Posts by cyberdemon 1878 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Jan 2010
Because so many industrial control systems and HMIs run Windows, I would guess.
But also because they may have shut their whole network down to stop any further intrusion
The yeast is still fermenting, but if they can't pump it out into the next vessel in their process then the taste will be ruined. Or maybe it won't, and they will sell it as a 'limited edition' batch. They could call it Duvel Scumbag, with 'extra scummy' foam.
One good reason is not being beholden to Microsoft's release cycle. You can choose to stay on a version that works and install whatever subset of updates at whatever timescale you feel to be prudent. Whereas with Microsoft, you get "Welcome to the all-new Teams! We've made loafs of changes which we think you'll love! If not, well, fuck off" or Google "sorry this product is being sunsetted. We kniw you have nowhere else to go.. Ha ha fuck off"
I've worked at a company that used Linux on everything, all the way up to the CEO's laptop. It worked very well, actually. It was a software/electronics company, with about 40 staff in 2011, so not a big company by any means.
But just because Microsoft has tools for lazy sysadmins and Evil HR, doesn't mean a company actually needs them, if it has a decent sysadmin and actually trusts its own staff.
If open source software doesn't fit your corporate culture, I'd suggest changing the corporate culture, rather than buying Kool-Aid from Microsoft.
Anyway, to play your little anonymous guessing game, I'd hazard a guess that some of the "missing components" you are referring to are:
so.. maybe you have an antique plotter that only works on GPIB with a kernel-mode Windows driver? Or some other unusual peripheral with proprietary Windows NT compatible driver support? Or antique software that relies on ActriveX/COM, or kernel-mode libraries for DRM reasons. I do have some software that works perfectly in Wine except for the USB DRM Dongle. If only there were some standard way of doing that! Well there are, but not enough vendors use them. Lack of third-party vendor support is a self-fulfilling prophecy of doom..
Wow, talk about Godwin's Law for a thread about what was at first an anti-deforestation protest.. Frankly from the pictures, Tesla already had more than enough land to double the size of their factory.. This was at worst "nimby"ism / at best a genuine protest against a megacorp destroying a local forest. But now criminal acts by a few who joined said protest are being shown to damage the cause of the rest. The media and commentators can choose a narrative, but this has little to do with Fascism, yet.
Frankly, I do worry about the progression of polarised politics.. Inequality and Injustice turn to protest. Protest (amplified by thugs on both sides) turns to riot. Riot (again amplified by thugs) turns to insurrection, and insurrection turns to bloody revolution. Demagogues and nutjob trolls can accelerate this decay, but rarely can they prevent it.
Remember that while the first victims in bloody revolution may be rich, the next (the vast majority of victims - e.g. in the case of Pol Pot et al) are the educated-but-not-rich. I.e. every genuine human on this forum..
The world does feel unstable atm, but prematurely declaring "nazis" does nothing to help it..
We don't know yet, my point is only to counter the idea that it was "obviously the protesters wot did it".
False flags do exist, and have done since long before the Trojan war.. He who claims that "anyone who talks about false flags is a self-discrediting conspiracy theorist nutjob" is a nutjob with an axe to grind himself.
I find this extremely worrying.. It would be very easy to launch nuclear weapons from the Moon to hit anywhere on Earth with no possible defence.. It would be the ultimate doomsday weapon. I can't see how we could trust anyone, never mind Russia and China to operate a reactor on the Moon (out of reach of IAEA observers, for sure) without the possibility or probability of it being used as a lunar weapons factory..
> it's not a subsidised rate.
It's subsidised via the litany of wonky markets that the UK has set up. Who decides how much money the wind farms get when we tell them to turn off? If that arbitrary amount of money were lower, would the night rates not be flatter? But if it were lower, then the windfarms would have less incentive to build... It's a subsidy. An indirect one, but a subsidy nonetheless.
The same with the other bonkers markets designed to slosh public money into the trough.. Who pays the CfDs? NGESO does (i.e. we do). Who pays the capacity market? NGESO does. (we do). Who pays Drax's tree-burning subsidies? (we do). Who pays for the carbon credits? (we do). Who pays the curtailment costs? (we do). Ofgem invents all these "markets" and pretends that it's free-market economics in action. It isn't, It's just a less-efficient form of subsidy, and one that's harder to follow the money to find any corruption that may lie behind it.
Also, many tariffs are directly subsidised by other tax/bill payers, and i'd be surprised if you weren't using one with your eco green set-up. Heat Pump tariffs for example where a portion of your HP usage is subtracted from your bill.. Solar feed-in tariffs, v2g tariffs, DFS events, these are all directly susbsidised.
> Imagine if we have EVs rolled out - you'd never need to curtail output at a wind farm again
Except we still would, because we have a massive transmission bottleneck, especially between England and Scotland. How do we get NGESO to build more pylons? Apparently we can't, because the nimby's don't like them, so we will invent another market for companies to build subsea HVDC links instead e.g. the recently approved Eastern Green Link and the 80-odd GW of projects waiting for approval. They are very expensive, unreliable, prone to sabotage, they don't contribute to synchronous stability of the grid (if anything they destabilise it and cause islanding), but who cares, we have outsourced all of that risk to the private sector, right? As usual the economists have ruined everything.
> but sometimes..
In a hot country where most people use Air Conditioning, then LED lights are a massive win. In the UK, we have our heating on for most of the year and turn it off for a few months in summer when it stops raining.. You might have no change in comfort, but that's because you have a thermostat.. When you have no extra heat sources, your heat pump has to run harder to maintain your setpoint, so you don't get a 95% reduction even if you really did have 10x 100W bulbs on all at once and have replaced them with 5W LEDs.. (btw I find that a 5W LED is nowhere near sufficient to replace a 100W bulb, I need at least 15W) and the crest factor on those LEDs is abysmal. You may find that your smart meter charges you more for a 15W LED than a 100W incandescent, because the peak current is higher.
Your heat pump may have a COP of 3, but due to inefficiencies, costs and dodgy deals in the generation, transmission and balancing/settlement systems, your electricity costs 3 times more than gas anyway, (at the times when you need heating, at least). So might as well get a gas boiler and be done with it.
I'm not saying it's nothing, i'm saying it's marginal, and IMHO not worth the extra faff from a heat pump, LEDs, EVs, smart meters etc. They can pry my Bakolite electromechanical watthour-meter from my cold dead hands.
Anyway, always a pleasure arguing with you Mr Robson. Have dome upvotes and an e-pint :)
> Not subsidised, it's just a time of day tariff, as have been available for many decades, because electricity prices fluctuate throughout the day - even going negative.
It bloody well IS subsidised! How much do we have to pay those windfarms to stop running when the wind is blowing? So much that even Ofgem has rolled out of its bed. The only reason the wholesale price occasionally goes negative is so that NG doesn't have to pay so much in curtailment costs! But that is rarely passed on to the consumer, certainly never "decades" ago as you say..
I don't really see what a rectifier has got to do with it.. A bridge rectifier drops 2x 0.7V, plus minimal resistive losses.. And nevertheless a fast charger is still plugged in to 415V AC, so needs its own rectifier anyway ...
LED lightbulbs ... often quoted as an example of how energy efficiency is somehow an unstoppable trend, but it's bollocks. Especially if someone is using electric heating, for example. But even if not, the "waste" heat from their lightbulbs would previously have warmed them up enough to not need to stoke up the coal fire. Now, we have all these wonderfully efficient LEDs which produce no infrared and ironically cause people to turn on their gas-fired central heating because they feel cold.
People who charge at home often pay a heavily subsidised rate 7p/kWh apparently) whereas general domestic utility price is more like 30p/kWh. Wholesale price that chargepoint operators pay is somewhere in the middle, and charging infrastructure is a big expense, paid for by bankers expecting a return on investment.
Then there's the inconvenient fact that fast charging is inefficient. Both chargers and battery (and sometimes even the cable) need active cooling at >50kW rates.
So without a severe rebalancing / reversal of taxpayer/billpayer subsidies, EV charging is always going to be more expensive at a fast charger station.
For a slow charger, the charging is cheap but the parking is expensive.
The second problem with "slow" ~10kW public chargers is that they usually do not have a dedicated HV substation, and rely on existing heavily-strained 415V underground cabling shared with domestic and light commercial premises. It's increasingly common to see overheating transformers and cables, e.g. that recent incident near the Old Bailey
So increasing the numbers beyond 10% minority adoption, never mind "net zero" numbers is not trivial at all
+1 for app-less, bank-card operated chargers. They should all be usable to anyone, without sign-up. Same as unmanned 'pay-at-pump' petrol forecourts.
As for charging speed though, according to Prof David Bailey of Birmingham Business School (who knows all about electrochemistry and electrical power systems, of course) Solid State Batteries are complete game-changer, going to enable "much quicker charging"! Hybrid cars are doomed! (which is sadly a load of bollocks of course) (talking at the end of yesterday's radio 4 you&yours @ ~48mins)
Even if SSBs could charge faster (they can't) the limiting factor is usually electricity supply. So I can't see EVs 'filling up' in minutes at megawatt rates any time soon
Really? A good reason for Windows 11? You owe me a new keyboard!
Running 'apps' designed for full screen attention on the desktop is the last thing I want. That's hardly going to tempt me away from Win2k never mind the silky luxury that is modern KDE.
And not sending my data to all and sundry either!
If you're lucky (e.g. it was only used for cooling) it goes into the atmosphere, where it will fall as rain, most likely Somewhere Else, like into an ocean, so you are depleting your freshwater reserves.
If you're unlucky and the water is used in the fab process and not handled correctly, then it flows (with really nasty pollutants) into your watercourses and reservoirs. If it's handled properly then maybe it is evaporated off in ponds and thus separated from the pollutants.
Upvoted for the tesla-bashing, downvoted because you are now an Audi E-Tron driver.. I don't see a lot of difference between the two. Both drive like knobheads and think they are somehow saving the planet.
You are still in the cult. You can still be bricked from a different borg-cube, you still have a vehicle that cannot be used off-grid and uses just as much copper/neodymium/graphite as a Tesla, and you still have the same depreciation issue in your just-as-flammable battery.
Subsidies are high, but are coming down due to finite resources
Demand is artificially inflated by current subsidies and green idealism, but is leveling off as the number of mugs^W early-adopters saturates. The rest of us are less idealistic, and more concerned about the cost i.e. the difference between price and future resale value (which is plummeting)
So demand has to come down, especially when the subsidies and loss-leaders dry up
Given the Wonka actor said they had been given nonsensical scripts to learn at the last minute and even his contract looked like nonsense, and that the organiser's "apology" was that "multiple suppliers had let us down at the last minute", i wonder if those suppliers had also been given AI-generated nonsense specifications at the last minute too..
I.e. it sounds like some knobhead thought "what if we get AI to design and organise an event all on its own with minimal input from ourselves", and sell tickets at £35 each, not giving a shit about the psychological effect on customers (kids) and contractors..
These would be DC cables so no 'waves' to absorb, just a static electric and magnetic field which are not blocked by water.
MAD sensor is probably exactly what you'd need. But if the E field is enough to confuse fish and crustaceans which apparently it is with underwater HVDC cables, then it could be picked up by a sensor.
I would hope that a 500kV 2kA electric cable would have slightly more mechanical strength than a bundle of optical fibres, and would thus be more resistant to being damaged by a boat dragging its anchor, but I may be wrong.
On the downside, the electromagnetic field from such a cable probably means someone has invented a torpedo / guided depth charge that can home on to it
And already we are completely reliant on electricity interconnectors from Europe. The UK grid would not function today without them.
For yesterday's peak load we were pulling 7GW (18%) from interconnectors, and they provided 25% of the overnight load.
https://gridwatch.co.uk/demand
Adding another 4GW of solar-powered interconnector just further reduces the resilience of the grid from an already perilous point, it's crazy
It's just laziness by government (and some outright corruption). Instead of having an education ministry managing hundreds of small contracts, they prefer to award one enormous one, preferably to whichever company has the most lords, barons, knights, CBEs, MBEs, party donors, personal mates etc. on the board.
Can we go back to filing cabinets and paper yet?
You can buy a lot of filing cabinets and employ a lot of secretaries for 6.5 Billion, and they just might do a better job of not selling private data and government secrets to whoever wants it.
I realise you've been here since 2022, but a handle like Sora2566 is now going to look dodgy. How do you feel about that? Are you a friend of AmanfromMars1? :P
The nice thing about having more than two parties though is that it makes political manipulation slightly harder. But it won't be long before one is eliminated, and you will have American-style two-party "democracy". Eventually I fear, everyone will be in a one-party system like Russia and China, and the world will go to war once more.
Tbh, I mentioned the U-bend, TikTwat and Xitter above, but those particular platforms don't even pretend to claim e2ee. Yet we all know there is an endless stream of very harmful-to-kids (and frankly, adults) shite on those platforms.
So it is pretty clear to me that e2ee is not the underlying problem / root cause of why the modern Internet is dangerous to kids..
But nevertheless it is convenient for said platforms to try and absolve themselves from any responsibility (while continuing to cash in, since they control both ends of it, and so can track users while pretending they can't ...)
and also not an unperson..
Kind of like america's gun laws then.. How is that working out?
The trouble with this is that it is treating the symptoms, not the underlying causes of people doing nefarious things on the internet..
On the one hand, it's a noble aim (because so-called end-to-end encryption allows tech platforms to pretend that they don't have access to data which they actually do, and are therefore can pretend that they are a neutral communications service, when they obviously are not, because they control both ends of it), but on the other hand, it allows state powers and others access to everyone's communications by default.
So I am not sure what to think about this. Preferably I would nuke youtube, facebook, snap, xitter, tiktok et al, but I know that something else would spring up in their place. Pandora's box is already open.
> Most of the second hand market are from early adopters (aka idiots)
So a lot like the second-hand EV market then..
Yeah, you are probably right. I had misread it as if he changed something at the remote end, but apparently all he did was download a video from a webserver. Probably all the videos on their site had a sequential ID, or something.
Still a bit daft of him to edit them before reposting though. If he had simply posted the videos as-found from a publicly accessible URL, then he would have a good defence.
https://wallbox.com/en_uk/wallbox-copper
Looks pretty new for an "end-of-life" 22kW charger ...
Makes me wonder what the "cybersecurity requirements" that they are unable to meet are.. Unsecured bootloader allowing unsigned firmware updates, perhaps? Or no support for encryption in the underlying protocol for their "remote operation"?
Also, I find it quite amusing that listed under "discontinued products", is "Ethics Channel"
https://support.wallbox.com/en/ethics-channel/
I'm not sure you could even attribute "inference" to LLMs. It just fills in the gap with something statistically likely to appear in that gap. It has no logical reasoning, so cannot infer. It has no facts, only probabilities.. The whole point of "Generative AI" is to make up stuff that doesn't exist. You wouldn't be very happy if StableDiffusion gave you the error "sorry but squirrels don't wear sombreros or ride bikes".
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