The “keeping it weak” approach, after all, has already led to Putin.

No one kept Russia weak when Soviet Union collapsed. Yeltsin brought a lot of democractic traits into Russia and it was heavily leaning towards west on multiple areas. Should they kept going on that direction they’d be a global superpower on pretty much all fronts by now, surpassing US and even China.

But they had also pretty big internal problems and a ton of people who desired old soviet times and whatever, so we ended up with what we have today. Wikipedia has way more info and links to study it further.

And then get screwed over when you’re using another system without said alias. As I need to work on multiple different linux-hosts both as a selfhoster and on work I’d strongly suggest against aliasing any system command to something else and getting used to it.

Yesterday evening I got a pop-up that I should disable ublock from youtube. Refreshing page got rid of that but apparently it’s time for me to run some updates on this thing. I’ve seen that few times, google changes something and as I’m a bit lazy to run updates my system sometimes gives the pop up.

You could get around with a normal file share service (assuming you already are using one) via tinyurl or similar redirect. I don’t know how much the free services track you or if they have other security implications, but I have couple of domains laying around and it would be pretty trivial to just create HTTP redirect from “class-a.up.mydomain.foo” to my nextcloud upload link.

Or they’re just rubbing it in. “Look here, we found these drones from local hacklab and threw them on a truck and it took out sizable portion of Russias planes over the weekend” -kind of way. All of that is pretty simple to figure out anyways, it’s a huge PR victory to reveal everything (with the obvious military victory) and there’s no easy nor cheap way for Russia to prevent that from happening again at somewhere else. Maybe next time it’s not a truck near airfield but a van in Moscow or a tractor trailer at some field nearby training grounds. There’s just no way Russia could monitor and defend everything across their country.

Also when sodium hydroxide reacts with acid it releases CO2 and it affects growth of at least some fungus. Also, if a brick sized fuel cell can provide 1kWh and single transatlantic flight consumes at least 20MWh you’d need a pile big enough to build a house which doesn’t sound feasible.

But I’m not a chemist either, I suppose it boils down to comparing negative effects between this new cell against kerosine. Plus there’s always the case which affects any new kind of storing energy where it’ll be indefinetly ‘ready for market in next 5 years’.

!finland@sopuli.xyz is just the place for that and it’s on sidebar as well.

it will waste less space in the recycling bin

In here pretty much every bottle and can for beverages has a deposit included in them. 0,10€ for small (<1l I think) plastic bottles, 0,15€ for cans. They’re included in the shelf price and when you bring them back to the recycling you’ll get your deposit back. Then the recycling machine crushes all to pallets and they’re hauled to a factory which then makes new stuff out of the plastic and aluminium.

No need to throw them away. In here the return rate is >90% and even if you don’t care about the few coins it’s common to leave the empty bottles on top of or next to a recycling bin where others can pick them up and return.

Or, if you’re using only one or few distributions you can preseed the image and have the installer do the stuff for you.

That’s something along the lines I do as well, but your methods are far more in depth than mine. I just glance around documentations, how active the development is and get a rough idea if the thing is just a single person hobby-project or something which has a bit more momentum.

And it of course also depends on if I’m looking for solutions just for myself or is it for others and spesifically if it’s work related. But full audits? No. There’s no way my lifetime would be enough to audit everything I use and even with infinite time I don’t have the skills to do that (which of course wouldn’t be an issue if I had infinite time, but I don’t see that happening).

Someone with more experience on sed or awk should chime in, but out of memory something like this (which MOST LIKELY WONT WORK, verify it before running it on anything important):

find -name *mkv -exec sed -e's/file=.*/file=' > {}.changed \;

That, at least in theory, reads every .mkv file recursively in a current working directory, finds lines that contain “file=<whatever><EOL>” and replace that with “file=<EOL>” and stores the output to <original filename>.changed.

You could save yourself cents per year!

That’s pretty much it. Maybe even tens of cents. In pre-USB era that actually made sense, Nokia chargers with a barrel jack (and other that era wall-warts) consumed even several watts on idle but (assuming a good quality) modern USB-bricks are way more efficient. They still consume a non-zero amount of power when plugged in but you’re not going to see that on your power bill. You’ll waste far mor energy if you forget your bathroom lights on overnight, even with LED bulbs.

But surely in order to “feel things” you would need a nervous system right? When you feel pain from touching something very hot, it’s your nerves that are sending those pain signals to your brain… right?

On that case, on our meatsacks, yes. But there’s also emotional pain which can cause physical pain or other effects too and that doesn’t require nerves at all. Also there’s nothing stopping from an AI robot to have nervous system too, it would just have different kind of sensors and a CAN bus or something instead of organic stuff. There’s already co-operation robots on factories which have sensors to detect if they are touching something in order to keep humans safe and from there it’s not too far fetched to program it to feel “pain” if forces are big enough.

And that all boils down to on how you define consciousness, feelings, pain response and all that stuff. “Behold! I’ve brought you a man!” I yell while holding a chiken.

DOT 5.1 to significantly increase that wet boiling point, but it’s expensive for normal car use

Huh? In here you can get DOT5.1 for the same price than DOT4. Roughly 10€ per litre, depending on brand and how big bottle you get.

You don’t even need to push. Just wait a while until the toddler finds something else to focus on and forget what happened today.

It was some time ago but a response from Canadian supplier to US customer went few rounds on social media. They informed that the item customer was buying was under a tariff and gave options to either pay up the tariffs, cancel the sale with no extra cost or just wait for few days and see what happens. And the really stupid part is that it was (and largely is) a viable strategy, at least on customer sales. For businesses that’s obviously a total nightmare, but that’s just one example on how ridiculous any kind of trade with the US is right now.

You are absolutely correct on that, but I find it a bit ironic anyways. Trump seems to be quite fond of royalty, at least UK kind, and this underlines even more that relationship with Europe is going down the drain and fast. Royal families across the Europe are more or less either family or at least friends together and this will play it’s small part on US failures to maintain any kind of political or other power across the pond.

You’re not wrong, but my personal experience is that it can also lead you down in a pretty convincing but totally wrong direction. I’m not a professional coder, but have at least some experience and I’ve tried the LLM approach on trying to figure out which library/command set/whatever I should use for problem at hand. Sometimes it gives useful answers, sometimes it’s totally wrong which is easy to spot and at worst it gives you something which (at least to me) seems like it could work. And on the last case I then spend more or less time figuring out how to use the thing it proposed, fail, eventually read the actual old fashioned documentation and notice that the proposed solution is somewhat related to my problem but totally wrong.

And on that point I would have actually saved time if I did things the old fashion way (which is getting more and more annoying as search engines get worse and worse). There’s legitimate use cases too of course, but you really need to have at least some idea on what you’re doing to evaluate the answers LLMs give you.

Noissa omissa tonnin - kahden kotteroissa ei reaaliarvo enää merkittävän paljon muutu. Ja vähän sama homma se on noiden kesämökkienkin kanssa, joillain on iso hirsihuvila Levillä kaikilla mausteilla ja toisilla on mökkinä pieni rintamaiestalo Keuruulla. Jälkimmäisenkään reaaliarvo ei vuosien kuluessa merkittävän paljon heilu.

Tästäkin syystä tuommoiset rajaukset verotukseen jonkin asian omistamisesta on vähän haasteellisia. Vaikka minullakin on autoja oikein kaksin kappalein niin vaikkapa X7 BMWn tai Audi RS6:n hintalapussa on sen verran että oma talo autotalleineen ja tontteineen, autoineen ja kaiken muun irtaimiston kanssa maksaa vähemmän.

aika monelle myös auto, on luksusta

Toisaalta aika monelle, minä mukaanlukien, auto on käytännön välttämättömyys. Täällä taajamamerkkien väljemmällä puolella kun ei julkisesta liikenteestä ole paljon iloa. Tuo kesämökki taas mielestäni menee selkeästi luksuksen puolelle, joskin niitäkin on aika paljon laidasta laitaan. Yksi euromäärä olisi paljon selkeämpi, joskin silloin rajaa pitäisi varmaan nostaa tuosta 100t vähän ylemmäs jos halutaan omakotitalot jättää vaikutuksen ulkopuolelle.

which was a ‘neutral’ border back then

There’s quite a few unmarked graves along that border and immense effort from my countrymen to keep the border where it is. It hasn’t been “neutral” for too long. And being prepared to keep that border where it is plays a part on why our president from a small country is on discussions with Ukraine, EU leaders and that orange clown across the pond today.