moldy_rice
@moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com
- Comment on I’m watching something on tv and a dude strangled another dude with rattle snake. Is that possible? What’s the tensile strength of a snake? 2 days ago:
What do you mean? Crotalus or Sistrurus?
- Comment on If a community keeps posting post will it show up as more active and thus drawing more users? Even if it's one person who posts a lot? 1 week ago:
Depends on the algorithm you choose.
- Comment on US being left behind in EV charging speeds as China goes sub-5 min to 70% 2 weeks ago:
That’s absolutely not true. Slate is working on one that’s not.
We’re just waiting for a car to solve this problem.
- Comment on If you replace the beef patty in hamburger with a think slice of ham does that make it more or less a hamburger? 2 weeks ago:
Please don’t advocate murder
- Comment on US being left behind in EV charging speeds as China goes sub-5 min to 70% 2 weeks ago:
We successfully increase the price of oil, leading to mass adoption of renewable energy alternatives.
- Comment on US being left behind in EV charging speeds as China goes sub-5 min to 70% 2 weeks ago:
Lol this is the least important attribute about EVs to me.
If it charges enough for me to drive 100 km over 8 hours (while I sleep), it’s grand.
But the most important thing to me is that it isn’t a surveillance capsule. So far all EVs suck at this metric.
- Comment on 99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots: A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website. What I tried, how I failed, and what's working now. 2 weeks ago:
I’m one of your human visitors who isn’t counted as a human because I don’t have use JavaScript btw
- Comment on Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits 2 weeks ago:
That doesn’t make sense. VPN providers are even further outside their jurisdiction.
- Comment on Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits 2 weeks ago:
So, like, they want to enforce this on piracy sites?
If they had any ability to control piracy sites, wouldn’t they just shut them down?
Sounds DOA.
- Comment on Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits 2 weeks ago:
How? I haven’t noticed anything.
- Comment on Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits 2 weeks ago:
Do we have metrics on torrents increasing simultaneously?
- Comment on What are some good Peertube channels? Also, issues with subscribing to channels outside MakerTube 2 weeks ago:
Sepia is your friend
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Check wwoof or workaway or similar.
You can generally live free in a country as a tourist for 3-6 months doing workaway then hitchhike or ride a bicycle to the next country. Repeat.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You can literally just walk.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You can hitchhike. Getting residency with working permission costs about $3,000
- Comment on Would you think more of a President or Leader, if they did something bad, then said yea I screwed up but we are going to fix it, then fixed it? 3 weeks ago:
Of course.
This is how trust develops. Any org that doesn’t have a history of posts on their website that say “we fucked up, this is why, and here’s what we’re doing to fix it” is an org you shouldn’t trust.
This is one of the first things I look for when I visit a website for the first time.
- Comment on Solar panel costs have plummeted from $6 per watt in 2000 to just 12 cents today 3 weeks ago:
Sourcing parts from China requires skill. Look for reviews, get samples, and don’t go cheap. You can get great quality stuff there. They will build to spec. So if you know the exact geometry and thickness and grade of material, you can be very specific and get something great.
But if you just buy something cheap without discussing it with their engineers and confirming specs and tolerances, you’ll get something cheap.
- Comment on Solar panel costs have plummeted from $6 per watt in 2000 to just 12 cents today 3 weeks ago:
There’s definitely some in Germany. Iirc they use hydrogen generated from electrolysis
- Comment on Solar panel costs have plummeted from $6 per watt in 2000 to just 12 cents today 3 weeks ago:
At Bestway Cement’s plant in Chakwal, Pakistan, solar already supplies more than a quarter of the electricity used to make cement. The company has 26MW installed and expects to add another 6.34MW by the end of the year.
That’s pretty amazing. Building construction make up a huge part of our carbon footprint.
If we could get 100% green cement (and steel), it would significantly decrease our emissions.
- Comment on Solar panel costs have plummeted from $6 per watt in 2000 to just 12 cents today 3 weeks ago:
Most likely: alibaba
- Comment on Is "American posing as a Canadian" a real thing? 4 weeks ago:
Canadians are Americans, so idk wtf you’re asking
- Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal? 4 weeks ago:
That reason was decided by the Supreme Court
- Comment on Why does most of the world use WhatsApp as their messaging app rather than RCS/SMS? 4 weeks ago:
I mean, X is worse than Twitter because that’s when it became fascist.
Facebook used to at least employ some content moderation folks. Meta, likewise, went full fascist and misinformation.
The name changes provide a delineation for magnitudes worse enshitification.
- Comment on Why does most of the world use WhatsApp as their messaging app rather than RCS/SMS? 4 weeks ago:
Snapchat was made for dick pics
- Comment on Why does most of the world use WhatsApp as their messaging app rather than RCS/SMS? 4 weeks ago:
That definitely didn’t happen with Skype. Many, many people have saved your Skype messages.
- Comment on Why does most of the world use WhatsApp as their messaging app rather than RCS/SMS? 4 weeks ago:
Meta*
- Comment on Why does most of the world use WhatsApp as their messaging app rather than RCS/SMS? 4 weeks ago:
Because sending a message with data was cheaper than the cost of sending one SMS. And it was free on WiFi.
That’s why WhatsApp took off.
- Comment on Can you purchase a burner phone anonymously in the US? 5 weeks ago:
You might be surprised to find that most Faraday bags are just two layers of fabric with aluminum foil between them.
- Comment on Can you purchase a burner phone anonymously in the US? 5 weeks ago:
The US is huuuuge. There’s more places without cameras than places with cameras.
- Comment on Can you purchase a burner phone anonymously in the US? 5 weeks ago:
It’s easy to test. Put it in the bag and try to call it. If the phone don’t ring, it works.