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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.

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Als Antwort auf badcommandorfilename

That was just how they got the original idea. They aren't installing crypto miners into water heaters.
Als Antwort auf JackbyDev

Hell, why not? If you have something which generates heat, why not capture that heat and put it to use?
Als Antwort auf Nougat

  1. This is funded by the British government. So that hot water isn't so much free as funded by the British people.
  2. From the article, it sounds like they're going to be using the customers Internet service.
  3. 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.
  4. Why would you wantonly let a billion dollar corporation into your home. When does that ever work out for people.
  5. 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.
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Als Antwort auf Nougat

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.

Als Antwort auf Nougat

... Who's paying for the electricity to run the crypto miner?
Als Antwort auf Nougat

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

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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 […]

warmonger.de/hamburger-tactica…



Sparkurs der Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe: „Wir werfen bei voller Fahrt den Anker“


ohne Paywall
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KasimirDD
Hatte ich versucht. Ging ni.

Als Antwort auf Cool_Name

So, this may not be the correct place for this, but does anyone know of a similar open source way I can learn knots?
Als Antwort auf LucidNightmare

I don't know about open-source, but Animated Knots is the place to go to learn knots.
Als Antwort auf Revan343

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! :)

Als Antwort auf Cool_Name

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


I think this story is a solarpunk seed, where communities come together to face environmental disaster, against a predominant narrative of hate.
Als Antwort auf acargitz

Nope. Reality will not affect them even if news of it reaches their ears.


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.


Als Antwort auf countrypunk

Sitting here in foggy January. The solar on the roof still powers the whole building. The 3D printer is printing something, also solar powered. A little server is running next to me, also solar powered. Posting on a decentralized global communication network.
Als Antwort auf countrypunk

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


Als Antwort auf solo

Does this entail moving LA? Because if it does, I'm skeptical. But if these land usage ideas are compatible with a modem city still being there, it could work.


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 LA Fires Aren't a Surprise If You Study History and Climate Change. So Now What?


Als Antwort auf Steve

I may be wrong as I haven't read closely, but I don't believe anyone is surprised by these fires. Growing up in the area, fire burned those same areas more than once during my school years. It's chaparral and it is supposed to burn every 10 years or so. But like anytime else it's a big deal when it hits your (or a celebrity) neighborhood vs a couple miles away, and the biggest difference is over the last few decades is that they keep building higher and higher into the mountain, so what used to just be a wildfire is now a neighborhood burning down.
Als Antwort auf paysrenttobirds

Not just "a neighborhod" but several including predominently black neighborhoods as the article points out. This is far from a natural disaster and many are actively trying to claim it is. Indigenous peoples performed controlled burns that prevented this prior to colonization. The article is very brief but points this out. It's an entire ecosystem impacted not just celebrities and Octavia Butler made some predictions that were frighteningly astute without trying to say that we are doomed to repeat this.
Als Antwort auf Steve

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.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinnel…

Als Antwort auf paysrenttobirds

I hear you. That regional history must have been part of Butler's inspiration or at least influenced it. I'm not as familiar with the geography of the area as I live in the Northeast so I appreciate your perspective. It seems as though many people saw this as inevitable and it's a tragic wake up call for others who ignored history. Thanks for sharing the link.
Als Antwort auf Steve




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​.you​tube​.com/​w​a​t​c​h​?​v​=​6​v​_​R​1​8​0kIGs

#OCP #OnCompanyTime #Pferdelied

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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.


Saw "The Wild Robot"


I'm not going to write a full review here but I really enjoyed it. It looks incredible, had strong Solarpunk and Half-Earth implications. It's emotional yet honest and mature. Animals look and act great as well. You should watch it.
Als Antwort auf Teppichbrand

I like this, will have to check out the novels for my kids too!
Als Antwort auf Teppichbrand

I didn't liked it.
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




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.

Als Antwort auf julian

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 […]

warmonger.de/lorescape-level-u…



Die Ampelkoalition wollte Alkoholwerbung einschränken. Warum hat sie es doch nicht getan?


Als Antwort auf EddyBot

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.

#Wiesheu



Just living my little solarpunk life


Als Antwort auf Wigglet

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!


Als Antwort auf ex_06

"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 […]

warmonger.de/a-pledge-for-2025…



Translation Question


mi open toki pona.

So I ask in english, would “sijelo ike tenpo ale” be a working translation for “lifelong illness”?

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Als Antwort auf FundMECFSResearch

Remember that each modifier word modifies the entire phrase that came before it. "sijelo ike" is a sijelo that is ike. "sijelo ike tenpo" is a sijelo ike that is tenpo. "sijelo ike tenpo ale" is a sijelo ike tenpo that is ale. You'd want to use the particle "pi" to regroup the modifiers: sijelo ike pi tenpo ale.
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Als Antwort auf FundMECFSResearch

On top of what's already been said, I'd like to add that "ike sijelo" (bodily problem) works in more cases than "sijelo ike" (problematic body)

Als Antwort auf countrypunk

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.

Als Antwort auf countrypunk

Recently met with my local pastor to see how we could include kids/teens in community programs that intersect with the church. One of the major hurdles is that kids have new expectations around how to meet up--especially online--and the few touch points during the week are in person only. Trying to find ways to meet people where they're at. It was a good first meeting, although she (the pastor) is not tech savvy, so I expect we'll have a few more conversations before we find a good way forward.


Als Antwort auf Nyssa

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 […]

warmonger.de/day-0-hobby-in-20…

#1 #2


Frank-Walter Steinmeier: Elon Musk beschimpft den Bundespräsidenten als "Tyrannen"


Als Antwort auf Chrissie

Ja, aber nicht für Nicht-Deutsche, lol.

Und wer liefert den Kriminellen an Deutschland aus, wenn es doch so wäre?

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Als Antwort auf Lemmchen

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.

@ChrissieWF

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Als Antwort auf poVoq

If they are at the minimum of 1 block away from me, sure.
Als Antwort auf poVoq

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 ?



Eco-futuristic vibe


Albert Tomanek CC Attribution

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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.

Als Antwort auf AEMarling

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?

Als Antwort auf hazeebabee

Thank you. I will reply with more info about the illustration.

Some of the characters continue, but I would recommend starting with this novel.

Als Antwort auf hazeebabee

Als Antwort auf AEMarling

Super interesting hearing about the perspective of the artist :) thanks for sharing & good luck with your book launch!


Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th December 2024


Als Antwort auf gerikson

It also prevented the Thalidomide medication from causing much damage in the usa (compared to the rest of the world) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalid… and prob countless more, as it is a bit hard to cause problems if the problems are caught before it being brought to market. And I do worry that the "the fda is too cautious" pushers are actually motte baileying for the total removal of the fda.


'When you enter Gaza, you are God': Inside the minds of IDF soldiers who commit war crimes


https://archive.is/d5iWb



Solarpunk City of the Future in Minecraft


Minecraft is a great tool to visualize what Solarpunk architecture and design could look like in the future. I thought this video was pretty cool.
Als Antwort auf countrypunk

Only things that seemed incongruous to me were the nether portal, the bank, and the fact that the world download is paywalled. Otherwise, beautiful build.


Urteil: Isolierte Proteinangaben auf Müller-Milchreis verboten


Produkte von Müller Milch sollten man wegen der Nähe des Firmenchefs zu rechten politischen Gesinnungen meiden. Er ist auch extra Schweizer geworden, um Steuern zu sparen.



Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd December 2024


Als Antwort auf sc_griffith

The British elected a guy who wears a mop on his head. You cannot convince me that is his actual hair.

I still have occasional intrusive visions of Johnson busting into an unattended supply closet in the Palace of Westminster to steal a fresh mop head, shouting, "BLOODY LABOUR NICKED ME TOUPÉE!"

Als Antwort auf istewart

@techtakes Spoiler: it's not his natural hairstyle, he's been caught deliberately mussing it up before going on camera. Also, his friends and family call him "Alex" (short for Alexander), not "Boris". It's all an act.


New Do the Woo Show Coming in January, Open Web Conversations


We have a new show starting in January 2025. Open Web Conversations where we talk about the Fediverse and Emerging Tech.
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Welcome Matthias Pfefferle as a New Host Talking About the Fediverse


@dothewoo.io, On WPCommunity, 10. Dezember 2024

dothewoo.io/welcome-matthias-p…

In this episode of On WPCommunity, host BobWP introduces Matthias Pfefferle, the creator of the ActivityPub plugin, as a new host with the Do the Woo team.

Matthias shares his journey with the open web, his passion for the Fediverse, and his plans for the upcoming show ‘Open Web Conversations‘ that will explore both WordPress and broader open web topics.

The episode delves into the significance of federated social networks, the synergy between WordPress and the Fediverse, and the potential for future discussions on diverse social networks.



In a new episode, BobWP introduces Matthias Pfefferle as a host, discussing the upcoming show “Open Web Conversations,” with his focus on WordPress and broader Fediverse topics.
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