Dustin Hoffman – „Marathon Man“ (1976)
Wie oft ich diesen Film gesehen habe, weiß ich wirklich nicht mehr. In fast 50 Jahren hat er allerdings nichts von seinem Eindruck auf mich eingebüßt. Ein richtig harter Thriller. Ein großartiger New-York-City-Film, der sich lange in ihrem Unterbewusstsein einnisten wird. Joggen gehen ist vermutlich eine gute Therapie. Zum Zahnarzt gehen Sie danach aber freiwillig nie wieder. (3Sat)
Notes Towards a Solarpunk Game Design - Overview
Notes Towards a Solarpunk Game Design - Overview
Solarpunk Game Design Sketch by Scan101 I've always been interested in game design and how subtly it can teach and influence us.alxd - solarpunk hacker
Really inspiring Presentation about the future of Building materials using mycelium.
Lemmy Development Update 2025-01-10
Community post tags (part 1) by phiresky · Pull Request #4997 · LemmyNet/lemmy
This is the first part of an implementation of post tags based on LemmyNet/rfcs#4. It implements the following: The necessary DB tables Fetching the post tags while reading PostView (list and sing...GitHub
Free hot water if you let us mount servers on your home tank
The initial concept developed by the company involved using heat generated by Bitcoin mining rigs, according to Heata Co-founder and CTO Chris Jordan."We literally put a Bitcoin miner in a barrel of mineral oil and plumbed it up to a radiator," he told The Register.
Edit, because I think folks may be confused due to the quote I put in. They are not installing crypto miners into water heaters. That was just their original inspiration. Sorry for the confusion.
"We're not looking at serving real time workloads, we're not doing websites, databases, message queue servers," Jordan explained. "Our ideal job is; here's a chunk of data, go and process that for some hours. And here's the result," he said.This could still prove useful for 3D rendering workloads, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and others where there is a lot of CPU or GPU processing, he claimed.
Heata offers free hot water by mounting servers on people's water tanks
Novel use of waste heat by UK company – but it's still in trialDan Robinson (The Register)
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- This is funded by the British government. So that hot water isn't so much free as funded by the British people.
- From the article, it sounds like they're going to be using the customers Internet service.
- This is not sending 100% of the heat into the hot water. You will be responsible for that excess heat. That's why these trials are being run during the winter time. Expect the cost to run your AC in the summer to go up.
- Why would you wantonly let a billion dollar corporation into your home. When does that ever work out for people.
- They are cutting a hole into the side of your hot water heater. If you or they decide not to continue with this who pays to repair that hole, I doubt it's the company.
I personally don't see a problem with the idea of doing something like that, but doing some sort of widespread rollout like they're proposing, I'd rather see "useful" work be done. But yeah, at the end of the day, if we can better utilize waste heat then that's good.
Someone shared this article with me after I mentioned the idea of crypto mining space heaters lol.
There is a temporal demand mismatch I guess. You can only make the water so hot, and you can't delay the workload until you need to top up your water.
Crypto is a constant workload edit
Kurze, kleine, knappe PSA:
In 5 Wochen ist wieder Tactica in Hamburg und wie immer gilt: es wird voll. Wer also plant hin zu fahren sollte sich jetzt um Bahntickets kümmern oder sich schlau machen, wie die Parksituation im Umfeld ist. Denn „Parken am Bürgerhaus“ ist so etwas wie ein 6er im Lotto, außer man ist Teilnehmer und nicht nur Besucher.
Die Hamburger Tactica 2025 findet statt […]
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Sparkurs der Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe: „Wir werfen bei voller Fahrt den Anker“
Sparkurs der Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe: „Wir werfen bei voller Fahrt den Anker“
Knapp 20 Millionen Euro müssen bei den DVB eingespart werden. Wie, das wird immer klarer. Welche Linien betroffen sind und ob Mitarbeiter entlassen werden.Dirk Hein (Sächsische Zeitung)
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teilten dies erneut
Animated Knots by Grog | Learn how to tie knots with step-by-step animation
Animated Knots is the world's leading site for learning how to tie knots of any kind. From Boating Knots, Fishing Knots and Climbing Knots to how to tie a Tie, or even Surgical Knots — we’ve got it covered.Animated Knots by Grog
Thank you so much! I saw an app on my phone that's called 3D Knots or something, but I would rather buy into an open source avenue that cares about sharing ideas and knowledge, so I hadn't bought it just yet.
I will now use this as a resource, so again, thank you so much! :)
I just completed my first substantial sewing project, using a pattern from this site! My hems aren't the most even and the neckline was really tricky but I'm pretty happy with it. This is the Sven sweatshirt design, and I used a somewhat heavy knit cotton/polyester fabric. It fits great (as you'd hope!) and will probably become my new winter pajama shirt.
The site is great to use - there are good pictures for how to take each of the measurements you need, and I liked the ability to manually optimize the part layout to minimize the amount of paper it used. I saw a tip on YouTube to piece the pattern together by taping it to a large window or glass door so you can see the overlap between the sheets, and that worked great for me.
My next goal is to do a Simon shirt in flannel - decent step up in complexity so I might do a few other simpler projects first.
MAGA’s Worst Nightmare: The Heroes of the California Wildfires
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Solarpunk School is in Session
A street university for solarpunks, dreamers and activists is launching in the UK this February. The London School of Solarpunk (LSOS) is a space to invent new ways of urban living and find positive responses to the many crises we're facing.
Facilitated by the Idea Factory, it’s a 4-week programme taking place in Hackney for up to 15 participants. It will feature lectures ranging from social art to energy humanities as well as cooperative economies and creative activism. Those taking part will also co-design group readings, discussions and social experiments.
Solarpunk School is in Session
A new academy for protopia and a wealth of other solarpunky stuff in this substackSolarPunk Stories
What are some aspects of your life that are currently solarpunk?
I have planted a pedestrian browsable food garden along a busy sidewalk. I'm probably 5 years out from actual full tilt production.
All my lawncare tools are manual or electric.
I ride my bike to work when I can, its only 5 miles and 4 miles of it are on a car-free bike path. Another half-mile will soon be on a protected bike path in 2027.
I have a subcompact car that gets ~42 mpg.
Decolonizing California’s Wildfire Zone
Decolonizing California’s Wildfire Zone
Verbena Fields in Northern California is an emerging model of what decolonizing land via Traditional Ecological Knowledge can look like, supported by partnerships between Native and non-Native communities.Sarah M. Pike (YES! Magazine)
Welcome to the New Non-profit on the Fediverse
Mastodon today announced a new non-profit to manage the next steps for the project. From our perspective, this is a great sign of maturation in the social web software space. Best of luck to Eugen and team as they take this next step. We look forward to working with Mastodon towards a bigger, better Fediverse.
The people should own the town square
It is more important than ever that the social web is not controlled by corporations. Today, Mastodon is taking another step towards its founding ideals: independence and non-profit ownership.Mastodon Blog
The LA Fires Aren't a Surprise If You Study History and Climate Change. So Now What?
The LA Fires Aren't a Surprise If You Study History and Climate Change. So Now What?
This Teen Vogue Take connects the work of the late sci-fi writer Octavia E. Butler to the Los Angeles fires that have so far burned through 35,000 acres.Lex McMenamin (Teen Vogue)
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Ok, thanks for the added context. My point is the same things were said about the Altadena fire when I was in high school nearby, the same year as her first Parable book was published. Fire was not new to the area then, either.
Look at my horse
Lesedauer < 1 Minute
My horse is amazing. Kennen wir alle noch. Oder auch nicht, wenn du zu jung bist. Ich glaube, das Internet braucht alle paar Jahre ein Pferdelied. Die Band OCP (On Company Time) hat die neue Pferdehymne abgeliefert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v_R180kIGs
#OCP #OnCompanyTime #Pferdelied
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Jascha wrapped 2022
2022 ist nun fast zu Ende und ich habe mir ein bisschen Zeit genommen, über das Jahr nachzudenken.jascha.wtf
Walmart: The Toxicity of Economic Consolidation
Economic consolidation is killing us. Robbing us of value, dismantling the financial fabric of our society, and disconnecting us from one another. From Walmart to Uber to Amazon and beyond, everyone loses: consumers, workers, and ultimately even the heartless profiteers orchestrating this disaster.
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Saw "The Wild Robot"
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that's use the solarpunk aesthetic to try tell you even with clean energy the society still will slave things a be amoral with the wild and destroy ecosystems only for profit.
I hate that. It's like when they say the anarchist are all cryptobros.
Lovely story in Grist’s Imagine 2200
Last Tuesday, for Eternity
Climate fiction: What happens when an android making good on a pledge to return to the earth suddenly falls in love?Vinny Rose Pinto (Grist)
WordPress follow failure
@pfefferle@mastodon.social Thought you might be interested... I attempted to follow @evanprodromou@socialwebfoundation.org from NodeBB and found a fun little race condition!
NodeBB sends the follow and waits for the request to complete before recording the details of the follow (for backreferencing the eventual accept).
WordPress seems to fire back the Accept, and then wraps up the response.
I imagine a lot of implementors do the same, but it just so happens that WordPress' response time (or at least the swf site's) is juuust slow enough to reliably have the Accept come in before the Follow finishes.
So NodeBB hadn't recorded the follow request when it received the Accept, so the follow failed :laughing:
I've adjusted my code now so the backreference is saved before sending the Follow.
yes, that is because the plugin processes the follow synchronously 🥸
thanks a lot for tweaking nodebb to be compatible and I will see how we can improve that!!!
So some time ago (early 2024) I stumbled over this three guys trying to get attention to their Upcoming Kickstarter for a modular terrain system.
So, like any hobby hoarder in our hobby I emailed them with questions and before I knew it I got sent a big box of beta-pieces.
It took some time but last night I managed to have a game of Battletech with them. Because you see, the tiles are hex […]
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Die Ampelkoalition wollte Alkoholwerbung einschränken. Warum hat sie es doch nicht getan?
Alkoholwerbung: Wie strenge Regeln gescheitert sind
Die Ampelkoalition wollte Regelungen für Alkoholmarketing verschärfen. Doch das ist nicht passiert. Recherchen zeigen nun, wie das Gesundheitsministerium eine Studie mit einer brisanten Empfehlung ignorierte.tagesschau.de
Ferndiagnose: Könnte mit einer Partei zu tun haben, die auch für "Freie Fahrt für Freie Bürger" ist. Nun also "Freies Trinken für Alle" (aber nicht "frei" im Sinne von "Freibier" - da sei die Marktwirtschaft vor).
Autofahren und Alkoholtrinken passt doch prima zusammen. Hat mensch erst einmal im Suff einen totgefahren, kannste immer noch Verkehrsminister in Bayern werden.
Just living my little solarpunk life
Home Assistant
Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server.Home Assistant
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Regarding irrigation, while it's not automation related, I enjoy Water for Every Farm: Yeomans Keyline Plan. In terms of charting and weather monitoring, I can share some different formulas and methods for calculating and tracking water budgets. I've written some R scripts to automate modeling water availability in my yard and can share how I did so if you're interested!
Also, I write a blog about agriculture, landscapes, and sustainability, if you're interested!
Water for Every Farm: Yeomans Keyline Plan
4th edition of this book since 1993. The first to be pu…Goodreads
We need the toolkit of utopian thinking, now more than ever | Psyche Ideas
We need the toolkit of utopian thinking, now more than ever
Many dismiss utopian ideas. But imagining a better world is a vital political skill for tackling today’s challengesCaitlin Rajan (Psyche Magazine)
"Both Stalin and Hitler, though poles apart on many things"
Me, a Polish person - Am I a joke to you (≖︿≖ )
I usually don’t do new years pledges. But given the massive fuck up that the last Battletech Kickstarter has become and how extra fees pile up on stuff that’s imported into the EU I am going to pledge:
No more funding of physical projects that are not from within the EU
Only funding small companies outside the EU that offer a digital reward. (Movies, video games etc.)
Only funding […]
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Translation Question
mi open toki pona.
So I ask in english, would “sijelo ike tenpo ale” be a working translation for “lifelong illness”?
Working in some local community groups mainly focused on urban greening and safe streets. I am a leader in one of them, and more of an active supporter in others. I recently connected with a group focused on native plants and restoration/gardening for biodiversity.
I’d also like to get more involved with groups focusing on climate activism, Palestinian liberation, lgbtq rights, shielding immigrants from the coming violence, and mutual aid. But that’s a lot of topics and it remains aspirational at this point.
How community institutions created capitalism
The Communal Origins of Capitalism
How Dutch water infrastructure built the institutions of the modern economyNolan Monaghan (Headwaters)
I don't agree with this article, but I really appreciate the work of one historian mentioned at the end in the Reference section.
Fernand Braudel decided to take a look at history from a different point of view, especially in relation to time. Instead of talking about specific dates of big events and big names, he decided to look at the conditions of everyday life of common people (food, shelter, human interactions, work etc) who lived around the time that these big events happened, and draw conclusions taking these factors into consideration.
For example one of his takes on why capitalism was created in Europe and not Asia or the Americas, is related to dietary habits, cultivation and transportation methods of wheat, rice and corn respectively.
I'm not too sure of the english title of the book I'm talking about, cause I read it in french and the title was very different to the ones I find in english (La dynamique du capitalism).
To kick things of I need to say thank you to some of our community here [over at ontabletop.com]. Horatio of the Blowing Noses was very generous to my family and me as so were two other gentlemen who will remain unnamed. (Because I do not know if they wish to be identified) So I will just refer to them as “Unbekannter #1” and “Unbekannter #2”. (There is a joke inside of that but […]
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Ja, aber nicht für Nicht-Deutsche, lol.
Und wer liefert den Kriminellen an Deutschland aus, wenn es doch so wäre?
Vielleicht guckt Elon Musk ja mal wieder in der Tesla Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg vorbei. Nach einer Anzeige ob der Beleidigung des Staatsoberhauptes und Ermittlungen durch die Staatsanwaltschaft wäre dann die (polizeiliche) Durchsetzung einer Vorladung möglich.
Auch Telegram-Chef Pawel Durow hat nach dem Verlassen seines Privatjets auf europäischem Boden lernen dürfen, dass hier selbst Superreiche sich Befragungen durch die Justiz nicht dauerhaft entziehen können.
We moved for climate change, if I moved to be near friends it would be hot shit holes, heavily reliving on AC and car centeism with poor weather outcomes.
So...no :).
That aside, you know if you move you can make new friends yeah ?
Solarpunk mystery book launch
We outlive capitalism. In a post-scarcity society, people do things not out of desperation but for joy. Xavi loves nothing more than putting on a silicon tail and swimming as a mermaid. She performs for children. Xavi encourages them and their parents to protect the clean water of the city’s canals. A community treasure, she is the first person who comes to mind when excited doctors develop a surgery to turn someone into a merperson. Xavi pioneers it, pushing the boundaries of transhumanism.
Then the mermaid goes missing.
A local citizen detective discovers Xavi had texted them “help” the night before, when their devices were silenced. The Citizen Detective Society mobilizes across the globe. They hope to crowdsolve the mermaid’s location and soon. Every passing hour reduces the probability they’ll discover her alive.
You can discover the ebook lots of place and the paperback here.
Exciting! I like the final cover design you went with :)
Also it's part of a series? Super cool. Do they stand alone or should I read murder in the tool library first?
Thank you. I will reply with more info about the illustration.
Some of the characters continue, but I would recommend starting with this novel.
alxd
Als Antwort auf MrMakabar • • •ex_06
Als Antwort auf alxd • • •I think we should write more about solarpunk itself so I’m glad for your post, thank you
Said that, I would have added at least one disclaimer about solarpunk games intended as games produced in a more solarpunk way: stuff like no DRM, avoiding dark patterns, being a cooperative or being owned by a foundation and much more.
Let me underline the “just a disclaimer”, I know you wanted to focus on the content and what I said would need basically another full post
Again, love your initiative and I hope more people will follow you 🙏
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Als Antwort auf django • • •idk if ''should'' but if they do would be nice
hardware shouldn't become ''old'' in the first place, putting the heavy weight on the game devs solely seems unlikely to bring change
software libraries, frameworks, game engines, operating systems, recycling hardware... It's a lot before arriving to the people that wanna focus on the game
alxd of the Story Seed Library
Als Antwort auf ex_06 • • •I was thinking about a separate blogpost on accessibility and licensing.
Some games, like Daybreak, proclaim to use open source manufacturing methods to be more sustainable and not pollute, but at the same time the game itself is licensed and copyrighted with no (known to me) invitation to hack or fan-translate, which vastly decreases its educational potential.
On the other hand, making an ambitious game takes money and markets rarely pay for fully open projects.
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Als Antwort auf alxd of the Story Seed Library • • •Open source (nor foss) doesn't really assure protection from the capital and/or consumerism...
yep, hence why imo is better to not be fully open from day 0. The free software movement reached his peak, now it's time to evolve into something better. A software made by squeezing the open libraries and then the devs and then the consumers to then have most of the earnings kept in the company bank to get numbers going up for the capital is totally doable even while having the most free license.
As you say tho, it can help with accessibility and longevity.
I just would like to not see ''solarpunk99'' in some years made in the worst possible way. I'd rather have toxic games but made in a solarpunk way than ''solarpunk'' games made by the capital to sell us another commodified idea
TehBamski
Als Antwort auf django • • •How old are we talking?
Better yet, what minimum system requirements should the game be able to run on?
Steam collects hardware info (that people opt-in for) over the years. Here is the searchable database.
Steam Hardware & Software Survey
store.steampowered.comOlgratin_Magmatoe
Als Antwort auf MrMakabar • • •One of the recommendations in this list, Half Earth Socialism, pretty easily stole half my day by being a wonderful distraction.
I think it's a little bleak though. It takes a few tries to get it right. And it assumes a worldwide revolution against capital happened 3 years ago, a process that would probably take half a decade, and we haven't even really started in real life.
It is fun though, and it's nice that it teaches you some stuff along the way.
Half-Earth Socialism: The Game
Half-Earth Socialism