This website has 81% battery power remaining • Hacker News Board

Re: This website has 81% battery power remaining

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Post by unclebucknasty » Tue, Dec 14, 2021, 2:48 PM UTC

brightball wrote: post #359

unclebucknasty wrote: post #357

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So, specifically , why are using Cloudfare? Kind of sounds like you're saying both that you do and don't need it.

It’s free, solid DNS product, gives me a CDN on top of it and stops a lot of pesky bots. Plus moving the domain registration there keeps the renewal at the lowest possible price. I can’t see any good reason not to use it.

I see. I think I was confused by your statement that kicked off this sub-thread:

>...but I had Cloudflare out front absorbing all the traffic that would have come from serving static assets.

I interpreted that to mean Cloudflare contributed significantly load-wise, then you indicated that your site wasn't largely static or cacheable (I think?).

Anyway, in addition to curiosity, we're also considering Cloudflare to offload from more costly AWS instances. So, just trying to suss out whether Cloudflare was or wasn't instrumental for you per your comments. Still not 100% sure, but thanks for the discussion.

Re: This website has 81% battery power remaining

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Post by hiptobecubic » Tue, Dec 14, 2021, 5:33 PM UTC

louwrentius wrote: post #46

My own battery + solar powered blog [0] is 100% inspired by lowtechmagazine. I am based in The Netherlands and due to my sub optimal location, I have to cheat in the winter by recharging from mains about weekly. I still do get some sun, but nowhere nearly enough to get through the day, let alone the night. [0]: https://louwrentius.com/this-blog-is-now-running-on-solar-po... And lead acid is also terrible for solar ap…

The section on alternative energy storage (e.g. compressed air) was also really neat.

Re: This website has 81% battery power remaining

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Post by onethought » Wed, Dec 15, 2021, 4:54 AM UTC

culi wrote: post #351

onethought wrote: post #330

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Okay, so we’ve moved on from: Panels can’t be recycled. To: Panels in the US aren’t recycled enough because the economic conditions aren’t right. Thats a much more nuanced point. Government regulation can help here for sure.

Umm, it's not just that. The most advanced company in the world at recovering precious materials from solar panels is a French company that uses a chemical treatment to recover the silver intra-cell wiring. Even they are not really economically feasible. The reason the EU recycles is because they have to. Not because of economics So no, it's not just solar panels in the US. The technology to make recycling solar pane…

I don’t understand your point at all. You are now down to “the intra-cell wiring is difficult”. Why can’t I melt the whole thing?

Melt the silicon, purify, and you’ll get the silver. What am I missing?

Re: This website has 81% battery power remaining

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Dec 15, 2021, 2:43 PM UTC

Nextgrid wrote: post #271

unionpivo wrote: post #214

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Really ? Take for instance news sites or blogs: When I read news article, what I want is mostly (there are some great interactive infographics, but those are tiny minority) text and few images, that are static. And it's not like that as a consumer I get anything extra. The text and images are still static, for the most part. Except that now its makes 20 separate requests to load it all up. Hell, pages are usually eve…

I don't believe the bloat of modern websites is because of ad-tech of dark patterns - all of these can still be done with an otherwise lightweight website. If anything, ads (excluding intentional resource usage such as crypto-miners) would be much lighter than what a typical SPA website like Reddit or Twitter is. I believe what's happening is a broader trend in the industry of building engineering playgrounds and doi…

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Re: This website has 81% battery power remaining

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Post by squeaky-clean » Mon, Dec 20, 2021, 5:10 PM UTC

mro_name wrote: post #294

squeaky-clean wrote: post #232

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We don't want to sculptors. We have other projects that just happen to require a sculpture as part of finishing them. > There is no design in/for the web without html+css, is there? Only as much as there's no programming without assembly language.

> We don't want to sculptors. It is really sad that you are forced to do things that you believe you are not capable of doing and refuse to do.

It's not that I don't believe I'm capable of it. I do not want to do it. I'm happy to not have to do it.

When did I ever say I was not capable of doing it? It's really sad the way you push your mindset on others.