Air quality scientist and data engineer

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Cake day: December 27th, 2022

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  • for number 4, I use the tree-style-tabs addon and some custom userchrome css to get that and it works great. I have it set so that when you hover over the 4-pixel wide sliver that I leave visible (could make it transparent, I just appreciate the reminder that it’s there), it pops out to be 260 pixels wide. I wish it wouldn’t need that level of customization, but it does work.






  • Maybe it’s because I’m a person who regularly builds things from gardens to furniture to electronics to software, but I always thought of solar punk societies as worker-centered (farmers, mechanics, bakers, machinists, carpenters, etc.). I looked at solar punk as a tool to broaden the imagination of people who can’t currently imagine a world structured in a way other than what it currently is; to show them a different kind of society that is sustainable.









  • I have a Google account that I created with a throwaway non-gmail email account. I don’t use the email or the Google account for anything else. I then sync my required Google calendars to that (my partner still uses Google, so does my union and my work), and I sync that account to my phone with DAVx5 and to my computers with vdirsyncer (eventually pimsync, when it makes it to nix home-manager) by setting up Google CalDAV API credentials as explained here.

    I have to use a local calendar app on each device to see my Google calendar with my NextCloud calendars, but it’s the best that’s possible, I think.






  • I’m sorry, but using data from US averages (largely representative of single-family-home suburbs) to make sweeping statements about how urban living is bad is simply misleading and borderline irresponsible. Living in a multi-family building, living without a car, getting electricity from renewables, and using electricity for heating and cooking is insanely energy efficient. It takes advantage of density to reduce infrastructure needs, and can benefit from having resources developed / farmed at scale, further reducing energy and emissions.

    If you need ANY infrastructure to connect your “shire” to anywhere else, you need to include that in your analysis. It will have a massive impact. Need a car? You’ve already lost. The road infrastructure per capita alone will put you over the edge, let alone the infrastructure required to build and maintain said car or the emissions from the car itself if not electric.