Rob Hooft

@cwebber@social.coop with the speed new slop books hit the virtual shelves, it should not take long before this process is eating its own dogshit.

@DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social Another consideration: “Gulf of America” is only /very/ wrong if you consider that the USA is America, ignoring all other countries on the continent. Which we don’t?

@adamantichrist@mastodon.social @DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social hm. Most geofeatures have multiple names, and different ones used by different groups or different times? In NL we call “UK”, “VK” and “USA”, “VS”. Our own country we call “Nederland” but others call it “Holland” or “Pays Bas” or “Niederlande”. In many places Beijing used to be called Peking. Eswatini used to be called Swaziland until they changed it. It is true that I would frown a bit if NL beaches would suddenly be flooded by the Danish Gulf.

@Gyroplast@furry.engineer @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Delphi’s Wager

@hellomiakoda besides, the grass is anyway always greener on the other side. Where you can’t touch it.

@wollman@mastodon.social @clew@ecoevo.social @adb@infosec.exchange @ricci@discuss.systems “The orange wall”, with some version upgrade (was it VMS5 ) became a “grey wall”. I can still feel the binders in my hands…

@mboelen@mastodon.nl leverancier van de panelen vroeg of ik er niet meteen een batterij bij wilde. Maar dan zou ik de batterij gaan opladen als anderen ook veel stroom nodig hebben…. En zelfs zonder batterij gebruik ik 47% van de jaarproduktie zelf. Toegegeven, die produktie is naar schatting slechts 500 kWh/kWp/jaar

@mboelen@mastodon.nl zonnepanelen vertikaal op het west-noord-westen is ook een leuke match. Die produceren wel precies op een duur moment van de dag.

@mboelen@mastodon.nl vertikaal voor lage zon is een leuke optie! Wordt vaak vergeten.

@tangledwing Fantastic to be able to keep refrigerators running during an ice storm….

@SomeGadgetGuy@techhub.social @ricci@discuss.systems jaz only, sorry ;-)

@shafik@hachyderm.io my favorite is still that “it is eloquent, not wise”.

@interfluidity@fosstodon.org @pluralistic@mamot.fr Things like that brought me outrage before. Since then I learned about the extent in which “posession” is a social construct. Intellectual property rights are meant to enable people to make a living from their mental work. Not use, but only abuse of those rights is bad. The solution is clarity about what someone is buying. Many books I bought I only read once. I have never been able to give a movie theater ticket to a friend after the show.

@tangledwing Many big cars save their owner’s lives, but often at the cost of lives of others in accidents…

@tangledwing for emergencies here the government advises to keep water, canned foodstuff and a wind-up FM radio. You may have mobile phone networks that are better equipped, but ours go down 2-4 hours into a power failure. Luckily we don’t have those frequently. EV’s promise something too. Although with frozen batteries they also won’t be happy to deliver large power.

@juneussell@mas.to @interfluidity@fosstodon.org @pluralistic@mamot.fr There are many people who go to the same movie more than once, and they pay again for each show. Nobody claims to “own” the seat in the theater when they buy the ticket. It is just what one is used to. For physical books we are used to “own” the paper and the ink, and even being able to give them to someone else to read. It takes time before we’re used to a new system, but that does not necessarily mean the new is unreasonable

@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org Super good that this is continuing, but a little nuance: 1GW of data center is 1GW every hour of the year. 1GW(p) of solar in NL generates 0.12 GW on average, and most of that in summer. More south/sunny is better but never more than 0.5 GW. For wind, 1GW at sea is around 0.4GW power on average, in our area most of that in winter. On land, significantly less, more like 0.25GW average. Solar and wind require significant spare capacity, transport and storage.

@fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net @realmurphy@social.linux.pizza @codinghorror@infosec.exchange @buherator@infosec.place @jwz@mastodon.social @bovaz@misskey.social @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer O(100) here, and happily hosting my own RSS reader service as built-in to #Nextcloud all-in-one, replacing my “founding” #feedly subscription.

@ernie@writing.exchange some organizations make enough money by violating the law that they can sue everyone else to extinction.