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The tent is cheaper and future proof for the kid.
The swag is more convenient if you are travelling solo as it is self contained, with all bedding etc.

I've got a tent, a swag and a camper trailer.
If I could only have one, it'd be the tent.

In progress as I cooked.
The post image is the final product

We will overprovision.
We will use long range transmission to compensate for local weather.
We will use storage.
We will all pay more for power in the short term.

It's a myth that conventional generation is cheap. This was only (relatively) the case in the recent past as that infrastructure was already paid for, primarily by tax dollars; from the power stations, to the rail lines to transport the coal, to the transmission lines and substations.
Now the key part of that infrastructure, the coal plants, are reaching end of life.
Power prices are already trending up, not because evil renewable energy is destabalising the grid, but because the cheap old machines can no longer be maintained. Not tomorrow, but within the next few years, they will need to be replaced with something.
It will not be new coal.
Origin, AGL, EnergyAustralia, Ergon, Alinta etc have all said as much.
It's just too expensive to build, and the prices required to pay back those loans make it a non-starter.

Currently we need coal sometimes, and due to the long start up and shut down times of a coal plant, that means we need coal all the time - contractually.
THAT is what is causing the current grid instability. Wind and Solar are mature technologies, but currently, we curtail (turn off) wind and solar output, when it is adding too much to the grid.
If we had large storage infrastructure, we would no longer need to do that, as we could take the over abundance of power and store some tiny fraction of it, for times when the sun is down and the wind isn't blowing.
And industry is making that pivot, they're just waiting to see how the political dice will fall, how they can maxamise their profits and minimise their costs.
They are businesses after all.

As for scalable storage technology, here's an example we have right now: Liquid Air. It is infinitely scalable, since it doesn't rely on perfect sites like pumped hydro (which requires an ongoing water supply, proximity to transmission and at least 2 storage reservoirs with a significant height differential).

The largest trial I'm aware of happened in the UK 10 years ago, and only had 15% efficency, but considering we were going to throw the power away anyway, and now that 15% is dispatchable, that's suddenly a good deal even if it never acheives the hypothesized 60% efficiency.
There's more of these being built right now: https://highviewpower.com/projects/#uk-projects
And this is just one storage technology example, chosen to address your concern of scalability.
Scale is solved, money to build it is not.

But as I said, the fact that this transition will occur is not in question and eventually the major players will have to pay for it themselves, or the government can pour tax payer dollars on it to ensure it occurs smoothly.
The fact we are seeing nonsense like "Why not nuclear?" from one particular political party, is just a step in this dance.

The annoying thing to me is that it's taken a further 13 years to reach a point where another social network is feasible.
I'm not saying there haven't been attempts like diaspora and the early mastadon etc, but now we're actually reaching a critical mass of participants where a move is worth it.

The same is true of Signal. I've been using it for nearly a decade, but it's only in the last 2 years that people haven't rolled their eyes when I mention it's my preferred comms app.

The first 90% of the task takes 90% of the time.
The last 10% of the task takes the other 90% of the time.

To use a metaphor, let's pretend you like to go fishing...

You've only got so much time on the boat, say 8 hours.
Your esky can only hold enough ice to grab say 100kg of fish.
You're pulling in fish as quick as you can, and the esky is starting to look full... Well this fish is smaller than that fish. Bugger it, I'll throw these 3 small fish back and just keep the big fish...

Now to bring this back to reality.
Are you a big fish?

No, just until such time as storage (pumped hydro/battery/potential gravity/flywheel/liquified air/magical pixie dust - most likely a combination of seperate technologies in seperate locations) is sufficiently integrated to take the grid overnight.
Then dispatchable power goes down to gas etc, which itself gets phased out except for emergency backup when the storage grows sufficient.

Nuclear is just being proposed by certain groups as a way to delay/discourage spending on renewables and storage - maintaining the status quo of coal for a bit longer.

Ignoring the timeline, or even the net zero goal, renewable (solar and wind) + storage is already cheaper to install, and cheaper to run for a given output than anything else we've got.
The only reasons we're still running coal is:

• it's available on demand
• it's already there
• the replacement is not

The primary reason we are changing over isn't because the companies running these coal plants are suddenly huffing the hippie bong, but because their current infrastructure is reaching end of life (the point at which it is no longer financially viable to maintain and must be replaced) and no sane bank is going to lend them the capital to build a new coal plant, because there's just no way it'll ever get paid back.

This is fraud, definitely the inspection company and probably the real estate agent should face repercussions for this.

It's one thing to say "the industry will self regulate", it's another for the government to do nothing when the industry doesn't self regulate.

It'll be 0.18.1 with a specific patch applied to it to fix the security issue that got the site exploited.

It's hard to search for it on a phone, but something in here will match it: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/commits/main

You used to be able to buy little keyrings like this:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32864004373.html
But I can't find a current listing.

I'm pretty sure the government has immunity from being sued for law changes.
Now if they had fucked up in some way, like failed to give you something you were entitled to, THEN you could sue them.
But for changing the export laws or a trade deal?
You'd need to establish a "right to proceed" with the High Court.
And the High Court is going to tell Clive to pound sand.

Windfall means something very specific too.
It's not just profits, it's profits exceeding expectations.
So if the company expects to earn 1 billion dollars profit and actually earns 1.1, it's only the .1 that's a windfall.

And as you say, he's a weasel who is likely to define "public good" as "In Clive Palmers person interests".

I mean yes, but that's not a federation problem.

To completely strawman AND slippery slope what you're saying:

As a car safety pro, who primarily deals with car crashes:

STOP

TOWING

TRAILERS

Agreed, dangerous, I don't want numpties doing it.
But it's a large part of why I have a car.

I want to be clear, that I disagree with his "federation is stupid" point, but email has problems right now.

Theoretically it's federated, theoretically you can spin up your own mail server and self host.

But even if you do that absolutely perfectly (SPF, DKIM, DMARC etc), you can falsely end up on spam list, that effectively block delivery of your email to large segments of the network for days if not weeks.

Whilst theoretically federated, email falls under the broad dominion of google, microsoft and a couple of other large players.

JavaScript (TypeScript) has access to cookies (and thus JWT). This should be handled by web browser, not JS. In case of log-in, in HTTPS POST request and in case of response of successful log-in, in HTTPS POST response. Then, in case of requesting web page, again, it should be handled in HTTPS GET request. This is lack of using least permissions as possible, JS should not have access to cookies.

JavaScript needs access to the cookies, they are the data storage for a given site.
To protect them, the browser silos them to the individual site that created them, that's why developers haven't been able to easily load cross domain content for years, to mitigate XSS attacks.
The security relies on the premise that the only valid source of script is the originating domain.
The flaw here was allowing clients to add arbitrary script that was displayed to others.
You're dead right that only the way to fix this is to do away with JavaScript access to certain things, but it will require a complete refactor of how cookies work.
I haven't done any web dev in a few years, this might even be a solved problem by now and we are just seeing an old school implementation. 🤷

I never owned a console, but I distinctly remember playing this, so there must have been a PC port some time in the early 90s.

Classic game.

His calling out Shorten for gleefully politicising the bad actions of the Liberal party is some "pot calling the kettle black" bullshit.

20 years of professional developer experience and some outsider knowledge of what Facebook has done in the past.

I'm not a cheap whore Meta, I expect to get PAID.

I'm only one voice screaming in the darkness, but I want to be clear.
These are not risks. These are certainties.
And the only thing we can do about it is refuse to participate in their bad faith actions, for whatever good that will do.

Maybe the client is faster/prettier/can show videos/uses less data/integrates with their phone better.
Maybe it's got features that clients here lack such as the ability to host larger images or video.
Maybe the user is sick of responding to conversations over there and it not being federated, so they are ignored.
Maybe using the Threads app is just faster (because it's local instead of batch federating).

If I was in charge of product design for Threads, I would be literally crawling the issue listings for Lemmy/Kbin and the associated clients looking for complaints and implementing solutions for those problems.
Then I would make a list of every limitation within the system and make sure Threads exceeds that baseline.

And then when I had made the software better in every measurable way (because I am paying a large team of developers to target those pain points), I'd start adding features that ActivityPub doesn't, especially if ActivityPub instances would find those features hard to implement.

I'd make damn sure that every time ActivityPub changes from a source outside Meta, I'd drag my heels on implementing that feature, so that instance hosts are forced to choose between implementing the new version, or maintaining compatability with Threads.

Why would a user here move there?
Because their spouse/coworker/friend tried to send something for the 50th time and the message just never came through.