a couple more open source options with actual pastebin type interfaces, but which have not been updated in some time and have official instances which have been blacklisted on uBlock are:
hastebin https://github.com/kevr/hastebin
and DPaste https://github.com/DarrenOfficial/dpaste
https://hedgedoc.org/ for self-hosted option.
https://cryptpad.fr/ for a private free cloud hosted option that doesnt require an email to sign up.
PrivateBin is an open source Client side encrypted alternative to PasteBin that has everything you want, with the caviat that just like Fediverse you have to pick an instance you trust to stick around, or self-host of course.
Yes, this definitely should be a part of the energy mix, we are about to experience an energy crisis in the US due to bad changes in policy. We need to deploy wind at all scales.
Their prototype unit is 400 watts, based on their deck their target is residential use.
While “a lot” would fit in a the footprint of a large turbine, 42,500 would not, which is how many would be needed to be equivalent to the large turbines the article is talking about, and I’d bet that many Harmony Turbines would cost more as well.
Scale efficiency for grid scale wind projects is the bottom line, and bot accessing steadier and stronger high altitude winds with taller turbines and using larger diameter blades gain efficiency beyond what any fleet of smaller turbines can match.
Not to say that larger scale vertical axis turbines are completely out of the picture, but they suffer from irregular bearing loading which wears out the drive train much faster among other issues. As of now large scale horizontal axis bladed turbines are far ahead in term of both cost and space efficiency. It would take something very groundbreaking to change that.
No need to die on this hill, it’s just different technologies for different applications, there is a place for both.
Check out this DOE page for more info on turbine scale: https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/wind-turbines-bigger-better
To not dismiss your perspective out of hand, in order to use smaller vertical-type mills and still tap higher altitude winds on masts would require support structures that can keep many more turbines aloft to supply the same electricity, and the electrical infrastructure to merge all the turbine electrical output and balance the loads to give a stable denoised power output to the grid.
The result is a much lower weight to power density in the smaller turbines, meaning much more expensive structural supports, and much more expensive power routing and station infrastructure. This makes such projects non-viable as they wouldnt be able to charge enough for the electricity to pay off the infrastructure over the lifetime of the turbines.
Smaller turbines like the one you posted DO have a great place in the power mix, for example for potential installation at the top of skyscrapers where the support infrastructure is already paid for by other uses (though the loads have to be accommodated by the building design, which still adds cost), or in low-altitude areas where steady winds exist and there is specific moderate electrical demand, such as in valley ports on islands or more remote coastal towns. In those cases larger mills would overproduce electricity demand, so smaller turbines at lower altitude are a good fit.
The forces on a blade of this size are truly staggering, when you think about how long a lever they are attached to only one side, its clear that the issue is not only strength at the seam of a proposed joint but also the impact any additional weight will have on the junction of the blade with the rotor. They are pushing the limits of what high pressure molded composites can handle at these scales, but still some companies have developed multi-piece turbine blades.
Generally the biggest downsides to multi-component blade technologies are that they cost substantially more, and they have lower operating lifespan, a bad double whammy for the profitability of a windmill.
Basically the cargo plain developers are banking on the cost per flight of each turbine blade being less than the cost of building, installing, maintaining, and replacing multi-part blades over the lifetime of the windmill, and as of now this economics pencils out. Who knows though, tech changes fast, what I wonder is whether portable blade foundries might not be possible to build the blades on-site for large windmill projects.
If you want to get into the nitty gritty I found this presentation very helpful: https://windmillstech.com/wind-turbine-design/
Doesn’t tap the higher altitude stronger winds.
Well, there are ways to jailbreak kindles and use third party software like this: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/Installation-on-Kindle-devices
As a side note, check out the app Mihon if you like to read comics, the seas are open for sailing if you’re that sort, or its just a great reader. Works great on Boox.
Boox is best because it runs full android, dont lock yourself in to Amazon. Some folks prefer Supernote if writing us your focus, but if reading is your jam get Boox as you can read any format, download off of any site or app, sideboard and run f-droid, read the web, even use the fediverse. The screens are as good as you can get, and the software stays updated.
Thanks for clarifying, I figured fashion had at least something to do with it given the number of actively used protocols and services that still use it, XMPP being the one I use the most myself.
Even on XMPP I have seen several projects to “translate” the protocol into other languages (specifically Rust in one).
Efficiency makes sense, but then also the number of devs proficient in a language due to shifts in the emphasis of training and education is just as strong a force.
Lol, bro, my incapability or your lack of clear communcation? Modifying a quote of my comment is about as obtuse as you can get.
GNUSocial had an XMPP plugin, it was not built on Jabber. Yes XMPP clients have microblogging built out, but still lack some competitive features to the Fediverse, and fundamentally are still a server-based ecosystem rather than a self-hosted p2p ecosystem for persistent content which is what my post was discussing.
Interesting, I have actually used Movim for xmpp chat before but not fully explored its publishing features. This is a good nudge to do so. I wonder how it handles “communities”. I have been tracking XMPP recent development and threads are just now getting support, though they function more like tags in chat streams than like threads in a Lemmy sense in current implementations. It seems like the “Spaces” concept proposed in XEP-0503 would round this out, and I have discussed how Nicolo of Slidge plans to work on this woth the Movim dev team, it would make sense Spaces would much improve the blogging/forum functionality of Movim. I was asking about it for the potential of replacing Matrix/Discord with XMPP.
That’s my impression. I haven’t seen an argument yet as to what I’m describing not being fundamentally feasible.
It seems like most people here’s opinion is essentially that ActivityPub is a better option mostly because it is one unified protocol vs having to develop around multiple protocols adding complexity. This seems to be why ActivityPub emerged out of OStatus, which was more similar to what I was describing.
Free and premium blog and website hosting services are abundant, for those who dont want to self host directly this is the easy option. There is no reason a host of this type couldn’t adopt or be set up to have the protocols I’m discussing baked in to their CMS/templates as options. Fundamentally I don’t see how hosting peers in this way would be more onerous than hosting an activitypub instance.
I did not mean to say Jabber is a fascist project. You said “ActivityPub has been a fascist project from its inception.” and I was responding to that. XMPP has end to end encryption protocols and so is not a part of the open web fundamentally.
GNUSocial was built on OStatus which actually is the closest thing to the tech stack I am talking about in my post. It did not include XMPP/Jabber as far as I can tell. Interestingly the Wikipedia article on OStatus claims that ActivityPub arose out of the OStatus project in order to reduce the complexity of implementation, so another mark towards that explanation, but I’d like to hear more from devs involved.
Also isn’t this where Fediverse devs might be looking? I am hoping so.
Murmillo has the most styling helm, so I’m going for that.