ganymede

@ganymede@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨they know what they need to do⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Correct me if i’m wrong, it’s been a while since i watched this grid engineer’s video), but my understanding was it has nothing to do with PV itself, it began with IBR misconfiguration which under “unusual circumstances” cascaded due to further grid mismanagement.

  yes the misconfigured IBR were at a PV plant, but thats where i think the media runs with the story without really communicating clearly to the public. IBR misconfiguration, even at a PV plant, is not a technical failure of PV technology itself, at all. IBR misconfiguration also effects turbines with HVDC feed for example.

  where i think the story also gets jumbled is alot of the “unusual circumstances” involved issues which were traceable (under current implementations) to a renewables dominant grid state. so the news story seems to become “PV/renewables trouble”, whereas afaict in reality it’s more like “renewables dominating to unexpected levels + misconfiguration/mismanagement”. and let’s face it, the era of renewables dominant grid states is only just beginning, this is new territory.

  imo the distinction is important, it’s not a PROBLEM with PV, it’s a problem with previous assumptions about renewables capacity no longer being true, and the ways bureaucracies can lag behind that change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨they know what they need to do⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah gotcha, yeh afaik that was definitely a grid failure rather than renewables failure in any form.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose wisely!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  forced vs post scarcity

  tbh i’m happy with most stances which at least acknowledges the tension between these two facets.

  anyway my point was, imo the “there’s too many humans” propaganda is part of forced scarcity lobby. there’s perhaps too many humans to live as wastefully as we are, so why wouldn’t reducing waste be our #1-3 top priorities?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨they know what they need to do⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  what happened with them over solar? i assume you mean photovoltaics because Spain is fucking winning with concentrated solar

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨they know what they need to do⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  can you pls explain what you mean?

  is this a long way of saying ‘greed’?

  or are you making a point about energy generation, storage and transport infrastructure?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the real danger of opening ports?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  to reduce attack-surface, if there’s no reason for the port to be open, don’t open it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the real danger of opening ports?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People iterate through all the IPv4 addresses since there are only 4,294,967,296 possible addresses. There are 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 possible IPv6 addresses

  i love your thinking!!

  do you have a backup in case you accidentally find yourself locked out from an ipv4-only network?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Many of the younger generations of folks don't know what it's like to watch TV series out of order by virtue of channel surfing on live TV and grabbing random episodes here and there⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  this is absolutely true and good observations.

  i especially appreciate your point about the full experience of the cliffhanger.

  this episodic storytelling format is ingrained in us, possibly for a very long time, but at least since the printing press flourished and episodic publications became popular and the illiterate would gather round those who would read aloud the latest episodes as they came out.

  then came radio and families would gather around the radio listen to the weekly shows and discuss the possible outcomes of the cliffhanger with their friends and workmates etc. it was already very well ingrained into our society and culture by the time we were experiencing it.

  in some ways i do like not having to wait, but it certainly removes layers of the experience as you’ve articulated well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta illegally collected data from Flo period and pregnancy app, jury finds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  anything which doesn’t involve me having uncomfortable thoughts about the trustworthiness of a device which i coincidentally am already currently trusting with my embarrassingly human personal details.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta illegally collected data from Flo period and pregnancy app, jury finds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  intentionally eavesdropped on and/or recorded conversations using an electronic device

  don’t be silly. i know that’s IMPOSISBLE because i read a headline from a big-tech-sponsored publication which said they can’t do that (even though the article - which i didn’t actually read - says they can)