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F_r_kon The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died

RIP Kevin. Used these sites a lot!

I hope they give then to a charity/charitable person. I proposed to continue the service ad free, for free to them. Hopefully they accept my proposal. It would be such a shame for the service to become "enshittified" by some greedy company

F_r_kon The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died

To know your IP

F_r_kon Tesla Semi, a Deep Dive

kWh

F_r_kon Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts

Found my phone account; I'm quite impressed, really !

F_r_kon Hyundai’s Ioniq 6 EV makes its US debut

I have this same car (made in 2016 for me) and I would never trade it for the world. Comfortable enough, efficient, and quite good imho

F_r_kon AdBlue shortage threatens EU supply chains

Didn't you meant to write: "you are good to go to pollute"

F_r_kon Any way to find a lost Kindle inside a house?

They are as cheap as you are wasteful

F_r_kon Tesla Cybertruck may be unsafe for other road users: Australian safety chief

Clearly, you've never ridden your bike in the city. Right hooks are common, and they're really hard to be "prepared for".

F_r_kon Tesla PowerWall 2 Hack

I'm sorry, but I don't believe one bit of your story.

Ohm's law dictates that it's be impossible for your HV generator (neon transformer) to outpout a HV voltage when connected to the grid (you'd need thousands of kWs).

Just impossible

F_r_kon Why UTC is used as the acronym for Coordinated Universal Time

I find comfort in the fact you're not a diplomat... I hope

F_r_kon Pre-built solar homes could make renewable energy almost 50% cheaper

New (>2005) AC/DC converters (switching PSU), have such a high efficiency than I would think it's not worth the hassle

F_r_kon Cisco is making it more difficult to use used hardware

You can still flash it, though

F_r_kon The Lithium Mine Buildup Is Outpacing the Electric-Car Boom

They're expensive

F_r_kon Tesla employees say they took shortcuts, worked through harsh conditions

Go to the ncap website and find out, then... That is if you're really interested by it

F_r_kon Tesla employees say they took shortcuts, worked through harsh conditions

Okay then, what's the problem with tents ?

By your analogy, the Bigelow iss module is a tent... Yet it went and survived if f... space !

F_r_kon Ask HN: Getting Started Investing

Contrary to the stock market, Bitcoin _is_ a zero sum game.

F_r_kon Giant batteries and cheap solar power are shoving fossil fuels off the grid

It's the marginal price of storing a kWh of energy. Not the price of the battery capacity itself

F_r_kon Costa Rica has run on 100% renewable energy for 300 days

Let not that be an excuse for our laziness in developing renewable energy.

F_r_kon Renault's driver UX is a disaster waiting to happen

And for the sake of it, make a website collecting all the lives saved thanks to it (I'm thinking of the Netherlands schoolboy who'd had been crushed by the truck without it)

F_r_kon Why people confess to crimes they didn’t commit

I'm not sure I prefer to have more true confessions of that implies more wrong confessions (even if one might outweigh the other)..

F_r_kon Show HN: Enviro+ for Raspberry Pi – Environmental sensors

You can easily calibrate co2 , 02 and n2 sensors by going outside in a "wild/nature" place

F_r_kon The Boring Company will develop an underground “people mover” for Las Vegas

That's exactly why: because you cannot (yet) discern nonsense from something you don't agree on

F_r_kon The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet

Could you cite some books that covered DFT ? I'm eager to read them

F_r_kon Show HN: WildDuck – Self-hosted modern email server

What's the difference with mailcow (a fully dockerized email solution) ?

F_r_kon You Can't Trust Network Time

If you have no time information (i.e. no rtc), then yes