Wow there isn’t even a punch line, Andrew Marlton just skewers those involved. I think this was a criticism of the NACC when it was founded. Albo basically neutered it till it was useless.
EDIT: For some excellent coverage of Robodebt, see www.youtube.com/
Honest fact: It’s dear, but firstly, AUKUS is more expensive, and secondly, when it’s storing energy we’re going to forget the amount we spent and really enjoy the amount we’re saving.
I love how they’re like… frenemies during the fight, so three’s a bit where he grabs a metal pole and breaks a window of a car, realises what he’s done, says sorry, throws the pole away, and they go back to fisticuffs.
I was having a chat with someone about how they are more “Star trek future rather than Solarpunk future”, and I found something off about it but didn’t really think about it, but it’s this. It’s the idea that the key conceit of Star Trek being they are exploring for the hell of it can’t really be true, and that exploration in itself is to try and get some dividend off it. Any “Star Trek future” which is not colonial is necessarily a Solarpunk future first.
So I have this silly idea/longterm project of wanting to run a server on renewables on my farm. And I would like to reuse the heat generated by the server, for example to heat a grow room, or simply my house. How much heat does a server produce, and where would you consider it best applied? Has anyone built such a thing?
I do this. If you want to actually want to use or donate the processing power, this is kind of a good thing. However, there are a lot of downsides:
Computers are generally much lower power than a heater. This makes them very slow to “react” to heating needs. Heating a small room, even with a 500W PC, could take an hour or maybe more.
Heaters have a thermostat, which computers don’t, so even though they are very laggy, they also don’t stop heating when the temperature is right. This means they can overshoot and make the room uncomfortably hot.
You could set up an external thermostat but then you need a load which can be switched on and off.
I was using folding@home, but the work items take a long time, and switching them on and off will increase the time taken to resolve the work item, which in turn means the system could get annoyed and use someone else’s computer to resolve the work item faster, or worse, blacklist your computer.
Using your PC to generate heat will use up its maximum lifetime. The fans aren’t built to be running at max speed all the time, the CPU & GPU could wear out, and the power systems will also wear as time goes on. You sort of have to align that lifetime against usage. This is likely fine if you see the computation as a donation or if you have important stuff to compute, but it’s probably not worth just wasting the cycles.
I’m just using it as a space heater for my study, which is also where I work from. While using the computer in Winter I just switch on f@h for both CPU and GPU (AMD 5700x and 6700xt), and this heats up the room. It’s a good 300-400W. I have home assistant telling me the temperature in the room and it bugs me to turn it off if it’s too hot. That’s my “temperature control”. I didn’t build anything, the computer is just under my desk and it heats up my room.
Originally my plan was to have F@H automatically turn on and off based on temperature, but it turns out the power is low enough and the lag is high enough that you switch it on in the morning, and then once the room is upto temperature you can just switch it off and the room will stay warm the rest of the day.
I do agree that Solarpunk as a genre is extremely nascent. There’s barely anything which could really constitute Solarpunk, much less something cohesive.
It seems like every other week a game studio is massively laying off employees; sometimes after years of development. What I’m reading is that it’s a quick way to lower expenses and pad the investors’ pockets, flooding the market with developers and reducing their value, to then hire them back a few months later at lower...
There were a bunch of game company closures in Australia in the 2000s and now there are a bunch of Australian indie devs, as an example. The cycle takes a long time though.
Toll roads aren’t bad, it’s all in the details. The problem is that the government is often “captured” and therefore has no incentive to have a fair contract, so they’ll add clauses like
If the company loses money because the government does something, the government will pay them. This often prevents the government from reducing or removing the toll road / other privately owned resource.
The government can’t “compete” with the toll road, either with another road or (sometimes) through public transport.
The government will often, as a form of pork-barrelling, offer people reimbursements for the toll road usage, thereby funneling tax payer money into the private company.
Toll roads are tax deductible.
Ideally, toll roads encourage people to take the train.
I know most Solarpunks already know about Andrew Millison from his permaculture work, but his new videos are both awesome and very solarpunk vibes, simple solutions for big problems.
I think this may be the way the explanation comes across. Historically, there were many lakes, but now the lakes don’t exist because there’s a large city there instead. So, to replicate the behaviour of the lakes, you need to get the water to traverse rock to remove some impurities and then settle in aquifers.
I may as well respond to the Youtube video here given the age of the other post:
I think despite the disclaimers, the video is actually encouraging people to blow up a pipeline, but to do it right. It offers some examples:
If you are part of the community, you can get access to the materials at scale, something the loners in this movie couldn’t do (and therefore risked their lives). That is, if you want to do this, a lot of people need to / should know about it and help you get the materials you need.
The chemistry that is being used is unsafe, so don’t just copy-paste it. I’d think that was obvious but, I think the specific thing the video is trying to tell you is that bombs can be made safely, and anyone trying should do so in a way that their safety is not compromised.
The processes and procedures used in the film are unsafe or nonsensical. This is only really made in the context that no one should copy the film.
The conclusion is a bit crazy though, that the expert opinions they got in the film purposely made the bomb making unsafe or that informants should be trusted. I think more likely is the idea that they wanted to depict the characters as a bit derpy, and the plan as crazy and dangerous. That’s what ratchets up the tension.
A community all organising together doesn’t make sense because the point of the book is that the community is currently against property destruction (and the movie by extension is trying to advocate for that community engaging in property destruction, that’s arguably what happens at the end).
Safe bomb-making techniques would make the film laborious and less interesting
Not trusting the informant wouldn’t leave a twist in the film.
The video seems to be advocating for a how-to guide rather than a fictional film.
The video is a bit “If you’ve played the Uncharted series don’t try rock climbing like Nathan Drake”.
As an anarchist, I disagree with the linked video’s notion that small groups shouldn’t act autonomously. That is garbage. But the rest of what it says about security culture and safety and the fact that the movie was pretty clearly made to encourage activists to compromise their security and/or hurt themselves is right-on...
Robodebt knackers the Nacc! In this country, justice is only for the powerful | First Dog on the Moon (www.theguardian.com)
(Pauline Hanson) The Man From Snowy Hydro (www.youtube.com)
I’m not a supporter of Pauline and there’s a lot of problems with this video, it is funny to think that people believe this shit....
**OBEY** (64.media.tumblr.com)
Shout out to 10 years of Antifa International
Limited Run Games now Selling "PC Micro Editions"
Linux has reached 2.32% in Steam Hardware Survey for May 2024
In Women's Jeans They're 83.7% Smaller (i.imgur.com)
What Astrophysicists Think About Aliens (www.youtube.com)
OK I haven’t seen the whole thing yet but I’m at the point of the video where I think she’s going to say “Solarpunk” and I’m excite!
Prominent Android manufacturers commit to supporting phone software for 7 years (www.cnet.com)
Hopefully a blow to planned obsolescence
Server as heating device - how do I do this?
So I have this silly idea/longterm project of wanting to run a server on renewables on my farm. And I would like to reuse the heat generated by the server, for example to heat a grow room, or simply my house. How much heat does a server produce, and where would you consider it best applied? Has anyone built such a thing?
new copy pasta dropped (lemmy.ml)
Came home to find these 2 on the ground directly below where I caught the other yesterday... (slrpnk.net)
So… Back up to the roof I went....
Can somebody explain why game makers don't start their own companies together?
It seems like every other week a game studio is massively laying off employees; sometimes after years of development. What I’m reading is that it’s a quick way to lower expenses and pad the investors’ pockets, flooding the market with developers and reducing their value, to then hire them back a few months later at lower...
How to Save a Drying City (BENGALURU) (www.youtube.com)
I know most Solarpunks already know about Andrew Millison from his permaculture work, but his new videos are both awesome and very solarpunk vibes, simple solutions for big problems.
There’s always someone who takes things literally (goblin.camp)
How to blow up a pipeline: the movie (www.imdb.com)
I like it, it’s a good movie, and I want to make the (maybe hot take argument) that this is solarpunk!...
The movie "How to Blow Up a Pipeline" is a psy-op (the book is not) (www.youtube.com)
As an anarchist, I disagree with the linked video’s notion that small groups shouldn’t act autonomously. That is garbage. But the rest of what it says about security culture and safety and the fact that the movie was pretty clearly made to encourage activists to compromise their security and/or hurt themselves is right-on...