Posts by jonathanharker@cloudisland.nz
(DIR) Post #AQJHb0uWXImfPZL1M0 by jonathanharker@cloudisland.nz
2022-12-05T22:14:02Z
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@vik you-know-who seem to be in the middle of a self-inflicted self-immolation anyway
(DIR) Post #AQmD0E85f2djSgizy4 by jonathanharker@cloudisland.nz
2022-12-19T21:08:58Z
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@strypey but apparently ramming Chromebooks down children's necks and shoving everything they do into Google is totally fine and not subject to the same risks at all. I'd love to know what generic cloud-hosted crappily adapted poorly specced SAP-based CMS clusterfuck they'd replace local SMS vendor offerings with.
(DIR) Post #AQnFOFOqz2BlPz6hu4 by jonathanharker@cloudisland.nz
2022-12-19T21:13:31Z
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@lightweight @strypey imagine if these people were actually versed in tech, or had some sort of industry experience, or even consulted the local industry instead of whoever the current NZ head brodudes at Microsoft and Google are?
(DIR) Post #AQnFOGGNm10U609SL2 by jonathanharker@cloudisland.nz
2022-12-19T21:24:17Z
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@lightweight @strypey If only there was a way to develop an open-source SMS, that could easily integrate with Moodle and Mahara, and that wasn't bound to any particular vendor, that could be deployed stand-alone, or hosted. Oh well.
(DIR) Post #ASKGcMB4fII6oNfryy by jonathanharker@cloudisland.nz
2023-02-04T05:21:56Z
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@strypey @lightweight @polezaivsani the problem with XMPP isn't the protocol, it works fine (as long as you include several extensions, mainly OMEMO e2ee and persistent history). The problem is the standards "foundation" which afaict is 2 people in Germany who meet once a month and do *absolutely nothing* to advance these extensions past "experimental", so many servers don't implement them. Some have languished for over a decade. It's a mess.
(DIR) Post #ASst2v407IoaIYzI36 by jonathanharker@cloudisland.nz
2023-02-20T22:12:43Z
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@vik irrespective of govt action, the insurance industry will be making it increasingly untenable to build or develop in stupid places. Here's NZIC's thoughts on the matter (skip the ads in the first 5 mins)https://www.icnz.org.nz/about/events/icnz-2020-speaker-series/the-perfect-storm-our-climate-and-nzs-resilience-into-the-future/
(DIR) Post #ASsvRT47Y9KcbzsQu8 by jonathanharker@cloudisland.nz
2023-02-20T22:38:26Z
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@vik also, James Shaw is pretty fed up:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/14/new-zealand-minister-delivers-furious-speech-about-lost-decades-spent-bickering-over-climate-crisis
(DIR) Post #ASwgVs43pBEychKWsS by jonathanharker@cloudisland.nz
2023-02-22T18:10:52Z
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@strypey agreed, although I'd be very wary of biofuels as a solution to pretty much anything
(DIR) Post #ASwhGgtTAugFaVhYuG by jonathanharker@cloudisland.nz
2023-02-22T18:19:20Z
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@strypey I remember reading about bamboo being the fastest way to turn carbon dioxide into usable woody fibre.
(DIR) Post #ASxjUjVmdGfWpOPEzg by jonathanharker@cloudisland.nz
2023-02-23T06:19:05Z
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@strypey having trouble finding the article I read recently, about Niger farmers using trees to make arid land fertile again. The trees suck up carbon, cool the air, prevent erosion of topsoil, and generate rainfall. This one is older but sort of relevant:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/16/regreening-niger-how-magical-gaos-transformed-land
(DIR) Post #ATdDYPjceE0v6LCjmy by jonathanharker@cloudisland.nz
2023-03-15T06:39:15Z
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@vik @Br3nda I think it's partly because Wellington parking spaces are already at a ludicrous premium (parking buildings closed/demolished for earthquake work and so on), but yes, annoying. They're not common enough anywhere, really, and it's going to be tough to keep up with the accelerating fleet uptake.
(DIR) Post #ATdSyiFtuSujNqIhcG by jonathanharker@cloudisland.nz
2023-03-15T09:32:07Z
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@vik @Br3nda totally. One day it will dawn on carpark operators to install EV chargers and build solar PV to both stop cars overheating in the sun and generate electricity to offset the chargers.
(DIR) Post #ATyFG0VipvaF00fGcK by jonathanharker@cloudisland.nz
2023-03-25T10:07:18Z
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@vik hydrogen destroys the ozone layer on its way out to space, 3H2 + O3 - 3H2O pretty much all exothermic to the right.
(DIR) Post #ATztxkLQUebCvYDhY0 by jonathanharker@cloudisland.nz
2023-03-26T05:18:08Z
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@vik H₂ is also a yooge waste of energy, even from renewables-driven electrolysis, which is only 70% efficient at best. Fuel cells are only 50-65% efficient and rely on ludicrously rare platinum-group metals. H₂ has an embarrassing rate of storage and transmission loss, low energy density by volume, and a detonation velocity of 3-4 km/s. By the time you've compressed, stored, transported and powered a FCEV with it, the electricity would have taken a BEV more than twice as far.
(DIR) Post #AU02JBgapiV1RJr600 by jonathanharker@cloudisland.nz
2023-03-26T06:51:22Z
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@strypey the library
(DIR) Post #AU0F1EQJDRdW7Z0URk by jonathanharker@cloudisland.nz
2023-03-26T09:14:01Z
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@vikAs usual, to get the article just substitute doi.org for your friendly local sci-hub mirror: https://doi.org/10.1002/aic.690060118
(DIR) Post #AWph5Earuq0t1Y82xk by jonathanharker@cloudisland.nz
2023-06-19T00:43:00Z
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@vik These are nonetheless still useful for breadcrumbs (stash in the freezer)