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by zanny 1y ago
This is what bikes and busses are for, or just walking because the metro system is comprehensive enough you are at most four blocks away from a station.
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by zanny 3y ago
It's worth mentioning most European cities didn't skip cars entirely. Amsterdam in the 70s was as much a traffic sewer as Detroit. They just realized they fucked up in the 80s and spent 30+ years correcting course. Most rebuilt po
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by zanny 4y ago
There are mini nuc like computers that use mobile chips and those tend to go down to 15w.
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by zanny 4y ago
I think trying to retrofit existing single family into urbanism is kind of a lost cause. Everything is built for it, and nothing is built for urban density and transit, at some point you might as well just stake a new city in the middle of
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by zanny 4y ago
It should be doable to take each floor and put a kitchen / bathrooms / storage in the middle with living space around the exterior windows with connecting hallways. On larger buildings split it in half or quarters (the only issue
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by zanny 4y ago
What is more efficient than all the cars is electrified rail. That is an order of magnitude more energy efficient, more if you can manage to get near capacity high frequency trains. A lot of our energy expenditure is lifestyle satisfying. A
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by zanny 4y ago
I've been self hosting my own email on a Dell Poweredge for just over a year now, if you want my smtpd, dovecot, and rspamd confs I'll share them :x
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by zanny 4y ago
I graduated in 3 years and also at 20 (so one more semester) and was way less inspirational in doing it. I took 5 AP classes in high school that got me out of 5 classes and took 4 CLEP tests the summer before my last year so it would be my
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by zanny 4y ago
That seems like a cq based encode. Try av1an in its target quality mode - I've gotten some movies to a tenth the Blu-ray size with 98 vmafs and with only smudged detail at pixel level scrutiny. The trick is if your encoder can adapt th
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by zanny 4y ago
I self host headscale as my control node of my tailscale vpn so no sign ins required, I just give keys out to anyone I want in my vpn. My problem is the client doesn't support multiple servers, so I can't have a work vpn and a hom
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by zanny 4y ago
Theres a generational rift that will stop a lot of decaying areas from seeing repopulatin from newer generations. My wife and I saving to house shop soonish, but one of the primary requirements of our residency will be transit access. We do
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by zanny 4y ago
All the modern media formats are unsupported by Apple. We could be using avif for images and webm av1 streaming and video if not for Apple products. Its intentional sabotage by Apple at this point on behalf of MPEG-LA, it seems.
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by zanny 5y ago
I have no affiliation with Netflix, I just like using av1an which supports vmaf quality targets. If Netflix wants to hire me, dm me, lol.
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by zanny 5y ago
I use either aom for trying to make "optimized" encodes of things to get quality at the smallest file size or svt for fast encodes that aren't really any more efficient than h265, just with the better codec. I just transcoded
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by zanny 5y ago
It feels like newfound indignity and the realization is that most of us are actually victims - capitalist exploitation of the working class is codified into the societies we live in, it just took people taking a break from the grind, a st
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by zanny 5y ago
If XMPP and Matrix were based on the same protocol stack arguments to keeping XMPP this whole time would have made sense. But they aren't. Matrix is http and json while XMPP is tcp and xml. Protocol extensions to xmpp have added http t
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by zanny 5y ago
Its still really convenient. It is really starting to pick up - I can use my phone to pay fares in a lot of metros now, have real time transit tracking, and use it for navigation even when walking. Its definitely, imo, to the point where it
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by zanny 5y ago
I've been in Portland the past month and have managed pretty fine on the public transit here. Its also quite affordable. They could do more for sure, but all the bridges and roads that are now public transit only are quite the breath o
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by zanny 5y ago
I definitely think doing openid logins is way easier than any home rolled auth scheme. Delegate responsibility where you can, which includes use authentication. It sucks that Persona died all those years ago because web browsers really coul
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by zanny 5y ago
> to use code for good with commercial interests You can use GPL code commercially. You just have to publish source on anything it touches. It that makes your business model nonviable, the amount of good you were doing is... questionable
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by zanny 5y ago
Have you ever actually had someone on medicare navigate healthcare? Its only partial coverage and the supplemental plans also are partial. Retirees regularly rake up thousands a year in medical expenses on medicare . If anything we need me
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by zanny 5y ago
Matrix / Element should have a comparable feature set to signal for almost all use cases and supports traditional username/password.
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by zanny 6y ago
I've picked up drawing in the last few years, probably because it occupies enough overlap with the centers of my brain I trained to code but also is outside the envelope enough to still feel like something different from my day job.
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by zanny 6y ago
A lot of people seem to be making private instances that can talk out but aren't public which means you are stuck making new accounts for each such instance.
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by zanny 6y ago
It's not that hard to find a list of the largest ones in the US, they collectively represent about 200bn in revenue: https://www.thenews.coop/122959/sector/usas-top-100-co-opera...
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by zanny 6y ago
There's a wealth of statistical data that shows that cooperatives are more resilient and stable than classical owner run enterprise, here's a Stanford paper citing a lot of good sources on it[1]. Largely the reason so few business
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by zanny 6y ago
I eat this stuff up as a constantly lonely person, not in the "I wish I had a boyfriend" sense, in the "theres nobody to talk to, ever" sense. Like you get up, you work, you consume entertainment, maybe you go on HN or R
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by zanny 6y ago
At the same time, nobody has accumulated a billion dollars in personal wealth with a totally clean conscience. Millionaires, sure, thats an order of magnitude less wealth though. Billionaires are such a distortion of economic allotment th
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by zanny 6y ago
Signal and Telegram at least have something to do with communication, Element probably makes most people think about rocks.
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by zanny 6y ago
Its going to see adoption is widely distributed content first - its why Google and Netflix are so gung-ho on it, they see the same file downloaded millions of times and in those circumstances bandwidth savings are huge over the encode times

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