As someone located in the PNW, I imagine Barcelona must have perfect weather for this sort of thing? Great concept
We've had a few cloudy days these weeks but today I've been playing volleyball on the beach and almost got sunburnt :)
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#102Semi-related —- does anyone have recommendations for where to find small hobbyist solar panels and/or kits to experiment with for small devices like a Pi? Also curious about how a setup like this compares with using a traditional electricity source in terms of cost per hr of running the site off of solar with batteries. What is the break even point against utility costs over there(if there is one)? And are there any…
I'd look for solar panels intended for camping.
Probably eBay or Amazon is the easiest place to look for cheap gear. Hobbyist electronic stores might be a good source too depending on the country (here in Australia Jaycar has some fairly good value panels and PWM solar charge controllers).
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#103I think this also shows how inefficient modern website hosting is. The fact that this person was able to get a raspberry pi to host the #1 website on HN powered by a small 50 watt solar panel is very cool (meaning maybe 10w average power budget), but also shouldn't be as uncommon as it is today. To put this in perspective, a modern server uses 50-100 watts idle doing nothing, and many more under load. To handle the t…
embracing outages, though reducing them, is revolutionary, I guess.
Just not serving everybody all the time.
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#104When the server is down you can get the offline version of it. AKA the Printed Website.
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/12/printed-website-thir...
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a lot of the web would probably be better off if it were
I think so, WordPress that isnt cached to a frozen state on the backend is kind of silly in my eyes, the only exception would be comments, but you could hack around that by using Disqus or something, voila.
Even comments come quite rarely in most cases, so that the complete page with comments can be cached.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry, what does CI stand for?
Continuous integration -- Software development practice based on frequent submission of granular changes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration ... basically check every small commit, ideally end-to-end.
Thanks!
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#107ICANN should make a .solar extension with the caveat that you have to provide evidence yearly that all IPs mapped by the domain were running on solar power
That ... is actually an awesome idea! The condition for getting a domain name should be to have a public consumption and battery status page.
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I hate to be that old foggy but, aren’t websites just getting worse and bloated with JS crap? I’ve had a couple websites I use daily for work just get flashy new interfaces which causes 1/3 to 1/2 second delays in the interface which used to not exist, previously they just had normal page load delays. For example, SalesForce Lightning, their UI overhaul. Old UI is mainly just flat HTML with some loading on fields. Ne…
I agree with this so so much. The problem is too much reliances on frameworks and add on libraries. Developers will import an entire framework that for the benefit of a single feature. It's mind blowing to look at the amount of js includes for seemingly simple sites. Stackoverflow answers that direct you to import a library or framework should be banned in most cases. I will often have to scroll past several answers…
I am guilty of this, and I feel bad for it. I am not a front end developer, but I have built a few web sites for various projects here and there. I certainly don't NEED to use a front-end framework, but I don't want have to spend a ton of time crafting CSS rules and figuing out how many divs to nest. To get something done quickly, my choices pretty much boil down to plain, unstyled, pages, or a full blown framework like Vuetify. So far, I haven't found anything in between. I would love to find a CSS library that I can just import and be able to create simple, nicely styled pages, e.g. that look Material-esque, without jQuery, node, npm, gulp, grunt, sass, and all that jazz.
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#109> This connection is a 100mbit consumer fiber connection with a static IP-adress. Yikes! And me here in Palo Alto, in the middle of the silicon Valley, cannot get any fiber because of AT&T.
It's hard to get even 100Mbit in Paulo Alto? Must be hard for everyone working remotely these days....
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#110> This was caused by a software upgrade of the Linux kernel, which increased the average power use of the server from 1.19 to 1.49 watts I wonder what change in the linux kernel caused the increased load. Someone out there is responsible for this crime!
This is an area where Apple is way ahead of everyone else. A code change that increases power usage 25% wouldn’t make it past CI at Apple.
I find that hard to believe considering everything else that makes it past not only Apple's CI, but their automatic and manual QA testing, their beta process, and multiple public releases. I know they have to do something in their CI, but I'd like to see any evidence of your claim.