IPs via residential proxies and large data centers with many IPs and sadly there is an increasing number of scrapers that seems to be able to solve the Anubis challenge.

Never the less, a nice tutorial for the basic setup that does still help to some extend 👍

Seems to be based on this design: motherearthnews.com/…/solar-food-dehydrator-plans…

Lots of down-cycling though, so it sounds better than it is IMHO.

These m2 adapters are known to overheat, but otherwise they are much more reliable than usb to sata adapters.

Yes, I am aware. But that is not very helpful if you want to host something publicly or even just want it accessible from the random wifi hotspot you might use that more likely than not is IPv4 only.

Like literally all mobile internet connections are behind CGNAT, as is Starlink for example.

For landline internet connections it is indeed uncommon.

If it is really only a private server for your friends, and they are not completely computer illiterate, then a Wireguard VPN or similar seems like the safest option.

But generally speaking it isn’t that big of a deal to temporarily open a port and forward it to a game server if you want to play a round online.

A VPS is not really cost effective for that kind of usage. Maybe one with hourly billing like this: tierhive.com

This was sadly the worst option, but I guess the least controversial one.

Debian is already short staffed with maintainers to do quality code review for contributions, and taking away their option to blanket refuse reviewing slop will increase their workload and inevitably lead to more poorly written slop making it into the codebase.

“Responsible” LLM use is a silly fig leaf that people use to bullshit themselves and others.

Plantfiber reinforced plastic would have been the more accurate description…

I honestly don’t get why the don’t just use hydrogen for unmanned blimps like that; better lift and can be produced relatively cheaply on site via electrolysis. And with modern membrane materials the fire risk is minimal.

I think the main advantage is that at a certain hight you always have some wind, so this is rather complementary to other forms of energy generation.

A mobile version like shown a few months ago could also be useful during emergencies and to help restarting and stabilizing the grid after large scale blackouts.

The original article has some details that Techradar forgot to copy:

The developers estimated that the costs of electricity generated at 3,000 metres would approach those of conventional ground-based wind power generation. At 9,000 metres, they said, the systems could operate for more than 8,000 hours a year, generating power at 0.03 yuan – less than half a US cent – per kilowatt-hour.

You can, but it doesn’t make it legal in your home state. You can also order one from China, same thing more or less (but probably cheaper).

This is partially why grid level solar farms by large operators are only cheaper on paper than roof installed decentralized solar panels and combine production with consumption. Yes the economies of scale make it cheaper to build, but everything after than, including the service fees to the home owners just adds up to them rarely being economically more beneficial to the society as a whole.

The exact issue that was finally fixed in the above release caused Conduwuinity to fail federation all the time. Synapse never had that issue. Yes, Synapse sucks in other ways, but be careful to think the grass is greener on the other side.

I mean yes, Microsoft and slopcode probably plays a role, but it only got really bad once the LLM mass scraping started, for which I assume Github is also a major target.

Why bother with the last 2.5% at all?

Hmm, yeah. Old burned bricks can be too powdery for regular anchors to hold well. There are anchors meant to be used with an special putty you put into the hole first and which seep into the brick to some extend.

But an 8mm screw is fat enough to rub sides of the anchor as it is inserted because I suppose the anchor is only 1mm thick at the opening.

It is really unclear what you mean by this.

Using these plastic anchors is basically a destructive process, so I don’t see an issue with the screw cutting into the plastic.

Another issue is often that you have hollow core bricks and thus the anchor ends up partially in the air, maybe double-check that this isn’t the case?

You can buy a special dishwasher cleaning powder that can better deal with fat build up in the drain. Sometimes that helps and it is the least messy option.

Using a motor from an angle grinder clearly seems to be a bad choice. But I have heared of other similar projects using cordless screwdrivers more or less unmodified and those worked quite ok.

No, why do you think so?

I was trying to work out whether he came up with a torque sensor. With no audio, I can only guess. But there were some moments where he has his feet off the pedals and the motor is still cranking. Not sure if that means there is no torque sensor, a demo of a faulty torque sensor, or if he was testing a manual torque-sensor override mode.

No that was just about issues with a mechanical clutch bearing.

It seems like he is rapid prototyping with that material, not expecting it to hold very long. He also admits later in the video to having underestimated the forces and doing the calculation showing that it is way worse than he thought.

Astroturfing efforts no doubt.