Posts by TheVogon 3511 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jan 2013
"CO2 - makes plants grow better"
No it makes plants grow faster. Unfortunately increased CO2 also drastically decreases the nutritional value of many crops and increases toxin uptake.
"will contribute to desert areas growing again"
No, AGW will increase desertification overall.
" if you get rid of your reasonably new petrol car and replace it with a hybrid or electric "coz environment", you've more likely done more harm than good "
No, even when powered with fossil fuel generated electricity its still a lower carbon footprint than combustion engine vehicles due to the much higher efficiency.
"As I type this the UK demand is"
As I said generating CAPACITY is over 50% renewables / low carbon.
But supply has also been over 50% low carbon too:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/dec/22/uk-hits-clean-energy-milestone-50-of-electricity-from-low-carbon-sources
"Offshore (without the subsidies) is hellishly expensive due to the amount of effort and material required. "
Citation:
https://www.ft.com/content/2ce7ac15-ee6e-3f9a-b427-6d34dac99ba2
"The price of electricity guaranteed to offshore wind developers in this latest auction has dropped to as low as £57.50 per megawatt hour – a significant fall from the average £117.14/MWh awarded to offshore schemes in the last comparable subsidy round in 2015.The latest “strike price”, which is guaranteed for 15 years and rises with inflation, is also well below the £92.50/MWh controversially promised by the government to the French and Chinese developers of the new Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in Somerset. The Hinkley price, which also rises with inflation and is therefore already worth closer to 100/MWh, has been secured for the first 35 years of the plant’s operation.
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Germany also announced just a month ago that they are phasing out all coal power stations.
Nuclear is way more expensive per KWh than new solar and wind installations and plants require vast upfront capital investment and take many years to build. This is largely why global renewable generating capacity is already about 4 times that of nuclear at ~ > 2400GW.
"All in a flooding world <- this is a foregone conclusion even if there were not global warming due to humans."
Why do you think that? Natural Milankovitch climate cycles should now be slowly cooling the planet down into the next glacial if it was not for us which would mean more ice / decreasing sea levels.
"Increased reliance on carbon derived energy"
Well no we are already drastically reducing reliance on that. Just for example of 50% of the UK's power generation capacity is now from renewables.
"Failed nuclear power / renewal programmes"
Well yes, the UK cancelled a planned new nuclear plant because new off shore wind power is about half the cost per KW/h
"Increased expense finding scarce fossil fuels"
We wont need those so much except for plastics. Not a problem.
There has never been any shortage of ways or reasons to tax us. If your government spends more than you want then vote for another one.
Taxes to make something "go away" are generally designed to make unwanted behaviour more expensive rather than to raise revenue.
"They simply won't say 'no' when asked if they understood what was just said, as they don't want to offend. They don't offer up ideas in case they are deemed 'wrong' and they certainly don't pipe up when they know something is broken"
Which at least makes it easy to get rid of them if you minute everything.
"(or onion address)
The thing is, if you want people to see your 'hidden' site you have to tell people how to find it."
No, no you don't. An onion address lets them access the site without ever knowing where it is. Security services managed to find some sites by other means such as java script leaks but they as far as we know never compromised the Onion protocol.
"Can I target WSL using SSH?"
Yes. Good example of why Linuxd is really really sucky compared to Windows though:
Edit the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file by running the command sudo vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config and do the following
Change Port to 2222 (or any other port above 1000)
Change PasswordAuthentication to yes. This can be changed back to no if ssh keys are setup.
Restart the ssh server:
sudo service ssh --full-restart
With this setup, the ssh server must be turned on every time you run Bash on Ubuntu on Windows, as by default it is off. Use this command to turn it on:
sudo service ssh start
Follow the next steps which will create scripts that start the ssh server automatically:
Create a sshd.bat file and edit it with the following commands:
vi sshd.bat
Add the following code: C:\Windows\System32\bash.exe -c "sudo /usr/sbin/sshd -D"
Save the file and move it to a more accessible location, e.g. mv ssh.bat /mnt/c/Users/YourUserName/Documents. Make sure to match your username! Take note of this location for the next step as in Windows language this corresponds to C:\Users\YourUserName\Documents
Create a sshd.vbs file and edit it with the following commands:
vi sshd.vbs
Add the following code, making sure to put in your actual user name:
Set WinScriptHost = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WinScriptHost.Run Chr(34) & "C:\Users\YourUserName\Documents\sshd.bat" & Chr(34), 0
Set WinScriptHost = Nothing
Save the file and move it to a more accessible location, e.g. mv sshd.vbs /mnt/c/Users/YourUserName/Documents.
Open start menu, type run. Then type shell:startup. Copy the vbs file over to the Startup folder
Finally, you will need to configure the ssh server to start without requiring password. Run the command sudo visudo and add this line to the end of the file:
%sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/sshd
If configured properly, the ssh server should now automatically start in the background when Windows starts.
"Can I install some custom script and setup a systemd service to run it at boot?"
No it has some idiot proofing features and not permitting systemd is one of them.
"so you shouldn't be bothered paying something to Microsoft for the privilege of using Linux"
WSL is free with Windows 10. As are many versions of Linux to run on it. If someone chooses to charge a fee for a version of Linux to run on WSL that's not Microsoft's fault.
"as linux is all about the penguin I think it just captures the fact that Microsoft have had to adapt and adjust to keep relevant"
This is just so that enterprises can run all their legacy *nix scripts and tools without having to run and maintain any Linux environments. It's just another step on the embrace and replace roadmap.
"they went all-in with Windows 10, then found out that some of the internal web apps won't work on Edge, so they do some magic redirecting to open in IE!"
That's called Enterprise Mode in the Edge browser. Probably one of the main reasons they needed to rewrite Chromium to work for them. That and hopefully proper GPO management support.
"Companies like NTT wouldn't be playing around with Postgres if it didn't work for them."
Telco companies are often willing to use the nastiest most horrible to run solution if it saves them a few cents across their whole estate. Just for instance Open Stack - whereas very few "normal" companies would take that pain and overhead. For those of us that don't want an army of staff all editing text files, then there are easier solutions.
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