It’s interesting to see how much nixos grew over the last 2 years, even though the distribution exists since 2003.

Reintroducing mammoths in the arctic could potentially help reduce the climate change.

There is a scientist in Siberia who built the Pleistocene Park. An area where he reintroduced a lot of large herbivores and studied their impact. He’s saying that boreal forest have a very low biodiversity compared to mammoth steppes. The steppes have way more animals, are stocking way more carbon in the soil and prevent methane leaks by keeping the permafrost frozen due to the low albedo of the biome.

The problem is that with the mammoths are indispensable to maintain the steppes. They are the only animal big enough to clear up trees, without them the forest is taking over and all the ecosystem of the steppes disappear.

So (according to this scientist), resurrecting the mammoth could revive a whole ecosystem, with a very rich biodiversity and that could have a give impact on the climate.

I would imagine they use the microphone, accelerometer, some processing power and internet connectivity (WiFi or mobile).

Trying to set up a dedicated hardware with ask that would cost way more than just buying a bunch of pixel phone.

Same for the software, on a smartphone you can just create an app that will record and process all the information vs creating a custom firmware on a custom hardware.

I guess there is also the availability of the technicians.

Finding someone to develop and maintain an android app is much easier than finding someone to maintain a custom hardware/firmware.

“A country with experience in fab construction can build one faster and cheaper than a country with no experience”

Yeah, not really surprising

25 years ago the system was setup as a quick temporary solution.

Maybe France would be interested to buy back Louisiana as well.

This is the “Louisiana” they sold:

What is the reason not to connect it to the WiFi ?

I moved from proton to mailbox a few months ago and so far I’m really happy with it too

Yes, about this case of I remember well they provided the IP address of the activists.

Any email provider has to follow the law and will have to provide the information they have. The only diffidence of that in the case of proton the information they have is the IP address you used to connect to their service. For another provider the information might be all the content of your email.

The imprompted praise to Trump from proton CEO on the other hand is more concerning.

If I understand well you want to have the same OS, software, configuration and files on different devices.

You could have a look at nixos.

I’m doing something similar, I have a computer in my office for work and a laptop at home for personal use and a bit of work.

I have a config shared between the two computers, they share similar modules but also have their own specificities.

This way when I configure VSCode for example I get the configuration synced on both.

For synching my files I’m using a synology NAS.

Once our society collapses we will produce way less plastic.

Yes, this is my experience with EV too (France)

When doing a long trip I actually enjoy having to stop for recharging. It gives me a 15-20 min break to pee, her some coffee and stretch my legs without having the impression that I’m losing time.

There was a huge network of pneumatic tubes under Paris used by the postal services between 1866 and 1980.

With that you could send a letter to any address in the city that would arrive in less than 2 hours.

https://youtu.be/Ns5SKH-ooy0

Apparently when doing saturation diving like that you can’t even understand what the other person says, between the helium and the pressure the voice is too distorted to be intelligible.

You can communicate with a computer that transforms your voice to be intelligible but it is really not a pleasant conversation so you can stay there for weeks without having a conversation except for the bare minimum.

All the plants still work in summer during heatwaves. When they stop it’s because they are not essential at the time (electricity consumption is lower in summer than winter) and to protect the river ecosystem. Since the water is already very hot and stressing the ecosystem they don’t want to add more heat into the river.

In the mean time the carbon intensity of France was 31CO2/kWh in 2024, Germany was at 364gCO2/kWh. 12 times more.

But it is going down for both countries, so it’s a good point.

Yes,

If it has an operating speed of 450km/h this would be impressive.

But just reaching this speed is far from a world record, the French TGV record from 1990 is 513km/h, it reached 574.8km/h in 2007 which is the current world record.

Same experience on my Fairphone 5, first crashed the OS when I tried accessing the gallery.

Now it is working but the pictures have like dead pixels on them.

The fairphone 5 is on android 14 and android 15 has only started to be deployed 2 months ago.

From another article

The GDM724x is removed for supporting the GCT GDM724x LTE chip based USB modem devices. This driver was merged back in 2013 but is being removed now as the driver isn’t being maintained and yields a maintenance workload, the manufacturer GCT doesn’t respond to any emails/support, there doesn’t appear to be any of the said chips easily available for purchase, there is not any hardware documentation available, and no apparent usage of this driver remaining in the Linux community. Removing the driver clears out 3.6k lines of code and lowers the maintenance burden for other kernel developers.

There was also a vulnerability discovered in July linked to this driver.

So yeah I understand that they chose to remove some drivers from the kernel.

Not really, buying 2nd hand implies that people still buy 1st hand. The second hand market is subsidizing the 1st hand market.