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  • My UK rates are about £0.26/kWh for the day rate, £0.07/kWh for the night rate which is when things like car charging is done. Excess solar generation makes me £0.15/kWh I send back to the grid although not much of that going on in the winter ;-)

    We also pay a daily standing charge for the grid connection.

  • I've never really gotten on with the trackpads although they do feel nice and tactile. I've now got a dock setup so I can switch my primary monitor across to the steam deck along with the audio and a usb switch for my keyboard and mouse. I'm finally catching up with the RTS and strategy games in my unplayed queue.

  • Writing floating point emulation code?

    I'd pretty much avoided learning about floating point until we decided to refactor the softfloat code in QEMU to support additional formats.

  • While I've been updating open street map I've also taken the time to report right off way violations via my councils web portal. The problem is most of the paths around here are permissive national park paths and there is no canonical catalog available digitally to cross check against. I don't know if they should also be registered as a right of way?

  • Quite. Servers aren't free and someone needs to pay the bills and increasingly distribute the moderation load. I'm happy with my Mastodon and following a few federated accounts on threads and bsky. But I'm not going to someone they are a bad person for choosing something that is familiar yet a little different while escaping x/itter.

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  • But little by little, they started asking Jay and the team for moderation tools, and to kick people off. And unfortunately they followed through with it.

    This bit I don't get. Even on Lemmy and Mastodon we need moderation tools and arguably the current provisions aren't fit for purpose. It's not something that can just be pushed to the individual users and most hobbyists who want to spin up public servers don't want to be spending their time wading through reports and CSAM. How to provide a safe environment for users is still an unsolved problem in the fediverse so it's no wonder people drift to corporate controlled servers which say least nominally have the resources to do something about it.

  • Yes and no. A lot of the projects I work on the majority of the engineers are funded by companies which have very real commercial drivers to do so. However the fact the code itself is free (as in freedom) means that everyone benefits from the commons and as a result interesting contributions come up which aren't on the commercial roadmap. Look at git, a source control system Linus built because he needed something to maintain Linux in and he didn't like any of the alternatives. It solved his itch but is now the basis for a large industry of code forges with git at their heart.

    While we have roadmaps for features we want they still don't get merged until they are ready and acceptable to the upstream which makes for much more sustainable projects in the long run.

    Interestingly while we have had academic contributions there are a lot more research projects that use the public code as a base but the work is never upstreamed because the focus is on getting the paper/thesis done. Code can work and prove the thing they investigating but still need significant effort to get it merged.

  • It's one of the reasons I enjoy working on open source. Sure the companies that pay the bills for that maintenance might not be the ones you would work for directly but I satisfy myself that we are improving a commons that everyone can take advantage of.