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Chinese EV maker BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] Novocirab@feddit.org 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Also, just to indicate the orders of magnitude: The German electiricty grid roughly operates at a power of 200 000 MW on average.

Source (the colorful graph in the middle of the page). (Be mindful that the absolute numbers in the graph are given in "MWh per 15 minutes" (power*time/time), so to get the Watt number (power) at any given time, one has to multiply the number by 4.)

Digital Independence in c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

[–] Novocirab@feddit.org 5 points 23 hours ago

Actually this might make for a fun propaganda game: Set up a website where every person can mark, for each item on the list, whether they made the switch, so that in the end they receive a picture they can share on social media so as to engage in a low-key "competition" with their friends.

Digital Independence in c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

[–] Novocirab@feddit.org 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Worth noting that with KeePassDX, there's a compatible mobile app.

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To boost Bookwyrm, there should be a tool to scrape book data from Amazon (feddit.org)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Novocirab@feddit.org to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Bookwyrm's catalog is currently quite limited. Every user can always add a book, of course, but a lot of people will not find the button or just don't want to do this, and so they'll leave the platform disappointed.

To bolster Bookwyrm's chances against Goodreads etc., there should at least be a browser plugin where we can enter an Amazon link and have Bookwyrm's data entry form be automatically populated with all data available from Amaozon (and, by cross-searching with the ISBN, with the book's OpenLibrary ID etc.). Of course, the user should still check the data before ultimately submitting it. In creating the tool, one should also check if one needs to beware of copyright traps e.g. in the book descriptions.

(Theoretically, one might even go so far as to create a tool that scrapes book data in bulk, but this poses (a) increased legal risks and (b) will most likely lead to lots of duplicated books & authors on Bookwyrm, which for lack of an easy merging tool would be a real pain – the many existing duplicates are already annoying. Edit: And, as others have pointed out, there are a lot of fake & crap books on Amazon, so that indiscriminate scraping would flood Bookwyrm with entries that we really don't want there.)

Is there currently any tool as I described above?

I guess it's the revenge of a stalker, haven't seen any scam yet in c/nicole@feddit.org