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Time to admit the truth: Brexit has been an unmitigated economic failure
Leaving the EU has reduced Britain’s GDP by up to 8pc, according to a devastating US study
The latest such assessment comes in the form of a paper from the US-based National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). This concludes that Brexit has reduced UK GDP by 6pc to 8pc, far more than most previous estimates.
Investment is worse off by between 12pc and 18pc, employment by between 3pc and 4pc, and productivity also by between 3pc and 4pc. There have been few more devastating assessments than this.
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Well, there was a period in the 90s through to the early 2000s where we had a centre-left party (New Labour) running the show and mostly improving things, but then 9/11 and the Iraq war happened and the country went scurrying back to the Conservatives again.
The conspiracy nut that lives in my brain is convinced Putin's taking control of Russia in 2000 has everything to do with every single bit of the above after "but then".
We currently have New Labour (now just "Labour") in charge again, but politically they smell an awful lot like the pre-Thatcherite Conservatives.
I think the worst part of Brexit is not that it reduced UK GDP by a fixed amount, but that the damage is getting worse with time. Brits could probably have lived with a temporary setback followed by faster growth, but it's becoming pretty evident that the UK has been permanently damaged and growth will lag peer economies' for the foreseeable future.
And yet, Reform UK is looking pretty good in the polls. Make that make sense, they were the most ardent proponents of Brexit.
Because the majority that voted Brexit and still believe in it were never in it for the economics, at least not the kind backed by evidence, because in their minds the economy will get better for the average working man once all of the "foreigners" are no longer here.
And because of how loud this minority are, they've gotten the more gullible of the population that don't know any better to think that it's true, because they've heard it from John, Barry, Gaz and that guy on TV.
The linked article text is much more lukewarm than the headline.
I was surprised/disappointed tbh. But I think you should resist updating towards agreeing with the headline. Brexit is still too ongoing and close to judge carefully, but in the data it seems like it was washed out by the energy crisis and covid across many statistics, if I'm reading right?
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It sounds like it's mostly The Telegraph's style guide that specifies it.
Why represent percent with "pc" rather than "%"?
I've seen more and more well respected publications expressing percent using the abbreviation "pc". E.g. Telegraph: How else to explain the decision to award a board seat to the boss of anStack Overflow
IMHO part of the problem was that economics was more a branch of philosophy than a science until the 1970s, but the public never got the memo when this changed.
So we get doofuses who act like their economics claims are purely a matter of opinion, not falsifiable hypotheses. Try arguing for a UBI and watch how many chalkboard economists tell you what they imagine would happen, completely ignoring all experimental results.
I agree that conflating a healthy economy with stock market growth is bogus. This misconception predates the 1970s, and is the same sort of chalkboard economics I'm talking about.
The chalkboard:
The results:
That doesn't mean that economics as a whole is bullshit. It means that monetary policy in particular has been heavily propagandized. An economist who agrees with you will find themselves unable to obtain funding and ostracized. Just like Galileo was... But it was geocentrism - not all of astronomy - that was unscientific. Science is how you know if you're a Galileo or just a crank.
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IMHO the mask simply came off in 2008 when they bailed out the rich and not the poor. They're pissing on our legs and telling us it's raining. As more and more people are forced into poverty while the stock market soars, more of us are rightfully asking these questions. So what are we gonna do about it? Do you trust your savings to someone who insists that the economy is rich people's yachts?
IMHO the mask simply came off in 2008 when they bailed out the rich and not the poor.
Watch them bail out AI soon. The inmates are running the asylum
No doubt.
In 2008, the bailout supporters denied that it was a moral hazard.
In 2020, it became "many" times. Nothing ever happens only twice.
IMHO the mask simply came off in 2008 when they bailed out the rich and not the poor. They’re pissing on our legs and telling us it’s raining. As more and more people are forced into poverty while the stock market soars, more of us are rightfully asking these questions. So what are we gonna do about it? Do you trust your savings to someone who insists that the economy is rich people’s yachts?
It's all just a matter of goals. Is economics there to help the poor, the middle class or the rich? Depending on your answer, it's either an absolute failure or an unmitigated success.
And considering the golden rule ("The one who has the gold makes the rules"), it's quite clear what's happening there. All of the economics technobabble is only there to distract and justify, not to actually make sense.
People that would love every country to join the EU in harmony, do you not fear in the slightest a whole world government?
Do you not fear losing municipal sovereignty?
The UK, while in the EU still rejected a lot of ideas/rules by not following them (as far as I'm aware).
I dunno if that's something each country can do when it's not a core principal they are denying. They probably got away with it just because they are a big economic force, they can do whatever they like.
A country being in the EU doesn't change its local laws and stuff though, each can still have their own weird rules. I guess they can't override EU rules though.
I know 0 about this tho so these are opinions basically ;(
we are so far from a one world government that this is a very silly concern. Even if every country between the US, Russia and Egypt joined.
There are so many exceptions, exclusions, considerations that its not even equal to a one-European-Government.
I had a friend in college whose parents were big into world government and had founded an organization to promote that. Talking to them was a weird experience because 1) they felt every problem facing the world could be solved by a one-world government, and 2) they actually felt achieving that world government was a realistic possibility. And it wasn't like they thought the solution was just the USA taking over everything; they were very critical of everything about this country.
I don't know if this is irony or not, but that friend is now worth $34 million after her parents' company went public. She doesn't say anything about world government any more.
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Russian propaganda troll farms amplified British and American racism and xenophobia
American techbros platforms gladly accept domestic and foreign money to push false narratives. Democracy crumbling favors them. Blame them too.
And Putin couldn't be happier about it.
Conservatives are mind-bogglingly gullible and easy to manipulate.
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Sì, ma, il mondo non va male solo per via di piccoli atti negativi di ognuno, ma anche perché gli atti negativi di alcuni vengono premiati al punto di portare quegli alcuni ai vertici del potere
Un minimo di teoria lì può servire, visto che quel potere si contrasta solo con un'azione coordinata e unita delle persone comuni
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Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy
Doing it yourself is way more cost effective.Nick Lewis (How-To Geek)
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So I did this, using a Ryzen 3600, with some light tweaking the base system burns about 40-50W idle. The drives add a lot, 5-10W each, but they would go into any NAS system, so that's irrelevant. I had to add a GPU because the MB I had wouldn't POST without one, so that increases the power draw a little, but it's also necessary for proper Jellyfin transcoding. I recently swapped the GPU for an Intel ARC A310.
By comparison, the previous system I used for this had a low-power, fanless intel celeron, with a single drive and two SSDs it drew about 30W.
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Ok, im glad im not the only one that wants a responsive machine for video streaming.
I ran a pi400 with plex for a while. I dont care to save 20W while I wait for the machine to respond after every little scrub of the timeline. I want to have a better experience than Netflix. Thats the point.
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Drivers? Are you running it on Windows? On Linux I just plugged it in and it worked, Jellyfin transparently started transcoding the additional codecs.
It fixed my issue with tone mapping, before this HDR files on my not-so-old TV showed the wrong colors.
I've not desktop environment on the NAS, it was plug and play in terminal. I did get an error about HSW/BDW HD-Audio HDMI/DP requiring binding with a gfx driver - but I've not yet even bothered to google it.
I read somewhere the sparkle elf I have just ramps the fan to 100% at all times with the Linux driver and has no option to edit fan curve under Linux
(suggested fix was install a windows VM, set the curve there and the card will remember, but after rebuilding the NAS and fixing a couple of minor issues to get it all working I couldn't face installing windows, so just left it as is until I have the time lol).
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The host is running Proxmox, so I guess their kernel just works with it.
It does run the fan way more than I'd like, but its noise is drowned out by the original AMD cooler on the CPU anyway, but thanks for the info, I may look into it... But I guess I'd have to set up GPU pass-through on a VM just for that.
A desktop running a low usage wouldn't consume much more than a NAS, as long as you drop the video card (which wouldn't be running anyways).
Take only that extra and you probably have a few years usage before additional electricty costs overrun NAS cost. Where I live that's around 5 years for an estimated extra 10W.
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as long as you drop the video card
As I wrote below, some motherboards won't POST without a GPU.
Take only that extra and you probably have a few years usage before additional electricty costs overrun NAS cost. Where I live that’s around 5 years for an estimated extra 10W.
Yeah, and what's more, if one of those appliance-like NASes breaks down, how do you fix it? With a normal PC you just swap out the defective part.
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Depends.
Toss the GPU/wifi, disable audio, throttle the processor a ton, and set the OS to power saving, and old PCs can be shockingly efficient.
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There was a post a while back of someone trying to eek every single watt out of their computer. Disabling XMP and running the ram at the slowest speed possible saved like 3 watts I think. An impressive savings, but at the cost of HORRIBLE CPU performance. But you do actually need at least a little bit of grunt for a nas.
At work we have some of those atom based NASes and the combination of lack of CPU, and horrendous single channel ram speeds makes them absolutely crawl. One HDD on its own performs the same as this raid 10 array.
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Yeah.
In general, 'big' CPUs have an advantage because they can run at much, much lower clockspeeds than atoms, yet still be way faster. There are a few exceptions, like Ryzen 3000+ (excluding APUs), which idle notoriously hot thanks to the multi-die setup.
Peripherals and IO will do that. Cores pulling 5-6W while IO die pulls 6-10W
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Same with auto overclocking mobos.
My ASRock sets VSoC to a silly high coltage with EXPO. Set that back down (and fiddle with some other settings/disable the IGP if you can), and it does help a ton.
...But I think AMD's MCM chips just do idle hotter. My older 4800HS uses dramatically less, even with the IGP on.
And heat your room in the winter!
Add spring + autumn if you live up north.
Stuff designed for much higher peek usage tend to have a lot more waste.
For example, a 400W power source (which is what's probably in the original PC of your example) will waste more power than a lower wattage on (unless it's a very expensive one), so in that example of yours it should be replaced by something much smaller.
Even beyond that, everything in there - another example, the motherboard - will have a lot more power leakage than something designed for a low power system (say, an ARM SBC).
Unless it's a notebook, that old PC will always consume more power than, say, an N100 Mini-PC, much less an ARM based one.
All true, yep.
Still, the clocking advantage is there. Stuff like the N100 also optimizes for lower costs, which means higher clocks on smaller silicon. That's even more dramatic for repurposed laptop hardware, which is much more heavily optimized for its idle state.
For example, a 400W power source (which is what's probably in the original PC of your example) will waste more power than a lower wattage on
in my experience power supplies are more efficient near the 50% utilization. be quiet psus have charts about it
The way one designs hardware in is to optimize for the most common usage scenario with enough capacity to account for the peak use scenario (and with some safety margin on top).
(In the case of silent power sources they would also include lower power leakage in the common usage scenario so as to reduce the need for fans, plus in the actual physical circuit design would also include things like airflow and having space for a large slower fan since those are more silent)
However specifically for power sources, if you want to handle more power you have to for example use larger capacitors and switching MOSFETs so that it can handle more current, and those have more leakage hence more baseline losses. Mind you, using more expensive components one can get higher power stuff with less leakage, but that's not going to happen outside specialist power supplies which are specifically designed for high-peak use AND low baseline power consumption, and I'm not even sure if there's a genuine use case for such a design that justifies paying the extra cost for high-power low-leakage components.
In summary, whilst theoretically one can design a high-power low-leakage power source, it's going to cost a lot more because you need better components, and that's not going to be a generic desktop PC power source.
That said, I since silent PC power sources are designed to produce less heat, which means have less leakage (as power leakage is literally the power turning to heat), even if the with the design having been targetted for the most common usage scenario of that power source (which is not going to be 15W) that would still probably mean better components hence lower baseline leakage, hence they should waste less power if that desktop is repurposed as a NAS. Still won't beat a dedicated ARM SBC (not even close), but it might end up cheap enough to be worth it if you already have that PC with a silent power source.
The GTX 480 is efficient by modern standards. If Nvidia could make a cooler that could handle 600 watts in 2010 you can bet your sweet ass that GPU would have used a lot more power.
Well that and if 1000 watt power supplies were common back then.
How about a Raspberry Pi? I've got one (Raspberry Pi 400) running my Home Automation setup with a couple USB 3.0 ports. Was thinking there's gotta be some add-ons for Home Assistant to put some external storage to good use.
Don't need anything too fancy. Just looking for some on-site backup and maybe some media storage
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Yeah, I guess I should have been clear that's part of what I was thinking (although to be honest I'm mostly a schmuck who pays for a few streaming services and uses that)
What exactly would be the main choking point? Horsepower of the Pi to take that stored file and stream it to the client?
So I believe the Pi 4 was the 1st to have an actual ethernet controller and not just having essentially a built in USB to ethernet adapter so bandwidth to your HDDs/ethernet shouldn't be a problem.
Streaming directly off of the pi should be tolerable. A bit slower than a full fat computer with tons of ram for caching and CPU power to buffer things. But fine. There's some quirks with usb connected HDDs that makes them a bit slower than they should (still in 2025 UASP isn't a given somehow) But streaming ultimately doesn't need that much bandwidth.
What's going to be unbearable is transcoding. If you're connecting some shitty ass smart TV that only understands like H264 and your videos are 265 then that has to get converted, and that SUCKS. Plex by default also likes to play videos at a lower bitrate sometimes, which means transcoding.
There's also other weird quirks to look out for. Like someone else was (I think) doing exactly what you wanted to do, but no matter what the experience was unbearable. Apparently LVM was somehow too much compute for the pi to handle, and as soon as they switched to raw EXT4 they could stream perfectly fine. I don't remember why this was a problem, but it's just kind of a reminder of how weak these devices actually are compared to "full" computers.
I've got 2 rPis - a pi5 running Home Assistant and a pi4 with a USB drive caddy acting as little more than a NAS (it also does all the downloading through radarr etc.. )
I find them perfectly adequate.
My gaming rig acts as my emby server as it's basically on all the time and it has a beefy gfx card that can handle transcoding.
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None of that really matters for a home media server. Even the limited SATA ports, worst case you have to grab a cheap expansion card.
Power consumption is a much bigger concern, a purpose built NAS is much more efficient than a random old PC.
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Even the most expensive Synology only has space for 8 drives with only one 10Gbit ethernet port.
You can build something yourself for less with much better performance.
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That's not true at all. Synology will sell you 24 bay rack mounted devices and 12 bay towers, as well as expansion modules for both with more bays you can daisy chain to them.
Granted, I believe those are technically marketed as enterprise solutions, but you can buy a 12 bay unit off of Amazon for like two grand diskless, so... I mean, it's a thing.
Not saying you should, and it's definitely less cost effective (and less powerful, depending on what you have laying around) than reusing old hardware, but it does exist.
I think the self-hosting community needs to be more honest with itself about separating self hosting from building server hardware at home as separate hobbies.
You absolutely don't need sever-grade hardware for a home/family server, but I do see building a proper server as a separate activity, kinda like building a ship in a bottle.
That calculation changes a bit if you're trying to host some publicly available service at home, but even that is a bit of a separate thing unless you're running a hosting business, at which point it's not a really a home server anyways, even if it happens to sit inside your house.
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You absolutely don't need sever-grade hardware for a home/family server
Server-grade hardware makes a lot of sense even for home use. My NAS is tucked away in a closet, having IPMI is so much more convenient when you can’t easily hook it up to a keyboard and mouse.
I'm currently running some stuff out of an old laptop which I also have tucked away somewhere and just... remote desktop in for most of the same functionality. And even if you can't be bothered to flip it open in the rare occassion you can't get to the points where the OS will let you remote in, there are workarounds for that these days. And of course the solution to the "can't hook it up to a keyboard and mouse" in that case is the thing comes with both (and its own built-in UPS) out of the box.
Nobody is saying that server grade solutions aren't functional or convenient. They exist for a reason. The argument is that a home/family server you don't need to use at scale can run perfectly fine without them only losing minor quality of life features and is a perfectly valid solution to upcycle old or discarded consumer hardware.
I totally agree - and depending on your needs & budget, slightly older server-grade equipment idle power usage is much higher compared to consumer stuff (servers didn't really know how to idle until "recently"). And also if you don't host a tone of different things for different users (ie you don't need all the pcie lanes) you get so much faster CPUs for the same monies.
The only server-grade things you need are ofc disk drives that are gonna do server stuff.
And a good PSU (but a nice Seasonic is almost server-grade anyways). When ppl talk about power usage they tend to forget PSUs (they check their PC usage with a shitty PSU that itself can't idle low & maybe doesn't even get to 90% at peak loads).
HBAs are cheap, IPMI isn't at all needed under normal uses cases, and ECC is way overkill.
For most people a halfway decent PC that isn't failing is plenty.
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Hardware is boring. Doing some research is boring. People don't care about boring stuff. Or their data.
"Let's put every single family photo taken between 1976 and today on this and only this one shitty drive. And let me spin up an Immich container on my trusty raspberry. I have watched a YouTube video or two in my days. I think I know what I'm doing."
Bonus points for "but ssh is all you need", "static electricity has never been a problem for me" and "what gpu do you recommend for jellyfin?".
OK. Science time. Somewhat arbitrary values used, the point is there is a amortization calculation, you'll need to calculate your own with accurate input values.
A PC drawing 100W 24/7 uses 877 kWh@0.15 $131.49 per year.
A NAS drawing 25W 24/7 uses 219 kWh@0.15 $32.87 per year
So, in this hypothetical case you "save" about $100/year on power costs running the NAS.
Assuming a capacity equivalent NAS might cost $1200 then you're better off using the PC you have rather than buying a NAS for 12 years.
This ignores that the heat generated by the devices is desirable in winter so the higher heat output option has additional utility.
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... 100W? Isn't that like a rally bygone era? CPUs of the past decade can idle at next to nothing (like, there isn't much difference between an idling i7/i9 and a Pentium from the same era/family).
Or are we taking about arm? (Sry, I don't know much about them.)
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All devices on the computer consume power.
The CPU being the largest in this context. Older processors usually don't have as aggressive throttling as modern ones for low power scenarios.
Similarly, the "power per watt" of newer processors is incredibly high in comparison, meaning they can operate at much lower power levels while running the same workload.
Assuming a capacity equivalent NAS might cost $1200
Either you already have drives and could use them in a new NAS or you would have to buy them regardless and shouldn’t include them in the NAS price.
8 drives could go into most computers I think. Even 6 drive NAS can be quite expensive.
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I bought a two bay Synology for $270, and a 20TB hdd for $260. I did this for multiple reasons. The HDD was on sale so I bought it and kept buying things. Also I couldn't be buggered to learn everything necessary to set up a homemade NAS. Also also i didn't have an old PC. My current PC is a Ship of Theseus that I originally bought in 2006.
You're not wrong about an equivalent NAS to my current pc specs/capacity being more expensive. And yes i did spend $500+ on my NAS And yet I also saved several days worth of study, research, and trial and error by not building my own.
That being said, reducing e-waste by converting old PCs into Jellyfin/Plex streaming machines, NAS devices, or personal servers is a really good idea
In the UK the calculus is quite different, as it's £0.25/kWh or over double the cost.
Also, an empty Synology 4-bay NAS can be gotten for like £200 second hand. Good enough if you only need file hosting. Mine draws about 10W compared to an old Optiplex that draws around 60W.
With that math using the NAS saves you 1.25 pence per hour. Therefore the NAS pays for itself in around about 2 years.
This ignores that the heat generated by the devices is desirable in winter so the higher heat output option has additional utility.
But the heat is a negative in the summer. So local climate might tip the scales one way or the other.
In the fall/winter in northern areas it's free! (Money that would already be spent on heating).
Summer is a negative though, as air conditioning needs to keep up. But the additional cost is ~1/3rd the heat output for most ACs (100w of heat require < 30w of refrigeration losses to move)
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Ok. R5 3600, rtx 3070, and 4 spinning drives. Idles at 62W. 80W under normal load (2 concurrent streams). This is a hilariously over specced NAS. This is all 2nd or 3rd life pc parts (outside of the spinning rust), so financially speaking I'm happy with the result.
The long term goal is to use it as a homelab separate from anything I need to work all the time. I want to try running some LLMs locally and use it to control some home automation stuff. That'll stress it.
Edit: so yeah its double yours.
The Xeon 2224G workstation with 32GB of ECC ram I got on eBay pulls 15 watts from the wall streaming 4k video on Plex.
It didn't have 6 bays but if I needed it I could move the guts to a bigger case
I mean... my old PC burns through 50-100W, even at idle and even without a bunch of spinning hard drives. My actual NAS barely breaks that under load with all bays full.
I could scrounge up enough SATA inputs on it to make for a decent NAS if I didn't care about that, and I could still run a few other services with the spare cycles, but... maybe not the best use of power.
I am genuinely considering turning it into a backup box I turn on under automation to run a backup and then turn off after completion. That's feasible and would do quite well, as opposed to paying for a dedicated backup unit.
I see what you mean, and I have that (old PC with a bunch of 2.5" HDDs formatted as ZFS).
For me power consumption is more important than performance, so I'm looking for a lower power solution for photo sharing, music collection and backups.
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And as usual everyone is saying NAS, but talking about servers with a built in NAS.
I'm not saying you can't run your services on the same machine as your NAS, I'm just confused why every time there's a conversation about NASs it's always about what software it can run.
The way I see it, a box of drives still needs something to connect it to your network.
And that something that can only do a basic connection costs only a little less than something that can run a bunch of other stuff too.
You can see why it all gets bundled together.
I somehow doubt that.
My last desktop PC has been retasked as an HTPC. The CPU in it requires a graphics card for the system to POST, it's currently mounted in a SFF case with barely room for two 2.5" drives, so it would either make for a shitty, difficult to service, bulky for what it does, power inefficient NAS, or I'd have to buy a new case and CPU.
My current machine is in an mATX mini-tower, there's room for hard disks and the 7700X has integrated graphics so I could haul the GPU out, but it's still kind of bulky for what you'd get.
So I'm gonna keep my Synology in service for a little while longer, then build a NAS from scratch selecting components that would be good for that purpose.
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I used to have a 5700G system that I had to switch out to a 14600k system due to quciksync pass through.
I got my 14600K down to 55w from 75w with everything else being equal. Insane how efficient some setups can be.
My 16tb Pi sips at 13w max or 8w idle. But no encoding or enough storage for normal work. So it's warm storage
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I want to reduce wasteful power consumption.
But I also desire ECC for stability and data corruption avoidance, and hardware redundancy for failures (Which have actually happened!!)
Begrudgingly I'm using dell rack mount servers. For the most part they work really well, stupid easy to service, unified remote management, lotssss of room for memory, thick PCIe lane counts, stupid cheap 2nd hand RAM, and stable.
But they waste ~100 watts of power per device though... That stuff ads up, even if we have incredibly cheap power.
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I got an old server and it has a hardware raid card on it. I installed trueNAS on it. Shows 18tb raid right away (24tb 4tbx6). And it does not help that I'm new to this stuff.
Is hardware raid any good for truNAS? should I just get a pcie to sata and connect drives individually?
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So, it's better if I get a normal pcie to sata card and connect them individually.
Then just raid them through software.
Also, what are your thoughts on second hand drives, and just monitoring them and replacing them as needed. (im currently saving up for good new 4tb x 6 drives lol)
With TrueNAS yes, a sata card connected to a bare drive is the preferred way. I have done it differently with enterprise hardware and virtualization but it’s not really supposed to be done that way. And ZFS is not technically “RAID” in the classic sense, but it does implement its own RAID‑like redundancy (RAIDZ and mirrors) as part of an integrated filesystem and volume manager. There are also things you can do with faster NVME drives like SLOG, L2ARC, and SPECIAL vdevs to store pool metadata. But some of these can fail and wipe out all your data if you aren’t careful. So read a lot.
Second hand drives are fine in my opinion as long as SMART is not reporting any immediate errors. Just assume you will have failures and have spares built into the zfs volume.
I’m not an expert by any stretch but I have been doing this for 10 plus years so I have some experience.
Interesting, thanks.
If you no expert, the I'm a newbie lol.
I will try a sata card and raiding them through software.
What would you recommend for 6x4tb ?
I know there are raids and mirrors, I was thinking like raid 5 but still unsure. I also have a icydock for 2.5 in drives that I can raid separately with ssds when I have the funds.
What is your experience with raids and safest bet on old hardware, if running 24/7 with important data?
I would think that right now the sweet spot for good used drives is between 4-8tb. Check out backblaze’s drive stats for some good info about failure rates for older drives.
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Yeah RAID 5 is fine (in ZFS terms it's just called raidz or raidz1). You could also do something like raidz2 (which is essentially RAID6 with two parity drives). There is some newer stuff in TrueNAS called dRAID which does some interesting stuff with the spares. It's kinda like old RAID5EE stuff if youre familiar with that. Just google it and read up on it.
Safest bet on old hardware… in my opinion find some old enterprise level stuff somebody is upgrading out of. I get lots of hand-me-downs that way. This stuff is meant to run 24/7, keep running forever, and is usually upgraded before it’s really not useful to anyone. Word of warning, this stuff is generally not power efficient, or quiet for that matter. So I wouldn't be running this in my bedroom. Well unless you're cold 'cause your heater is broken and love lots of white noise 😀
As a hardware guy going on 20+ years let me offer some basic advice. If this data is important , which you mentioned it was, RAID is NOT backup. Have separate backups. Yes I know it's expensive but hardware can and does fail. Sometimes irrecoverably. ZFS does a good job helping with this with snapshots and the ability to sync easily. For me just I follow the 3-2-1 rules. Yeah it's kinda outdated but I'm old.
The 3-2-1 rule is basically:
- 3 copies
- Primary data (on its own pool).
- Local backup (on a separate ZFS pool, ideally on different hardware). This is where ZFS replication is useful. This built into TrueNAS.
- Off‑site/cloud backup (replicated ZFS dataset or traditional backup tool like restic/Borg to cloud).
- 2 different media
- e.g., Primary on SSDs, backup on HDDs; or primary on local NAS, backup in cloud.
- 1 off‑site
- Replicate ZFS snapshots to a remote location (another site or cloud).
Oh and one other thing. If you are using TrueNAS be mindful there are two flavors now, TrueNAS Core and TrueNAS Scale. The interfaces are slightly different but the main differences are:
- TrueNAS Core is based on FreeBSD and is the older, more mature “classic NAS” platform, optimized for rock‑solid file serving with jails and VMs.
- TrueNAS Scale is based on Debian Linux and is designed for “scale‑out” and hyperconverged use: clustering, containers, and modern virtualization on newer hardware.
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Very informative thanks!
Seems like seagate 4-8tb is the sweet spot.
Is there any difference in the models of the segate drives? Or just the iron wolf NAS are the better choice?
Also, currently can fund all ssds for primary and I'm not that interested in read speeds. I'm more interested in a safe space for files to get stored in without fear of loss.
I have a old tell server tower, running truenas scale. Once I get a pcie sata card I will set up with raid5.
And zfs is just a backup of the raid, like a sync?
And then I think my move would be to get 6 Seagate drives lol
When I looked into this I found that, for TrueNAS, using ZFS with RAW disks is generally preferable.
I wound up writing custom firmware to my hardware RAID card so that it would be effectively “transparent” and yield direct hardware access to the disks.
Big shout out to Windows 11 and their TPM bullshit.
Was thinking that my wee "Raspberry PI home server" was starting to feel the load a bit too much, and wanted a bit of an upgrade. Local business was throwing out some cute little mini PCs since they couldn't run Win11. Slap in a spare 16 GB memory module and a much better SSD that I had lying about, and it runs Arch (btw) like an absolute beast. Runs Forgejo, Postgres, DHCP, torrent and file server, active mobile phone backup etc. while sipping 4W of power. Perfect; much better fit than an old desktop keeping the house warm.
Have to think that if you've been given a work desktop machine with a ten-year old laptop CPU and 4GB of RAM to run Win10 on, then you're probably not the most valued person at the company. Ran Ubuntu / GNOME just fine when I checked it at its original specs, tho. Shocking, the amount of e-waste that Microsoft is creating.
Question, what's the benefit of running a separate DHCP server?
I run openwrt, and the built in server seems fine? Why add complexity?
I'm sure there's a good reason I'm just curious.
So on mine, I haven't bothered to change from the ISP provided router, which is mostly adequate for my needs, except I need to do some DNS shenigans, and so I take over DHCP to specify my DNS server which is beyond the customization provided by the ISP router.
Frankly been thinking of an upgrade because they don't do NAT loopback and while I currently workaround with different DNS results for local queries, it's a bit wonky to do that and I'm starting to get WiFi 7 devices and could use an excuse to upgrade to something more in my control.
The router provided with our internet contract doesn't allow you to run your own firmware, so we don't have anything so flexible as what OpenWRT would provide.
Short answer; in order to Pi-hole all of the advertising servers that we'd be connecting to otherwise. Our mobile phones don't normally allow us to choose a DNS server, but they will use the network-provided one, so it sorts things out for the whole house in one go.
Long, UK answer: because our internet is being messed with by the government at the moment, and I'd prefer to be confident that the DNS look-ups we receive haven't been altered. That doesn't fix everything - it's a VPN job - but little steps.
The DHCP server provided with the router is so very slow in comparison to running our own locally, as well. Websites we use often are cached, but connecting to something new takes several seconds. Nothing as infuriating as slow internet.
Oh you mean DNS server, yes ok that makes sense. Yeah I totally understand running your own.
If I understand correctly, DHCP servers just assign local IPs on initial connection, and configure other stuff like pointing devices to the right DNS server, gateway, etc
Gotcha! No worries. Networking gets more and more like sorcery the deeper you go.
Networking and printers are my two least favorite computer things.
True for notebooks.
(For years my home NAS was an old Asus EEE PC)
Desktops, on the other hand, tend to consume a lot more power (how bad it is, depends on the generation) - they're simply not designed to be a quiet device sitting on a corner continuously running a low CPU power demanding task: stuff designed for a lot more demanding tasks will have things like much bigger power sources which are less efficient at low power demand (when something is design to put out 400W, wasting 5 or 10W is no big deal, when it's designed to put out 15W, wasting 5 or 10W would make it horribly inefficient).
Meanwhile the typical NAS out there is running an ARM processor (which are known for their low power consumption) or at worse a low powered Intel processor such as the N100.
Mind you, the idea of running you own NAS software is great (one can do way more with that than with a proprietary NAS, since its far more flexible) as long as you put it in the right hardware for the job.
When I had my setup with an ASUS EEE PC I had mobile external HDDs plugged to it via USB.
Since my use case was long-term storage and feeding video files to a Media TV Box, the bandwidth limit of USB 2.0 and using HDDs rather than SDDs was fine. Also back then I had 100Mbps ethernet so that too limited bandwidth.
Even in my current setup where I use a Mini-PC to do the same, I still have the storage be external mobile HDDs and now badwidth limits are 1Gbps ethernet and USB 3.0, which is still fine for my use case.
Because my use case now is long term storage, home file sharing and torrenting, my home network is using the same principles as distributed systems and modern microprocessor architectures: smaller faster data stores with often used data close to were its used (for example fast smaller SDDs with the OS and game executables inside my gaming machine, plus a torrent server inside that same Mini-PC using its internal SDD) and then layered outwards with decreasing speed and increasing size (that same desktop machine has an internal "storage" HDD filled with low use files, and one network hop from it there's the Mini-PC NAS sharing its external HDDs containing longer term storage files).
The whole thing tries to balance storage costs and with usage needs.
I suppose I could improve performance a bit more by setting up some of the space in the internal SDD in the Mini-PC as a read/write cache for the external HDDs, but so far I haven't had the patience to do it.
I used to design high performance distributed computing systems and funnilly enough my home setup follows the same design principles (which I had not noticed until thinking about it now as I wrote this).
Yeah, different hardware is designed for different use cases and generally won't work as well for other use cases, which is also why desktops seldom make for great NAS servers (their fans will also fail from constant use, plus their design spec is for much higher power usage so they have a lot more power waste even if trottled down).
That said my ASUS EEE PC lasted a few years on top of a cabinet in my kitchen (which is were the Internet came into my house so the router was also there) with a couple of external HDDs plugged in, and that's a bit of a hostile environment (because some of the particulates from cooking, including fat, don't get pulled out and end up accumulating there).
At the moment I just have a Mini-PC on my living room with a couple of external HDDs plugged in that works as NAS, TV Media Box and home server (including wireguard VPN on top of a 1Gbps connection, which at peak is somewhat processor intensive). It's an N100 and the whole thing has a TDP of 15W so the fan seldom activates. So far that seems to be the best long term solution, plus it's multiple use unlike a proprietary NAS. It's the some of the best €140 (not including the HDDs) I've ever spent.
Laptops are better, because they have an integrated uninterruptible power supply, but worse because most can't fit two hard drives internally. Less of a problem, now that most have USB3. Just run external RAID if you have to.
Arguably, a serious home server will need a UPS anyway to keep the modem and router online, but a UPS for just the NAS is still better than no UPS at all. Also, only a small UPS is needed for the modem and router. A full desktop UPS is much larger.
They make m.2 to SATA adapters that have like 10 SATA ports. A laptop motherboard in a case with one of those would be very interesting. I have plans for one but I need to buy some parts (keyboard and laptop fan).
Edit: the adapters run hot and are kind of fragile. I'd recommend having a thermal pad under it thermally coupling it to the motherboard and giving it some support.
I have an old machine been using as a Unraid server for years. It's an i7-3770 paired with 32GB of ram and like 4x2TB drives.
Finally upgrading it because it's just not going to keep meeting needs and frankly it's wicked old (might keep it as a gitlab runner server or something). Finally "upgrading" by taking some old hardware (and bought some new), to have a full compute + storage setup. Proxmox (Ryzen 9 5900XT + 128GB ram) with all the compute and TruNas (Ryzen 7 3700X + 64GB ram + 8x16TB drives [LSI LOGIC SAS9211-8I] [raidz2/82.62 TiB usable]) for storage with a private 10G direct link between the two (Intel X550T2BLK).
I'd use an old PC as a NAS but turned it on only on demand, when it was needed. Which does hurt its convenience factor a little.
Note: talking about desktops.
Why would I throw it away, when I can give it to someone who needs it more, or sell it?
Because selling is always a hassle, dealing with choosing beggars and scammers, and it may not be worth much anymore for general use.
For example, my old PC is a i7 4770k... it can't run Windows 11 or play remotely recent games. I don't know anyone who could use this thing, so to save a few watts I took out the GPU, put it in eco mode and have been using it as my Linux server.
My NUC uses 6-7W idle.
I have played around with some mini PC's (minisforum and beelink brand), they're neat but they turned out to be not very reliable, two have already died prematurely, and unfortunately they are not end-user serviceable. Lack of storage expansion options is an issue as well, if you don't just want to stack a bunch of external USB drives on top of each other.
The main concern with old hardware is probably powerdraw/efficiency, depending on how old your PC is, it might not be the best choice. But remember: companies are getting rid of old hardware fairly quickly, they can be a good choice and might be available for dirt cheap or even free.
I recently replaced my old Synology NAS from 2011 with an old Dell Optiplex 3050 workstation that companies threw away.
The system draws almost twice the power (25W) compared to my old synology NAS (which only drew 13W, both with 2 spinning drives), but increase in processing power and flexibility using TrueNAS is very noticable, it allowed me to also replace an old raspberry pi (6W) that only ran pihole.
So overall, my new home-server is close in power draw to the two devices it replaced, but with an immense increase in performance.
I've made a decent NAS out of a Raspberry Pi 4. It used USB to SATA converters and old hard drives.
My setup has one 3Tb drive and two 1.5Tb drives. The 1.5Tb drives form a 3Tb drive using RAID and then combines with the 3Tb drive to make redundant storage.
Yes it's inefficient AF but it's good enough for full HD streaming so good enough for me.
I'm too stingy to buy better drives.
The moment the Windows installer detected it, a blue screen ended the installation.
But a Linux installation worked and afterwards it was even possible to disable the damaged hardware permanently.
The laptop still runs without further problems.
Don't throw away your old PC
Literally first-world problems, right? There's absolutely no need to tell that to someone that don't live on a rich country. Old gear always finds some use or is sold/donated away.
Le Forze di Difesa Israeliane vietano i telefoni Android: gli iPhone ora sono "obbligatori"
Le Forze di Difesa Israeliane vietano i telefoni Android: gli iPhone ora sono "obbligatori"
Aggiornato il 30 novembre con un nuovo attacco informatico che prende di mira gli smartphone israeliani.
Ecco, questo è interessante. Poche settimane dopo la campagna di Google per promuovere Android come più sicuro di iPhone, la battaglia degli smartphone ha preso una piega improvvisa. L'esercito israeliano ha deciso di vietare i telefoni Android agli ufficiali superiori, per motivi di sicurezza.
La notizia è stata diffusa dalla radio dell'esercito israeliano e ripresa dal Jerusalem Post. "Secondo l'ordine previsto, ai comandanti dal grado di tenente colonnello in su sarà consentito utilizzare solo iPhone per le comunicazioni ufficiali. Secondo il rapporto, questa misura mira a ridurre il rischio di intrusioni nei telefoni degli ufficiali superiori".
IDF bans Androids for senior officers, mandates iPhones | The Jerusalem Post
A new directive would restrict IDF-issued devices to iPhones for lieutenant colonels, reducing the risk of intrusions for senior officers.The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com
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DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's reasons why
DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's reasons why
There are a lot of reasons to be skeptical.Adam Conway (XDA)
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The Memory Cartel: we can give you that feeling of childhood wonder, or, erase those embarrassing things keeping you awake at night. Or... we can make your enemies remember things that will haunt them forever... for a price.
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The Ram Cartel: leather, bears, tops, chains and spikes, their safe word is 'disestablishmentarianism'
Just built a rig to give me enough raw power I move however I need yo when this all blows up. Went with a Ryzen 5000 series cpu and ddr4 ram and a godawful motherboard with an Intel B580 cpu. It’s cheap but I now have more options.
Too bad I couldn’t get the opnsense VM working properly so I’m stuck with keeping the firewalla running. But that may not matter as the Nazis want to kill the internet anyway. We may be forced to rely on wonky mixnets like reticulum.
For example, OpenAI's new "Stargate" project reportedly signed deals with Samsung and SK Hynix for up to 900,000 wafers of DRAM per month to feed its AI clusters, which is an amount close to 40% of total global DRAM output if it's ever met. That's an absurd amount of DRAM.
Will these even be useful on the second hand market, or are these chips gonna be on specialized PCBs for these machines?
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Will these ever be useful on the second hand market
Nope, not ever. Even if it's standard form factor gear.
They will be disposed of ("recycled"), since that grants the largest asset depreciation tax break, and is the easiest economically. The grand majority of all data center gear gets trashed instead of reused or repurposed through the second hand market.
Source: I used to work at a hardware recycling facility, where much of the perfectly good hardware was required to be shredded, down to the components, because of these stipulations. It's such a waste.
Dumping bucket of tens of TB worth of modern RAM into a shredder is.... Infuriating.
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I think when the economics of destroying a thing is better than reusing a thing, we should maybe have some sort of incentives toward reuse.
I get that the logistics of setting up what's basically a secondary supply chain is difficult, but I've got to believe it would be for the better.
I get that the logistics of setting up what’s basically a secondary supply chain is difficult, but I’ve got to believe it would be for the better.
hear me out: an org that guaranteed destruction of any residual data and ensured that no component or resource was wasted, was responsible nationwide for the collection of all e-waste into resource streams OR repair for reuse.
I'm just saying, techpriests might make me reevaluate my views on organized religion.
The amount of Labor that would go into it it really isn't that high.
This is what distribution is for.
The company that owns the hardware is not the company that recycles it. The recycler can make a profit by reselling these components, they're not allowed to.
Many of these components still have to be pulled out so that labor cost is already a wash. The additional labor cost of testing, selling, packaging, and shipping is baked into the price in the secondary market.
Not everything is worth being resold, but many things are and those things are often not allowed to be resold due to destruction contracts.
The NAND market is an effective monopoly that has been caught price fixing in the past. They desperately want to keep prices as high as they can so they tightly control supply to prevent having any excess product. This screws everyone over as soon as there's a spike in demand that they failed to account for.
Instead of just keeping a consistent supply and allowing prices to drop from competition, we end up with a price rollercoaster that peaks every few years then crashes back down again. The severity is just higher than usual due to the higher demand from data centers.
The market desperately needs a new player that just consistently creates supply instead of playing stupid games, but the barrier to entry is too high.
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Fifteen Years Together and Her Tone Still Hits Like a Chalkboard
So yesterday I’m just trying to run a simple errand at the local store. This place is pet friendly, which is the only reason I tolerate it, so I had my dog with me. He’s the friendly one in the family, obviously.
And who’s standing there at her job like a plot twist I didn’t ask for?
My ex-wife. Fifteen-plus years of history wrapped in one human speedbump.
She spots my dog and suddenly she’s all sunshine, petting him like we didn’t survive a whole era together. My dog loves it, because he’s a dog and he’s smart enough not to get emotionally involved. Meanwhile, I’m standing there doing my usual routine: stay pleasant, stay tolerable, don’t let the annoyance leak out of my face.
My current wife talked to her more than I did, which is probably for the best. I kept it tight. Didn’t say much. Didn’t need to. I was just trying to get through the moment without my eye twitching.
But here’s the part that hit me like a bad flashback:
After all those years, her tone still grates on me. It’s unreal. It’s that chalkboard-scrape sound that makes your molars hurt. It’s that dial-up internet scream from the 90s, the one that made the whole house vibrate before you could connect for five minutes of slow loading misery. Somehow her voice still has that frequency that goes straight to the spine.
It wasn’t emotional. It wasn’t dramatic. It wasn’t even awkward.
It was just… noisy. Not loud, just that same old tone that reminds me exactly why life is better now.
We walked out. My wife and I joked about it. My dog? He just wanted more scratches. Must be nice.
Anyway, that’s how my quiet shopping trip turned into an unexpected reunion with the soundtrack of my past. Life really does throw curveballs, even the annoying ones.
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Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.Taranis
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Reticulum: Unstoppable Networks for The People - markqvist's talk at 38C3
Reticulum: Unstoppable Networks for The People
Reticulum is a cryptography-based networking stack for building local and wide-area networks with readily available hardware. Reticulum c...media.ccc.de
National Guard shooting suspect "radicalized since he's been here in this country," Noem claims
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claimed Sunday that the suspect in the shooting of two National Guard members near the White House last week was "radicalized since he's been here in this country" after arriving in Sept. 2021 from Afghanistan.
Officials have said the suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national, entered the U.S. as part of Operation Allies Welcome after the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Lakanwal was granted asylum by the Trump administration earlier this year. The CIA said Thursday that Lakanwal previously worked with the U.S. government, including the CIA, as a member of a partner force in Kandahar that ended in 2021 following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Since Wednesday's shooting, the Trump administration has ordered all asylum applications paused, according to an internal directive obtained by CBS News and two sources familiar with the order.
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- Circuit name: Lusail International Circuit
- First Grand Prix: 2021
- Number of laps: 57
- Circuit Length: 5.419 km
- Race Distance: 308.611 km
- Lap record: 1:22.384 Lando Norris (2024)
- 2024 winner: Max Verstappen
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White House launches media bias webpage with 'Offender Hall of Shame'
White House launches media bias webpage with 'Offender Hall of Shame'
The White House launched a page on its website Friday devoted to naming and shaming media outlets and reporters that publish stories it disagrees with.Scott Nover (The Spokesman-Review)
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1 killed, 11 injured in Russian drone attack on Kyiv Oblast. One person was killed and 11 people were injured in Vyshhorod district as Russia launched a drone attack on Kyiv Oblast overnight on Nov. 30.
Americans showing ‘constructive approach’ in peace talks, Zelensky says as Ukrainian delegates arrive in US. Ukrainian officials will meet with Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in Florida on Nov. 30. Zelensky said a final agreement could be ready “in the coming days.”
Zelensky’s ex-chief of staff Yermak says he’s ‘going to the front’ after resigning amid corruption probe. Former Presidential Office head Andriy Yermak said he intends to go to the front line after resigning from his post amid a major corruption investigation, the New York Post reported on Nov. 28, citing a letter he sent the outlet.
‘Successful’ Ukrainian naval drone strike disables 2 Russian shadow fleet tankers, source says. The operation targeted ships that, according to the source, could have transported nearly $70 million worth of oil and helped Moscow bypass international sanctions.
Ukraine attacks one of southern Russia’s largest oil refineries, sparks fire.
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‘Half of Kyiv without electricity’ — 2 killed, 38 injured in ‘serious‘ Russian attack on capital. Russia launched a mass missile and drone attack against Kyiv overnight on Nov. 29, killing two people and injuring 38 others, including a child, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service reported.
Russian drone violated Moldovan airspace during 10-hour attack on Kyiv, Chisinau says. Russian drones violated Moldova’s airspace during Moscow’s mass overnight attack against Kyiv, Moldovan President Maia Sandu said on Nov. 29.
‘Time to update’ Ukraine’s defense documents, Zelensky says after meeting top military, intelligence officials. President Volodymyr Zelensky met with Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal and military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov on Nov. 29 and ordered a revision of Ukraine’s core defense documents.
Drone attack forces oil terminal in Russia’s Novorossiysk to halt all loading operations. Naval drones struck the Caspian Pipeline Consortium’s marine terminal in the Russian port city of Novorossiysk on Nov. 29, forcing the facility to suspend oil shipments, the company said.
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Vom Nischenthema zur Technologiepolitik: #cnetz gibt sich neuen Sound – Jarzombek skizziert den „Deutschland-Stack“
Im Konrad-Adenauer-Haus in Berlin vollzieht das cnetz an diesem Wochenende einen Kurswechsel – programmatisch wie stilistisch. Zum Auftakt der Jahreshauptversammlung kündigte Sprecher Prof. Jörg Müller-Lietzkow an, das Netzwerk wolle „wieder lauter“ werden, sich stärker einmischen und einen eigenen Sound in der Digitalpolitik etablieren. Netzpolitik, so seine Botschaft, sei die Debatte von gestern. Künftig gehe es um Digitalpolitik als Technologiepolitik – und darum, wie Deutschland seine digitale Infrastruktur, seine Souveränität und seine Innovationsfähigkeit neu ordnet.
cnetz will zurück in den Maschinenraum der Politik
Müller-Lietzkow ließ keinen Zweifel daran, dass sich das Netzwerk nach einer Phase relativer Funkstille neu positionieren will. Viele hätten in den vergangenen Jahren gefragt, warum man so wenig vom cnetz höre, erzählte er. Die Antwort: Die Zeit der leisen Hintergrundarbeit sei vorbei, nun solle aus dem Netzwerk wieder eine hörbare Stimme werden – auch dann, wenn dies in Berlin nicht jedem gefalle.
Der Anspruch ist hoch: Weg von Detailstreitigkeiten über Uploadfilter (schöne Grüße in Richtung von Axel Voss) oder einzelne Social-Media-Regeln, hin zu den großen Linien der Technologiepolitik – technologische Souveränität, digitale Infrastruktur, KI-Einsatz im Staat, europäische Plattform-Ökonomie. Der Begriff Netzpolitik wird von Müller-Lietzkow fast demonstrativ zur historischen Kategorie erklärt. Wer heute über Digitalisierung spreche, müsse in Systemen denken: Stack, Datenräume, Cloud, KI-Agenten, Genehmigungsprozesse.
„Ohne cnetz hätte es dieses Ministerium nicht gegeben“
Der zweite Schwerpunkt des Tages: die Rolle des cnetz beim Aufbau des neuen Bundesministeriums für Digitales und Staatsmodernisierung. Thomas Jarzombek, Parlamentarischer Staatssekretär im Haus von Kersten Wildberger, zeichnete die Linie explizit nach.
Er würdigte das Netzwerk als „Stachel im Fleisch“ der Union: Ohne den kontinuierlichen Druck und die inhaltlichen Impulse aus dem cnetz, so Jarzombek, hätte es das eigenständige Digitalministerium in dieser Form nicht gegeben. Das sei mehr als eine Höflichkeitsfloskel – Jarzombek verwies auf die lange gemeinsame Vorgeschichte: vom frühen „digitalpolitischen Verein“ bis zu Strategiedebatten in der Merkel-Ära.
Mit dem neuen Ministerium verbinde sich nun ein Paradigmenwechsel: weg von verstreuten Zuständigkeiten und blockierenden Ressort-Egoismen, hin zu einer Instanz, die Standards setzen, IT-Projekte bündeln und Prioritäten definieren könne.
Der Deutschland-Stack als digitale Grundinfrastruktur
Den inhaltlichen Kern seiner Rede widmete Jarzombek dem „Deutschland-Stack“ – einer digitalen Grundinfrastruktur für Verwaltung und Wirtschaft. Ziel sei es, eine durchgängige Architektur zu schaffen, in der zentrale Prinzipien wie „APIs first“, Wiederverwendung von Komponenten, einheitliche Datenformate und Portabilität von Anfang an mitgedacht würden.
Drei Elemente hob er besonders hervor:
- E-Wallet für digitale Identitäten: Die bisherige eID auf dem Personalausweis werde von einer alltagstauglichen Wallet abgelöst, die Bürgerinnen und Bürger für Verwaltungsprozesse ebenso nutzen könnten wie Unternehmen für Authentifizierung und Signaturen. Die Nutzung soll niedrigschwelliger werden – aber technisch so robust, dass Verwaltung und Wirtschaft darauf aufbauen können.
- Registermodernisierung: Anstatt Bürger und Unternehmen immer wieder die gleichen Daten beizubringen, sollen Register miteinander sprechen. Anträge – vom BAföG bis zu Fachverfahren in der Verwaltung – sollen künftig automatisiert prüfen können, ob die Voraussetzungen erfüllt sind.
- KI-gestützte Großvorhabensteuerung: Als Schaufensterprojekt nannte Jarzombek die geplante Genehmigungsplattform, die mit Hilfe von KI-Agenten Großprojekte wie Brücken, Bahntrassen, Stromtrassen oder die Wasserstoff-Infrastruktur begleitet. Heute dauerten Planfeststellungsverfahren fünf bis acht Jahre – die erste Version der Plattform solle diese Zeit perspektivisch halbieren.
KI-Agenten gegen den deutschen Genehmigungsstau
Besonders konkret wurde Jarzombek bei der Genehmigungsplattform. Über 100 Millionen Euro stelle der Bund bereit, um im Wettbewerb Lösungen zu entwickeln, die ganze Genehmigungsprozesse Ende-zu-Ende digital abbilden.
Antragsunterlagen mit bis zu 20 Aktenordnern sollen zunächst automatisiert auf Vollständigkeit und Widersprüche geprüft werden. Die Plattform markiert den Sachbearbeitern, wo Gutachten und Antragsbestandteile nicht zusammenpassen – allein dieser Schritt könne mehrere Monate Verfahren sparen.
Noch deutlicher wird das Potenzial bei der Bürgerbeteiligung: Tausende oder gar Hunderttausende Einwendungen, bislang als Papierflut in die Behörden getragen, könnten in wenigen Stunden digital erfasst, clustert und nach Argumentationsmustern strukturiert werden. Das System liefert nicht nur eine Übersicht, welche Argumente wie oft vorgebracht werden, sondern auch Vorlagen für die juristische Auswertung und eine automatische Generierung des Planfeststellungsbeschlusses.
Das Versprechen ist ambitioniert: Der deutsche Genehmigungsstau soll nicht länger mit mehr Personal, sondern mit mehr Algorithmus bekämpft werden – ohne die politische Verantwortung aus der Hand zu geben.
Sonderwege unter Druck
Jarzombek kündigte einen Zustimmungsvorbehalt an: Künftig sollen alle Ressorts ihre großen IT-Projekte beim Digitalministerium anmelden und abstimmen müssen.
Die Logik dahinter: Statt unterschiedlich gestrickter Fachverfahren, Portale und Plattformen sollen wiederverwendbare Bausteine entstehen, die bundesweit funktionieren.
In der Diskussion klang durch, was kaum jemand offen ausspricht: Wer sich dem Stack entzieht, riskiert, technologisch und organisatorisch abgehängt zu werden.
Digitale Souveränität: mehr als Symbolpolitik
Ein weiterer roter Faden der Tagung in der CDU-Bundesgeschäftsstelle war die Frage nach digitaler Souveränität. Jarzombek beschrieb, wie sehr Deutschland und Europa von US-Cloud-Anbietern und Plattformen abhängig seien – und wie schwer es europäischen Herausforderern falle, in öffentlichen Ausschreibungen überhaupt als ernsthafte Option wahrgenommen zu werden.
Die Devise: keine Abschottung, kein plumper Protektionismus, aber eine bewusste Stärkung europäischer Anbieter und Architekturen. Das Wirtschaftsargument liegt auf der Hand: Wenn Wertschöpfung künftig vor allem über Software und Services statt über Hardware erzielt wird, entscheidet die Plattformfrage über künftigen Wohlstand.
Dazu gehört auch, Regulierung so zu gestalten, dass sie Innovation ermöglicht statt verhindert – etwa über den „Digital Omnibus“, mit dem Datenschutz- und KI-Regeln für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen handhabbarer werden sollen.
Ein Netzwerk meldet sich zurück
Am Ende steht ein doppeltes Signal: Das cnetz meldet sich als politischer Akteur zurück – mit dem Anspruch, technologiepolitische Debatten nicht nur zu kommentieren, sondern aktiv zu prägen. Und das Digitalministerium setzt mit Deutschland-Stack, Genehmigungsplattform und E-Wallet eine Agenda, die deutlich über Symbolpolitik hinausgeht.
Für Unternehmen, Verwaltungen und Länder bedeutet das: Die Komfortzone der „Pilotprojekte“ ist vorbei. Wer jetzt nicht beginnt, sich in diese Architektur einzufügen – technisch, organisatorisch und mental –, wird sich in wenigen Jahren in einer Parallelwelt wiederfinden, in der alte Sonderwege sehr realen Standortnachteil bedeuten.
Der neue Sound, den cnetz für sich reklamiert, ist damit zugleich ein Stresstest für die digitale Republik: Ob aus den wohlklingenden Ankündigungen belastbare Infrastruktur wird, entscheidet sich nicht in Talkrunden, sondern in Vergabestellen, Fachverfahren und Genehmigungsbehörden – genau dort, wo der Deutschland-Stack ansetzen soll.
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Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z
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The Linux approach did take some getting used to, of course, but mounting drives to folders just makes too much sense. The only qualm I've had with it is if the drive doesn't get mounted and stuff gets written to that folder, which, AFAIK, isn't possible in windows.
Also, tbf (and balanced), windows also supports mounting drives to folders iirc, it's just a weird way to do it.
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One (contrived) example would be to have a drive that doesn’t have any installed file system filters on it. Filters being the hooks that windows, antivirus, etc have that intercept file writes and such. Could make it much faster on windows for that use-case. I can see custom software using that drive.
Contrived? Definitely. But potentially useful. I can see it working similarly to something MS has in testing which is the file system thing that is super fast but is limited in features—can’t seem to find it atm…
Edit: Found it. Dev drive via ReFS.
So? Who cares? Drive letters were always a dumb idea.
Also, obligatory "get your butt off of windows, switch to Linux."
Drive Letters are also for removable media (floppy disks, CD/DVD drives, others [magneto-optical drives, etc), not to mention network drives. Not just Fixed Disks (hard drives).
It's just an easy way to specify one disk from another.
This behavior is actually in line with what I'd expect, as Unicode support in Windows predates UTF-16, so Windows generally does not handle surrogate pairs and instead operates almost exclusively on WTF-16 code units directly.
So it's just straight UCS-2, and the software does enforce that, pretty much the opposite of "WTF-16".
Edit: Pretty sure "modern" (XP+ I think) Windows actually does enforce UTF-16 validity in the system, but there's always legacy stuff from the NT4/2K era that might turn up.
Trump’s niece explains why ‘rattled’ president is lashing out at female reporters
Mary Trump shared her theories after a series of incidents involving her uncle and female journalists
In the most recent incident Thursday, the president lashed out at a journalist who asked him about the D.C shooting suspect, asking if she was a “stupid person”.
Just one day before, Mary Trump had addressed her uncle’s previous run-ins with female reporters on her show, Mary Trump Live.
“His misogynistic attacks against reporters in particular are increasing and that means a couple of things,” she said. “It means that he’s increasingly comfortable lodging such attacks,” she continued, before reeling off a list of targeted groups. “There’s no hiding it anymore.”
The president’s niece also theorised that the sharp rebukes he delivers when questioned could be a sign that the pressure is getting to him in his second term.
Remember these soldiers filmed 3 days ago murdering two surrendered palestinians ? Ben-Gvir just promoted their officer
From this source, the soldiers were interrogated for 5 hours, and were then released without conditions. Their weapons were not confiscated, and they returned to their unit.
And if Israel doesn't want "terrorists", then they simply have to accept the Oslo agreements, they could have been at peace even before the 90s if they weren't so selfish and greedy(, they don't care about al-Aqsa for example). Sadistic abusers playing the victims.
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Ben-Gvir promotes officer whose soldiers shot dead surrendered Palestinians
A day after Border Police officers shot two Palestinians dead after they had raised their hands, National Security Minister Ben-Gvir visited their unit's base to 'strengthen and hug heroic fighters' and announce the promotion of their commanderJosh Breiner (Haaretz)
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eta Platforms har förbjudit politisk reklam på sina sociala medier som exempelvis Facebook, Instagram och Threads. Alphabet har förbjudit det i alla sina kanaler som exempelvis Google och Youtube. Information från Valmyndigheten omfattas också av förbudet när det gäller Metas sociala medier. Det innebär att det är svårare för Valmyndigheten att infoformera om valet nästa år.
Forpasis Rob Moerbeek, vivanta institucio
Rob Moerbeek eklaboris en la Centra Oficejo de UEA en Roterdamo en 1969. Ĉiuj, kiuj iam vizitis la oficejon, certe konas kaj memoras lian senpretendan afablecon. Lia lasta labortago tie estis la 7-a de novembro 2025. Tri semajnojn poste li forpasis en la aĝo de 89 jaroj.
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Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.Taranis
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Power surge: law changes could soon bring balcony solar to millions across US
Power surge: law changes could soon bring balcony solar to millions across US
Tweaks to state laws mean many Americans will be able to benefit from small, simple plug-in solar panelsOliver Milman (The Guardian)
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presente dell’octo di fine ’25 tra tormenti e riflessioni integralmente cosmiche
Stanotte ho proprio stabilito un nuovissimo record negativo, andando a letto alle 2 e mezza e… addormentandomi alle 4 e passa o qualcosa del genere; perché stanotte, come quella dell’altro giorno, ero maledettamente tormentata e ultimamente con me non c’è proprio versi a riguardo… Nella trappola del pensare involontariamente anziché riuscire a prendere sonno, però, […]
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Stanotte ho proprio stabilito un nuovissimo record negativo, andando a letto alle 2 e mezza e... addormentandomi alle 4 e passa o qualcosa del genere; perché sminioctt (fritto misto di octospacc)
I built a tool for managing config files
So, some times ago I had this question feddit.it/post/22496010 about how to manage my system configuration, storing it on a repository or something.
Many people recommended using ansible to manage the system as a whole, but my system was already up and running, what I wanted instead was something to move around files while fixing up their permissions, so I build a python script for that.
The script grew more refined as time went on, and so now I'm publishing it so anyone can use it.
p.s.: this script is purely python and has no external dependencies!
How to manage configuration files
I'm trying to find a better solution to manage configuration files, both user's dotfiles and system files in /etc.
I'm running an ubuntu server where I have a bunch services with custom configurations, and systemd drop-in files, but on top of that I also have some scripts and user dotfiles that I need to track.What I'm doing right now is that I have a folder full of symlinks in the admin user's directory (poor username choice, btw) and I'm using bindfs to mount this directory inside a git repository, this way git won't see them as symlinks, and will version them as regular files. The problem with doing this is that as git deletes and rewrites files, bindfs fails to track the changes and converts the symlink to regular files.
I looked into chezmoi, but that is only meant to track user dotfiles and will refuse to add a file from /etc, that is unless doing some extra work. But even so, chezmoi will not track the user:group of files, so I would still have to manage that manually.
I also looked into GNU Stow, and that would not complain about files from /etc or anywhere, but it similarly will not track permissions and I would have to manage that manually.
I see that some people are using ansible to manage dotfiles, but at that point, it would make sense to just migrate to ansible, except I don't want to rebuild my server from scratch to use ansible. Also it looks like a lot to learn.
Is there a better solution I'm not seeing? Maybe something using git hooks?
Edit:
I ended up using pre-commit and post-merge git hooks to launch a python script. The python script reads from a yaml file where I annotate the file paths and permissions, and then copies to or from the file location to the git repository.
I used the sudoers file to allow the admin user to run this specific script with specific arguments as root without password (because the git commands are run from VS Code and not manually), which is dangerous, be careful when doing that. I have taken special care to make this secure:
* I used absolute paths for everything, to avoid allowing running from a different pwd as a way to copy different files
* The script itself is installed in a root-owned location, so an unprevileged user cannot edit it
* The configuration yaml is root-owned, so an unprevileged user cannot modify which files are copied or their permissions
* Configuration files that can grant permission are not managed by this script (the yaml, /etc/passwd, /etc/groups, polkit rules, the sudoers file, ...)Edit 2: you can find the python script here
GitHub - KayJay7/copicat: Simple automated file copying utiliy
Simple automated file copying utiliy. Contribute to KayJay7/copicat development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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That is a good question. I have considered using gnu stow before building this. But there's a couple of problems with that.
Git doesn't follow symlinks, it stores them as links in the repo, so your only option is to keep the files in the repo, and symlink from the config file location to the repo. This is fine for user config files (like from your .config folder), but if you want to keep system config files (like those from /etc) then the git process needs to run as root to modify those files, because symlinked files share permissions and ownership. And even then, git will always create everything as root because it only tracks permission bits, not ownership, so you will need to constantly fix up ownership of your files.
With this tool instead you explicitly tell it the ownership and permission of files, and it takes care of that for you (it still needs root permissions of course).
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/etc/ufw/sysctl.conf which is owned by root:adm and has permission 644 in your repo, but also /etc/ntfy/server.yml which is owned by ntfy:ntfy with permissions 664. How do you keep track of this with gnu stow?
Ah now I understand the purpose. I only use it for my (personal) dotfiles, which as a term is ambiguous at best, but in my case I mean config files. That was how I essentially misread your title. Obviously all those files are owned by my user, and most live in ~/.config or similar locations beneath my home directory. Things like application preferences, basically.
Obviously your tool also works for this, but I now understand it's more meant for system wide config files.
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I made copicat mostly because I am actually using it, and then decided to make it public because really I didn't find anything like it.
Hey 😀 Thanks for sharing your project ! I'm still not 100% sure I need this because right now I just make backups of my dot files and config files and i'm relatively new with git and my self-hosted forgejo instance.
However, after experimenting the power of version control, i'm kinda interessted to host my dot/config files into my hosted forgejo instance ! But permissions and ownership are not natively supported and needs manual intervention !
Is that the issues your project is solving?
DID YOU skip the previous warning? Make sure you didn't skip it, as this might cause you to lose access to your own files!
😂🫡 Well written and funny documentation ! Thank you !
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Is that the issues your project is solving?
That's exactly it, and also the fact that git doesn't follow symlinks. Just a word of warning, If you are still inexperienced I suggest you run my tool manually instead of automating it with git hooks, as it is inherently less secure. In the post I linked in the description you can see some of the precautions I took to make it more secure.
Still, running it manually is fine.
Feel free to give some feedback if you start using the tool 🙂
How to manage configuration files
I'm trying to find a better solution to manage configuration files, both user's dotfiles and system files in /etc.
I'm running an ubuntu server where I have a bunch services with custom configurations, and systemd drop-in files, but on top of that I also have some scripts and user dotfiles that I need to track.What I'm doing right now is that I have a folder full of symlinks in the admin user's directory (poor username choice, btw) and I'm using bindfs to mount this directory inside a git repository, this way git won't see them as symlinks, and will version them as regular files. The problem with doing this is that as git deletes and rewrites files, bindfs fails to track the changes and converts the symlink to regular files.
I looked into chezmoi, but that is only meant to track user dotfiles and will refuse to add a file from /etc, that is unless doing some extra work. But even so, chezmoi will not track the user:group of files, so I would still have to manage that manually.
I also looked into GNU Stow, and that would not complain about files from /etc or anywhere, but it similarly will not track permissions and I would have to manage that manually.
I see that some people are using ansible to manage dotfiles, but at that point, it would make sense to just migrate to ansible, except I don't want to rebuild my server from scratch to use ansible. Also it looks like a lot to learn.
Is there a better solution I'm not seeing? Maybe something using git hooks?
Edit:
I ended up using pre-commit and post-merge git hooks to launch a python script. The python script reads from a yaml file where I annotate the file paths and permissions, and then copies to or from the file location to the git repository.
I used the sudoers file to allow the admin user to run this specific script with specific arguments as root without password (because the git commands are run from VS Code and not manually), which is dangerous, be careful when doing that. I have taken special care to make this secure:
* I used absolute paths for everything, to avoid allowing running from a different pwd as a way to copy different files
* The script itself is installed in a root-owned location, so an unprevileged user cannot edit it
* The configuration yaml is root-owned, so an unprevileged user cannot modify which files are copied or their permissions
* Configuration files that can grant permission are not managed by this script (the yaml, /etc/passwd, /etc/groups, polkit rules, the sudoers file, ...)Edit 2: you can find the python script here
GitHub - KayJay7/copicat: Simple automated file copying utiliy
Simple automated file copying utiliy. Contribute to KayJay7/copicat development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
The human cost of renewables: Why Australia should build solar here
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/46467998
With the renewable energy transition underway in Australia, the higher than expected uptake of solar panels has human rights groups concerned about links to Uyghur forced labour in the supply chain. As Australia looks into developing its own solar panel industry, rights groups say government and industry should work to ensure the clean energy transition isn't at the cost of freedom.[...]
Without a domestic supply chain, though, Australia is importing around 90 per cent of its solar panels from China.
Ramila Chanisheff, President of the Australian Uyghur Tangritagh Women's Association, says her people are being forced to make them.
“We know that the biggest industry that is complicit in Uyghur forced labour is the solar industry or the wind turbine industry or the EV vehicles.”
Since 2016, the Chinese government has reportedly kidnapped and detained millions of Uyghur people in the Xinjiang province, known to its indigenous Uyghur population as East Turkistan.
In what was officially described as an effort to combat extremism, around one million members of the majority Muslim Uyghur minority were sent to so-called re-education centres between 2017 and 2019.
Evidence and testimony from ex-detainees reveals torture and political indoctrination, forced sterilisation and drugging, as well as food deprivation to punish those who showed resistance.
An official Chinese government report published in November 2020 documents the “placement” of 2.6 million minority citizens in farms and factories within the Uyghur Region and across the country through state-sponsored initiatives.
[...]
“We do have credible evidence and Uyghur who have spoken about their family members who've been taken into the concentration camps, which have with research, and that's come out that they are turned into labour camps. All those Uyghur reserve being put into forced labour within East Turkistan or Xinjiang and or being trafficked to mainland China to do the work.”
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Australia has poured billions into solar power and green manufacturing and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency is currently funding feasibility studies for new domestic polysilicon production facilities.
But for now, with a few small exceptions, Australia still imports most of its solar panels from China.
Fuzz Kitto is the co-founder of Be Slavery Free, which works to raise awareness and end modern slavery.
“The conflict between climate and human rights commitment has led investors to feel that they've got no choice but to invest in companies sourcing, or connected to, the Xinjiang region despite the human rights abuses that are there. And even though the experts say that there's enough outside of that region to supply the United States, Europe and leading countries in their needs for solar produced electricity, it is certainly not being transparent about where these are coming from. In fact, quite opaque sometimes and a lot of greenwashing.”
[...]
To make solar panels you need solar-grade polysilicon, which is made from silica sand produced from quartz.
China manufactures around 95 per cent of the global supply of polysilicon, much of it made in factories with links to forced Uyghur labour.
According to the Australian Mining Review, Australia is the largest silica sand exporter in the Asia-Pacific region, with most of our exports going to Chinese markets.
[...]
Fuzz Kitto says we should be making it here.
“I think one of the great difficulties is that people think that there are no alternatives and now there are a growing amount of that. The thing is that in Xinjiang there are the sands that produce the polysilicon. So to produce poly silicons, basically you need cheap electricity and you need sands of that quality. We do have sands of that quality in Australia, not quite of the standard of Xinjiang. In fact, we export sand to China for the making of polysilicons, which is just incredible. Why we are not producing an industry in Australia of making them is beyond us.”
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White House launches website to excoriate media for ‘biased’ stories
Trump administration lists reporting it objects to in latest escalation of attacks on US journalism
The White House rolled out a new section of its official website on Friday that publicly criticizes and catalogs media organizations and journalists it claims have distorted coverage.
At the top of the page, the text reads: “Misleading. Biased. Exposed.” The feature names the Boston Globe, CBS News and the Independent as “media offenders of the week”, accusing them of inaccurately portraying Trump’s remarks about six Democratic lawmakers who released of video encouraging military members to not follow illegal orders.
The controversy arose after Trump accused Democrats of “seditious behavior, punishable by death” on social media. He also reposted a statement including the words: “hang them.”
According to the site, “The Democrats and Fake News Media subversively implied that President Trump had issued illegal orders to service members. Every order President Trump has issued has been lawful. It is dangerous for sitting Members of Congress to incite insubordination in the United States’ military, and President Trump called for them to be held accountable.”
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UEA ne sukcesis vendi sian domon
La planata vendo de la Centra Oficejo de UEA ĝis nun ne efektiviĝis, ĉar la aĉetonto ne sukcesis pagi la garantiaĵon. UEA tamen esperas, ke la vendokontrakto povos esti subskribita post la jarŝanĝo. Plu mankas plano por la estonteco de la libroservo.
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Companies swamped by 3,000 hours of paperwork to tap EU climate funds
Companies swamped by 3,000 hours of paperwork to tap EU climate funds
Of the €7.1bn awarded from the bloc’s flagship innovation programme for clean tech, only 5% has been paid outAlice Hancock (Financial Times)
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Linus (Sebastian) spoke about how he didn't even get the reference but Linus (Torvalds) prompted him to go and watch Highlander ("there can only be one!!")
You should've kept watching it. There's some good stuff there.
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in reply to TheGrandNagus • • •I laughed so hard at the highlander reference. It might just be that you gotta know the specific meme and culture to enjoy it. Even YouTube Linus didn't know the reference.
Seeing the two Linus's pulling out katanas on each other was hilarious.
mcv
in reply to AceBonobo • • •SaltySalamander
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in reply to SaltySalamander • • •God forbid someone who's made their life tech is very excited that Torvalds has come to visit them and turned out to be a really nice guy.
Torvalds will probably be the highlight guest of his entire career, and he knows it. Of course that's enormously exciting.
paequ2
in reply to sexy_peach • • •Hardware
- AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9960X
- GIGABYTE TRX50 AERO D Motherboard
- Samsung SSD 9100 PRO 2TB SSD
- 64GB ECC RAM
- Noctua NH-U14S TR5-SP6 Cooler
- Intel Arc B580 GPU
- Fractal Design Torrent E-ATX Case
- Seasonic PRIME TX-1600 1600W 80+ Titanium PSU
OS
- Fedora
BigTurkeyLove
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in reply to BigTurkeyLove • • •Its not about how much it costs. It about how much it saves...
AceBonobo
in reply to paequ2 • • •looks at the specs
Yeah it makes sense they couldn't afford to put any ram in
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