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sirdvd··on Germany's Solar Boom Eases Power Costs as Gas Price Jumps
Wind, sun and geothermal we have. Albeit technology to harvest them seldom come from the Europe. But getting a safe, unfettered provider of nuclear fuel risk to be just another unsolvable problem.
sirdvd··on Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections
>The problem with this, like internet voting, is that you can be coerced. As an example against coercion, on belenios faq they say that they let voter vote several times (and they count just the last vote).
sirdvd··on Nukeproof: Manifesto for European Data Sovereignty
...and on Cloudflare. So much for European Sovereignty.
sirdvd··on AWS announces flat-rate pricing plans for website delivery and security
That's the Premium plan (for $1000) Edit: it's for 5 TB
sirdvd··on Interstellar Flight: Perspectives and Patience
> it's very hard to imagine interstellar travel being feasible with our current understanding.

Sometimes it's hard realize the with have a good understanding of only 5% of what composes our universe. Let's hope there's still some surprise lest for ours Centauri Dreams...

sirdvd··on Tesla seeks to guard crash data from public disclosure
> Well because Tesla's are excellent cars and are still ranked at the top compared to the rest of the market.

whilst surely top ranked, they apparently share the top with others makers (https://www.euroncap.com/en/ratings-rewards/latest-safety-ra...) (Large Family Cars category, last two years, order by occupant protection).

sirdvd··on The recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android
> permission that they want

"they", in my case it's me. With on my own Nextcloud server, on my own LAN. It's me that want "access to everything everywhere". Difficult for me to think that is not about gate keeping from Google.

sirdvd··on Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection
> The escape hatch is to use the FDroid version rather than the Play Store version.

And perhaps using GrapheneOS while at it.

sirdvd··on Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
As a user, I'd be totally fine with Apple letting me choose who can access to my iMessages.
sirdvd··on US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago
I assume is referring to the mean ageing demographic of those country.
sirdvd··on I'm Done with Ubuntu
Well... ZFS support baked in the kernel, surely count for something?
sirdvd··on Leaving and Waving
> Maybe not everyone is a nostalgic, but for those of us who are - I encourage doing these things now.

Is not just for nostalgia. I would've loved if my parents recorded even just a few minutes of their grandparents or great-grandparents to pass them to my children.

sirdvd··on Open Source on its own is no alternative to Big Tech
Tangentially, although there's been sporadic setbacks, as Limux[1] in 2017, there are new commitments to linux[2] that I hope will lead the way, at least in Europe.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux

[2]https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/germa...

sirdvd··on Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3
Switching is decisively a pain. But apparently this episode was what I needed to start looking seriously into VaultWarden.
sirdvd··on Ask HN: Where After WordPress?
Perhaps Joomla? As WP, it's PHP based.
sirdvd··on Is My Blue Your Blue?
Zima Blue ♥
sirdvd··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
Fewer and fewer. And there's VM for that, so you can rollback in case like this.
sirdvd··on Sans-IO: The secret to effective Rust for network services
/s https://xkcd.com/2954/
sirdvd··on Encryption at Rest: Whose Threat Model Is It Anyway?
The volume/pricing entry point for borg is really inviting. I would love see the same things for the zfs part. Sadly 5Tb is a steep entry point for me.
sirdvd··on ChatControl: EU ministers want to exempt themselves
Or at least, the more public resources you manage the less privacy you should have.
sirdvd··on Tailscale SSH is now Generally Available
But not for Starter. I wonder what's the reasoning of excluding only the Starter plan.
sirdvd··on I Lost Faith in Kagi
I've been using Kagi only for a couple of months, so I'm still very much in the honeymoon phase. Perhaps they're still searching for their identity. Very much hope they rest independents and good at web searches.
sirdvd··on Tell HN: ZFS silent data corruption bugfix – my research results
I find klarasystems articles and Mr Salter articles on arstechnica are a good start point
sirdvd··on John Deere 'Kill Switch' renders stolen tractors useless (2022)
I'm not sure is the best analogy. Perhaps it wouldn't reduce the value, but I don't see how you move a tractor that wont start (unless you want the owner standing beside you while you hack).