tal @ tal @lemmy.today

Posts

156

Comments

6,549

Joined

2 yr. ago

They apparently have some temporary desalination stuff in place now to bridge the gap, dunno what it's using.

The planned permanent plant apparently uses reverse osmosis (which, at least last time I looked, was much more widely used than distillation).

https://greencape.co.za/library/paarden-eiland-desalination-plant/

Jun 1, 2025 The planned permanent Paarden Eiland plant will be a 70 Ml/day seawater desalination plant with a multi-barrier process that will include pre-screening, dissolved air flotation, rapid gravity sand filtration, reverse osmosis, a potential advanced oxidation process, a disinfection step, stabilisation of the water, and safe brine disposal.

Context: Water Temple theme from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LTAL5zB2w8

Elon Musk owns "only" 20% of Tesla

I don't think it's that high.

kagis

12.8%.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/insights/052616/top-4-tesla-shareholders-tsla.asp

CEO Elon Musk is the largest shareholder, with 12.8% of the company's equity as of Feb. 28, 2025.

Yeah, isn't loading at the moment here either.

hits archive.org

https://web.archive.org/web/20250627211645/https://resource.capetown.gov.za/documentcentre/Documents/Graphics%20and%20educational%20material/Desalination_Booklet_English.pdf

“It is obvious with the insane spending of this bill, which increases the debt ceiling by a record FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS that we live in a one-party country – the PORKY PIG PARTY!!” Musk said Monday. 

If you just want a small-government party, there's already the Libertarian Party.

https://lp.org/platform-page/

2.4 Government Finance and Spending

Since all persons are entitled to keep the fruits of their labor, we oppose all government activity that consists of the forcible collection of money or goods from individuals in violation of their individual rights and strive for the eventual repeal of all taxation. To further that end, we call for the repeal of the income tax, the abolishment of the Internal Revenue Service and all federal programs and services not required under the U.S. Constitution. We oppose forcing employers to serve as tax collectors. We support any initiative to reduce or abolish any tax, and oppose any increase on any tax for any reason. To the extent possible, we advocate that all public services be funded or allowed to be provided in a voluntary manner.

2.5 Government Debt

Government should not incur debt, which burdens future generations without their consent. We support the passage of a “Balanced Budget Amendment” to the U.S. Constitution, provided that the budget is balanced exclusively by cutting expenditures, and not by raising taxes.

Don't think they'd be onboard with your anti-trans thing, though.

1.4 Personal Relationships

Sexual orientation, preference, gender, or gender identity should have no impact on the government’s treatment of individuals, such as in current marriage, child custody, adoption, immigration, or military service laws. Government does not have the authority to define, promote, license, or restrict personal relationships, regardless of the number of participants. Consenting adults should be free to choose their own sexual practices and personal relationships. Until such time as the government stops its illegitimate practice of marriage licensing, such licenses must be granted to all consenting adults who apply.

Me neither, but that just provides us with an objective look at what's clearly best, free of encumbering sentiment.

I like the Bermudian idea of using flora and fauna to capture a country’s distinctive identity. A shift like this would show that we’re not trapped in tradition.

Exactly. A spectral lion, dragon, and unicorn in the background. In the foreground, a bulldog wearing mirrored steampunk goggles on a surfboard doing an aerial off a cresting wave with a fancy caption beneath him reading "Britannia rules the waves!" The mirrored goggle lenses are where the shiny anti-counterfeiting hologram goes.

Also, get Jessica Borutski to do the draft. She did a Canada logo a while back.

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/fe8755cc-eb0c-4f0d-9ead-8dee2cc5c33e.jpeg

Are you looking for specific values in some field in this table, or substrings in that field?

If specific values, I'd probably import the CSV file into a database with an column indexed on the value you care about.

Cape Town apparently decided to use desalination.

https://resource.capetown.gov.za/documentcentre/Documents/Graphics%20and%20educational%20material/Desalination_Booklet_English.pdf

Permanent desalination is planned because seawater is available all the time, whether it rains or not, so it’s more reliable than any other water source. About 97% of water on Earth is in our oceans. We can make use of this huge resource through the process of desalination, which makes it drinkable and usable for us. Although desalination is the most expensive supply option and there are environmental issues that need to be well-managed (such as the salty ‘brine’ it produces as a waste product), it is an important part of the diversified water supply ‘mix’ going forward.

Says they start construction in 2026 and expect production starting in 2030.

If you can't build a sufficiently-large coalition of voters internal to one of the Big Two parties, how is starting from scratch rather than doing internal realignments going to be any easier?

The US electoral system will stabilize around two large, big-tent parties. If you start a new party, then you will need to convince enough people to join that party, which will kill off at least one existing Big Two party. The requirement to build the coalition of voters doesn't go away. It's just that now you've got extra tasks to deal with.

Trump didn't get his position by cleverly manipulating internal party mechanisms in the GOP. He got it by going out and selling voters on Trump. Someone else can do that too.

Specifically what is the behavior you're seeing? I can't guess exactly from the meme.

I'd guess that it's most likely not systemd itself causing the problem, but rather something kernel- or hardware-side.

Well, if you want an atmosphere to start with, might try running numbers for sulfur hexafluoride. I don't know if it'd be your best option, but I'd guess that it'd be up there if you can keep the object warm enough for it to be a gas.

https://www.epa.gov/eps-partnership/sulfur-hexafluoride-sf6-basics

Sulfur hexafluoride (SF₆) is a synthetic fluorinated compound with an extremely stable molecular structure. Because of its unique dielectric properties, electric utilities rely heavily on SF₆ in electric power systems for voltage electrical insulation, current interruption, and arc quenching in the transmission and distribution of electricity. Yet it is also the most potent greenhouse gas known to date. Over a 100-year period, SF₆ is 23,500 times more effective at trapping infrared radiation than an equivalent amount of carbon dioxide (CO₂).

I don't know how to calculate albedo, but I'm sure that there are Web pages out there talking about it.

EDIT: If all you care about is keeping the body warm via solar radiation and you don't care about it specifically using purely the greenhouse effect, you could use space mirrors in orbit.

I'm not familiar enough with Cloudflare's error messages --- or deployment with Cloudflare --- to know what exact behavior that corresponds to, but I'd guess that most likely it can open a TCP connection to port 443 on what it thinks is your server, but it's not getting HTTPS on that port or your server isn't configured to serve up the right certificate for that hostname or the web server software running on it is otherwise broken. Might be some sort of intervening firewall.

I don't know where your actual server is, may not even be accessible to me. But if you have a Linux machine that can talk to it directly -- including, perhaps, the server itself -- you should be able to see what certificate it's handing back via:

        $ openssl s_client -showcerts -servername akaris.space IP-address-of-actual-server:443


  

That'll try to establish a TLS connection, will send the specified server name so that if you're using vhosting on the server, it knows which site to return, and then will tell you what certificate the web server used. Would probably be my first diagnostic step if I thought that there was a problem with the TLS handshake on a machine I was running.

That might provide enough information to you to let you resolve the issue yourself.

Beyond that, trying to provide much more information probably isn't possible without more information about how your server is set up and what actually is working. You can censor IP addresses if you want to keep that private.

I think a problem would be Pluto not having the gravity to hang onto much atmosphere.

Donald Trump: "Enemy of God"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20g1zvgj4do

'Anointed by God': The Christians who see Trump as their saviour

This timeline.

I would donate to support lemmy.today, as I'm using an instance and it has costs, but the admin has said that he's currently not interested in donations.

I believe I donated to Ernest's coffee fund back when I was using kbin.social. Can't recall how much, though. Was a while ago.

I assume that it's legal to ride a gasoline-fueled moped in the bike lane. Does this make everyone happy?

No wonder agile is hated

I think that the basic ideas are reasonable. Keep in touch with your team and evaluate the current situation, track progress, stuff like that.

It's just that the excessive codification of the practices becomes overbearing.

Byte order in which Unicode encoding? UTF-16LE?

Dutch uwu speak

Logically, it makes sense that this exists, but still not something that I've ever thought about.