But who is checking? Last I read, these laws were created in a few states as a preventative measure against potential Federal laws that could push these issues even further. I haven’t heard of any enforcement plans to date or anything about how it should report, just “add age verification to operating systems.”
A surprising amount of people in the open source community lean alt-right including the lead dev of systemd, some of FUTO, and others like hyprland, etc. Others like the actual dev that committed the age field code to systemd state they are apolitical but in reality are actually enabling those that want to do harm.
Probably more of a “Corporate wants you to find the difference…” than the astronaut one.
Privacy Guides has some recs but have some arguably bad takes sometimes. Their Self-hosting page seems reasonable though.
Logseq leverages centrally hosted databases while obsidian works directly from files and directory structures. There should be a way to import individual files but I’m not sure if it will parse your entire vault.
Wayyy too many Nazis in tech, which unfortunately includes a surprising amount of open source tech too.
Sabine Hossenfelder isn’t really a good foil for someone that likes to portray that they are an expert on topics that are actually outside their expertise. Here’s a good video on why she is more similar to him than you would think: Youtube.
From my perspective, her takes on anything outside of undergrad physics are pretty shit, so forgive me if I don’t see having her involved as a good thing.
Honestly, not even that deep can used for geothermal. You can dig 6 feet deep for a horizontal ground loop in most places and still be completely usable for a ground source heatpump.
So a bunch of the other comments have mentioned this but you would be creating a thermal battery essentially. These can be useful for smoothing out the temperature changes in that room but it isn’t exactly efficient since the only way to heat or cool it is by changing the temperature at the surface of the container.
Adding passive heat sinks like radiator fins would increase the efficiency as it would absorb or diffuse the temperature difference with increased surface area but it would still would be subject to things like the air conditioning turning on and off more regularly when there is a higher ambient temperature delta or condensation when the weather is hot and moisture is high. You’ve essentially added an inactive water boiler tank in the middle of a room that takes up space and takes a long time to either heat up or cool down and it still would be lagging behind where you want the temperature to be.
You’re on the right track to a good idea with trying to store thermal energy but it can be made better with a few tweaks:
Now we have a thermal battery that works with your air conditioning system as opposed to against it. This can be paired with other methods of heat/cooling such as a solar system.
But if you’re in a dorm or somewhere you can’t make changes, it could make sense if you aren’t paying for electricity, you actively heat/cool the bucket by putting it in a freezer or on a heater/fire, and you don’t mind a large metal container in the middle of the room? Just watch for a lot of condensation when cooling the air.
Because some people have a tendency to question the validity of things that don’t make sense to them. I could see someone asking, “why even have physical money anymore when everyone uses banking or credit?”
The same deal with privacy, “why should I worry about internet privacy if I have done no wrong and have nothing to hide?” There are always people left out and harmed in pursuit of some form of purisim like those lines of thought.
That’s fair. Authoritarianism across the board is inherently anti-free and will give rise to enshittified or unsecure software given enough time. We’re not only dealing with bigots that can’t stand living on the same planet as others they don’t understand, but also those that want strict authority and enforcement.