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Ringz··on Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?
Maybe 1-4% lower.
Ringz··on Show HN: Email.md – Markdown to responsive, email-safe HTML
If only there was a faster way to „select all“!
Ringz··on Entso-E final report on Iberian 2025 blackout
I use this model all the time. It's very helpful for explaining the multifactorial genesis of catastrophes to ordinary people.
Ringz··on Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics
What? Please explain!
Ringz··on How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital
I would say [even] Berlin is better than London.
Ringz··on The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
Yep. I hate it. Its easier to open the Finder and use the shortcut to open the application folder.
Ringz··on The Multi-Trillion-Dollar Battle for Your Attention Is Built on a Lie
https://archive.is/ViTYl
Ringz··on Uncut Reviews: Kraftwerk – Reissues
„Sadly, the remaster is a fiasco. The soft tones of “Computer Love” become sharp, the wide spaces of “Home Computer” contract into tunnels, and “Pocket Calculator” bears down on us like a spiked ceiling in a horror film. Equally poor is the remastered Radio-activity, where atmospheric crackles and hisses have been removed by noise reduction software. For pity’s sake, they’re part of the music! Autobahn, Trans-Europe Express and The Man-Machine have less sound-quality issues, but are all inferior to the original EMI CDs. Anyone planning to buy the 8CD …The Catalogue, would be well-advised to sample an individual remaster first.

Hütter is within his rights to tinker with Kraftwerk’s canon as he wishes, but a botched Kraftwerk remaster series is a bitter disappointment nevertheless. It’s not such an issue, thankfully, with the remaining three LPS: the lean, industrial Techno Pop (a re-titled Electric Café with added track “House Phone”); The Mix (1991), a surprisingly addictive re-imagining of 11 classic tracks in a dancefloor context; and Tour De France (2003), a cycling fetishist’s techno headphone soundtrack with a gorgeous five-note motif. For those who’ll never sport the yellow jersey, have no fear. It also works its magic if you’re on an exercise bike.“

Ringz··on How Markdown took over the world
The overlap between these Markdown formats is actually larger than with many other formats. Possibly even larger than HTML’s overlap back when MS Explorer was the dominant browser.
Ringz··on Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
Indoor is always higher ppm (how much depends on many parameters) without proper ventilation. „Proper“ should include a „Heat exchanger“ thus you don’t need to reheat fresh air.
Ringz··on Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain
There are dozens of different watch batteries in various sizes available everywhere. Why not make the ring slightly larger and allow for battery replacement?
Ringz··on Cassette tapes are making a comeback?
I have sealed TDK MA-XG in mint condition. Stored in a dry, dark place. Do you say that they are degraded now?
Ringz··on Self-hosting my photos with Immich
Immich struggles to act as a true unifying solution for users with large, existing archival collections (DSLRs, scanned film, etc.). Since those „Archival Assets“ are often decades old, already organized into complex, user-defined file structures (e.g., 1998/DATE_PLACE_PROJECT/PLACE_PROJECT_DATE.jpg), and frequently contain incomplete or inconsistent metadata (missing dates, no GPS, different file formats).

Immich's current integration solutions (like "External Libraries") treat the archive as a read-only view, which leads to a fragmented user experience:

- Changes, facial recognition, or tagging remain only within Immich’s database, failing to write metadata back to the archival files in their original directory structure (last time I checked, might be better now.

- My established, meaningful directory structure is ignored or flattened in the Immich view, forcing the user to rely entirely on Immich’s internal date/AI-based organization.

My goal (am I the only one?) of having one app view all photos while maintaining the integrity and organizational schema of the archival files on disk is not yet fully met.

Immich needs a robust, bi-directional import/sync layer that respects and enhances existing directory structures, rather than just importing files into its own schema.

Ringz··on We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3"
He missed the opportunity to mention the reverse proxy, firewall with geo blocking, VPS and WireGuard, Grafana and Loki setup.
Ringz··on How Netflix's Nuclear War Movie Holds Up to the Real World
Without paywall

http://archive.today/M1BAl

Ringz··on Show HN: iOS 26 broke my favorite feature. I built my own mobile browser
A direct link to Test Flight? That’s bold.
Ringz··on Schleswig-Holstein completes migration to open source email
Ok… that’s odd. Wouldn’t expect anything like this from the Dutch government, since they have a very progressive digital image in Europe.
Ringz··on Schleswig-Holstein completes migration to open source email
Good news but it would be much better if Zoho would be committed to open source its software.
Ringz··on GNU Midnight Commander
Thanx! I completely missed that. That’s helpful even though a „Operator Pending Mode„ is missing.
Ringz··on GNU Midnight Commander
If only you could redefine the keyboard shortcuts...
Ringz··on Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML
When you talk about China, you may have confused development with production.
Ringz··on Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server
Don’t get me wrong, but that one person is part time developing this magnificent peace of software with his smartphone commuting in the bus is another proof that Python is a great programming language.
Ringz··on I'm switching to Python and actually liking it
Just curious: how?
Ringz··on Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean
Most climate research studies provide a range from optimistic to pessimistic outlooks on climate impacts. It would be interesting to know how the studies from the last 30 years have fared. I have the feeling that rather the pessimistic estimates have come to pass.
Ringz··on Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean
> So, until somebody brings out 10+ aircraft carriers and enforces global climate accord, i don't see any progress happening here.

If we look at the enforcement and outcomes of former climate action „plans“ this is unfortunately a valid option.

Ringz··on Finnish hacker Harri Hursti hacks U.S. voting machine on live podcast
Voting machines represent the most problematic election technology imho. All voting methods have inherent vulnerabilities, but paper ballots and mail-in voting are maybe the most reliable options?

For me, the critical missing element is comprehensive verifiability: Creating tamper-proof systems that allow voters to verify their votes were counted correctly while maintaining ballot secrecy. All that while elections must be publicly verifiable by ordinary citizens without special technical knowledge.

Ringz··on I built something that changed my friend group's social fabric
I’ve always thought this way and it’s amazing what applications and problems you can solve or replace with text files (csv, TXT, md), calendars (shared) and email. If I had to estimate, 80-90%?

I always believed in the power of simple tools and don’t reinvent the wheel.

Ringz··on Brave creates new TLD on the blockchain
I have the same problem. Especially because I use even different dashes.
Ringz··on How I use my terminal
imo Claude Code beats all of them. It sucked me completely back in my terminal and I love that. Combine CC with MCPs, Tasks and subagents if you really want to „up the game“.

I am on CC pro but I think to get the 100 or 200$ abonnements.

Ringz··on Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun's poles
The article points out:

„The only exception to this is the ESA/NASA Ulysses mission (1990–2009), which flew over the Sun's poles but did not carry any imaging instruments. Solar Orbiter's observations will complement Ulysses’ by observing the poles for the first time with telescopes, in addition to a full suite of in-situ sensors, while flying much closer to the Sun. Additionally, Solar Orbiter will monitor changes at the poles throughout the solar cycle.“

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