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History and Future of the Compressed Air Economy

Historical compressed air systems hold the key to the design of a low-tech, low-cost, robust, sustainable and relatively energy efficient energy storage medium.

LOW←TECH MAGAZINE

billiam

Feb 4

pafurijaz Jan 31

Todd C. Miller has been maintaining the #sudo codebase for over 30 years. This is exactly one of those cases where an entire critical infrastructure is held together by the work of a single volunteer who apparently can’t find anyone willing to sponsor him for some financial support. #opensource #linux #foss #GNU

i hope this email finds you well

billiam

Oct 26

pretty cool. People are just out there making things.

> you can't have beautiful buildings because...
> YOU JUST CAN'T, OKAY!
https://nitter.poast.org/CultureExploreX/status/1981788066332205412#m

billiam

Oct 7

if this was done in the west it would be used to promote people who do interpretive dance and who make postmodern statues of dildos

billiam

Oct 6

flacs Mar 18, 2025

welcome to 2025 where mainboards have 7 different kinds of USB ports

billiam

Aug 17, 2025

Italians and the Irish were never subjected to miscegenation laws (i.e. they were considered White)

billiam

Aug 10, 2025

@augustus @sim @lain Do any of you know a good, relatively short history of the Roman Empire?
Alternately the same for the British Isles or Ancient Greece

good = {
concise,
not too dry,
not leftist,
probably written 50+ years ago
}

billiam

Jun 7, 2025

@augustus @sim Good series of blog posts. Two guys travel from Europe to North Korea via train.

The seeming lack of people in everyday life there is contrasted greatly against the following leg of their trip in China (although perhaps they took fewer photos of crowds in NK for safety reasons).
http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/2008/04/how-everything-began.html

How everything began....

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