etherael (u/etherael)

etherael commented on Analyzing my electricity consumption zdimension.fr/analyzing-m... · Posted by u/skadamat

mcsniff · a year ago

Off-grid does not mean renewable-only.

You can run a generator to charge batteries or provide additional capacity when needed.

It would be ideal to have full coverage with "renewables" (isn't oil and gas a renewable just on a longer timeline?) but don't let perfect be the enemy of good if you want to move off-grid.

etherael · a year ago

I do lack familiarity with the European environment, but between geothermal, wind, hydro and natural gas backup, is it really feasible as it is in places where solar gives 0.01 USD kWh prices?

etherael commented on Analyzing my electricity consumption zdimension.fr/analyzing-m... · Posted by u/skadamat

etherael · a year ago

How is this sustainable as the gap between self generated and stored energy and the grid price continues to diverge?

If present trends hold it won't be long before a few years worth of energy bills even in Europe finance a full off grid deployment. There doesn't seem to be much room to cut on the energy companies pricing which remains variable and pointlessly complicated vs "I bought this off grid system and now I never think about energy anymore".

Just people in high density housing, people in a lease, and those who can't afford the up front cost will constitute the majority of residential grid energy usage and purchasing?

etherael commented on Partnership with News Corp openai.com/index/news-cor... · Posted by u/davidbarker

skilled · a year ago

What’s the real strategy here by OpenAI? A temporary cushion and a reprieve from complaints by big publishers?

All these deals they’re making will force other brands/orgs to follow, I am just wondering - once they get a taste of that free money, are they going to continue to follow those “highest journalistic standards” and talk about OpenAI in the context of copyright for everyone else.

Or even say a bad word of them altogether.

etherael · a year ago

Wild Ass Guess: Everyone OpenAI is negotiating with is likely considering how much they can gain from potential future revenue. This typically leads them to demand high rates.

However, this move flips the question: instead of asking how much they can make, they must consider what happens if their competitors partner with OpenAI. The concern then shifts to what competitors can achieve in the market that could threaten not just their economic interests but potentially their entire business model and worldview.

Suddenly, the desire to be the one partnering with OpenAI isn't just about accessing a lucrative revenue stream; it becomes a strategic imperative to mitigate risks and maintain competitive parity.

etherael commented on Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC cointelegraph.com/news/se... · Posted by u/talboren

david_shi · 2 years ago

This is circular reasoning. It doesn't need the approval, what it shows is official capitulation to a "distributed, trustless currency".

That's the big news.

etherael · 2 years ago

Or what it shows is official acknowledgment that the rubes bought this narrative whilst if you look at the details, it's effectively a CBDC.

etherael commented on Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC cointelegraph.com/news/se... · Posted by u/talboren

kemotep · 2 years ago

Is it possible that you can understand bitcoin and still not like it?

etherael · 2 years ago

I understand it perfectly and loathe it, not for the reasons people typically do, but because what it pretends to be able to do it cannot, and actually does the opposite of.

etherael commented on Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC cointelegraph.com/news/se... · Posted by u/talboren

Octokiddie · 2 years ago

The strong anti-Bitcoin sentiment on HN is still amusing. It goes way back - 13 years or more.

Having read many of these negative comments, I think part of this sentiment boils down to the commenter seeing no point to Bitcoin. Just this thread has examples. It must be more than a little annoying to feel very strongly that Bitcoin is pointless, but to also notice that it's still here. Year after year.

If that shoe were on my foot, in addition to being annoyed I'd be curious about what I was missing.

Bitcoin doesn't have to do something useful for everyone to survive. It doesn't have to "replace fiat." It doesn't have to be a payment system. It doesn't have to "go to the moon." It doesn't even need an ETF. Bitcoin just needs to fill needs (or wants) not met by anything else. They don't even have to be your needs or wants.

Unlike every other attempt at electronic cash that came before it, Bitcoin also doesn't need the approval of any person, police force, legislative body, military, or government. I'd challenge people who hold negative views on Bitcoin to name some other systems for which this holds true.

I think that's the point that a lot of hostile commenters might be missing.

etherael · 2 years ago

> Unlike every other attempt at electronic cash that came before it, Bitcoin also doesn't need the approval of any person, police force, legislative body, military, or government. I'd challenge people who hold negative views on Bitcoin to name some other systems for which this holds true.

This isn't actually true, BTC requires a certain amount of subsidy every ten minutes from the global economy. If that subsidy is not forthcoming it ceases to function. That subsidy is constantly increasing in terms of purchasing power.

Further, the regulatory authorities of the world have complete power over the transactions that take place on the ledger, and pretty much full visibility into and out of the ledger when it comes to their controlled fiat currencies.

Neither of the above hold true for many other cryptocurrencies, but I'm not interested in shilling for them, because the entire cryptosphere as a whole is a wretched hive of scum and villainy, largely because of attempts to force the above status quo from BTC onto the remainder, which given the multitude thereof, and the ability for them to endlessly replicate and spawn, is basically doomed to failure.

Note: I am well aware that the popular opinion of BTC is not aware of much of the above, but I didn't say "people believe x" I just said "x".

etherael commented on Rumble rejects MP's 'disturbing' letter over income bbc.co.uk/news/entertainm... · Posted by u/cs02rm0

tibbydudeza · 2 years ago

The plausibility factor is rather high (Occam's Razor) - he has millions in the bank and his little believing cult - he will survive this if he is innocent.

Odd he did not sue for libel yet.

etherael · 2 years ago

It's not clear whether you're missing the point on purpose or not, so I'll just come right out and say it; his guilt for any crimes of which he is accused is entirely unrelated to how sensible the proposition is that entities ought to be able to completely shut down people on every social media platform by accusing them of something and then immediately demanding that they be demonetized by these platforms.

etherael commented on Rumble rejects MP's 'disturbing' letter over income bbc.co.uk/news/entertainm... · Posted by u/cs02rm0

tibbydudeza · 2 years ago

A lot of people are going to end facepalming themselves when the truth comes out.

etherael · 2 years ago

"DAMN! I didn't trip over myself fast enough to make sure this personality was immediately demonetised on every internet social media platform after they were accused of a crime on a TV channel!"

said nobody, ever.

etherael commented on I only lost 10 minutes of data, thanks to ZFS mastodon.social/@chromako... · Posted by u/chromakode

chromakode · 2 years ago

I use Wireguard to secure and authenticate the transport. Much easier to set up! SSH is also an option.

etherael · 2 years ago

Thanks. Good to know that's possible, it's exactly what I use for sanoid also, so I guess the quickstart just assumes that layer isn't available.

etherael commented on I only lost 10 minutes of data, thanks to ZFS mastodon.social/@chromako... · Posted by u/chromakode

op00to · 2 years ago

I wonder how much he gained from entirely restoring the system versus simply reprovisioning (gasp, even manually reinstalling) and restoring needed files a will. I'm not sure there's a lot of value in snapshotting and restoring stuff in a lost ssd situation tthat's also available in mirrors across the world.

etherael · 2 years ago

I do a version of this that doesn't require restore at all, I have three separate physical systems that all share a VPN across the world, and wherever I am at any given time zfs snapshots are syncing across that VPN to those three physical systems depending on which one is the primary I'm using at any given point in time. They also use the VPN layer to check if they have peer status on a faster local network like the wifi or LAN and use that instead for the snapshot transfers if so.

If for any reason any one of these systems either is destroyed or is no longer master, picking up from where I left off is as simple as picking another system up and marking it "master". No restore process, no changes, nothing at all, and it picks up from exactly where I left off when I was working on the other system. Means I can just grab my EDC laptop and stuff it in a bag not knowing how long I'll be out or where I'll be going and also know that it will be completely up to date with my datasets, or I can grab my desktop replacement laptop and its enormous external disk if I am going to be on a different continent for an extended period of time and want full geographic dataset locality. At no point in time does any of the above require the manual running of any process or replication or anything like that.

Reprovision and restore would take a whole lot longer than this, wouldn't give the abilities that it provides, and the above is only possible because of zfs snapshot replication.

I also use a USB C external SSD that is a member of a ZFS mirror and a md raid group that is bootable, so even if my EDC laptop were to spontaneously combust, I could immediately get up and running on any similar laptop with roughly comparable hardware simply by putting that SSD in and booting from it, then adding the SSD on the laptop to the zfs mirror / md raid group.