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Been thinking I would like to share my tech/crypto/policy experience and skills with climate focused groups, like a 'yell if you want advice' thing.

So, yell if you want advice? Happy to chat via DMs, Signal, XMPP, email, etc. Responses may be choppy.

#earthsupport :
#tech
#crypto
#policy
#solarpunk

Is there any way in Linux to turn RAM banks on/off easily, ie without physically taking them out?

I'm thinking of maxing out this laptop to get a bit better 3D performance, but don't want the power draw when I don't need it.

It would be cool if more people listed what they were currently learning, or wanted to. Too often we think or feel that we need to already be an expert in something, and many people get left behind. Here's my list: https://nb.exmosis.net/_openlife/learning

Some days I think I need to get on and find work, be productive. Other days I get caught up in just reading and learning. Today was the latter, and really enjoys reading this, on measuring AWS power usage: https://medium.com/teads-engineering/estimating-aws-ec2-instances-power-consumption-c9745e347959 (sorry, Medium)

The £10 gamecube looks good, apart from a sticky lid catch. Scrubbed up the two controllers so far and tested the two games. Might either keep it for a local retro gaming scene, or trade it in for a 3DS or Ambernic...

One of my aims in switching fields was to do it openly, including sharing useful links and resources. So here's a really low-tech site for my links and notes on website energy assessment, green tech, etc:
https://nb.exmosis.net/groundlake/index

Interesting question over on Twitter:
"Have any of you worked with or have any recent papers/refs on self-destructing or decaying data? Am struggling to find relevant research that isn't about messaging."

https://twitter.com/joz_freeman/status/1435551959092695048

Today's retro win was an old gamecube and games for £10. They wanted less for it, but I couldn't bring myself to go lower.

Just hope it works...

"This isn't what I expected at all."
https://spritecountry.exmosis.net/trail/dream_machine/4

Morning and tzag all. Making a Saturday morning pixel sigil to wish you all energy.

Feels good to be productive. On the flipside, I've been struggling having so much time away from 'doing stuff'. It's been nice to have a break, but I can definitely only do a week without desperately wanting to do/make something, these days, even if it's something small.

wow, most productive day in ages

5pm Friday, and v0.01 of my new videogame photography site is live: https://spritecountry.exmosis.net/

Rough, but doing 85% of what I want right now.

How would you go about measuring cognitive load?

Anyone know of a way to 'compile' simple file-to-file inclusions, recursively in text docs?

eg a.txt contains '@include b.txt' and b.txt contains '@include c.txt', and they all get smushed together.

Found a pandoc plugin but it's old and broken.

Finally, finally added my local library's catalogue search page as a keyworded bookmark. Now typing 'lib' in the URL bar takes me straight there.