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If you have a decent masonry stove, good airflow and dry firewood then most of the particles will simply burn. Once the stove is hot enough, the smoke will ignite and most of that soot is converted into heat and energy.

The other Nordic countries have similar movements. I assume there are others too.

There are some oil reserves in the Baltic and there's a reason the EU is very interested in getting Ukraine on board (Black Sea oil), but frankly, it's more likely we'll just buy it from somewhere else once fossil fuels have been phased out.

Until now there's been over-investment in renewables, but too little in modernizing the power grids. The result has been windmills being stopped during production peaks, because there's nowhere to send the power.

I'd guess investing in grid upgrades, storage and cheap baseload capacity will be the main focus for the European energy the next 20 years.

I'd be surprised if we'd completely emptied the Baltic and Baltic seas of oil in 20 years, and if we do, there are alternatives.

What we do need is that European politicians wake up and realise that maintaining stable supplies in time of crisis is more important than short-term profits during relatively good times. Some investments in self-sufficiency are definitely needed, but the EU as a whole should have no problem ramping up production of the basics like food, steel, concrete and energy. That is, of course, assuming someone does something about it. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has rattled a lot of people and while the EU is a slow moving beast it is already responding.

I'm more worried about how to make the economy of it all work out. Someone is going to pay for all that it's going to be through taxes, and whomever gets that lottery ticket might not respond as expected (big Tech may decide to leave, smaller business could decide to simply shut down, regular people may cheat on taxes or start building guillotine replicas in public places, and so on.).

The most obvious abuse would be to use it as a simple proxy.

The Metamask spamming campaign primarily use their own list -- compromised credentials are mainly used to get SMTP access and then spam away until they get caught.

And yet, XP was a bloated pile of bugs when it was launched. It required a massive 64 MB of RAM and used much more CPU than Windows 2000.

From the draft:

> In order not to hamper innovation or research, free and open-source software developed or supplied outside the course of a commercial activity should not be covered by this Regulation. This is in particular the case for software, including its source code and modified versions, that is openly shared and freely accessible, usable, modifiable and redistributable. In the context of software, a commercial activity might be characterized not only by charging a price for a product, but also by harging a price for technical support services, by providing a software platform through which the manufacturer monetises other services, or by the use of personal data for reasons other than exclusively for improving the security, compatibility or interoperability of the software

The requirements are on the official web site: http://legacy.3drealms.com/wolf3d/index.html

You need to decrease the window size a bit if want it to be playable on a 286, though. At full size, I tend to get a headache.

I'm from that age bracket. That one teenage mom from my in-group as a kid is a grandmother now.

The majority of children from that group of parents are just about old enough to apply for uni now, though.

WordPress uses a lot of resources for 404 pages. It's dumb but WordPress is everywhere.

One site being hammered is one thing. Thousands of sites being hammered at the same time is another. The issue in the article is a current and live problem. Blocking the requests saves a lot of CPU cycles.

I'd buy that album!

I love vinyl. And yes, it's a gimmick in the sense that the value is mostly in the novelty value rather than vinyl as a medium. Quality-wise, most new records seem sturdy and well-made but the mastering is generably horrible, and records from before the loudness wars sound much better.

If I wanted audiophile quality I'd buy a FLAC download instead.

I get that it's a black box. After all, nobody wants to tell the spammers what the ingredients of their secret anti-spam sauce are.

The problem is that it's obviously not working; the amount of false positives are staggering and from what I've heard they're still letting a lot of actual spam through.

But, as the sibling comment mentioned, there's little to no incentive for the freemail giants to improve the situation when they're themselves offering paid services with better spam filtering.

A few years earlier, Compaq, my first helpdesk job, had similar issues with caps in their PSU's. The normal problem statement would be that the computer simply went out with a loud bang.

One client once called regarding 80 Evo's who'd all gone out, one after another, over the course of a single day.

This is a well-known problem in the industry. Gmail's spam filtering is a black box with no apparent way to prevent emails from randomly ending up in spam.

Politics

First, take a deep breath.

Second, unless you're in a situation where you've pissed off/threatened some rather large actors, you should be fine assuming you follow best practices for backup, software, update and password management and you avoid using things like cheap IoT devices to connect to your cloud services.

Third, when disaster strikes, keep calm, rely on backups, change affected passwords and notify others who might get affected.

Not the GP but I use ZFS snapshots for such things. Should the files be overwritten or deleted I can always fetch an older copy from snapshots.

The trick is to make sure nothing has access to the backup storage, which is obviously easier said than done.

The big deal here is the yield; the field outside my window yields 6 tonnes/hectare/year on a good year. The article mentions 117 tonnes/hectare and I assume it's on a yearly basis.

I can't imagine the production being more energy efficient than a regular field, but it sure saves space. I can imagine places like Singapore would benefit greatly since it could produce food locally.

They're horrible places to live, though. Pollution, noise, light pollution, they're crowded -- it's impossible to get away from others even for a few minutesb-- and the stench is just awful.

Efficient, yes, but quality of life is unacceptably low.

Performance is lower when there isn't enough requests to keep the more common lookups cached. A more busy resolver with the more common entries cached will have a significant performance advantage.

What's your opinion on Belgians and the Swiss?

That Finland has a sizable Swedish-speaking minority? The guy was considered Swedish back then; Finland was simply the Eastern half of the Swedish kingdom.

There's plenty of Finnish speaking Swedes too. Is that also an argument for invasion?

Also, Tungsten.

It'll still work somewhat. Just inefficiently.

My in-group used them extensively. For just about everything.

It doesn't really matter though; the ban on straws and taxes on shopping bags have resulted in a noticably lower amount of said products blowing around main roads. Totally worth it in my opinion.

Now, if we could just get biodegradable coffee and soda lids...

I get that argument, but wouldn't it be better to bury it deep so that the carbon is taken away rather than added to the ecosystem?

Sure, small-scale "energy recycling" makes sense, but if everyone did it with all our waste plastic outout then we'd pretty much just be using fossil fuels with extra steps, and the carbon will end up in the atmosphere.

Indeed. Similar discussions were held when the dotcom bubble burst. I doubt it was the first time.