Me too, was a paying customer for several years. Perks of using your own domain. I can switch providers in under an hour.
It's the amount the average energy bill is going to increase by between January and April. It's not supposed to solve problems now, it's for that specific problem coming in January.
They're hoping energy prices will drop by April.
In UK in 2010, 10 new nuclear plants were announced. Since then 5 older plants have been shut leaving us with 5 active. 1 of the 10 new ones started construction and it's massively over budget and delayed.
In the same time we've added about 20GW of solar.
My first thought. Everything is going to look the same soon isn't it
I was looking for graphics the other day and the stock images sites I've used before were virtually all AI slop. Why would I pay for that?
Probably 10 years ago I encountered a pump on a job. It was huge. 2-3 stories tall. Probably cost millions.
There was a computer plugged into, an old beige tower case and a CRT monitor with RS232 serial cable between it and the pump.
This was the control system, it was connected to the network (airgapped LAN fortunately).
Was running NT4!
I have no idea why it was set up this way, PLCs were definitely the standard at the time and there were older PLCs than that on the site. No one who worked there was around when it was installed, it was just the way it was.
How do you know the software running on the voting machine you're about to vote on is the software that was audited?
You go get all the machines together, make sure all the software runs on the newest version and it's correct and it's configured properly with the candidates. When you've got to distribute them to the polling stations, they've got to be kept securely between audit and polling day. Your adversaries are foreign state actors who want to manipulate your elections.
And then at the end of the day you have to get the results off the machines. You have to trust that the machine gave you the correct numbers and then you have to get those numbers all together without anyone having the opportunity to manipulate them.
Usually at this point someone comes up with the idea of a paper backup so the machine prints like a receipt of who you voted for that you can put in a ballot box.
If you're doing that and then count all of the paper ballots to verify the machine count, why even bother with the machines? Just have people vote on a paper ballot with a pencil and count them by hand. The ways to attack paper ballot just don't scale. You might be able to manipulate a few votes in one polling station, but you'd need a massive operation to do it across the whole country.
It can't spread across networks because it doesn't run locally. The "agent" is running in their data centre the entire time. It should be very easy to stop it
Saw this coming when Microsoft admitted to have bought up loads of hardware they couldn't actually use yet. I'm convinced the data centre build out is to hoard all the computing capacity so we are forced to use their cloud services because our own hardware isn't capable.
If this keeps up in a couple generations every personal computing device will essentially be a thin client with everything running remotely for a subscription.
I've been explicitly told not to use any open source for a project. I don't even know what language I'd write it in. We ended up not even quoting for it in the end.
Yeah this only makes sense if the builds start diverging from the open source code, extra features that are closed source.
Hertzner storage box. I think it's €13/month for 5tb. Just storage with ssh interface. I use restic but most backup systems should work with it.