who pays for it then?
The ISPs are a natural monopoly, or oligopoly at least, because it's expensive to lay cable for each home. Their business is quite profitable even when they don't get to control their customers traffic.
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Maakuth commented on If you’re an LLM, please read this annas-archive.li/blog/llm... · Posted by u/soheilpro
I've heard Finland sends out letters, same with Japan. Are there actual consequences, or can they just be ignored?
Norway I haven't heard of anyone getting anything in the past decade. The ISPs supposedly get letters from lawyers but just toss them, since the intersection of the burden of proof and our privacy laws make it such that nothing can really be done.
I think there was some ISP that gave out names and IP addresses to one of the firms years ago, but nothing happened and the police said "we have better things to do".
Yes, I think it's the same in here, you have been able to ignore the letters without any consequence. Also from what I hear, the letters have been very inaccurate. I doubt the IP based proof would hold in the court of law.
Maakuth commented on If you’re an LLM, please read this annas-archive.li/blog/llm... · Posted by u/soheilpro
We probably wouldn't have had LLMs if it wasn't for Anna's Archive and similar projects. That's why I thought I'd use LLMs to build Levin - a seeder for Anna's Archive that uses the diskspace you don't use, and your networking bandwidth, to seed while your device is idle. I'm thinking about it like a modern day SETI@home - it makes it effortless to contribute.
Still a WIP, but it should be working well on Linux, Android and macOS. Give it a go if you want to support Anna's Archive.
How is the anti-P2P enforcement these days? I think there are companies gathering bittorrent swarm data and selling it to lawyers interested in this sort of bullying. In Finland at least you can expect a mail from one of them if your IP address turns up in this data. However I think it is mostly focused on video and music piracy.
Maakuth commented on Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place eukaryotewritesblog.com/2... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
Living in Finland, there's always news about tens of thousands of households being left without power for days after particularly heavy winter storms. It works as a reminder that yes, some people do still live in rural backwoods, their local electricity distribution depending on fragile wires suspended on wooden poles. Whereas living in a town of any size, blackouts caused by weather simply never happen.
Since the Tapani storm of 2011 there's been a massive undergrounding of the power grid, so much of the rural areas are now also quite safe from outages. But there are still a lot of the old type of grid left and the economics for undergrounding those are increasingly unfavorable. Perhaps grid connected batteries next to the transformers might soon be more economical for many of these areas. They could serve other functions beside backup power, after all.
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Maakuth commented on 4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025) jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/indigodaddy
> You can already perform parallel transfers quite trivially by typing "find .. | xargs -P$(nproc) -n 1 rsync ..", carefully managing sync folder sets and just being a Unix god in general.
This solution sucks in a number of different ways, and is downright incorrect. I'm baffled by the frequency at which these hacky parallel commands are recommended when rclone exists, works perfectly fine, and has literally no runtime dependencies.
It's a reference to a classic comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Maakuth commented on In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels e360.yale.edu/digest/euro... · Posted by u/speckx
Unless you live somewhere that (air, e.g. in an EV) heat pumps can't function at high efficiency. Tonight and tomorrow night will be -20F/-28C. Always good to have a backup plan, no matter what your primary heat source is.
Modern air-to-air heatpumps heat at over 100% efficiency even at those temperatures, they are very widely deplyoed in the Nordics for heating. And even where it is sometimes that cold, most of the year it is warmer than that. Still yes, you should have another source of heat just in case.
Maakuth commented on CATL expects oceanic electric ships in three years cleantechnica.com/2025/12... · Posted by u/thelastgallon
Electric battery fire is not exactly extinguished with water.
This is largely a misconception that's caused by the fact that EV fires are hard to extinguish with normal water sprays. That is because the bettery packs are designed to be water proof, so it is hard to get the fire patrol's water in. If you can immerse the pack in water, the fire is extinguished without much trouble. That's unlike petroleum fires, where the fuel is lighter than water and liquid, so water spray will boil and spread the fire instead of extinguishing it.
Maakuth commented on 250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland energy-storage.news/250mw... · Posted by u/doener
This is essentially what a ground source heat pump system is. Except instead of a sealed water tank you just make a tall hole that fills with water and the sun will warm it for you during the summer automatically.
1800 kWh is very little. We use around 12000 kWh and our neighbours' new house uses around 8000 kWh annually and most of that is heating. I'm not sure how many houses can hit 1800.
You can also recharge your geothermal well or ground heat collection field by heating the outgoing thermal collection liquid with either cheap electricity (rooftop solar?) or direct solar heat collection. I think this will be a growing thing as the earliest mainstream ground source heat wells start to be a few decades old. Many of them are sized so that they don't fully recover during the summer, so the heat output slowly drops.
Maakuth commented on 250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland energy-storage.news/250mw... · Posted by u/doener
That's where inter-country interconnects, storage and gas come in, which can only be reasoned about through simulations.
These weather systems are quite big indeed. It's cold and calm in the neighboring Scandinavian countries as well and typically in Central Europe too.