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This is what bikes and busses are for, or just walking because the metro system is comprehensive enough you are at most four blocks away from a station.

It's worth mentioning most European cities didn't skip cars entirely. Amsterdam in the 70s was as much a traffic sewer as Detroit. They just realized they fucked up in the 80s and …

There are mini nuc like computers that use mobile chips and those tend to go down to 15w.

I think trying to retrofit existing single family into urbanism is kind of a lost cause. Everything is built for it, and nothing is built for urban density and transit, at some poi…

It should be doable to take each floor and put a kitchen / bathrooms / storage in the middle with living space around the exterior windows with connecting hallways. On larger build…

What is more efficient than all the cars is electrified rail. That is an order of magnitude more energy efficient, more if you can manage to get near capacity high frequency trains…

I've been self hosting my own email on a Dell Poweredge for just over a year now, if you want my smtpd, dovecot, and rspamd confs I'll share them :x

I graduated in 3 years and also at 20 (so one more semester) and was way less inspirational in doing it. I took 5 AP classes in high school that got me out of 5 classes and took 4 …

That seems like a cq based encode. Try av1an in its target quality mode - I've gotten some movies to a tenth the Blu-ray size with 98 vmafs and with only smudged detail at pixel le…

I self host headscale as my control node of my tailscale vpn so no sign ins required, I just give keys out to anyone I want in my vpn. My problem is the client doesn't support mult…

Theres a generational rift that will stop a lot of decaying areas from seeing repopulatin from newer generations. My wife and I saving to house shop soonish, but one of the primary…

All the modern media formats are unsupported by Apple. We could be using avif for images and webm av1 streaming and video if not for Apple products. Its intentional sabotage by App…

I have no affiliation with Netflix, I just like using av1an which supports vmaf quality targets. If Netflix wants to hire me, dm me, lol.

I use either aom for trying to make "optimized" encodes of things to get quality at the smallest file size or svt for fast encodes that aren't really any more efficient than h265, …

It feels like newfound indignity and the realization is that most of us are actually victims - capitalist exploitation of the working class is codified into the societies we live i…

If XMPP and Matrix were based on the same protocol stack arguments to keeping XMPP this whole time would have made sense. But they aren't. Matrix is http and json while XMPP is tcp…

Its still really convenient. It is really starting to pick up - I can use my phone to pay fares in a lot of metros now, have real time transit tracking, and use it for navigation e…

I've been in Portland the past month and have managed pretty fine on the public transit here. Its also quite affordable. They could do more for sure, but all the bridges and roads …

I definitely think doing openid logins is way easier than any home rolled auth scheme. Delegate responsibility where you can, which includes use authentication. It sucks that Perso…

> to use code for good with commercial interests You can use GPL code commercially. You just have to publish source on anything it touches. It that makes your business model nonvia…

Have you ever actually had someone on medicare navigate healthcare? Its only partial coverage and the supplemental plans also are partial. Retirees regularly rake up thousands a ye…

Matrix / Element should have a comparable feature set to signal for almost all use cases and supports traditional username/password.

I've picked up drawing in the last few years, probably because it occupies enough overlap with the centers of my brain I trained to code but also is outside the envelope enough to …

A lot of people seem to be making private instances that can talk out but aren't public which means you are stuck making new accounts for each such instance.

It's not that hard to find a list of the largest ones in the US, they collectively represent about 200bn in revenue: https://www.thenews.coop/122959/sector/usas-top-100-co-opera...…