Russia ‘Unblocks’ Telegram Messenger in Surprise Reversal
https://www.themoscowtimes.com...

Telegram CEO's Number Found on List of Potential NSO Spyware Targets
https://gizmodo.com/telegram-c...

Yeahhhh.....

Peter Durov. Also: Russian Oligarch, Ex-Cabinet Minister Invested in Telegram’s ICO, Court Filing Says.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news...

IIRC Durov's family was also heavily involved in developing the Telegram software.

Lately, the Russian oligarch death rate has climbed steeply and you can bet the Kremlin is bringing pressure to bear on any who have stepped out of line.

Its still the hypocrisy of being "anti-development" while pushing it on everyone else, even if you do it at the level of small, wealthy towns.

This is exactly what Republicans tell other people to bear or ignore in the name of growing the economy and "development". But when its about themselves, then they're NIMBYs to the max.

But here's how you sort out various Republicans: Not living in a town wealthy enough to already have all the NIMBY built-in, vs living in a very expensive community. The former ppl are always angry bc their "country life" becomes a paved-over, noisy stroadville.

Now compare food waste in America (40%) vs developing countries.

Seems like the (truly) really-real increases are probably discernible, but not from anything in the above post.

Also, that's a huge heap of projection right there. When people banish empathy from their lives, this is what it looks like; they're telling us what's inside themselves.

Otherwise, what is the message here? "[[They]] aren't compensating enough for my ruinous lifestyle?"

No doubt, this screed was posted in-between other attacks aimed at "virtue signallers" who do stupid things for points, like going vegan or switching to solar + all electric (or using vaccines instead of horse de-wormer). Or maybe it was just a nice break from making "GNAA" posts.

For example, the idea that low-income people don't benefit from solar seems very specious. Are they saying the roofs of rental properties aren't good enough for solar?

And this is on the heels of telling EV owners not to charge their cars... a total debacle based on no facts whatsoever.

The result of using faulty reasoning and lies: Encouraging people to disconnect from the grid as srmalloy suggests. Maybe the people making these decisions have heavily invested in battery companies.

But current nuclear tech cannot match demand fluctuations, unless its the type used in France. And the French are now paying dearly for reactors that have stress cracks and corrosion from varying the output/pressure all day.

Demand fluctuates. Renewable energy fluctuates. Storage is needed, regardless... unless the plan is to keep relying on gas generators.

Nuclear cannot meet the moment right now because that industry turned their backs on storage. But the more we let renewable energy expand grid storage capacity, the better the long-term economic outlook for nuclear.

Do a search on "smart grid charging" and also "vehicle to grid" or V2G. The latter is more of a future thing.

You just contradicted yourself (go back and re-read).

In any case, the right time to charge _now_ is mid-day unless you are commuting in a solar/wind-poor area. Since long-distance transmission capacity is a limiting factor right now in California, it depends on distance. But most people have moderate commute distances around suburban areas that can support lots of rooftop solar.

And we can't do that when electricity rates are discounted when supply is shorter.

* Incentivize peak-supply charging (set rates)

* Incentivize putting solar on your house

This formula works because most people don't work very far from where they live. Residential solar ought to help supply considerably without being impeded by long-distance transmission capacity.

Also consider this: Charging outfits like VW's Electrify America are purchasing 100% renewable energy (so they say). But mixing that with overnight charging means someone else somewhere has to find a way to use 'extra' renewables during peak supply... it means having to install more grid batteries which doesn't make a lot of sense when the cars themselves are a storage medium.

Be nice to the world... charge during mid-day.

It is the same argument as for anything else that has been touched by computers. Now look around your house and think about how many of your recent devices have sprouted microphones and networking capability: TV and streaming service remote controls, bluetooth speakers and headphones, cleaning robots, etc. – even refrigerators.

While the question of healthcare security is critical, the fact is that IT proliferation has made everything precarious.

It is still 1970s OS design sitting on top of 1960s hardware architecture that has been shrunk & sped-up >5000000 times. And now its being proliferated in just about every situation and object imaginable.

Neither Linux nor *BSD will save your ass from determined attackers because they are based on C code and monolithic kernel architecture. Look around at the IT news coming out weekly... Andrew Tanenbaum was right and Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates were wrong.

The only "OS" hardening that will make a difference to these systems in the long term is hypervisors running on bare metal with the admin env having no direct network access, and all the Windows or Linux-like guests being totally un-priviledged.

It must be asked, what does the IT industry offer the healthcare industry to close the security gap? New products made with the same old bricks?

As far as I'm concerned Gnome gave up on making full-fledged desktop UIs a long time ago. They hate features that require thoughtful maintenance, which means rich features are out. And they hate vertical integration, which means powerful features (controlling new/interesting OS and hw capabilities) is also out. They also hate anything that is KDE-like (see their original mission statement, that's literally what their org is based on).

So I hate Gnome. Taadaa!

You don't have to block third parties (which is a bit drastic and prone to breakage). Someone mentioned using Firefox' containers feature, but its even simpler than that. Set the Tracking Protection level to High, then first-party isolation will be used for all sites; cookies etc. will be stored independently according to what site is being accessed in the Location bar.