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New comment by eliaspro in "OpenGridWorks: Electricity infrastructure, mapped"

eliaspro — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:58:10 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by eliaspro in "OpenGridWorks: Electricity infrastructure, mapped"

eliaspro — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:39:13 +0000

I could've sworn it wasn't there before - but maybe I also just missed it since it is covered by the half-transparent panel (on mobile) and all the other stuff around it distracted me.

New comment by eliaspro in "OpenGridWorks: The Electricity Infrasctructure, Mapped"

eliaspro — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:30:03 +0000

The map uses OpenStreetMap as data source.

If you're not using the OSM API, there are also full exports of the complete dataset available at https://planet.openstreetmap.org/

New comment by eliaspro in "OpenGridWorks: Electricity infrastructure, mapped"

eliaspro — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:17:45 +0000

The map is missing a proper attribution as it is required by OpenStreetMap when using the project's data: https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright/attribution-guide/

New comment by eliaspro in "Obsession with growth is destroying nature, 150 countries warn"

eliaspro — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:52:29 +0000

It's not so much about which countries actually grow that much right now, but which mindset underpins the political and medial discourse, trying to get those countries "back on track for continuous growth" or whether there's some realization, that infinite growth as fundamental principle just isn't what we all should be aiming for anymore.

New comment by eliaspro in "Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them"

eliaspro — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:20:53 +0000

This won't simply dump power into the grid (unless the used inverter would violate codes right and left), since those inverters need to sync to the grid first before allowing for any output. So if the grid is down - nothing will happen.

New comment by eliaspro in "Mount Mayhem at Netflix: Scaling Containers on Modern CPUs"

eliaspro — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 11:11:09 +0000

grahamc wrote down how to optimize this (within the constraints of max 128 layers supported by OCI) to categorize/prioritize packages by popularity/dependencies which lead to dramatic speed-ups for pulling updates or related images.

https://grahamc.com/blog/nix-and-layered-docker-images/

New comment by eliaspro in "GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor"

eliaspro — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:44:46 +0000

systemd is not a monolith.

It's a collection of losely coupled components and services of which basically every single one can be disabled or replaced by another implementation.

New comment by eliaspro in "Intel Recently Shelved Numerous Open-Source Projects"

eliaspro — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:14:10 +0000

iwd is also affected: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-IWD-Development-Halts

New comment by eliaspro in "EU countries green light Mercosur free trade deal"

eliaspro — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 16:47:02 +0000

There's a huge difference between checking packages addressed to individuals vs checking bulk goods.

New comment by eliaspro in "Show HN: Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA"

eliaspro — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 09:34:45 +0000

Small nitpick: you're writing OpenStreetMaps instead of OpenStreetMap (no trailing s) everywhere.

New comment by eliaspro in "Terranova is lifting land out of flood zones using terraforming robots"

eliaspro — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 07:46:27 +0000

Because then there's no VC money to be made. It needs at least robots. And I bet they were better off, if those robots were "smart" and AI-powered!

New comment by eliaspro in "GNOME 50 completes the migration to Wayland, dropping X11 backend code"

eliaspro — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:12:58 +0000

Please just click in the link, read the README! It offers: - remote assistance - headless multi user remote login - headless (single user)

New comment by eliaspro in "GNOME 50 completes the migration to Wayland, dropping X11 backend code"

eliaspro — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:18:46 +0000

"gnome-remote-desktop" does exactly that - providing (amongst other capabilities) a way to handle remote logins: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-remote-desktop

New comment by eliaspro in "Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels"

eliaspro — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 23:21:50 +0000

The tax-credit (there are no other "tricks") just shortens the pay-off time of 3-5 years by 19%, that's all!

New comment by eliaspro in "WiGLE: Wireless Network Mapping"

eliaspro — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 17:17:31 +0000

The great thing about BeaconDB: the API-compatibility to MozillaLocationService. So apps just need to update their endpoint to continue working.

New comment by eliaspro in "RIP pthread_cancel"

eliaspro — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 20:27:33 +0000

A standalone library would have to work with all the existing system facilities (e.g. NSS on Linux systems) to be not restricted to just resolv.conf entries, but to allow for all the various other methods of resolving names.

New comment by eliaspro in "Good EU regulations"

eliaspro — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 15:42:19 +0000

Cookie-banners were never mandated. It's just a fucking stupid way by the website operators, trying to circumvent data privacy regulation.

And when it comes to USB-C. Sure, it's far from perfect, but it's a great foundation to built upon and improve.

New comment by eliaspro in "Good EU regulations"

eliaspro — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 15:34:30 +0000

The Germany municipality of Tübingen implemented a "Verpackungssteuer" (tax on single-use packaging, utensils). It was fought by the local McDonald's franchisee up to the highest relevant court (Bundesverwaltungsgericht) and finally approved.

Dozens of other German municipalities were just waiting for the final decision to implement their own local tax.

New comment by eliaspro in "French firm Gouach is pitching an Infinite Battery with replaceable cells"

eliaspro — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 22:21:14 +0000

BSH Group which builds household appliances for Bosch Home is not related to Bosch eBike Systems in any way.

They're geographically and organisation-wise so far from each other, they're basically two different companies.