keverets @keverets@librem.one

@tfb the people I know turn them down and make them red to not disrupt night vision. Again, the sample group is mainly people interested in photography and astronomy, as well as pilots.

Whether other people get the benefit as a side effect, I find interesting but don't really care that much.

@tfb @amiloradovsky@functional.cafe @selfcare blue light may not affect drowsiness, but a more red light does not impede night vision as much (hence its frequent use in photography/astronomy).

So, people may be doing the right thing for the wrong reasons.

@Gina hope you keep us updated on effects (both positive & negative) as you go.

After a few days I go through waves of irritability, inability to focus, headaches, etc. Curious to hear what others experience and coping strategies.

@amiloradovsky@functional.cafe I meant on the mining side, but there is increasing local generation (solar, wind, geothermal) that is a counterpoint to your last sentence.

@amiloradovsky@functional.cafe I agree. Better insulation is definitely the first thing homeowners should do. That can only take them so far, though.

I don't expect homeowners to be buying miners for this purpose en mass anytime soon. The prohibitive expense of miners is mainly due to the constant churn, which has its own negative consequences.

Similar to solar panels, though, there is a business model that could make this attractive to a subset of the population to get some adoption.

@amiloradovsky@functional.cafe here's one such reference:
https://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjce-2013-0465#.Xh4AF_5KhQI

@Gargron

6. Find out several instance admins of your followers/followees have previously blocked your new instance for dubious reasons and you can no longer communicate with them, with no indication that the links are broken :(

Getting tired of every "guix package -u" rebuilding icecat. Is there a way to tell it to use the prepackaged one and just grab whatever deps that needs?

This seems like a pretty big waste of CPU cycles & power.

#guix

@amiloradovsky@functional.cafe it would also have the effect of further distributing & democratizing the generation. If every community or electrical utility had a pool to pay the home owners, that has the potential to reduce the current trend toward power consolidation.

@amiloradovsky@functional.cafe what I mean is that by some estimates 1/4 to 1/3 or carbon emissions are from home heating. If there's going to be any hope of reducing that, natural gas & oil need to be phased out. Electrical heating is currently cost prohibitive but necessary to transition to renewable source.

Making a heating source that subsidizes its use by making the electricity do something more useful while being burned could speed this transition. Mining baseboard heaters could do that.

@amiloradovsky@functional.cafe @sir glad there's some food for thought there. Turns out it was a blog post for one ;)

PoS is interesting and will see what else develops.

Right now in the northern hemisphere, a little extra warming that would pay for itself would be kind of appreciated.

@amiloradovsky@functional.cafe though it looks like @sir may have blocked me rather than wait for the reply.

Ah, well.

@amiloradovsky@functional.cafe @sir wrote my thoughts here:

https://write.as/keverets/ethics-of-email-and-cryptocurrencies