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  • (Mainland France) When I was a kid, my parents decide to move to a big ancient house with thick stone walls with a lot of repairs, we talked a lot about these things. back then, in the 90s, stone walls were considered superior than average insulation, as it was mostly inexistant at the time.

    Nowadays, it is much inferior and you really need to add insulation to be a bit efficient.

    If you have more thermal mass, for example in caves or underground structures, you can have the mean temperature of an entire year.

    Yep, here 13-14°C is the temperature of all the caves (that are not high in the mountains, altitude is a factor) and incidentally the temperature considered ideal to keep red wine.

    This can be used with heat wells: have a way to exchange deep heat, with circulating water for instance, and in winter you can pre-heat your home at 14°C before adding energy. It is heavy work though to bury these pipes, and the efficiency of heat pumps nowadays makes this a bit irrelevant, but it is a nice low-tech possibility.



  • Ads make the web human hostile and such disgraceful behaviors by scrapping bots force to make it bots hostile too.

    I am sad and depressed. I went into AI to solve the problems of the world and I still think that the progresses made in machine learning are a huge too to improve the world, but seeing what capitalism turned these tools into… sigh.

    I don’t even have the strength anymore to explain that “AI companies” and "AI"are not the same thing…

    There should be ways to behave correctly. Robot.txt should be legally enforced, rate limitation should be respected and prosecuted. Sites with information they are willing to share with models should just provide a datadump and individual requests should be reserved for human usage.

    But an internet where everyone is understanding and each other and business actors do not act like psychopaths does not exist.





  • C’était sur quelle machine? Question: pourquoi pas une distrib plus légère? Y a vraiment des choses qui justifient Touch?

    J’ai succombé à Ubuntu pour ma machine principale parce que j’aime le “marche out of the box” mais c’est vraiment saoulant de leur part de considérer que les anciennes machines, on s’en fout un peu. J’ai eu à installer des machines un peu plus légères (pour des noeuds remote dans un système robotique) et je m’attendais quand même pas à un tel abus même avec xfce d’installé. Je suis passé à de Debian et ça tourne enfin comme ça devrait!


  • Là, elles ont choisi de ne pas amplifier leur production pour de meilleurs profits au détriment d’éventuelles parts de marché. C’est un arbitrage.

    Un retraité du domaine qui a vu plusieurs crises du genre m’a également dit que chaque fois qu’une prod a été augmenté suite à un choc des prix et de la demande, ça se finissait par une faillite de boites 2 ou 3 ans plus tard. Il se peut juste que les constructeurs aient appris leur leçon là et décident de contre-braquer pendant le dérapage car ils savent que c’est temporaire: les datacenters se construisent, mais ils vont pas consommer de façon durable la DDR, leur demande va s’épuiser rapidement, d’autant plus si la crise d’openAI tant annoncée se concrétise.









  • It sounds like a technical problem but it is a political one. You need an entity that is independent from the malicious actors wanting to use surveillance for control. Once you have that, giving that entity able to manage all aspects without bleeding private information is a technical problem, but if you don’t have one to begin with, it is without hope.

    If some people have the right to enter any building and any computer to sniff data without restriction, you can’t have privacy. It is a political problem.