Kushan

Plus people knew the increase was coming so I imagine there was a spike in sales just before hand.

We have faster charging speeds with lithium today, 800v cars that can charge at 300KW+ have been on the market for half a decade, BYD has launched cars that can charge at 2-3x that speed. The charging infrastructure is the bottleneck there, even if all new cars could charge at those speeds it wouldn’t mean much because hardly any chargers can support it.

Besides it’s almost moot, most EV owners aren’t charging via fast chargers like you would fill up an ICE car, they’re charging at home at much cheaper rates and only using fast chargers for particularly long trips.

Sodium batteries are real though. You can buy them today, their big promise was that they would be cheaper than lithium batteries because sodium is abundant and readily available whereas lithium is a rare mineral. Then lithium prices fell through the floor and the value proposition failed, at least for now. They’re also not as energy dense, which is probably what will hold then back from EV use for a while yet, but the claim around being safer holds up.

Jesus fuck. I was born and raised in Belfast, there’s absolutely nothing about the experience today (out in 2019) that even remotely resembles the 70’s.

You’ve done the hard work building the compose file. Push that file to a private GitHub repository, set up renovate bot and it’ll create PR’s to update those containers on whatever cadence and rules you want (such as auto updating bug fixes from certain registries).

Then you just need to set up SSH access to your VM running the containers and a simple GitHub action to push the updated compose file and run docker compose up. That’s what I do and it means updates are just a case of merging in a PR when it suits me.

Also I would suggest ditching the VM and just running the docker commands directly on the TrueNAS host - far less overheads, one less OS to maintain and makes shares resources (like a GPU) easier to manage.

You should look at restic or Kopia for backups, they are super efficient and encrypted. All my docker data is backed up hourly and thanks to the way out handles snapshots, I have backups going back literally years that don’t actually take up much space.

Makes sense on today of all days.

I’m not entirely sure what the “maintenance burden” even is on a tech that hasn’t changed in decades.

And batteries. Arguably batteries would have the biggest impact out of all of those; turn every household into a virtual power plant and the grid can self balance, especially during peak usage.

The government is also dragging its feet on V2G which would allow your EV to act as an additional giant battery that can feed the grid and your home when usage is high, then top it back up overnight.

There’s been a big storm in the UK, so wind is generating fuckloads of energy right now, to the point where energy providers are having to pay people to use electric - all that cheap power could be filling up batteries instead.

Yeah, UK intelligence agencies have basically said it’s a non issue.

Essentially you can take any ballistic missile and double the range by making the payload smaller (or remove it entirely). That’s the basis for this claim, Iran could make their existing missiles go a lot further to reach more targets but it would be pointless doing so.

So what?

This was the reaction of UK intelligence.

Only because of current RAM prices and artificial scarcity keeping those prices high.

300GB of RAM shouldn’t be that expensive. I have 1/3 of that in my server (bought years ago). If it wasn’t for the AI bullshit, 300GB would be fairly reasonable to buy in a couple of years time.

Oh but I actually agree with you!

Honestly it’s a lot of calendar management and Trello boards. But we get to share on the cost of subscriptions, which is nice.

I find the ones that are super open to the point where it’s kind of their whole personality tend to be the drama-llamas. There are plenty of polyciles out there in plain sight quite happy because they don’t go around broadcasting it.

To be fair, not to defend the CEO at all but when this story first broke it was so wild that you knew someone had to be making up some serious bullshit but it was just so out there, it could have been either side.

Why anyone decided to pick sides is beyond me, this is why courts exist.

I appreciate the sentiment because I also hate ads, but just because you’re not spending your disposable income on premium doesn’t mean you couldn’t theoretically spend it on something else.

Fuck, I love ntfy, it’s one of the best self hosted push notification systems I’ve used. It has been flawless so far.

Don’t like this.

It was a couple of weeks ago for me but I managed to get my docker compose script for all my infrastructure cleaned up and all versions of containers are now pinned.

I have renovate set up to open PR’s when a new version is available so I can handle updates by just accepting the PR and it’s automatically deployed to my server.

Nice and easy to keep apps up to date without them randomly breaking because I didn’t know if a breaking change when blindly pulling from latest.

And every one of those decisions is more data they’ll feed the machine.

There has to be a point where you’ve got enough edge cases and bizarre situations where you have the data to train the LLM on how to deal with them.

I doubt our dystopian future is completely human-less, but you can probably plot a graph that projects the number of human interventions required for every thousand miles driven and that graph probably has a trend going downwards.

Then you move to another city that has more edge cases and repeat the process. Google can afford the slow rollout, Tesla can’t.

Absolutely! Here’s my CI pipeline, it’s actually super basic: https://gist.github.com/neoKushan/bd92031bb9c8db3320e8c19d5dae3194

Happy to answer questions if you like.

I just added my compose files to the repo, that CI file and set up renovate https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate to create my PR’s for me.

I generally agree with the sentiment but don’t pull by latest, or at the very least don’t expect every new version to work without issue.

Most projects are very well behaved as you say but they still need to upgrade major versions now and again that contains breaking charges.

I spebt an afternoon putting my compose files into git, setting up a simple CI pipeline and use renovate to automatically create PR’s when things update. Now all my services are pinned to specific versions and when there’s an update, I get a PR to make the change along with a nice change log telling me what’s actually changed.

It’s a little more effort but things don’t suddenly break any more. Highly recommend this approach.