BastingChemina
@BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
- Comment on who lives in a house under a rock 1 day ago:
It’s probably great in summer. No AC needed
- Comment on That's how the world works. 2 days ago:
It’s not just fertilizer:
it takes about 7.3 units of (primarily) fossil energy to produce one unit of food energy Assessing the sustainability of the US food system: a life cycle perspective
With all the fertilizer, heavy equipment and agricultural practices the food production today is very inefficient from an energy perspective.
Without cheap, abundant energy available the whole food production system is not sustainable
- Comment on "US Person": is a red flag for financial institutions in Europe 1 week ago:
My experience is that in most cases, when asked about your nationality in a form it’s easier and normal to only give one nationality.
Like at the airport, even if I have multiple nationalities I only give one passport, I just have to make sure it’s the right passport (the one with the visa for example).
However in there case of back accounts, insurances … They ask specifically “are you a U.S. citizen ?”. In this case answering no to this question would be a clear lie.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 1 week ago:
Newpipe or tubular
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been there, I did manual -> hybrid -> electric.
I did miss the stick when I was driving an hybrid. In the hybrid it felt like was I had to give away some of the control I had on the car by not being able to change gear.
With the EV on the other hand it’s totally different, the car is way more responsive, there is power the moment I press the pedal and the concept of gear disappear.
I don’t miss driving with a stick when driving an EV
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 3 weeks ago:
I remember using Google translate that was doing that live on the phone camera and translating the text at the same time 15 years ago.
- Comment on Google will pay $135 million to settle illegal data collection lawsuit 1 month ago:
It’s what the EU is doing now
- Comment on France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials 1 month ago:
If you were not a troll you would have seen that all the technical documentation about how to contribute and how to host an instance in the repository is in English. The code is well documented 100% in English.
It make sense however that pages for users is in French, since it’s been developed for French users. If you want Geraldine, the secretary of the tax office in Trifouilly les Oies to use it, you need to address her in French.
- Comment on France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials 1 month ago:
They already developed alternatives for Microsoft Office:
lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/produits/docs as an alternative to word
lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/produits/grist as an alternative for excel and data management (much better than excel in my opinion)
It’s open source, actively developed with Germany and the Netherlands (as I’m writing this post the last commit to doc was 49min ago) and self hostableby any administration or company who want to do it.
- Comment on France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials 1 month ago:
It is open source and built on top of livekit which is open source.
All the tools of “La Suite Numerique” are open source.
- Comment on France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials 1 month ago:
I agree, it was the same on reddit.
- Comment on France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials 1 month ago:
It’s open source and they have documentation for swlf-hosting it !
- Comment on New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline 1 month ago:
Plastic is already made from the residues of gasoline production.
Sure we can extract a bit more gasoline from it but it’s not going to replace drilling oil.
- Comment on If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations? 1 month ago:
I’m using ovh for my domains, it’s €13.5 I think for a .com renewal and that include whois privacy, a 15Go mail address and a 100mo website hosting.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 2 months ago:
People are still going to work in Ukraine, they are still paying bill and still need money for that.
- Comment on There aren't any ancient ruins with crazy traps and riddles 2 months ago:
We have a modern version of the deadly temple:
- Comment on Gundam Chestnut 2 months ago:
At the same time, if the time traveler could prevent the American vines to be imported in Europe it would be great !
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 2 months ago:
And then carmakers will cry that Chinese cars are reading over the market.
- Comment on Onyo 2 months ago:
You make then cry ?
- Comment on Why do some website logins have the username and password entry on different pages? 2 months ago:
I love it
- Comment on Billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman is confirmed as new NASA chief 2 months ago:
Again ? I feel like I’ve seen this news 3 times already in the last year.
- Comment on Bread mold 3 months ago:
It depends on the cheese, sometime the mold is the cheese.
Like Roquefort, it literally use moldy bread as a starter.
The process of making Roquefort starts by adding mold on rye bread, let the mold develop before blending the bread and mixing it into the raw milk.
- Comment on YSK about the French Republican Calendar 4 months ago:
Yes, they also decided to change the time to decimal time.
The day was divided into 10 hours, each hour was 100 minutes …
- Comment on Scandal 4 months ago:
Does it matter of it’s true or not?
It’s been years that MAGA is showing us that truth does not matter,
- Comment on It's important! 4 months ago:
Congrats, you are now Flemish!
To give some context: in Belgium there is two main regions, Flanders and Wallonia. Flemish people speaks Flemish Dutch and Walloons speak French.
Since Flemish Dutch and French are the two official language of Belgium a lot of Fleming are learning French as a secondary language to be able to communicate with Walloons. Walloons on the other hand don’t care to learn Flemish Dutch at all.
So as consequence a lot of Flemish do know French but refuse to speak French with Walloons.
So as a French person I ended several time in a situation where I’m trying to communicate in English with a Fleming who refuse to use French with me, until he realize by my accent that I’m not Walloons, then he would start speaking to be in French.
- Comment on The Perfect Picture of Helth 4 months ago:
Moderation is the issue with pizza, at least for me.
I’ve been making pizza and pasta from scratch. It’s basically the exact same ingredients:
- flour
- tomatoes
- cheese
But when I’m making pizza I know that I can almost double the amount of flour because we are eating way more pizza than pasta.
- Comment on Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea 4 months ago:
It’s a chicken and eggs problem, without cars the nearest place to spend money wouldn’t be 20 miles away.
- Comment on Edible Wood 4 months ago:
Heart of palm as well
- Comment on Maybe there was a cure for human cancer, but it didn't work at all in mice. 4 months ago:
I believe the vast majority of cultivated human cells are cancerous cells anyway.
- Comment on New South Korean law will turn large parking lots into solar power farms 4 months ago:
There is regulation about rainwater management for parking lots as well.
Parking lots manager are required to setup systems to let the rainwater infiltrate the soil