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Good news!

The app is developed by the non-profit organisation Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology, not some questionable company that has to generate revenue and shareholder value.

And it is literally a website, you can access it here.

Several European countries much have more data center capacities each than China.

Where did you get the impression that Europe has more compute than China?

This analysis estimates that the US (75%) and China (14%) have much higher aggregate performance than Europe (listed as EU + Norway) at 5.6% (reference date: early 2025), in terms of 16-bit FLOP/s.

This projection lists 35GW of compute for the US and 5GW for China but only 2.3 GW for Europe for 2026.

With V2, the booster performed very well, but it took the ship a few tries to reproduce all milestones V1 had already accomplished. With V3, we are seeing the opposite. Still, the booster performed better than on the previous flight.

My impression is that the ship has performed exceptionally well for all (controlled) reentries and landings, even far outside of the expected operating regime. Without a flap to watch that gets slowly eaten by plasma, the last reentries were delightfully boring. Of course, we cannot judge if the landing precision was sufficient for all those flights, but they seem to be confident.

Engine relight over South Africa, viewed from the ground

Thanks! <3

But there is no need, I just hope lemmy can do this itself one day.

The problem is not that its impossible to establish trust in an electronic voting system. A qualified individual with the necessary knowledge in formal verification, cryptography, and computer science (maybe I am missing a field or two here) might be able to audit a system and verify that it adheres to certain standards and criteria.

But I cannot do that, the average adult certainly cannot, and the bottom 5% percentile (of whatever criterion/metric might be applicable here) is so far removed from the problem that they are probably already having trouble operating such a machine.

We were able to organize our own elections in elementary school to elect class representatives, and every kid understood how they work, and was able to observe the election process themselves, establishing trust in the system. If I have any doubts if my vote is going to be counted correctly in an election, I can go to my polling station and monitor the election as an independent observer or join the election board and do the counting myself. Every citizen eligible to vote has all the necessary tools available, both in terms of access to the polling station and counting of the ballots (which is public), and in terms of mental capacity and required prior knowledge. (Well, the last two points at least apply to a large majority of voters). I don’t need to trust the local government or dubious “experts”. The public’s ability to establish trust in the election system is essential in a democracy, and establishing trust cannot be delegated.

We had computers in elementary school. Around 3 or 4, they were standing in a corner of the classroom. I think my teachers husband just brought them in after his workplace decommissioned them. When you finished a task early, you were sometimes allowed to play around on them. I remember Paint, playing Pinball and Solitaire, and just clicking around/discovering the Windows UI. This was around the year 2000, we had no Internet, the computers were running Windows 95/98. I am not sure if we used them for any class-related activities. WordPad was installed, but no other Office stuff, I believe.

I am glad that I grew up when computers were still understandable. Nowadays, kids get iPads, which teach them to be obedient consumers, but they will learn nothing about computers themselves. Too many layers of abstractions, all intended to obscure the underlying technology, and lock down the devices.

Children have a natural desire to explore, which is completely wasted with modern devices. Let them open Paint.exe with Notepad and see what happens!

My mail provider optionally supports this. They have a subdomain with an SMTP server that rejects unencrypted connections, I just have to hand out …@secure.mailbox.org instead of …@mailbox.org as my mail address.

Thanks for your reply! I deleted my comment because using relative links obviously didn’t work. From a quick glance, I assumed this lemmy PR would handle relative links, but apparently not. Maybe this PR will solve it, which is not yet released.

Kommt jetzt endlich anständiges Peering?

I use both ULA and global addresses. Servers set a token to make the last 64bits predictable, which simplifies dyndns. For some critical internal communication, I hard code the ULA address in my hosts file, for everything else, I rely on DNS (with global addresses). No DHCPv6.

I usually just disable IPv4 on my VMs, unless there is a specific need for IPv4. Most container networks are single stack as well. I have a squid proxy that services can use to access IPv4 http/https destinations if really necessary (combined with some additional filter rules); ideally I would like to have 464xlat/a nat64 gateway, but I never bothered to set that up yet. I will likely do that when I buy a new router (end of year?). I expect all my devices to support CLAT by then, so that will be the end of IPv4 on my network.