So Google is investing an additional €1 billion into their $3.5B Hamina, Finland data center. The facility will use so much electricity that after the investment, the whole city of Hamina can be heated by the waste heat alone.
It’s not a surprise that the government is hailing this as a huge win and “primarily a significant climate action”. Consuming all those megawatts is significant alright, but maybe not in the way the government talking points imply…
"...the Big Tech capacity reservations prevent development projects by local municipalities, industries, and households to come to fruition, and practically eliminate competitors ... and putting Big Tech companies in a position of informal monopolies over the available capacities in a grid."
"...scale of grid capacity reservations has created instabilities in the power grid, the prospect of power cuts for households and the prioritisation for vital service provision in case of shortage of capacity or grid overload."
The new Minisforum S100 compute stick has 2.5G ethernet with PoE(!), an Intel N100 processor, 8GB RAM and a 256GB SSD for €219, i.e. less than similarly kitted out Raspberry Pi 5. https://store.minisforum.de/en/products/minisforum-s100
Finally crunched the numbers on the Helsinki-Stockholm-Hamburg-Barcelona-Helsinki trip. 5678 km, 1380 kWh, 24.3 kWh / 100 km. Not great efficiency-wise, but 1) drove pretty fast most of the way and 2) have the stupid 20” energy hog wheels
Is there an explanation for why LEGO keeps sprinkling trademark symbols absolutely Everywhere™️? Surely that’s not legally required to protect something like Star Wars IP
So I just recovered 1) configs 2) feature license keys 3) OpenSSH private keys and 4) MD5 hashed user account passwords from a zeroized Juniper switch.
Probably good to know that zeroize doesn't actually, you know, zeroize.
Had my eardrum rupture today, bloody mess. I've clearly had a sheltered life since that was the most pain I've ever experienced. Went to urgent care (“come back tomorrow" cost 338€), the very nice super good hotel agreed to extend my stay for two more nights even though they're sold out. So I'm hanging in there.
It’s the start of my European tour! On a ferry from Helsinki to Stockholm now. Tomorrow, it’s an MX204 install in Stockholm, then off to Hamburg to set up a new PoP. The final destination is our new edge location in Barcelona. I think I’m going to see a LOT of chargers over the next week.
There’s a combo hot take brewing in my head about the #xz and #redis debacles.
It goes something like:
When the shit hits the fan and part of the reason appears to be an overworked and underpaid maintainer, lots of people come out of the woodwork to demand more respect and money for them.
But when a maintainer recognizes that they’re in an unsustainable situation and dares to make a proactive change, well FUCK THAT GUY. WHO THE HELL DOES HE THINK HE IS?
@harald@osma MikroTik is, to their credit, very good about utilizing the space. It’s a strategy tax: because they have decided to continue shipping 16MB devices, they also have implement most of the features from scratch because the canonical open source solutions simply wouldn’t fit (bird/frr, bind/unbound, openssh, samba etc)
The Steam Mac app: still an Intel binary in 2024. But I'm sure they'll keep on top of all platform developments now that they get to make an iOS app store
I’d imagine #Fastly NOC to be best equipped to look into this but I'm about 99% certain I would get told off for writing them rather than @github support, so not expecting this to get resolved any time soon
@karppinen You can contact support@fastly.com, they are amazing and should be able to help you if you provide the technical details. If they do not answer, please send me a ticket number and I will see if I can poke someone.