Slightly off-topic, but Backblaze B2 has usage caps that actually work. I have $0 cap on API requests, and yesterday when litestream burned through the free tier (defaults to replicating every second), I got a notice and requests stopped working until I upped my cap.

Buy a modern monitor or just run your display at a low res and disable antialiasing? Phones are now 500 PPI+, theres no real excuse for using a low DPI screen.

Income and effective cost of things like desktop monitors vary wildly across the world, that argument doesn't really fly.

I vehemently disagree. Recently bought a pretty good and affordable 21:9 Chinese monitor, and I couldn't be happier with it. A good monitor is a basic QOL improvement for IT professionals, and these days they're still cheap because they aren't affected by the recent HDD, GPU, or RAM scarcity.

For reference, I live in Mexico, and bought the monitor with less than two week's worth of groceries. Recognized brands would cost four or five times more, but there are options for every budget.

Screens are still stuck at <150 ppi, unless you go for an 8k screen.

It can power even more security issues too. This is absolutely horrendous.

I’m wondering how this can be exploited.

They implemented it in a way that it only responds with a valid image and a 200 status code, when the referrer is adobe.com. It's probably somewhat sane given the insanity that is the host files hack.

Agreed, at worst this is just vaguely icky feeling; realistically this is a nothing burger.

To exploit this kind of thing you'd either need to have access to someone's computer to change the hosts file yourself, pointing to a different IP address, or somehow gain control of Adobe's IP address and point it to a different server. For the former, if you have local root permission, you already own the machine, why bother with this slow of an option. And the latter is already such a takeover that the involvement of this hosts file change is basically irrelevant.

Probably, but it'd be pretty trivial to add some weight to the door.

I'd like to see some focus on cheap thermal storage as PV is terribly inefficient for heating. Especially in the winter months.

LFP is safe and is under $100/kwH.

100% this. If it was DIYable, its an order of magnitude cheaper.

I have leftover panels from an off grid install, and its extremely hard to get an approved permit for a small roof solar array + off the shelf AIO (Ecoflow/Anker)

What's the challenge you're seeing?

While I agree with underestimating capacity, the problem only really applies to off grid.

For regular homes, it just means less savings.

It means some other infrastructure (fossil fuels?) needs to take up the slack, and people underestimate actual costs at larger scales.

It’s the big issue in Germany for instance - it’s all fun and games until Winter.

Which is fine, since you're still reducing your reliance on the grid.

However, when you're off grid, underestimating capacity means your SOL and need to buy a generator and burn fuel on-site.

Germany has more wind in winter, so traditionally has more production of renewables in winter months.

It has dramatically higher thermal heat demands in winter - far higher than is compensated for by that. Even if everyone switched to heat pumps.

True, but higher demand for heating in winter is not specific to Germany. In the end, Germany will likely need to import energy anyway - just as it does today. But this means this question may not be the most relevant.

Huh? It highlights the relevance. It’s easy to handwave ‘imports’ away - but import from whom, and how do they make the energy?

One could import it as ammonia from locations that can produce a lot of it via solar.

And? Any coal not used in summer is coal not dug up.

If you dont like leaving your main video player, IINA on mac is scriptable, so I just use shortcut keys to send start/end indicators to a script which runs ffmpeg on the timestamps.

Im sure other video players like VLC support this, but I found VLC's apis very lacking.

mpv has plugins for this like https://github.com/serenae-fansubs/mpv-webm

"pretty obscure to configure every equipment I have at home"

HA actually makes configuring every piece of equipment and integrating them easy. If I have only 1 thing to control, then yeah, it's probably overkill.