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Given the founder’s background, Pila seems well positioned to create a new Virtual Power Plant. I’d welcome an opportunity to participate in a VPP at a smaller scale than a traditional power wall.

Similarly, I hope that Pila can crack localized Peak Shaving, with limited or no cooperation with utilities. I imagine the Pila ecosystem tracking critical dynamic pricing events and take action accordingly. I’m not sure how to get this done with so many North America residential utility companies but I’d love to see them try.

PS, a 100 Watt PV input seems silly. The 1100/1200 watt input via the expansion pack makes much more sense. I can’t help but to think these should be three different components: Pila Base, Pila Expansion, Pila PV

Documentation; narrative & technical.

Systems like SDF have an enormous rich history of implementing technology but the what, how, and why seems lost.

In a corporate environment, this knowledge is often passed down (or later inferred) because it must be but unavailable to the masses.

I couldn’t technically recreate SDF if I wanted to. I can build something functionally similar but the components would be very different.

Telnet Mapscii.me 5 years ago

DNSSEC + SSHFP is a simple, scalable, accessible solution.

Root CAs are just a bit of a bummer; I hope to be a part of the transition away from them.

the rest 2/3 are split between Web and API.

Does this ratio include the Dropbox official mobile apps?

Have LANsync peers been considered as a sources of blocks for mobile clients?

Like most, I’m observing (and participating in) multidimensional access to data. For not, accessing files on my local desktop is still much faster than direct downloads from the Dropbox cloud. It’s a bummer to source files that are on my LAN from the cloud. This may become more problematic as bandwidth billing models move toward pay-per-bit.