bwindels

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by bwindels 16d ago
If you're referring to pulseaudio or alsa, more recently pipewire should have improved the situation a lot.
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by bwindels 17d ago
I wasn't taking about ideology, I was talking about what is already happening. Here's a graph of total freight volume (a proxy for the real physical economy) in the EU 15 countries since 2000, notice the peak around 2008: https:&
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by bwindels 17d ago
All of us, to the degree that our carbon footprint is above 2 tons a year?
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by bwindels 17d ago
In Europe, we're already degrowing since 2008, even more so if you only look at the real, physical economy because we have to import our fossil energy. We won't be able to power the same lifestyle with nuclear and renewables eithe
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Peak-oil in the EU, crude oil supply reduced by 12% by 2030 (2021)(theshiftproject.org)
1 points by bwindels 3y ago|0 comments
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by bwindels 4y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35174689 also
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by bwindels 4y ago
Nice, makes my VW E-up look a bit outdated, but I bet it won't be as light (1160kg) or as efficient (~12Kwh/100km). Expected in 2025, interesting they announce the price so far ahead, especially given the current inflation level.
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by bwindels 4y ago
Fwiw, having a look on a french second hand website, most Ferraris seem to have an average yearly mileage of 3000-10000km.
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by bwindels 4y ago
Yeah, granted, this is a problem indeed. My 8 years payback time is based on off-peak charging at 0.15EUR/Kwh at home. You typically have less car ownership in cities though...
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by bwindels 4y ago
EVs are more expensive initially, but cheaper in the long run. I bought a 20k EUR EV last year (VW e-up, great car). After ~8 years it will be cheaper overall than a 10k EUR ICE car. Petrol prices will probably go up faster than electricity
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by bwindels 4y ago
I think they'd consider that out of scope, which for me is a feature rather than a bug. The project is really about providing the runtime, rather than batteries-included application framework as many mobile platforms provide. Perhaps t
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by bwindels 4y ago
> I looked at the weight of some of these EVs and yikes 2,900 lbs for just the battery pack? 1.5 TONS? WeW. That's the weight of the Hummer battery pack though. I think around 500kg is the more the norm, with a total curb weight of
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by bwindels 4y ago
Isn't (battery) weight a proxy for what we really care about, energy consumption per covered distance? Seems like if you'd tax the latter, manufacturers would have more options to innovate around efficiency rather than just batter
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by bwindels 4y ago
So if you're stuck behind a tractor, do you also expect it to stop by the side of the road and let all traffic pass? I'm sure many farmers would disagree with you there and tell you they've got work to do. I've never see
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by bwindels 4y ago
For almost all cases, this is far from true. For a typical ICE car, the manufacturing emissions tends to be around 10%-20% of the lifetime emissions the vehicle. You can see the exact breakdown for a variety of cars, and comparison to EVs a
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by bwindels 4y ago
If there is no bike lane, the only safe thing to do as a cyclist is to take the full lane, because there is not enough space for cars to safely overtake you. That won't stop some drivers from doing it anyway, so better block them and b
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by bwindels 4y ago
So if you can't safely overtake a bicycle, you expect it to stop by the side of the road to let you pass after 20 seconds?
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by bwindels 4y ago
You can check the numbers yourself on https://climobil.connecting-project.lu , comparing the ICE and BEV version of the same car (e.g. Volkswagen e-up offers both) and choosing the country where you would charge the vehicle. Pola
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by bwindels 4y ago
Web push notifications are also delivered through APNS, the service worker only gets woken up once there is a notification, it doesn't poll, so that shouldn't be much different from a regular app.
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WebPush notifications coming to Safari 16 on macOS Ventura and iOS next year(webkit.org)
2 points by bwindels 4y ago|0 comments
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Gnome 42 Released(release.gnome.org)
60 points by bwindels 4y ago|22 comments
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Folding bicycle small enough to fit in hand luggage(kwigglebike.com)
538 points by bwindels 4y ago|415 comments
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by bwindels 5y ago
> bringing something out as open source does come with some responsibilities. No, it does not.
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by bwindels 5y ago
Reminds me of this project I saw a while ago on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hfClQh3rxM
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by bwindels 5y ago
Wouldn't this just prevent people outside of Russia to visit sites on those TLDs? DNS servers based in Russia could (be coerced to) keep all domains that this would remove?
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by bwindels 5y ago
That is shocking, and seems enough to create a run on the bank on its own.
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by bwindels 5y ago
Also, why put a backdoor in the client if the server sees pretty much every message in plaintext?
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by bwindels 5y ago
they sort of do, albeit with a custom api and requiring you to register as a developer: https://developer.apple.com/notifications/safari-push-notifi...
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by bwindels 5y ago
Thanks for your suggestions. We've just had another look at the upcoming priorities for Hydrogen and I can confirm that both of those things are planned for the not-too-far future! Hard to commit to exact time frames, but you've b
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by bwindels 5y ago
or if you're not up for going cold turkey, just drastically reduce your intake. If you eat meat only once a week rather than every day, this already reduces your footprint massively.

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