BrightCandle

@BrightCandle@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  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 (grid.iamkate.com and 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS Power Consumption⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I made a terminal-based hacker simulation game for CLI nerds. It's free. Feedback?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FreshRSS weirdness⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A UK government trial with 20K+ civil servants using Microsoft's Copilot AI for three months found a 26 minute average daily time saving, or two weeks per year⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow seeks rebrand as traffic continues to plummet – which is bad news for developers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After raising over $800 million from its community, Star Citizen's developer delays the release of a new ship upgrade as players baulk at having to pay for it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its been so long I can’t see ever receiving the game I paid for on kickstarter. We seem so far away from having that game with single player and friend group hosted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The console market ever since the PS3 and xbox 360 has been a leech on the PC platform market. They turn up every X years apart to buy a cheap GPU and CPU on a chip and demand rock bottom prices for volume and pay for none of the research and development in the intervening years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge Rules Apple Senior Executive Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt Referral⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge Rules Apple Senior Executive Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt Referral⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosting static site behind two routers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The DMZ for the ISPs router forward to the second router, then everything that hits your outside IP will be forwarded to router 2. Then on Router 2 you open the ports for your service and forward to the internal machine. That should all work fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What CI/CD tools are you guys using? I have Forgejo but I need a simple way of running automation.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Its quite complicated to setup as well, just went through the instructions and its a long way from just add to docker and run unfortunately. Would be nice to be able to just get a runner in the same or different docker and it just works easily without a lot of manual setup in Linux of directories and users and pipes etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is Evolving — And Changing Our Understanding Of Intelligence.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So many of the GPUs have been crippled for the purposes of gaming and there is zero incentive for Nvidia to produce drivers for those cards to do anything else. Alas they will just end up in landfill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infrastructure construction in Britain is defective. The most budget UK tramway is more expensive than the most costly french tramway⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect it’s just corruption. As we have seen government works by giving their friends the work at crazy markups with no requirement anything be delivered. The end result is lots of people getting rich off government contracts and low quality infrastructure at best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The mod packs just keep coming and there has been a number of interesting packs since 1.20 was released.

  Its got a billion accounts its the most played game in the world ever so its surprising to find it so far down this list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seagate's fraudulent hard drives scandal deepens as clues point at Chinese Chia mining farms⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is the information asymmetry, there is always another person for a fraudulent company to exploit due to a dysfunctionally expensive court system. Its why we need market level regulations and public institutions that recover peoples money and fine the organisations for their breaches. This sort of thing works a lot better in the EU than in the US due to the sales laws, the ability to return within 2 weeks, default warranty on goods out to 12 months and expectations of goods to be as advertised forced onto the retailers. They work, they need more enforcement from regulatory bodies but retailers do follow them for the most part and quickly change tune when you go to take legal action when they don’t because courts know these laws inside and out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK would need forest ‘twice size of London’ to offset new airport expansion.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The level of production of CO2 is so vast that planting trees is not going to do anything meaningful. We need to sharply and rapidly stop producing CO2 immediately and work on viable scalable CO2 removal and storage methods with urgency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You're Nervous About the Movie⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The two trailers put out on the Star Trek Youtube channel definitely didn’t calm my concerns about this movie!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The UK wastes most of its graduate talent, much of it ends up in jobs other than what the degree is directly in. Despite quite a lot of great Computer Science and Engineering universities most of the reasonable paid jobs have historically been in finance. As inequality gets worse and worse the Uk is becoming a county of serfs and lords once again with a poor populace and very rich owners. Its what people keep voting for so its what they want but it confuses me everytime people vote to be lorded over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keir Starmer says the UK can decarbonise without disruption – that’s neither true nor helpful⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Food is the big one that clearly has to change, its not possible to reduce the CO2 impact of meat and that will have to change. Its also going to be required to change the gas boiler for a heat pump or electrical heating, cars to be replaced by Electrical Vehicles and to stop using airplanes. The electrical side which is making progress is only about a third of the CO2 production and all the other things also need addressing.

  What a lot of personal CO2 calculators currently do is conflate primary CO2 production (your burnt the fuel in your device) and secondary (you bought electricity from a company) but things like meat and airplanes we know there isn’t a technical solution to reducing CO2. The same is not true for transit miles and other goods which often get included but which could largely be made with electricity given the transition that must occur.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any hope of ‘getting Britain working again’ must not demonise people on welfare⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The war on the disabled that Labour is committed to will bring further shame to a country already getting called out for crimes against humanity against disabled people in the UK. Labour seems to be worse than the Conservatives in its treatment of the most vulnerable in our society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government pledges nearly £22bn for carbon capture projects⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The laws of physics mean that no matter what we do with carbon capture it is never going to be cheaper and less energy to emit it and then capture it again. This is a foolish endeavour the focus should be on the green transition with Wind, Solar and Storage combined with ensuring infrastructure is there for Electric Vehicle transition. This is the sort of investment the fossil fuel wants governments to make that will have no impact and allow them to continue to emit.