I can’t imagine anyone that has decent prospects would agree to go back to Tesla after getting canned with those kinds of wild swings in decision making.
It’s crazy how the US gov basically handed him a monopoly on EV charging infrastructure, something Rockefeller could have only dreamed of, and the guy throws it away less than two weeks later in some ketamine fuelled stupor. Then has to backtrack at the cost of reputation, confidence, and sentiment. Truly another great stable genius.
We need to break up the grocery conglomerates. Nowhere else in the world is the food system so heavily monopolized and vertically integrated. Go tell an American about Cara Foods/Recipe Unltd[1] — they won’t believe you!
Right? I’ve been using NextCloud/OwnCloud since ~2015. It’s a very standard LAMP app, nothing fancy going on at all. Give it enough memory and you’ll never have any problems, same as any other web service.
For those of you who don’t know, Linux From Scratch is a project that teaches you how to compile your own custom distro, with everything compiled from source code....
I did it back in 2020 when we all had nothing better to do. Got as far as installing X11 and Openbox, and halfway through setting up the toolchain for Firefox.
It was fun - the kind of fun digging a big hole is. It’s not for everybody, but I sort of enjoyed it.
My wife and I have been spitefully avoiding loblaws for a while now. We get most of our meat & produce from the weekend market, bread from the local bakery, and anything else from the Asian/Indian supermarket or Metro if it can’t be found elsewhere.
The last straw was the prison gates and the receipt checking. Show some dignity.
A huge majority of politicians are landlords. They’re more represented than mining, tech, forestry, oil, agriculture, or any other big industry lobby group.
So basically the “conventional” generation methods use a Big Thing spinning at a specific speed to generate AC power. Solar and wind spit out DC which has to be converted to AC and also synchronize to the rest of the grid.
Hydroelectric, nuclear, coal, methane, all use a big-ass turbine at exactly 60.00 Hz to supply the grid. This is fairly easy to sync, since a change to load or supply will slightly change the physical rotation of the generators. If the load increases, it will draw down the speed of the turbines as it pulls on it harder. When the load is more than the generators can supply, or changes too quickly, it can cause a breaker to flip to prevent damage to the equipment.
With DC generators, the inverter connected to the grid works differently. It has to sense the frequency changes and react based on “external” factors. Right now there aren’t really widespread protocols to signal this type of grid conditions to solar/wind farms, so they have to be a bit more careful and preemptively disconnect to prevent damaging the inverters.
So it’s an entirely solvable problem. It just requires the industry (and ERCOT) to be proactive…
The house I live in has integrated speakers and they are all hooked up to an old AV receiver (Marantz NR1604). Currently it is annoying to play music through the receiver because essentially I have to plug my phone directly to the receiver. I am looking at other options....
A decent solution is to install shairport-sync on the Pi and advertise the service over multicast dns (Apple bonjour protocol). This effectively creates an AirPlay device on the network that’s usable from any iDevice. This had a very high “wife approval factor” when I did something similar at home.
There’s usually a fuse under the dash labelled with “DCM” or “MAYDAY” or “MCU” or something like that. If you pull that fuse out, it’ll cut the power to the transmitter unit (4G/5G module) and kill all of this creepy shit at the source.
It’s unlikely but not impossible. I’ve been using PM with a custom domain for about five years now, and never thought too hard about leaving.
In an ideal world, a company like ProtonMail would be cooperatively owned by the workers and paying users, sort of like a credit union.
Pragmatically, they’ve done fine stewardship of the service for the last decade or so they’ve been around. A big part of it is that their value proposition depends on stability and trust. But it could be better.
They had a chance to re-route the CN & CP lines around the city 50 years ago, but did nothing because it meant the city was on the hook for the environmental remediation. I wouldn’t hold my breath for anything to change.
In my opinion it points to a more dangerous thing, “continuous delivery” software mindset seeping into safety critical systems.
It’s fine, good even, that web developers can push updates to “prod” in minutes. But imagine if some dork could push largely untested control system updates to your car’s ECU… it’s one thing for a website site to get a couple errors, but it’s a very bad thing if it makes your steering wheel stop working.
Unfinished products make more money, and it’s high time a consumer protection law clamped down on this.
Anybody who’s ever exposed any service to the internet knows this as the “background radiation” of the net. My boxes get thousands of random connection attempts per day. The best practice for years has been to use keypairs and/or VPNs. Friends don’t let friends expose RDP to the web.
Going to go against the grain a little here and say, why bother? If you already have a background in Linux, that will get you further in your career much faster. My education was 100% windows/cisco, but I haven’t touched either in the better part of a decade since I’ve been working with mostly “web stuff” where Linux dominates.
Invest the time you would spend slogging through learning Active Directory and grinding MCSE into something useful like Docker, ansible, bash, infra-as-code, etc. It’s more fun, and it’ll make you way more money!!
I guess this is the next chapter in the endless middle-east war. The British & French got exactly what they wanted when they drew up those borders. It’s truly tragic how many people are going to die in the next decade because of religious and nationalistic despots and their egos.
Highlights of the new strategy include plans for the federal government to lease and build on underused public lands to make housing more available and affordable....
Yep. I did both of my tests on manual vehicles, one a VW hatch and the other an old farm truck, simply because it’s what I had available. Under the UK/EU system I guess I would have an extra endorsement, but it makes absolutely no difference in Canada.
Index funds, yes of course. Individual stocks, absolutely not. They have way too much power and control and too little oversight to not abuse their positions of authority.
Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them (arstechnica.com)
I can’t imagine anyone that has decent prospects would agree to go back to Tesla after getting canned with those kinds of wild swings in decision making.
Growing food bank lines are a sign that society has lost its way, a Groceries and Essentials Benefit would help the most vulnerable citizens (www.thestar.com)
Nine million Canadians worry about where their next meal will come from.
welp ... (lemmy.ml)
An Ontario farm town will vote in October on whether to become Canada's largest nuclear dump (www.cbc.ca)
Has anyone here ever tried Linux From Scratch?
For those of you who don’t know, Linux From Scratch is a project that teaches you how to compile your own custom distro, with everything compiled from source code....
Who here's committed to not shop at Loblaws' companies this month (and beyond)?
Including their brandname chains:...
Canada's economy is losing momentum — quickly (financialpost.com)
Canada’s GDP slipped lower in February, suggesting growth is slowing quickly. Read more
Landlord Forced To Raise Rent Due To Thinking Of Bigger Number (www.theonion.com)
Wind, solar issues could cause 'grid failure,' says ERCOT (www.houstonchronicle.com)
Setup ideas with an old AV receiver
The house I live in has integrated speakers and they are all hooked up to an old AV receiver (Marantz NR1604). Currently it is annoying to play music through the receiver because essentially I have to plug my phone directly to the receiver. I am looking at other options....
Charges dropped against all 57 pro-Palestinian demonstrators arrested on UT campus (www.kut.org)
How G.M. Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On (Including Me) (www.nytimes.com)
Dated: 2024-04-23. Added: 2024-04-26.
Why I ditched Gmail for Proton Mail (www.androidpolice.com)
Hashicorp signs agreement to be acquired by IBM
www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-joins-ibm...
Calls for answers after train on fire rolls through downtown London, Ont. (www.cbc.ca)
Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Attackers are pummeling networks around the world with millions of login attempts (arstechnica.com)
Pearson: Airline catering employees vote 96% to strike, wages frozen during pandemic to help company, now management brags about profitability while offering raises as low as 89 cents an hour (teamsters.ca)
How to learn Windows?
Hey all!...
Iran launches dozens of drones toward Israel (www.jpost.com)
Inb4 lemmy supports Iran
Federal government launches new housing strategy (www.cbc.ca)
Highlights of the new strategy include plans for the federal government to lease and build on underused public lands to make housing more available and affordable....
Suspended police officers cost Ontario taxpayers $134M over past decade (www.cbc.ca)
Every Car Still For Sale With A Stickshift In America, Ranked By Number Of Gears (www.theautopian.com)
Should politicians be allowed to trade stocks? | Good Work (18:21) (www.youtube.com)