The lie made into the rule of the world - Ezekiel 23:20
I'm not sure much about solar curtailment, other than the fact that they receive curtailment requests and comply quite quickly as well.
Here in the EU, the DC-AC transformers are mandated to shut down if the grid frequency is out of bounds.
That's pretty vastly different, isn't it?
Not really. It's like saying toast falls butter side down, vs toast falls non-buttered side up?
Colossal is an understatement
Would you rather have desert for breakfast, or breakfast for dinner?
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Do you always wear matching socks?
Sweet dreams american! 🛌
I believe they're argueing, as it can store more than passwords, it's not purely a password manager.
Nowadays there's even a well known strain Purple Amnesia :)
Purple Insomnia describes the effect of cannabis, i think ;)
I use keepass+syncthing.
One of those things that has been there for years, works flawless, to the point that I've stopped thinking about it.
It's like searching billboards now, not websites
I like that phrasing, clever :)
Trusting nobody is a hard way to live. How did the DDR effect you long term?
Quite bad tbh. We managed to emigrate in 98. But the distrust in others, what can you say to who, etc stayed as a reflex that requires cognitive recognition, and therapy, to lessen. I think of it like a light version of split personality.
How prevalent was the blackmarket?
Officially, everyone with the same job description had the same wages. This resulted in everyone becoming a slacker. So what eventually developed as a public secret, was that factories tolerated "theft" by the good employees.
So the person working in the canning factory brought home tins of food every month, which they would sell and/or trade. The boss could claim, and the books would show, that everyone has the same wages.
This is not limited to labour. Public administrators, for example, would be tolerated to put some people ahead of others for housing/holliday/etc, and they would ask for a fee.
It was a large, well known taboo that everyone, even party members participated in.
How many people actually believed in it? And how safe did people feel?
I can't speak for the early days. By the time I was born everyone I knew recognized it for what it was: the state as a weaponized tool to steal from and hurt others. An in-group of people decided how much equality and solidarity you deserve. You scratch their back, they grant you their leftovers.
Lots of the stasi files on people were shredded, and are intentionally slow being reconstructed, as they hope most people will be dead before they can read their own file. But estimates are that around 1-in-3 people were informants for the stasi. These are often neighbours, aunts, coworkers, ...
It was dog-eat-dog, and outside a small bubble you never fully trusted someone. Even then, no guarantees, as the schooling system (tried to) radicalize children into informing about their parents. The teacher would get benefits for each successfull "catch".
Sure, ask away!
Thank you! 🤌
Any solo games in there you can recommend?
Can't speak about the people on the VW bus, if they were to exist.
But what's verifyable: when you get fired in DE, you get unemployment benefits. So the whole spiel of losing home, getting divorced is false.
Thank you, I hadn't thought about it that way, yet.
Checking some reviews it does seem that e-readers have incredible battery life.
I'll do some research to see what options my budget allows.
Looking for ideas: offline entertainment device
I'm looking to build a small entertainment device for use in my offgrid place. I'd like to use it for reading, music and movies. I'd like for it to have low power needs. And for it to carry a varied library.
How would you build such a thing?
My initial idea is to repurpose an android phone, install VLC, and an SD card with pirated video transcoded to 720p, ebooks and mp3s.
Does it make sense to maximize battery life by jailbreaking the phone and disabling background services?
Thanks for your input
Are custom molded earplugs worth the extra cost?
Does anyone have a pair? How do they compare to generic ear plugs?
Frozen pre-cut vegetables are the best
They've got all kinds
Which die do you chose?
This die defines your luck in life, and is rolled by your god of choice at every important event: roll a (0) you fail miserably, (6) you succeed briliantly, (4) you pass, barely.
Would you rather have:
A: a 000666 die?
B: a 111555 die?
C: a 222444 die?
D: a 333333 die?
Alternative to chromecast?
I'm looking for a wireless HDMI cable essentially, as that's the only way I use my chromecast. So I don't care about it running android or apps.
Anyone got ideas or suggestions?
Starting tomorrow music is illegal, except for one song per person. What's your song?
Mining without joining a pool?
I'm currently running xmrig, but I'd like to mine without joining a pool. I understand the tradeoffs, that I'm likely to never be the one to mine a block.
Anyone here that does the same? Or knows of a way to do that?
Kafka's the trial was published 100 years ago, and nothing has changed
Interesting media, podcasts, shows, blogs on topic of self-hosting you like?
I just remembered I started self hosting due to the old HAK5 youtube show, which I dearly miss.
What media do you enjoy regarding this topic?
A little trick for changedetection.io and shadowdom
I selfhost changedetection.io to get notifications when a webpage changes.
Most of the time, the build-in visual selector is all I need to select the parts of the page I want it to monitor.
Some of the time I need to write custom (CSS) query selectors.
Today I had an interesting case where both of those methods failed. The page (laposte.fr) uses webcomponents who write to shadowdom. Shadowdom isn't directly addressable by CSS or Xpath or ... filter.
The trick was to run some custom javascript, in the "browser steps" section:
document.body.innerHTML = document.querySelector("#shadowdom_parent_container").shadowRoot.textContent;
This replaces the document body with whatever text is inside the webcomponent. Now it's as simple as having the monitor watch for changes on the body tag.
My experience using ethanol as fuel
Tldr: Pro: easy to use, versatile, low capex. Contra: high opex, hard to light in cold, fuel storage
As winter came faster than I wanted, and my cabin build always goes slower than I want, I've had to improvise on heating. So I've been burning alcohol as my main fuel source in my small cabin the last few months.
The burners are circa 10cm diameter ceramic spunges in stainless steel tins, as pictured. I made a variety of lids to the tins, with holes in them. The size and quantity of the holes affect heat output and duration of burning.
The setup cost me around 35EUR.
For high heat output, such as for cooking, I use lids with large holes. In the evening, I use multiple burners with small holes, so that they burn for longer.
Overall it works well. They're very easy to refill, and light. Unless it's really cold (<5C), then I put them, closed, in my pocket for 10 minutes to pre heat them.
As my cabin is small (2.5m by 3m), and well insulated, it heats the inside temperature
My ezpz rain collector
It's an 80l trash can.
The inverted lid has small holes drilled in them and act as the rain collector.
Two more pairs of holes, at the edge of the lid and into the container, together with some string keep the lid from blowing away.