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- Comment on Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14% 23 hours ago:
Not sure if that’s true though
It’s an aspect, but not the whole Picture. Germans are relatively tech savvy on the one hand, but on the other hand, we also don’t like change. A consequence of combining both things is that we calculate risk different. With all the issues surrounding Nuclear Fission and how much safeguarding a potential “BDBE” (Super-GAU in German or Beyond-design-basis events, like Fukushima and Chornobyl) needs, they also came pretty damn expensive to run. The fact of the matter is, German Power Companies never made money with Nuclear Fission, most of them broke even and covered the running costs, but actual profits weren’t that great. Russia - with help of the SPD - made Gas so cheap, it simply made no sense to invest in Nuclear Fission reactors…even with high subsidies. With most of them being over 25-30 years old and most of them needing general overhauls due to new safety regulations and general technology improvements, the Power Companies also pushed the Lobby behind the scenes to either change regulation or phase out Nuclear Fission. The Krümmel NPP also had a serious incident in 2009 that confirmed suspicions of many Germans, that the Power Companies cut corners to make profits. It resulted in a partial meltdown, after a very serious Fire in 2007. Also, Geesthacht - the community where the NPP was located - has had a significantly higher rate of leukaemia and chromosome defects. Then came Fukushima and that was the final nail in the coffin, as popular opinion shifted. Even before actually deciding on the phase out of NPP, Krümmel was shut down in 2011 for good.
Krümmel wasn’t the only reactor that has had issues. Then there’s been issues with finding a suitable waste repository - turns out, encasing nuclear waste in concrete in old mine shafts is a very bad idea in most of Germany, as deep groundwater seeps in through the layers and wreaks havoc with a supposed “final and safe” resting place. And as i mentioned, most of Germans were (it has changed a bit in the last 10-25 years, sadly) relatively tech savvy and most, if not all Germans understood the basic principles of nuclear fission, as well as the dangers (some maybe blown out of proportion), because they were taught in even “Hauptschule” (Lower Secondary Education) Physics, Chemical and Biology. Considering Germany is relatively densely populated, many, many people would have been directly affected by a BDBE/Super-GAU. Either through non usable ground water, loosing their livelihood, jobs or actually losing their lives gradually.
Granted, the way the phase out was done has been a total disaster or utter shitshow and in my personal opinion, it should have been done gradually, because a few NPPs still had runtimes for over 15 years. But yeah - general anti-fission stance, cheap Gas from Russia with the help/enablement of the SPD, negligence from the operators/loosing confidence in the operators to actually run the plants safely and different risk evaluation in the German populace all played their part. Maybe also a bit of irrational fear as well, due to the history and being right in the middle of two seemingly mad Nuclear Powers.
In any case, it isn’t as cut and dry as some people think it is - IMHO. But despite what i said about letting the runtime on the plants run it’s course, I’m against Nuclear Fission (or rather Boiling Water / Pressure Water Reactors) as well. Now if we get Molten Salt Reactors working properly and maybe Transmutation as well, things are different…
- Comment on Solution for convenient document scanning? 4 weeks ago:
Didn’t know that exists, that’s pretty neat! However, not really what i’m looking for in this case, because i don’t want to use a device other than the printer itself. With scan to folder, you just set the MFP to scan something to an FTP, SMB or whatever folder. The ET-4850 unfortunately doesn’t support that, so i’m looking for an alternative…i could just run a Windows VM on my Proxmox and let that do the “Scan-To” stuff, but that’s pretty resource intensive… But the more i look in to it, it seems there is no solution (except a Windows VM) for this, as SANE only “speaks to the MFP” and the MFP can’t talk to SANE via WSD…
- Comment on Solution for convenient document scanning? 4 weeks ago:
That’s none encrypted and i don’t really want to push some sensitive invoice data unencrypted to somewhere else…
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- Comment on Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe 1 month ago:
It’s not only a political struggle. Working conditions are tremendously better in Europe, Environmental Protection as well. Manufacturing photovoltaics takes a huge pile of chemicals that need to be handled properly to not cause any harm to the environment - China neither cares nor has any other incentives to actually do this properly, which is exactly why they are so cheap. Theres also the issue of poor quality, that if you’re manufacturing something that can have a significant impact on the environment, it should “count” and not be waste 10 years later.
Destroying the environment in one part of the world to “save” a different one due to climate change is just ridiculously stupid and simple minded.
- Comment on AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs 3 months ago:
I already did… There’s some subscription stuff where you can read pretty much all available magazines and papers, it’s been a long time since I’ve been reading that much “news” and reports
- Comment on Headlamp tech that doesn’t blind oncoming drivers—where is it? 3 months ago:
Nah. The issue is way more complex than that and begins in proper training for drivers and ends in some proper road worthy inspections of vehicles so that they at least have their lights correctly aligned and aimed.
There are no such issues in Europe. Sure, you get the occasional double blink from matrix led system, but I’d take those systems any day of the week over some who just forgot to turn off their high beams or has their lights aimed incorrectly
- Comment on Headlamp tech that doesn’t blind oncoming drivers—where is it? 3 months ago:
That would need proper training - meaning a drivers license that’s worth the plastic it occupies. Which it isn’t. Compared to the EU, a north American driver’s license is like letting a paper plane flyer in an A380 and saying “There’s the light switch, there’s the Autopilot, go fly”.
- Comment on Nissan develops paint that keeps cars cool in summer heat 4 months ago:
So… You want to turn off the sun? This has nothing to do with climate change, the sun hasn’t changed intensity in a few 100 years, so sun makes things warm
- Comment on Security Firm Discovers Remote Worker Is Really a North Korean Hacker 5 months ago:
As someone managing KnowBe4 for our Clients, I’d actually let you pass with it… ;D
- Comment on Russia launches "social rating" platform to determine a person’s comparative “social status” 5 months ago:
I’ve been, too. Even though I’m neither in the US, nor a US citizen… It’s scary right now…
- Comment on I hate Clouds - a personal perspective on why I think Clouds suck 5 months ago:
Why on another continent? Except maybe VDI, some direct calls to some LLM or some insane scales, there’s nothing really that needs those round trip times.
- Comment on I hate Clouds - a personal perspective on why I think Clouds suck 5 months ago:
I would say it’s a very bad metric though in this context.
Full-ACK.
- Comment on Russia launches "social rating" platform to determine a person’s comparative “social status” 5 months ago:
Luckily “the West” isn’t just the U.S. - it’s also France, the U.K., Mexico and even Australia…
- Comment on I hate Clouds - a personal perspective on why I think Clouds suck 5 months ago:
the storage is built so it doesn’t break so easily. I trust AWS engineers more than Mike, no matter how cool Mike is to hang out with. Additionally, if the storage breaks while Mike is on vacation we’re screwed, with the cloud you get a whole team 24/7 on it.
That’s easily mitigated just following established standards. Redundancy is cheaper than anything else in the aftermath and documentation can be done easy with automation.
you can prevent data loss with backups or multi-region setups with a few clicks/terraform lines. Try telling the PO that you need to rent datacenter space in Helsinki and Singapore for redundancy…
You don’t, you rent rack space in a location far enough away but close enough to get the data in a few hours.
It’s neither superior, easier or less risky, it’s just a shift in responsibility. And in most cases, it’s so expensive that a second or third on site engineer is payed for.
- Comment on Russia launches "social rating" platform to determine a person’s comparative “social status” 5 months ago:
The west does not have a monopoly on innovation.
Nope - but it does look like we have the “monopoly” of being able to call out bullshit openly and not fear falling out of a window. Or being stabbed.
- Comment on Anyone running Zoraxy v3, the reverse proxy for networking noobs? 8 months ago:
Yes, I did. But I couldn’t get my Homeassistant to work routing through it, so I switched back to Proxy Manager…
- Comment on Microsoft wants to hide the 'Sign out' button in Windows 11 behind a Microsoft 365 ad 8 months ago:
I finally switched my gaming rig two weeks ago. Been great so far, except VR and I’ll admit, the Xbox Game Pass missing…I wish gog or someone would come up with something like it, because there have been a lot of games I started and didn’t finish because they just haven’t been my cup of tea…
Now if Autodesk would get their shit together as well, things could be happening at work as well.
- Comment on Odours have a complex topography, and it’s been mapped by AI 8 months ago:
“AI” is probably simple machine learning?
reads article
Yes, it is.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Google is just the complete opposite and empowers global surveillance.
I disagree with that. Yes, they enable it, but you can turn (nearly) everything off in the settings and with a few ground rules things are quite good.
Take TikTok, Meta or something like that…you can’t turn off most of the data harvesting and profiling.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
It is. And I personally commend Google for this - they are pretty much the last manufacturer to truly give your the freedom, without crippling the device to hell and back. Sony and Samsung cripple the cameras when you unlock the boot loaded, nearly all Chinese manufacturers don’t even give you the choice, Xiaomi has a “wait list”.
Say what you want about Google - they still aren’t as terrible as others.
- Comment on Scientists find a simple way to destroy 'forever chemicals' — by beheading them 9 months ago:
for example production of base chemicals that are used in various other follow up products, lot’s of efficiency due to special membranes and so on.
- Comment on Microsoft says it hasn't been able to shake Russian state hackers 9 months ago:
Smaller corporations have it easier, IF they took IT Security serious. For the simple fact, that there are just a lot less entry points and way less whack amole playing.
And Microsoft never took security as serious as they should have.
- Comment on Scientists find a simple way to destroy 'forever chemicals' — by beheading them 9 months ago:
Well, since working in the industry, i can say with a very high confidence: There will be substitutes, but not for everything - at least at this point in time. There may soon very well be a breakthrough in material science, but at this point there is no alternative in some use cases (like gaskets, that have to sustain extreme temperatures and pressures…).
But i absolutely do agree with you.
- Comment on Scientists find a simple way to destroy 'forever chemicals' — by beheading them 9 months ago:
I’ve been wondering for quite some time why everything is going to shit. Now I think I get the picture. Thanks for the enlightenment.
And yes, I fucking expect people to think about their decisions and take responsibility serious - even if they don’t have the means to get caviar or Champagne all the time. But hey, I’ll probably be labeled as boomer in the next few years, so whatever floats your boat!
Judging by all these downvotes, I guess that ship has sailed a long time and maybe I shouldn’t care so much 🤔
- Comment on Scientists find a simple way to destroy 'forever chemicals' — by beheading them 9 months ago:
Oh i absolutely agree with you. Especially in cosmetics and other “day to day” products that are disposable.
But that’s also exactly the argument - make companies and customers dispose of these products correctly, because banning PFAS outright will have devastating consequences. (Like 3M just shifting production to China from Europe. Europe had the highest safety and production standards for PTFE - now they are going to be produced in china with absolutely no standards )
- Comment on Scientists find a simple way to destroy 'forever chemicals' — by beheading them 9 months ago:
Maybe in the U.S., but not in Europe. We got the Nutri-Score, we got the animal wellfare labeling and we have open source databanks where you scan the barcode and get all the information about a product so you can actually make a decision.
- Comment on Scientists find a simple way to destroy 'forever chemicals' — by beheading them 9 months ago:
And you are arguing that customers become mindless drones that don’t need to think about any consequences when they consume. Which is exactly why we have fucked up the climate.
- Comment on Scientists find a simple way to destroy 'forever chemicals' — by beheading them 9 months ago:
Is there really no alternative in shampoo & disposable coffee cups?
There is - but i personally think it’s up to customers to not just grab what’s on the shelf and do at least some basic research, because PFAS generally have to be marked on the bottle. Disposable coffee cups are just stupid all together.
This could have been done years ago but if industry can’t self regulate then bans it is.
I get the sentiment, but why not regulate stuff, before just banning it? And while we’re at it, how about educating the customer?
- Comment on Scientists find a simple way to destroy 'forever chemicals' — by beheading them 9 months ago:
You do realize, many of those “forever chemicals” have no alternative? PFOA for example is essential for modern production, because there is no other material known to withstand the temperatures and pressures needed in the production processes? So the alternative is either not to use them at all, with ALL the consequences - or we have use a proper way to dispose them.
Purification Plants are the same argument.