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I have been self-hosting for about 25 years. I remember the protection.outlook.com issue. Once there was an issue with a bank that tried to do encryption, but used an expired certi…

I agree with all that. But smartphone cameras are not progress on all fronts. They are small and seem to be optimized to take pictures that look impressive. I sometimes have a slid…

I have a bunch of 100 ml bottles (with "0.1 liter" stamped in the bottom). You can fit about 5 or 6 of those in a 1 liter plastic bag. That is enough to keep you hydrated and getti…

I might be the best way to ensure a minimum latency and convince your customers that you have done that.

That is why I use x.com also has a very shall payload

Then they should just have a big blackboard

Yes, timezones do not at all work with reservations for physical objects. I work on a registration and reservation system for rowing boats in my rowing club https://github.com/dsro…

Yeah, but we do have an awful lot of middle managers, who know very little about software. Consider e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_Premier_League... except for…

Heat pumps have thermostats so they do not run at max all the time. So if the heat pump without the miner use 1 kW to heat to room temperature it would need less than 1 kW with the…

I do not think so. Well restaurant may be a little behind. I try to maintain all restaurants etc in Denmark by comparing OSM POIs to public health inspection reports. see: https://…

There have been projects like that. The problem is that potholes do not exists because cities do not know where they are. They exist because of lack of resources or priorities.

That the Earth is non-flat is a fact. That austerity was the thing to do was never a fact. Even in 2008-2010 it was a much debated policy. Just because governments do something tha…

Yes, we could use some numbers here. I.e., how much energy would it take to grow one kg of potatoes in artificial lighting. Compared to how much it takes to transport it by ship fr…

Not really. With git bisect you know what you are looking for. So even if you did make a commit with e.g., a missing semicolon you can still call it "good" because it did not cause…