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Cake day: June 16th, 2025

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  • It’s possible to protect against heatwaves on a city level. Increase the albedo value of the city by doing the following: Incentivize lighter colored roofing and walls, grow leafy trees for shade, cover parking lots with solar roofing (and add EV chargers). Basically do whatever possible to reduce the amount of asphalt and darkish materials in general, being hit by sunshine.

    No it won’t save your ass when ambient temperature is 50C, but considering that cities are by their very nature hotter than the ambient temperature out side of the city, these things would help reduce that gap.



  • Here in northern Europe dairy and meat industry go hand in hand, that is, when a dairy cow stops being productive it gets ground to beef.

    For regions where beef as food is more valued than here (beef’s so expensive, few people buy it in Estonia), meat moos are entirely different breeds and fed differently. Milk moos might end up as mince, but probably not a quality steak. You don’t need nearly as many moos if you’re only producing milk, and then maybe some meat products from cows, compared to when you’re raising a bunch specifically to be eaten.

    Chickens raised for meat also don’t lay eggs. So if you only eat eggs and not chicken, way fewer chickens are needed. Also, if you’re not even willing to go vegetarian, switch out beef and pork for chicken. Per kilogram of meat, chicken is way less carbon intensive (pork is also less intensive than beef). It’s still a lot compared to eating potatoes from your own garden of course.










  • Yes. But it used to be free to watch remotely. It’s 99% your own hardware doing everything. Their services get used for discovery, not as proxies for the connection itself, AFAIK.

    You already had to pay them to allow transcoding with your own GPU, etc.

    Right now it’s still not too bad, but just watch, enshittification will affect paid users too. For one, I expect the lifetime pass to go away, and go away retroactively eventually.