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  • Russia’s ‘permanent test’ is pushing Europe to the brink of war -- [Opinion]

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  • Two words: iron curtain.

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  • I miss Baconreader, another refugee from the API purge here

  • Parents fined as daughter absent nearly 200 times from Stoke-on-Trent school

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  • Begs the question, what are the parents to do, is being fined for something outside of their control justice? Or is it considered acceptable for parents to physically restrain their child to force school attendance?

  • Owner switches off solar farm powering area twice the size of Tasmania

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  • The original post is in relation to commercial solar PV, not residential, which is a power generator rather than power consumer.

    Except via planning law, which is not in the direct control of grid operators (lobbying...), it is not within the gift of the grid operators to stop or agree to the co-location of batteries.

    Given that both solar panels, and wind turbines, arr DC generators, the direct connection to batteries via DC-DC charge controllers (which is the most efficient way to charge batteries) does not have anything to do with grid operators, so their commercial interests are irrelevant to the implementation, if that is necessary to create a financially sustainable asset for the power plant owner.

    For reference: https://modoenergy.com/research/co-location-battery-energy-storage-solar-ac-dc-coupling

    In relation to residential solar PV...which I think you were commenting on, inverters can be set to zero export. If laws are created to specifically fuck over residential solar, the worst case will always be to decommission existing solar PV (say, it was taxed annually on a per panel basis, make it unlawful to self consume etc, but it is possible to set inverters to zero export so one should never have to pay a charge for exporting).

    But so long as one can self consume and batteries are available (note even house batteries could be made unlawful, ie due to bullshit argument based on safety), there will always be a system that can reduce costs unless power costs 0 short of a truly broken system. ie grid operators charge power producers for both over production and at the same time charge users for using), but even then solar production cost is essentially 0: fill your own batteries and zero export once full, then discharge a portion at night if profitable.

    Pumped hydro is without a doubt the most effective energy storage method but requires the right geology and geography, and is only part of a solution. Check the key statistics on this link to see just how nuts it can be when paired with reliable solar over production. https://british-hydro.org/pumped-storage-hydropower/

  • Owner switches off solar farm powering area twice the size of Tasmania

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  • And this is why co location of batteries matters. It's an opportunity of using infrastructure already in place (grid connection) to maximise the benefit.

    Raise the panels and put the battery containers underneath and it doesn't even use more space.

  • Imgur blocks access to UK users after regulator warned of fine

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  • ...it will be interesting to read the judgements when when they refuse to pay the fine. And I'd be willing to bet a fiver that a judge says that global blocking is not sufficient to remove a website from responsibility.

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  • Running Truenas as a VM in prixmox requires passing through the storage controller and blacklisting it from prixmox, so yes, you likely need the HBA.

  • Jeremy Corbyn: Labour Is Paving the Way for Fascism

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  • Oh that's nice. I was recalling figures that were released in the 24-48 hours after the election. Maybe there is a reason to have some hope.

  • Jeremy Corbyn: Labour Is Paving the Way for Fascism

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  • As much as Feddit.uk does not mention it, in the 2024 GE more people voted for reform and the Tories than Labour and Lib Dems.

    So Corbyn is arguably wrong, and the Labour government is actually only in power because of FPTP, and everything was already in place before Labour did whatever they have, or have not done.

  • Continue Seeding

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  • Historically NFS and using one service per server was the usual process. "Builds on" means that the newer processes were developments and improvements to older processes. For example NFS was released in the 1980s and Docker in 2013. Obviously the efficiencies in docker and hyperconverged servers are the reason they have taken over most set ups, but it's not obvious that software such as docker would have come into existence without the original networking processes.

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  • ...which is exactly my point. Using a VM or docker to run the relevant programs and using hard links rather than NFS shares is just a more complicated (but more efficient) setup that follows the same logic. It also has a more complicated network setup for VPN use than running a VPN client on an SBC. That's why an SBC is the easiest way in to the lifestyle, before graduating to the more complicated yet more powerful setups.

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  • A NAS, an SBC eg a raspberry pi, and NFS shares are the basic setup. Everything else essentially builds on this.

  • 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law

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  • Well...yes? It is.

    I'll put £2 on a US court invalidating fines and a UK court placing a proscription on providers enabling access to 4Chan. Hell, if 4Chan got labelled as a terrorist website would that even be objectively wrong?

  • 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law

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  • How is this any more hypocritical than a US demand of access to UK public spaces and imposition of USA law in UK homes, or the Chinese firewall blocking access to websites?

  • 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law

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  • Regardless of the OSA, the concept that the USA can impose their bullshit in this country is abhorrent, and any government backing down on this will be viewed as feckless, now and forever.

  • Is 4chan the Perfect 'Pirate Bay' Poster Child to Justify Wider UK Site-Blocking?

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  • Hoarding is the best plan for maintaining access to information, but not for interaction. Get used to being asocial.

    In relation to 4chan, I can't think of an easier scapegoat/opponent to use to justify blocking via ISP. And from a fines perspective...uh, that will be entertaining to watch, considering GDPR fines scenarios (not directly comparable but from a conceptual space)

  • Looking for lightweight homelab dashboard that can run as nonroot container and also supports OIDC

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  • Slow reminder to delete old emails to save water in the United Kingdom.

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  • And this is why you should self host all personal data. I wish I had the capability and time to self host emails as well but can't have everything.

  • Eli Lilly ramps up UK price of weight loss jab Mounjaro after Trump demands

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  • It's a change to private providers, not the NHS cost. The NHS cost has already been agreed (not sure for how many years though).