quixoticgeek

quixoticgeek, 6 months ago to random

Storm season is upon us, and with climate change bringing us more severe and more frequent storms. Flooding is happening more often. Everytime there's flooding someone talks about the insanity of building on a flood plane. Usually with a picture of a sign announcing a development of executive homes, sat in a field of water. The thing is. The problem isn't building in flood planes. The problem is building shitty buildings in flood planes. Naturally the Dutch have a thing or tow to say on this 1/n

quixoticgeek, 5 months ago to random

I saw someone post yesterday about Octopus energy in the UK offering money for people to not use electricity during a specific time window. Said person then went on to talk about hunting down standby devices.

There was a time when devices consumed obscene quantities of power in standby. But as of 2013, new devices sold in the EU must consume no more than 0.5W when in standby mode. So an idling device pulling the max 0.5w would need to be on for over 83 days to use a single kilowatt hour. 1/n

quixoticgeek, 1 year ago to random

@jon am I right in thinking if a service has RE at the start of the numbers, a Deutschland ticket works ?

quixoticgeek, 10 months ago to random

Wtf is this ?

quixoticgeek, 10 months ago to random

@mkpaa what's the numbers looking like for Ruska this year ? Have any more people signed up ?

quixoticgeek, 9 months ago to random

Wow. So fosstodon instance actually enforced an English language only policy. Wtf. They are kicking someone off for using Irish. What bat shit crazy fucked up colonial anglocentric bollocks is that.

Am amazed. That someone would even think about such a policy in the first place. Yikes. That someone else would go so far as to flag posts for it. That's up there with the instances that enforce a single topic. Wtf.

Am really appreciative of the good instance admin of v.st.

quixoticgeek, 8 months ago to random

Burning man produces 100kt of CO2 emissions. Bug number right?

Except that's across 80k people. So 1.25t per person. That's less than a return NYC - LHR flight. Per person.

Yes that is more than the emissions per person for someone from poorer countries such as the global south. But in the grand scheme of things. 1.25t of emissions per individual is not as high as you'd think. Drive a typical car 35km round trip to work every day, that's about a ton. 1/?

https://progressives.social/@chargrille/110981061901956538

quixoticgeek, 7 months ago to random

Gender inspecific form of Sir or Ma´am?

As in "you sir are a genius" or "you ma'am are a genius"

What do we use for NB's?

quixoticgeek, 3 months ago to random

Ok. Fun #network #debug #challenge for you. (I worked out the solution, your challenge is to work out what the cause is).

Machine a is connected to machine b, via a direct ethernet cable. On machine a it's connected to eth5. On b its eth0. A is assigned 192.168.1.1, and b is assigned .2. There is no ping. Communication doesn't seem to work.

Running tcpdump on machine a causes ping to work. But only while tcpdump is running. Tcpdump on b makes no difference.

What's the cause of this ?

quixoticgeek, 4 months ago to random

3rd cup of tea comes with a metal stirring implement...

quixoticgeek, 11 months ago to random

Looks like .NL has reached a point where it has so much Solar that on sunny days the price goes negative. But not enough grid scale storage, so the sun goes down and we start burning dinosaur farts again.

https://twitter.com/Sustainable2050/status/1664958897495449600?s=20

quixoticgeek, 4 months ago to random

@jon If I was to try to get from the Pyrenees, to the Belgian border, by train, with a bike, and an interrail pass, exactly how masochistic is this likely to end up being ? I'm not in a rush. And may ride a few bits?

quixoticgeek, 9 days ago to random

A friend of mine is a Doctor. On the train this morning on their way to work the call comes out. "Do we have any doctors on board?".

Finally. Friend grabs their bag and makes way through the train. Only to find 14 other doctors had done the same thing...

Guess that route is popular with medical staff on their way to work...

quixoticgeek, 1 year ago to random

Why is it so hard to find a 600mm X 400mm X 200mm (or near enough) white plastic storage box with no holes in it (i.e. handles). Lots in black. Or clear. But none in white, or a light grey. :(

quixoticgeek, 6 months ago to random

The North sea is weird.

English: North sea, location relative to England? East.
Dutch: Noordzee, location relative to the Netherlands? West.
Norwegian: Nordsjøen, location relative to Norway? South west.
Danish: Nordsøen, location relative to Denmark? West.
German: Nordsee, location relative to Germany. West.

There is no country that borders the North sea for which the North sea is North of their coast.

Why the fuck is it the North sea? North of what ?!?!?

quixoticgeek, 9 months ago to random

A semi productive day. Had breakfast in a nice lunchroom. Picked up a few things at some shops, met with a couple of friends for a chat, went to the DIY store to buy a couple more items. Came home. Watched quali. Took a nap. Just woke up. Now pondering food.

quixoticgeek, 9 months ago to random

Changed the angle on my solar panel and output jumped by over 3 times. Still not getting even half the theoretical max output. But it's a lot better than it was. Have charged a battery for my tools from it. Now charging some usb power banks. Think I need to make a better stand for the panel tho.

quixoticgeek, 19 days ago to random

Bicycles are incredibly efficient. But velomobiles take it to another level. The rider of this velo just did 400km in 16 hours and 15 minutes. Am impressive feat.

quixoticgeek, 7 months ago to random

Incidentally, as you all enjoyed the previous geolocation games so much. Where was the photo in this toot taken from. To within 100m.

https://social.v.st/@quixoticgeek/111130658486211629

quixoticgeek, 9 months ago to random

Tell me you beautiful nerds, what's your favourite royalty free font ?

quixoticgeek, 5 months ago to random

I received this novelty Christmas mug. I have no use for it. Does anyone else want it ? Any ideas for what to do with it?

quixoticgeek, 4 months ago to random

Ok. Unix nerds. Tell me your most obscure, interesting, or downright weird abuse of pipes. Bonus points for using tee and named pipes. Please if possible give the whole command (redact file names if necessary).

I'm teaching some people about what you can do on the UNIX command line and I need more examples.

quixoticgeek, 24 days ago to random

Am i being dumb, or is there no direct train from Claremont ferrand to Beziers in June? Have had this route recommended by multiple people as very pretty. But can't seem to get any journey planner to give me a time for it.

quixoticgeek, 6 months ago to random

In a reply today someone threw a statistic at me. My first thought was "that can't be right at all". In the modern world we get a lot of stats thrown at us, and it's a really useful skill to be able to look at a stat, and without much effort work out if it is plausible.

I'm not talking about checking it's accurate. Just plausible. Could it be true? Or is it out by several orders of magnitude?

Let's look at the stat from today and work out if it's at all plausible. 1/n

quixoticgeek, 22 days ago to random

Anyone know if the usb data blockers like the portapow things will prevent a device from fast charging?