“Thus, we need to abandon the Kyoto process”
I’ve just spent 1.5h this day before Christmas Eve doing something I wholeheartedly recommend everyone else to do as well - reading Bjorn Lomborg’s book on climate change. Named “Cool It ” (and yes, while I am a quick reader it is quite short) it makes an excellent case explaining that even though humans indeed cause some of the climate change in the world our response to that should be to basically continue on the same path as we already are instead of throwing money on projects like Kyoto that actually might cause more harm than good. Select excerpts:
Book · Climatechange · English · Globalwarming · Uncategorized
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Are XboxLive accounts hackable?
There have been rumours about this for quite some time, but it’s getting traction now. Here’s what a quick search resulted in this morning:
Console · English · Support · Uncategorized · Xbox
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I’ve added yet a new little description to Projects - a circuit and modification to “nudge” wakestates on Atari STs without needing to power cycle.
Atari · English · Retro · Uncategorized
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Batterieliminera Ljusbox TORLEIF från Jysk
När jag fyllde år fick jag en ljusbox från Jysk av familjen. Barnen tycker den är helfestlig eftersom man kan skriva egna saker med hjälp av de medföljande bokstäverna, och den passade alldeles utmärkt på nattduksbordet. Den är, precis, stark nog att kunna fungera som sänglampa - än har inte åldern kommit ifatt min förmåga att kunna läsa böcker i dämpat ljus. Däremot drivs den enbart av batteri (6st AA). För att ha den som långvarig mysbelysning kändes det suboptimalt, så idag satte jag mig och byggde om den.
Jysk · Swedish · Torleif · Uncategorized
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Bitcoin - pulling the curtains on computer security
All software contain bugs. All complex software contain numerous bugs. Some of those bugs are security holes.
Bitcoin · English · Internet · Security · Uncategorized
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Bluetooth and Home Assistant in rootless docker
If I remember correctly, at one point my Home Assistant (H-A from now on) installation started complaining on the Bluetooth component not starting up correctly. Since I wasn’t using Bluetooth (the server doesn’t even have the hardware for it) I just ignored it.
Docker · English · Home Assistant · Linux · Rootless · Uncategorized
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Climate variability in Northern Europe
A report from the World Bank is making rounds in media today. While portraying catastrophic scenarios, it contains no new actual research and is simply extrapolating statistical possibilities. Unfortunately the media headlines aren’t really reflecting the content - not unusual regardless of the topic.
Climatechange · Globalwarming · Scandinavia · Science · Uncategorized
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Converting DSLogic Basic to Plus
I bought a DSLogic Basic USB Logic Analyzer a few years back. It has worked perfectly fine for my use cases. Recently I’ve begun using a Ubuntu desktop more than my Macbook laptops in the workshop, and when it came to installing the DSView software I stumbled upon the weird fact that DreamSourceLab seem to consider their old products unsupported, and they cannot use any newer version than 0.99. While figuring this out (no, it’s not spelled out anywhere I can see when downloading the software) I stumbled upon some forum threads detailing how the only difference between DSLogic Basic and DSLogic Plus is 256Mbit RAM and changed values in an EEPROM.
Dslogic · Logic · Uncategorized
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Create your own locally hosted family AI assistant
What you’re seeing in this picture is a screenshot from our “family chat”. It’s a locally hosted Matrix server, with Element clients on all the computers, phones and tablets in the family. Fully End2End encrypted of course - why should our family discussions end up with some external party?
AI · English · LLaMa · LLM · Matrix · Uncategorized
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“it’s better to burn out than to fade away” (From Neil Young’s My My, Hey Hey - and known for being quoted by Kurt Cobain in his suicide note) I remember my teenage years well. I also remember voicing the opinion above, along with other things along the lines of “life ends at 30”. I’m 42, almost to the day. I have no intention whatsoever of fading away. I consider myself a transhumanist , and I spent some time being a board member of the Swedish subcategory of Humanity+ . I subscribe to the idea of aging being just another disease we haven’t cured yet, and I eagerly follow the current state of research on the subject. One development in particular, popularised by the company Elysium, is a combination of substances that counteracts one of the possible sources of a lot of age related problems, the declining quality of communication between our cell nucleus and the mitochondria that powers it. The list of things this affects (effects, even) is quite long - and for quite some time now there have been promising tests on yeasts and mice on how to counteract this decline, in effect boosting the levels back to where they were when we were younger. A few weeks ago the results of the first clinical human tests were published, and I am since five days on the same formula as Elysium sells under the brand Elysium Basis . It consists of 250mg of Nicotinamide Riboside, taken together with 50mg of Pterostilbene, once a day.
English · Transhumanism · Uncategorized
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