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- Comment on What would tools/services would you recommend for hosting without self hosting? 3 weeks ago:
It’s easy to overlook with the omnipresent internet, but self-hosting doesn’t require internet. You could host for your fellow students on the local network. If that’s also against the Wifi rules you can either ignore that stupid rule or set up your own god damn wifi with hostapd on your machine and let students connect directly to it. It’s probably best to use a machine dedicated to the task for security reasons as you wouldn’t want curious students to accidentally erase your homework. I wouldn’t use containers or VMs for any of this, I’d just use bare metal like in the good ol’ days. You could also, without having to worry, give people shell accounts because it’s a closed network. The options are endless without all the worries of hosting on the internet.
- Comment on One of the UK's largest solar farms is now online and can power 20,000 homes 3 weeks ago:
That’s a myth though. No numbers I know of suggest earths population and our demand of food is declining. What will happen is that the agricultural land replaced with a solarfarm is going to be set up somewhere else at the cost of nature.
- Comment on One of the UK's largest solar farms is now online and can power 20,000 homes 3 weeks ago:
I apologise. I know it was not fair to do that. What made me respond that way, I think, was that your statement was extremely simplified and even agreeable if you leave out the context of solarfarms taking up large areas of land.
Changes away from more polluting energy sources to meet this reduced demand is a good thing.
When you look at the picture what we see is 166 acres of land covered in black solar panels. Even though many solarfarms have grass below the panels the ground on this picture is completely barren and plain with a hard surface of what looks like compressed grus. Nothing is going to grow there.
These huge solarfarms or solarfactories is what I’m opposing. I think solar energy fits nicely into decentralized domestic and mobile power generation, but I think it’s even worse than biofuel in taking up large areas of land. Biofuel is not using rare earth metals and contrary to solarpanels take up CO₂ when produced. To be clear I’m not advocating a farm of either one.
If you absolutely want centralized large scale energy production I would prefer if it was done with windmills. They only take up a small ground surface area proportional to the energy produced and combined with their height allow for much more biodiversity. I’m a big fan of domestic and urban solarpanels, I think every building should have them.
I’m sorry once again. Have a nice day.
- Comment on One of the UK's largest solar farms is now online and can power 20,000 homes 3 weeks ago:
We don’t share a common premise for a discussion. To you the industrial society is a constant and you think replacing nature with industrial energy production is a good trade. To me nature is a constant and I think replacing industrial society with more nature is a good trade.
Global electricity demand is expected to rise at a faster rate over the next three years, growing by an average of 3.4% annually through 2026.
- Comment on One of the UK's largest solar farms is now online and can power 20,000 homes 3 weeks ago:
A dangerous animal is spreading yet another type of black tar in nature. This time to feed its infinte hunger for energy.
- Comment on Publishers Always Innovating 4 weeks ago:
Very informative, but I’d change one small thing.
Why use the fast native PDF viewer
in the browserwhen you could use a bloated and buggy JS app? - Comment on Use Zotero 2 months ago:
Tests? What tests?
- Comment on Use Zotero 2 months ago:
That’s a lot of trouble, you can just ask it if it’s telling the truth.
- Comment on Invoice system with hour tracking? 2 months ago:
Desktop Applications
- Comment on Metal Gear Solid's E3 Reveal Had The Syphon Filter Team "Despairing" | Time Extension 4 months ago:
To me Syphon Filter was like “I want more of this” after playing Metal Gear Solid. Plenty room for two stealth games. To be honest I don’t remember any other cutscene sequences from Metal Gear Solid other than “snaaaaaaake… snaaaake…”.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Unless someone has registered the trademark for those specific purposes you’re clear. A trademarks is only valid within a specific field of purpose. Trademarks are there to avoid consumers mistaking one brand for another.
There are a lot of entertaining articles on Techdirt about companies not understanding trademark law.
- Comment on Recommendations for lightweight wiki servers? 8 months ago:
I use gitit and it’s already packaged in most Linux distros.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
TLDR; Sorta federation. It is possible to selfhost data. Image
- Comment on Looking for peoplecs experiences with Systemd-less distros for a home server 9 months ago:
I use Devuan and it’s just Debian without systemd.
- Comment on Alternative github frontends? 10 months ago:
Gothub is looking for a new maintainer.
- Comment on Looking for simple analytics (similar to Plausible) that supports cookies 1 year ago:
If you still want to respect user privacy, your analytics software could use the port of the connection instead of IP as the identifier. It would be perfectly fine for determining simultaneus users from the same IP, but not invasive enough to monitor an individuals behaviour. Don’t ask me which analytics software supports that. I’d grab the data from the http logs if it was me and use a tool like goaccess.
- Comment on I wrote hacky tampermonkey script to fix Lemmy instance links. Any advice? 1 year ago:
You could check if a domain contains a lemmy instance by fetching
/.well-known/nodeinfo, but it’s bad netiquette to hammer sites with requests and could get users blocked. If you were to do it I’d make sure it cached the lookups in IndexedDB, localStorage or just using Cache API. I’m unsure how well any of the APIs works with UserScripts. - Comment on When I was a kid my Dad made a magnet charger with some electrified copper coils would this be something that could be used to achieve similar results somehow? TIA 1 year ago:
Or you could pick up an iron rod and strike a firehydrant like MacGyver.
- Comment on 5 Things I’ve Learned in 20 Years of Programming 1 year ago:
