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> Since 2018 OeBB said all its trains "run on electricity generated exclusively by hydropower, solar and wind power... a milestone for climate protection in Austria"

This is easy to debunk. Austria is part of EU grid, and other states produce big part of their electricity from coal and gas. Austria imports that electricity!

Plus some trains operated by Oebb are international!


Thanks for sending me into that rabbit hole.

So according to the company’s 2022 annual report, they source power from 8 hydroelectric and 6 solar power plants, all of which they operate themselves, as well as 4 partnering hydroelectric plants. The rest of their electricity needs is acquired from the market but checked for proof of origin.

Obviously this only covers railway infrastructure in Austria as they have no influence over other countries.

Source in German: https://presse.oebb.at/dam/jcr:f87d6627-602c-47d6-bec7-f5682...


I guess it's one of the usual numbers games in everything related to climate.

"Each day, our trains pull x MWh of energy from the grid and we're paying renewable energy providers for y >= x MWh - therefore we can say our trains run on 100% renewable power."

Whether or not some of the electron domino that finds its end in a train's motor coils happen to have started in a coal plant doesn't matter for this calculation.

You can like this or not, but I guess there aren't a lot of better options as long as renewable and fossil power sources are both supplying the same grid and energy is effectively fungible.


Big companies like ÖBB can get their power through long-lasting power purchase agreements from renewable energy producers.


> about debugging our system at work that’s coupled to a SAP service in Wisconsin

I think article is a bit naive. If your system is designed this way, you probably have no control over it. Maybe some legacy stuff, maybe you jump too fast between 300 microservices...

It hat case you need other methods, like very good logging. If you can replay every interaction with that service, you do not have to decouple it!


>You can watch the item as often as you want, but the terms specify that you can’t “sell, rent, lease, distribute, publicly perform or display, broadcast, sublicense or otherwise assign any right to the Content to any third party.”

Terms can specify what they want, but enforcement is another thing. I am pretty sure, you can resell movie DVDs in any country.


This is talking about digitally purchased content. You would have to first remove the DRM to sell them to someone (unless you buy one movie per account)


I imagine if starlink uses local IP address range, it would be bound by local ISP rules. All sorts of censorship and filtering.

And avoiding local ISPs may be major reason to use Starlink!


Countries generally aren't going to allow Starlink to bypass their laws.


Windows can install full Linux distro via WSL. You can have a nmap in two minutes!

I like it much better than MacBook with its incompatible ARM cpu, and outdated commands from some ancient BSD!


GNU tools are generally one command away on macOS. So is nmap, and it takes a lot less than 2 minutes to have it running directly on the host. What's ARM incompatiblw with? Certainly not Linux distros, certainly not GNU tools, and certainly not networking. Not to mention that for most things that don't run native, Rosetta2 makes them work at near native performance.

You can also run Linux on a VM if you want. With the native macOS virtualisation stack in UTM it takes about 2 seconds to have a full Linux VM up and running.


It's been a year or two but last time I tried networking tools like nmap in WSL I would get all kinds of errors.


I was getting errors from ping. Update fixed that, my guess is WSL2 is much better


Big fan of using Orbstack for this. Full Linux VM with transparent access to Mac disk. I love it.


you can install gnu utils on a mac if you’d rather use them.


Yes ever since the M1 chip it’s just annoying to work on the M1. Day to day it doesn’t matter much but it wastes days of times the few times i ran into an issue. I wish companies would stop defaulting to macs for development


Would not work at a company who only offered macs.


Can someone enumerate these problems? I’ve been on an M1 for almost 2yrs and I’m apparently missing out on what makes it a bad experience.


Some X86 binaries do not run on M1, big deal in ERP. My collages spend like two weeks trying to emulate some older server.

It has little RAM, small disk... so you depend on cloud for build. No Nvidia GPU for CUDA... Some USB externals do not work...


Depends on which model you get and how you configure it. You can easily get up to 96GB of RAM and 8TB of SSD, if that's what you really want. It's damn bloody expensive to do that, but the possibility is there.

So, you can't legitimately say that the memory is always low and the disk is always small. That's just a configuration thing. If you don't configure it right, then I don't hold out much sympathy for you.


What?


He, I asked for Windows laptop. I am the only one in like 30 people.

My laptop has 64GB RAM and 2TB ssd. And unlike Mac, it drives 4x4k displays via USB4 hub. Even with all those extras, it costs less than Macbook, and I have some hardware budget still available:)

And it came with unlocked bios, no spy software... Windows are basically unsupported by our IT...


Depends on what Mac you get, but 64GB of RAM and 2TB of SSD with support for four 4k displays is pretty easy with the current MacBook Pro. It might be more expensive than your garden variety Windows laptop, or maybe not if you find one of the great deals that are frequently offered by B&H Photo or Adorama.

No spy software will be installed, and the latest version of macOS is making it harder and harder for people to create malware that can easily infect Macs.


`brew install nmap`


Most extensions are single person projects run on GitHub. Imagine if their Gmail account, or phone SIM gets breached and backdoored version reaches Extension Store.

Plus several extensions were just sold to highest bidder!


Sure, but it does not address the question I have placed for you. Can you name the extension you consider shady? A lot of projects on github are one man operations.


Sure!

Ublock Origin installed from Firefox Extension Web Store. I have no idea how this was verified and distributed. I do not trust webstore as a channel. Also user may easily click on "Unblock" or "Unlock" and get something completely different.

If this extension came from my Linux distro package, or bundled into Firefox binary, I would trust it.

With Brave I have no need to use extensions. Everything is bundled and can be enabled via about:flags.



It is not about crashing, but security. Chromium based browsers have multiple layers of sandboxing and hardening. Webpage rendered basically runs in several virtual machines that are very hard to breach.

Mozilla had process based isolation (mainly due old code base). That is far less effective. Some things like GPU access are not sandboxed at all!

>Google remains the default search engine provider inside the Firefox browser until 2023 for an estimated $400 million to $450 million per year.

Mozilla is a multibilion corporation. They DO have resources for proper rewrite in Rust. How they spend their money is another thing!

Old code base was good excuse in 2016! Brave Software Inc is much smaller company, and they do advanced stuff like their own search engine!


GPU sandboxing landed in 110 on Windows. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox/Process_model#GPU_... says it will be likely added to OSX and Linux with Webrender. Web Content processes are already sandboxed so I wouldn't say it's a joke ;) - sure they lag behind Chromium but Google has way more resources than Mozilla.


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