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leonardp··on DC Grids
For non industrial use cases there is: https://open-dc-grid.org/ which appears to be suspended for now.
leonardp··on FOSS could be an unintended victim of EU crusade to make software more secure
Their interests are money and power, so this should be pretty self explanatory.
leonardp··on Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004)
When reading through your comment I had a blast from the past and remembered how I was browsing the "All-Seeing Eye" [1] to look for Quake 3 servers and then share them with friends via IRC.

Looking back at those times I remember the Internet as a much more social place (but that might be just be). I think it's because people had to get active to use services for social interaction as opposed to getting hit by a notification in your face.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_All-Seeing_Eye

leonardp··on Qualcomm to give all its 3nm AP foundry work to TSMC instead of Samsung
The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
leonardp··on Bitcoin is largely controlled by a small group of investors and miners
There is a foundational theoretical text in materialist philosophy that predicts exactly this happening. It was written in 1867. When reading articles like this I sometimes feel like the only thing we can learn from history is that we do not learn from history.
leonardp··on Why can’t I go faster than the speed of light?
I always feel like this questions is really asking "What is time?". This book gives a new perspective on time which I think is crucial for understanding the nature of it: https://www.harvard.com/book/the_janus_point/
leonardp··on A Ceph war story
i only have experience with ceph and would argue that if you set up a cluster with version 15.x right now it is pretty close to set and forget.
leonardp··on Tetrahedral Tessellation Experiments
#metoo other examples seem to work e.g.: https://www.shaderoo.org/?shader=A3X0e7