skrause

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by skrause 3d ago
I want a car that doesn't collect the data, not one that gives a pinky promise not to sell still collected data.
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by skrause 1mo ago
In 2025 China built 696 TWh of new wind + solar power and 13 TWh of new nuclear power. So to a first approximation it's fair to say that even China isn't really building out nuclear power anymore.
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by skrause 1mo ago
In modern times you combine solar energy with wind power and batteries and you already have 90% of the load covered. Then combine that with cheap, easily adjustable gas power plants to complete the picture for cloudy, windless winter days.
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by skrause 11mo ago
You always combine solar power with wind power, that already solves more than 90% of the storage problem. In places like Europe the darker winter is usually quite windy. For example, last Sunday Germany covered more than 100% of its own pow
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by skrause 11mo ago
The baby monitor could have its own SD card and webserver and then you provide a smartphone app which uses local network discovery to find the server and talk to it. In that case no parent needs to know about Synology or even IP addresses.
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by skrause 1y ago
That law has existed since 1951 and is based on an executive order from 1931 by Hindenburg.
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by skrause 1y ago
Because even when you encrypt the foreign third party can still lock you out of your data by simply switching off the servers.
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by skrause 1y ago
The name is "Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse". "Chat Control" is not an official term, but a name chosen by critics of the law.
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by skrause 1y ago
Buypass was one of the free alternatives to Let's Encrypt that also supported the ACME protocol and even gave you 180 days validity.
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by skrause 1y ago
It doesn't really "find" any personal sites, you have to tell it about each manually with a pull request: https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/submit-site-to-marginali...
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by skrause 1y ago
Germany isn't ramping up gas imports, it's replacing both nuclear and coal with renewables. And even though gas power plants are the designated backup power plants for times when there is neither enough sun nor wind, this doesn&#x
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by skrause 2y ago
It was 52!, the number of possible permutations of 52 cards: https://czep.net/weblog/52cards.html
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by skrause 2y ago
Food security is not an issue at all. For example in Germany around 20% of all farmland is used for "energy plants" (biogas etc.). Even in Germany solar planels have around a 28 times higher efficiency per area than biogas plants,
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by skrause 2y ago
You link to table level locks which are different from advisory locks: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/explicit-locking.htm... Are you sure that you're talking about the same locks? What are the pitfa
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by skrause 2y ago
PostgreSQL has pg_advisory_xact_lock which releases the lock automatically when the transaction is over.
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by skrause 2y ago
I'm using using multiple profiles when I want to have a different set of extensions, bookmarks and browsing history. Multi Account Containers help with none of that.
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by skrause 2y ago
I'm doing all my banking in a separate Firefox profile where uBlock Origin Lite is the only installed extension. So there a zero extensions that have permission to access the pages or requests. Of course I'm still using the normal
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by skrause 2y ago
Seeing the constructions makes me think that we're blessed in Germany for getting all three phases even in single apartments. Here it's quote common (if no cheaper method of central hot water is available) to have on-demand water
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by skrause 2y ago
> try cooking with a round bottomed wok on electric It's not an unsolved problem, I recommend the recent Technology Connections video titled "Induction cooking - but what about woks?": https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by skrause 2y ago
Malaysia is already doing the first one.
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by skrause 2y ago
We're talking about two different issues though: 1. Blocking or redirecting some pages when using the ISP's DNS server. This is what you're talking about. The workaround is to use a third party DNS resolver. 2. Intercepting
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by skrause 2y ago
And the author worked at Redhat when he wrote the article in 2021.
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by skrause 2y ago
For a German investor that's not a good option for two reasons: 1. Buying US dollar money market funds will add a whole level of currency risks which you might not want. 2. Using a foreign broker is a tax nightmare in Germany. Apart fr
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by skrause 2y ago
Your link is to the current thread...
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by skrause 2y ago
"All the health benefits" meant the benefits of not drinking.
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by skrause 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_c... In the US the average adult drinks 9.6 liters of alcohol per year. Germany is at 12.2, the UK at 10.8 and Italy at 8.0. So some European countries drink m
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by skrause 2y ago
I had a blog article of mine on the HN front page a few years ago and the nginx serving static pages from an ultra cheap VPS didn't even break a sweat.
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by skrause 2y ago
RUN <<EOF foo bar EOF https://www.docker.com/blog/introduction-to-heredocs-in-dock...
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by skrause 2y ago
The EU hasn't gone far enough until I can install Firefox with its native engine and uBlock Origin on an iPhone without Apple collecting fees that prevent Mozilla from shipping it to me for free.
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by skrause 2y ago
When I choose not to use the App Store or the Play Store I'm basically locked out of online banking because almost all banks now require an app for 2FA which is not available in those open source marketplaces. That's how powerful

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