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Cake day: February 5th, 2025

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  • Survival situation, you can easily get away with 1800 kcal/day. 4 people, 3 days = 21600 kcal.

    Rice, mostly starch, around 3600 kcal / kg. So 6 kg for three days. That’s 12 western or 0.6 Asian packs. Its like half a cement bag in volume.

    Or you can get bulk ramen. A box of ramen has around the same size as that rice above, its 30x360 = 10800 kcal. So needs a bit more space but you can eat it raw!

    Most bang for the weight/volume is fat though! Fat stores 7 kcal/g, protein and carbs just 4. And the tastiest way is nuts! So peanut butter for example. Or Snickers. You can also put peanut butter on raw ramen. Get a bag of chips too, you can use them as fire starters!

    Don’t forget other stuff though:

    • Crank operated radio
    • Combat first aid kit, ideally with Israeli bandages and a tourniquet
    • Power bank with foldable solar panel (+ all the cables you need)
    • Water filter
    • Magnesia fire starter
    • Lighters (plural!)
    • Multitool
    • Compass
    • Cash
    • Paper map of the surroundings
    • Head lamp
    • Bunch of paracord
    • Couple needles




  • It’s really funny to me how so many people are going surprised pikachu over China tech not being crap.

    They started with basic manufacturing until no one could beat them, stole everything they could to close the tech gap. But behind that, invested massively into education to the point that they are producing more engineers than the rest of the world combined. They may not be super creative but they are competent enough. Also if one in a million is a genius the “West” has 800 but China has 1500. So yes, of course now their domestic designs will catch up or surpass western ones.

    Basically China spent the last 50 years systematically going through the techtree and minmaxing their spies, while the west just kind of aimlessly clicked around.








  • I’m not sure if you’ve ever had a public project, but for most people, be it YouTube, twitch, github, whatever, its not so easy. Negative comments grate on you, and, over time, can really take a toll.

    William Osman interviewed a bunch or creators about this: https://youtu.be/DVCpKfedfok

    Its not as easy as to call people out. Some people go great lengths out of spite, doxx you, send you death threats… Is it really worth it? Not that a “fuck off” will work anyway.

    You say people will join you but they really don’t. The reality is there are a ton of crucial open source projects being run by one person on the edge of burnout. See curl, xy, etc.

    Money absolutely would help and I wish the EU would put additional funding into this.


  • I would put truenas on the NAS, also put a VM on truenas with 16-24G of RAM.

    Create a kubernetes or docker swarm cluster with server 1 and the nas vm and just have everything as containers. This way you just have one resource pool, and the containers will be started wherever there are enough resources available. The containers will mount NFS shares from truenas which truenas will create automatically as ZFS datasets. ZFS supports snapshots.