i was assuming that they are trying to rush it through because they think it will win them more seats, but what with L disintegrating in real time i don’t think it matters either way.

you think? there’s been a lot of noise from inside the tidö team. i’m not sure they can put up a united front.

the article is wrong, it’s not been debated yet. it’s been put forward by the government but hasn’t passed the riksdag. it’s expected to go into effect in july because new laws in sweden always go into effect in january or july.

Edit: also note that the bill runs contrary to the findings of the committee formed to investigate the possibility, which means support will not be unanimous within the government coalition.

…huh? this was last year. it’s not decided on yet, mainly because they have yet to provide a definition of “honest living”. the only news from this week was that they want it to work retroactively, which basically every lawyer instantly struck down. it could make it fail even harder.

Edit: nevermind it being from this week, state media reported on it at the end of january. the term to look up, for those interested, is the swedish for “non-honest living”: “bristande vandel”

oh hey me too! i got like 4500€ back by not having a job for the past six months so i fell down a tax bracket. every silver lining has a cloud.

*to the tune of California Dreamin’*

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you first, mr huang

there’s only so much you can fit in an elevator pitch :P

you can use an anaerobic digestion system to generate about 100 liters of gas a day, given that you feed it around a liter of 50/50 food scraps and water slurry. you can heat a stirling engine with it to generate 2-300W or so.

it’s not risk free of course, biogas is explosive, but taking precautions can minimize it. produce and store outside, under low pressure, limit the volume, and use filters and flame arrestors.

this video is a good intro to the subject.

another interesting avenue if you have access to cheap wood is syngas. you can run clean syngas in a unmodified internal combustion engine, so the generator part is easy. clean gasification is the hard part, since you need to get rid of the tar and water content. using charcoal is the best method because all that gunk is already burned off. you put it in an airtight container with an inlet and an outlet, light it at the inlet, and pump in a controlled amount of air. the charcoal then goes through a redox reaction and produces syngas at the outlet.

a syngas generator can produce roughly 10x the energy of a biogas plant of the same size, but involves high temperatures and more preprocessing.

here’s a video on that too.

lastly, what’s more important to you? lowering your bills or being energy independent? my housing co-op has a deal with a local electricity company where they installed a load-following battery bank in our basement. it tracks the energy market so it can charge at night, be used by us during the day, and sell the surplus to the grid. it has lowered our energy bills by about a third. a lot less messy than the other two solutions, but also a lot less independent. doesn’t really matter for our situation, since we’re on district heating as well, but your situation may be different.

use compost to make biogas, use biogas to drive a heat engine generator.

i use digital id with a cryptographic signature. get with the times, grandpa!

more seriously: i learned cursive not because it was compulsory, but because i have fine motor issues and the teachers couldn’t read my normal handwriting. so they thought cursive would help. unfortunately i’m also left-handed, so all it did was give me cramps, make my hand dirty, and tear up the paper even more. eventually i got an alphasmart.

i’ve never even been able to make two instances of the same letter consistent, nevermind a whole word. thankfully a signature alone is not a valid identification method.

it’s been a few years since my last mac but i remember that clicking on things in background windows would bring them forward rather than trigger the action, so you needed a second click to actually do the thing. i did enable focus on hover and it wreaked havoc on the window management so i had to turn it off. can’t remember the details though.

it’s a really interesting decision because while it makes the menu positioning consistent, it also creates a hard link between the active window and the desktop, which means that things like “hover to focus” and “click button in background window” fundamentally cannot work.

very. dujardin is an incredibly expressive guy.

i can definitely recommend the new OSS 117 movies if you want more of that.

i think if anyone likes postal they should probably keep it to themselves

uwe boll’s postal.

don’t get me wrong, it’s one of the worst, most disgusting films ever made. it’s like if john waters was a conservative. but there’s a certain… something to it. there are little details that didn’t need to be there that shows some enthusiasm and care for its making.

like there’s this one scene where the protagonist goes over to his uncle’s sex cult compound and finds him asleep in just an open bathrobe with like seven naked chicks, right? and the dude wakes him up and he has to push them off of him. and as he crawls out from under the blonde sleeping on his crotch, they’ve added a little *plop* sound effect as her head moves away from his dick. like, that’s funny! and totally unnecessary.

if your choice of api route directly affects your auth flow something is very wrong.

i have a 2012 chevy volt with Opel badges. it’s cramped, too low to comfortably get in to, and was built prior to charge port standards meaning i can only plug in with my own cable and it maxes out at 3.6kW, but it’s honestly great. just a nice place to be. my wishlist for it is a battery swap (using modern cells would quadruple its electric range to about 200km), a proper compatible onboard charger, android auto support, and adaptive cruise. then i could keep it until it fell apart.

depending on the day i either want a 2024 Polestar 2 LRSM or a Citroën DS 21 Pallas. i don’t have to drive much so honestly either would work.

also this week i read a review of the new toyota bz4x that mentioned that it uses radiative infrared heaters instead of resistive elements in the seats and i want to test drive it just for that.