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Comment · 4 months ago
Please don’t suck.
Comment · 7 months ago
The micro VPS is actually only 10 cents per month on Tierhive, so only $1.20 per year :)

I'm rocking one right now and it's surprisingly useful.

Comment · 7 months ago
Comment · 7 months ago
The point is that in order for Russians to use Starlink in combat operations in Ukraine, they first have to import them to Russia. All non-whitelisted Starlink terminals entering Russia should be immediately bricked to prevent this. It's an important part for denying Russians the use of Starlink.
Comment · 7 months ago
It’s missing the part that any non-whitelisted Starlink terminal entering Russian territory should automatically be blocked.

This would deny all Russians the use of Starlink.

Comment · 7 months ago
Simple solutions: block all Starlink terminals that aren’t whitelisted upon entering Russian territory or Ukrainian conflict zones.

This will prevent Russians importing Starlink terminals and then deploying them in Ukraine.

Work with Ukrainians to whitelist all their terminals.

Comment · 8 months ago
It wasn’t at the time.
Comment · 8 months ago
Not to take away from NetNewsWires accomplishments, but getting it was such a disappointment. Adding insult to injury, I had to pay to get the app on my iPad. It was one of the few apps I paid for and all I got was a deep sense of wasted money.

Since the demise of Byline, I’ve been rocking Inoreader and have had no reason to look back.

All I miss is Google Reader, but that’s never coming back.

The only new thing I want in an RSS reader is a handsfree, voice only mode. Being able to listen to RSS articles and navigating by voice commands.

Comment · 1 year ago
Just give me an RSS reader with a voice UI and text to speech.
Comment · 1 year ago
Airlines already use an average cost per passenger.

What you are looking for is charging passengers per weight.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
> When French nuclear plants get shut down for months at a time for maintenance what happens?

You reconsider your life choices and hire the Finnish to run your nuclear power plants instead.

> The reason why batteries and pumped storage and syngas arent popular is because they cant beat the economics of gas for peaking capacity.

It’s not even just the economics that rule out batteries and pumped storage. Where are you going to put all that pumped storage? Where are you going to get all the batteries you need? Not that many batteries are produced compared to the world’s energy needs.

The jury is still out on syngas. So far it’s expensive and inefficient. But it’s still early days.

> the fact its a horrible peaker

Why on earth would you run a nuclear power plant as a peaker? That’s inefficient and wasteful. You run a nuclear power plant at full tilt, all the time. Then you divy up any excess demand to other sources of power.

> So yeah, exorcising nuclear seems like a pretty fantastic idea, for cost, environmental and pacifist reasons.

This seems to be a wonderful idea, as long as you assume nobody lives above the 60th parallel and don’t mind on relying on CO2 producing power sources.

Comment · 1 year ago
Pi-hole can be configured to use any dns resolver you like.

All you have to do is install a dns resolver that supports prefetching to keep the cache hot, such as the Knot resolver.

Comment · 1 year ago
I fail to see how the above comment is in any way relevant to the discussion of this thread.
Comment · 1 year ago
This is pretty delusional.

Somebody has to run the network. Employees need salaries. Things break and wear out. Customers need service. Billing isn’t free.

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