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For folks working in bioacoustics I think it might be pretty relevant. I'm working on a project with large batches of high fidelity, ultrasonic bioacoustic recordings that need to be in WAV format for species analysis but, at the data sizes involved, FLAC is a good archive format (~60% smaller).

This release will probably be worth a look to speed the archiving/restoring jobs up.

It seems like the serverside resource requirements to help with the privacy preserving aspect (and also to avoid DDoSing the data providers) would be non-trivial for a FOSS project like this.

I was wondering if a torrent-based architecture, where clients share updates with each other would help reduce the load. Any idea if it's been considered or would it just overcomplicate it for the number of clients involved and/or the latency for updates be too much to be of use?

Kagi and Wolfram 2 years ago

If you're using Firefox and have Kagi as your default search engine, then just adding the Firefox search widget seems to do the trick.

I think you're right and actually the extra moisture in the air would also mean that raising the temperature of the house requires more energy input since the specific heat capacity of water is higher than air.

Once the ink is there, it won't go way by itself.

It occurs to me that an interesting low-power extension could be to have the device turn itself off after refreshing the display and then plug it in via a timer switch.

If the dashboard only needed hourly or daily updates and the previously rendered dashboard stays visible, there's no need to leave the Raspberry Pi running all the time.

By the same logic, TLS 1.2 isn't a solution to insecurities in 1.1 because only 98% of users currently support it.

It's perhaps worth accepting there's no silver bullet here but a combination of initiatives like SRI is still worthwhile to help reduce the attack surface for the majority of users?

Worth bearing in mind:

This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79.

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It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."

I'm not sure where you are that gets a meter of snow and ice. Bike lanes are perfectly usable up here around the UK, Belgium, Holland and France all of the year, just a few puddles to dodge in winter.

The majority of risky cycling here comes riding during rush hour in heavy traffic. Cycle lanes are a great investment IMHO.

Re: ksonnet deprecation: I heard from some of the CoreOS team at a Prometheus Meetup recently that ksonnet is not exactly being deprecated.

Heptio (the owners of ksonnet) were bought by VMWare and will no longer maintain it. But it's possible the CoreOS guys will take ownership since they use it heavily in some of their tools.