Notices by Christian Horn (globalc@chaos.social), page 5

#ethereum plans to switch from proof-of-work to
proof-of-stake, curious how this will work out.
In the light if climate crisis, participating in proof-of-work is just out of question, against all sanity.
(thanks for the hint at the docs, @codewiz )
https://ethereum.org/en/upgrades/merge/

@codewiz Wow, 4 types of switch on offer.. was 2 or 3 when I ordered.

@codewiz @gowin @penguin42
I was at a German/Japanese regulars table yesterday hinted at this, quite some infos for vegans living in Japan. Must be harder than in USA or Germany, considering the low number of vegans.
https://isitveganjapan.com/

@codewiz I think these will be fine. We had a Japanese in Munich who produced and sold Miso, and I introduced it to my family together with the long/thick cucumbers, not the thin ones available here in Japan.

@codewiz Good luck, it's very salty :)
Making miso soup is the other idea.

@codewiz What will you do with that miso?
My only idea would be to eat it with cucumber.

@codewiz Ah, I thought that was in America and 'the next best ice' you would get there.
Did not imagine the ice chopping being the difficult part.

@codewiz The heavy stuff is just small ice pieces, I guess you can create that everywhere? Then it's just the question of ordering the syrup to put ontop? Would be surprised if that is not sold in or shippable to America.

@Los7key Enough to still be here ;)
More details about the pros and cons for me are here: https://fluxcoil.net/files/2016_japan_move/japan.html

The hot days in Japan continue.. as it's also not cooling down much in the night, even sleeping with open window did no longer work for me - I buckled down and use the aircon now at night. I hate that, it's like being tied to machines in a hospital and not surviving without these. What if there is a power outage?
At least my power plan is water based, so not coal or nuclear.

@codewiz @benoit
3 weeks in Germany just finished for me, meeting up with parents and some folks - PCR test result is 'negative', so seems like I was lucky and can enter the plane to Japan today.
I did not install the German app. These apps anyway use the same backend on the phones, the governments should have joined effort and also put out a single app usable over all the countries.

@stiefkind
An OLPC fellow lived in Tokyo for quite some time and shared fun things about the project.

Did you read the book and have an opinion, @codewiz ?
I would also understand if that chapter is closed for you and not worth revisiting in reading a book, thou ;)

First time in Germany, after 2.5 years. Some observations:
- wow, people here really hate masks.. plopping them off as soon as they leave the train where wearing mask is enforced
- So many cars.. but at least also more bikes than some years ago.
- Much more solar cells than we have in Japan
- The 9euro ticket is in areas with good trains like Munich really a game changer. Germany really should keep this, instead of subsidizing petrol
- I missed beer gardens :)

IBM ThinkBoy
https://twitter.com/NanoRaptor/status/1543191722687348738

The "Return to Monkey Island" trailer is out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3mxq44HhnU

@tagomago
Right, but this building style here of taking living houses down after 30 years would also need to be considered, better insulation needs also more resources, every time a house is build, even with the shorter utilization time here.
The other day, a specialist tried to convince me they are not so bad with recycling things from buildings, but I have my doubts and would like to see numbers.
@benoit

@benoit Indeed, much potential there. In the recent time of blackout danger, they also reported how super markets etc. did that. They showed the guys running these really considering all options.
Putting glass doors in front of freezers in super market would help already.
But many office like also ours need to do their share: our aircon is set to 24deg, and that should be set higher now in summer.

Tokyo: government offices shutting off lights between 4-5pm
Germany: gets not even a speed limit for cars done..
#energysaving
https://twitter.com/SStapczynski/status/1541702485924265984

@codewiz Regarding QUIC for this, I agree it can help to switch to other underlying media/change IP without the application level noticing. Still the applications need to learn QUIC for that, and I also think combining throughput of multiple underlying media is not done, MPTCP can do that.
This is an awesome description of the QUIC concepts: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/08/http3-core-concepts-part1/

Ever wondered if there was some tech which could help you move your laptop move from ethernet connection to wireless without applications noticing?
MPTCP was designed for that, I was having a look how it works, and how usable it is for such purposes.
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/using-multipath-tcp-better-survive-outages-and-increase-bandwidth