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BrightCandle

@ BrightCandle @lemmy.world

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  • Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now

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  • Drax is an ongoing horrible scandal. The theory was that you could burn replaceable trees and wood waste and replant it and then at the very least it was a cycle, all be it a cycle that had a massive lag of many years before the CO2 was once again captured by new tree growth and the old coal power stations could continue on with this new fuel. In practice its repeatedly been caught cutting down ancient trees that wont be replaced from Canada and the USA. It should not be receiving green subsides its just accelerating the climate crisis and despite its relatively low energy output its the biggest contribution to CO2e production in the UK power system because burning wood is so inefficient.

    The iamkate and gridwatch sites (https://grid.iamkate.com/ and https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/) don't seem to know quite how to classify it with the iamkate putting it into blue alongside nuclear and templar just noting in its description a link to the scandal but also including "bio" in its renewable graphs.

  • Japan to ban reselling of rice as cheap stockpiles hit shelves

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  • That gets in the way of corporations making money out of "normal market movements". Its just supply and demand when companies do it, the moment the working class tries to do the same they find themselves getting punished. If its illegal its going to need to be illegal for companies too and this means governments have to start doing their job again and reigning in corporate criminality.

  • Must fight temptation to buy an overpriced raspberry pi

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  • It's low power that is still making arm small computers popular. It's impossible to get a pc down into the 2-5 Watt power consumption range and over time it's the electrical costs that add up. I would suggest the RPI5 is the thing to get because it's expensive for what it is and more performance is available from other options supported by armbian.

  • NAS Power Consumption

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  • I use a 5600g on b450 ITX board and 4x 8GB Seagate drives and see about 35W idle and about 40W average. It used to be 45W because I was forced to use a GPU in addition to a 3600 to boot (even though its headless, just a bad bios setup that I can't fix) and getting a CPU with graphics dropped my idle consumption quite a bit. I suspect the extra wattage for your machine is probably the bigger motherboard and the less efficient CPU.

    It is possible to get the machine part down into single digits wattage and then about 5W a drive is the floor without spinning them down, so the minimum you could likely see with a much less powerful CPU is about 30-35W.

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    I made a terminal-based hacker simulation game for CLI nerds. It's free. Feedback?

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  • The real value of uplink was that it was a game about hacking, it wasn't trying to be realistic it had artificial tension added as well as simplified concepts but added gameplay around that. Almost all of the modern hacking games are much more realistic and capable but also miss what made Uplink the iconic game which is gameplay.

    I would love a spiritual successor to Uplink, I would definitely play that, but so far all the hacking games I have seen since have fallen into the trap of realism and programming.

  • Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon

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  • There is no end to the greed of those with millions and especially billions and they aren't content to just keep running a profitable business, they have to get all the money.

    This is just the history of humanity and finances forever, the one saving grace in all this is every big business gets complacent in its money making and seeks ever increasing profit (and becomes management heavy) until a young upstart finds a way to do it a lot better and cheaper and disrupts the market. Google has become the big lumbering unable to change organisation seeking maximum profit now, its become IBM.

  • FreshRSS weirdness

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  • Make sure none of the exceptions are ticked and the Minimum number of articles to keep per feed is also 25 or below. Then its up to the cron when that runs so you might have to manually purge it and optimise the database to see what it will actually keep.

    I can't say I have ever worried about it, been running FreshRSS for years and it seems to keep its database size in check fairly well and the defaults have worked fine for me and it rarely gets above 100MB. So I know it "loosely" works in that old articles are absolutely getting purged in time but have no idea how strictly it follows these rules.

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  • the lack of control group undergoing the same monitoring means there is a high chance of bias.

    I would also want to see secondary measures such as the amount of queries people did and what they actually used it for. Might be worth tracking over time to see if there is an increase or decrease in use. These sort of secondary measures give some confidence that it is useful and its continuing to be so and its not just people behave differently when watched.

  • Microsoft promises it is 'ending USB-C port confusion' with updated Windows 11 certified program

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  • This only goes part way to solving the problem. Its good that all the ports are required to support display and power as well as connectivity, but how many screens at what resolutions and is every port capable of powering the laptop fully? These things matter in the real world. What infuriates me most is that so many manufacturers don't actually list precisely what a port is capable of, making you guess if a displayport dongle dependent on DP pass through will work or not on the port that is remaining. So many have issues where you can't actually run the laptop at full power from a thunderbolt dock into their thunderbolt port because they don't support being fully powered that way.

    Then there is the enormous gulf in performance between USB 3.1, 2x2 and USB 4.

    The USB standards board made this mess and made too much of the ports features optional and now its a giant mess. We can start by requiring not that the ports meet a minimum requirement, but that they fully and completely specify what the actual standards are that the ports support in the specifications and require they use the existing logos next to the ports.

  • 82% of Israelis Support Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza, Poll Finds

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  • The main thing we learned from the Germans was almost any onecould do unspeakable things with enough propaganda and authority pressure. Most countries did not learn and change enough to stop such an event from occurring again, they assumed it was just a fault in German culture and most of the attempt to pursue and convict Nazis ceased with most getting away with their crimes against humanity. We determined no way to deprogram Nazism.

    Maybe this spin of Nazism across the globe and the horrors it is unleashing will put in place the right reaction when popularism starts lying to the public to gain votes and stop it before it becomes a movement.

  • UK suspends free trade talks with Israel and announces sanctions over West Bank settlers

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  • He made that pretty clear in the run up to the election really, commit to nothing and do nothing just deliver soundbites. All he ever cared about was being in government, he had no reason to be doing it other than the power itself.

  • UK suspends free trade talks with Israel and announces sanctions over West Bank settlers

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  • They finally realise that supporting a genocide might land them in the hague for crimes against humanity. It might, it certainly should but I fear that today the rich and powerful are beyond the reach of the law.

  • Stack Overflow seeks rebrand as traffic continues to plummet – which is bad news for developers

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  • Even if your in and have a history of good questions and responses it is still ridiculously hard to get a question accepted. Stackoverflow is dying due to its own choices and its driven many people away from it. They caused their own peak in 2014 and its amazing it took this long to decline.

  • Shredding my SSDs (NVMe) under linux?

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  • Everyone has given Linux answers, its also worth knowing quite a lot of UEFI's contain the ability to secure erase as well. There are a number of USB bootable disk management tools that can do secure erase as well.

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  • That was the point, politicians all over the EU have designed the system to do exactly that. The entire dither and delay tactics and watering down of measures, laws and scrutiny were all in the pursuit of extraction of maximum money from the governments into private hands in the name of investments and the politicians took their bribes to make it happen.

  • Two-thirds of global heating caused by richest 10%, study suggests

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  • No most people in the developed nations earn less than this. It's heavily biased towards Americans and high earners, the typical just above the minimum wage earner isn't in this group.

  • Judge Rules Apple Top Executive Alex Roman Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt Referral

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  • After he acquired it all and spent decades doing illegal stuff for which Microsoft received extensive anti trust fines. Lets not kid ourselves here is trying to redeem himself for his prior billionaire behaviour and it often comes off more as "greenwashing" than actually helping people.

  • Judge Rules Apple Top Executive Alex Roman Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt Referral

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  • Wealth based fines would be extremely based. Most people would pay nothing and the wealthy would be paying a heck of a lot more. Which is why it will never happen its all about punishing the workers.

  • Solar panels to be fitted on all new-build homes in England by 2027

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  • https://grid.iamkate.com/ and https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/. https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/72h/hourly is also of interest as it shows some comparison across countries on CO2e intensity across nations.

    You can't check historical granular data but you can look at that granularity for the past 24 hours. If you look at this over many years on many different days you get an impression of the max and minimums of demand and production of the various types as I do now. Wish they did some more stats breakdown however so this was clearer from someone coming new to the site without experience of the data.