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Miss Gayle

"Who asked for this? Who voted for this? Who will resist?"

Have fun paying for muskrat and google and bezo's energy and water usage. You know they're not going to. And if there's not enough water for you and them? Guess who is going without! I'll give you a hint - it's not them.

AI Demands to Be Fed. We’re All Servers Now Andrew Nikiforuk, originally published by The Tyee June 18, 2025 The colossal energy demands of artificial intelligence have earth-shaking implications for everyone. Already rising steeply, they are set to accelerate at a dizzying pace as various global powers race to be the first to achieve supreme intelligence over everything. Teaser image credit: Datacenter Equinix AM3 (low-rise) en AM4 (high-rise) in Amsterdam design by Benthem Crouwel architects, completed in 2017. By Choinowski – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=146691474 "Let’s be clear about what we are doing here. We are using lakes of clean water, reviving coal-powered stations, gulping methane, raising electrical prices, squandering agricultural land and cannibalizing electrical supplies to ask inane questions and make videos about stupid shit."
#Electricity#AI#Community
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Wen

Having allowed the farce of privatised monopolies (even if they did not do the privatisation), with the Westminster government succumb to blackmail (again)?

Lenders vying to take over Thames Water have demanded that the struggling company and its management be granted immunity from prosecution for serious environmental crimes as a condition of acquiring it.

theguardian.com/business/2025/

The Guardian · Bidders demand Thames Water granted immunity over environmental crimesBy John Collingridge
#Water#Environment#Blackmail
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Dendrobatus Azureus

Something fascinating happens when I run sudo without having a gateway to the internet ready.
Instead of executing immediately sudo times out for nine, I repeat 9 full seconds, before it reacts

I use sudo plain without any switches and my command structure is

sudo command

I wouldn't have stumbled upon this, if for reasons which are not important now, I didn't have a permanent internet connection at this moment.

I will say that this bug that I have found has nothing to do with sudo in itself

The reason why I say that is when you look at the man page of sudo you will see that it doesn't do any networking at all, when you don't invoke switches

Besides the sudo that I use comes straight of the BSD source structure

The BSD programmers do not play when it comes down to stability of their software. Only when a program runs Rock Solid stable is it released. When a program is in beta it is clearly marked and it shall not be in a standard BSD distribution which is deemed stable.

This means that I have to hunt for something somewhere within my distribution, where there's a link put which shouldn't be there, between sudo and a live internet connection when you do not invoke any network switches.

Mind you that my lan is running and the machine is connected to the lan, via a switch, which is connected to the router, which is connected to the Gateway. The Gateway is live, the DSLAM is working but the internet connection is down

linux.die.net/man/8/sudo

The screencap displays a shot of a mobile device showing a Linux man page for the "sudo" command. The top section of the image features a dark background with a red header containing the text "die.net" and a red dice icon. Below this, the title "sudo(8) - Linux man page" is prominently displayed with a red underline. The content is organized into sections: "Name," "Synopsis," and "Description." The "Name" section describes "sudo, sudoedit - execute a command as another user." The "Synopsis" section lists various command-line options and usage examples, such as "sudo -h | -K | -k | -V" and "sudo -v [-Akns] [-g group name | #gid] [-p prompt] [-u user name | #uid]." The "Description" section explains that "sudo allows a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser or another user, as specified by the security policy." The bottom of the image shows a browser interface with a URL bar displaying "linux.die.net/man/8" and navigation icons. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.260 Wh
#Bugs#BètaTesting#networking
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ℒӱḏɩę :blahaj:

Utility attacks on net metering are frivolous.

Let's look at an example.

Lydie's Neighbor's house uses 20kWh per day.

Lydie over produces all of that and then some.

Lydie's kWh arrive at her neighbor's house with almost no line loss, and no use of transmission.

If the utility powered Lydie's neighbor from their power plants, they might need to generate 25kWh, assuming 5kWh is lost in transmission.

But the utility charges Lydie's neighbor full price for Lydie's kWh even though the utility is coming out ahead, and tries to say that Lydie doesn't deserve full net metering.

It's BS and we all know it.

#Netmetering#solar#renewables
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