Though not built yet there is planning going ahead for an Australia to Singapore power cable starting construction in
2023.
The idea would be for Australia to build a massive solar farm in Australia and a hvdc cable to Singapore.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This app has been quite effective to help contact tracing.
Every venue: store, restraint, church, sports stadium etc has a qr code that you scan as you enter.
This submits your name, phone number the time and the venue to the health department where it is kept for 30 days and only used for contact tracing.
In South Australia we currently have 6 active cases in hotel quarantine and no cases in the community and a total of 4 deaths so far in a population of 1.7M people.
There have been outbakes but having this database used for contact tracing has worked well so far.
/. does post all submissions, click the Firefhose link up the top.
You can vote up and down stories and the best make it to the main page.
You are a potential editor of
Just remember that mirroring is not backups.
If you have a job that uses something like rsync to copy from one nas to another you will end up overwriting a good copy with a bad copy.
One way that might help is thinking of backups as a pull not push.
Have the nas that holds your backups be able to connect to the other servers to pull backups but limit access to this nas so that you only login to it with different credentials when you need to restore.
You could go for a mirror then snapshot strategy where the second nas has a mirror of the first nas but you then create a tar file of that directory or you use the snapshot capabilities in btrfs / zfs to keep a reference to the version of the file at that point.
Backups are all about having multiple copies of the same file so you have it when you need it.
The article is now gone, redirecting to the artist page.
Stupid notability guidelines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There has been an android version of wine for several years.
I have not used this but it seems to support x86 and windows arm binaries.
The government has opted to pay companies a subsidy for them to pay workers to keep businesses on life support during lock downs.
The businesses are mostly still there and have started to open back up after the lock down. If they survive long term we do not know.
There are some indications that this strategy has worked for the economy as the rest of the country has been open with some restrictions. We have a high rate of testing per population and contact tracing that has managed to find most cases.
From what I have heard Australia's economy has done much better overall with hard lock downs and strict quarantine compared to countries like the UK or Germany that have tried to keep open.
The headline and article mentions electricity and not making any claims about natural gas and other eneregy sources.
Take a look at the graph in the article (from https://opennem.org.au/).
There is a light Yellow representing roof top solar at around 70% during the middle of the day on the 11th.
There is a darker yellow, at around 30-35% of the power output.
There is not much wind so this represents 5% of the output.
There is also gas that represents 15% of the output.
As you can see the percentages do not stack up and have more than 100%.
This means the total output of the state is producing more than we are consuming, exporting the rest over the border.
The article is making the point that the ~ 70% from rooftop solar and ~ 35% from solar farms was more than was consumed by the for a few hours on the 11th of October.
It is not throughout the day as the energy mix changes and we import power from Victoria overnight as needed. Looking at the graph it is around 80% renewables currently with more cloud and more wind.
Go to https://opennem.org.au/ and play around with it, this is data provided by AEMO (the electricity market) with csv's available from http://nemweb.com.au/Reports/C...
The east half of Australia are connected by a national grid and there are large high voltage interconnectors between states.
The 100% solar does not mean there was not other power stations (including gas and wind) running.
So the total demand of all users in south Australia was provided by rooftop solar and solar power plants that was over 100% of what was needed.
There was most likely also gas and wind putting the power produced well over what we need and this is exported over to Victoria.
A typical day there will be a few hours where more than 100% is covered by solar + wind depending on the weather.
It was much more expensive than other states but this has gone back to being similar to other states.
The amount of the power bill that goes to the companies that manages the poles and wires has been a bigger chunk of the power bill so this was keeping the power price up.
The other thing that has helped was the tesla battery and it's help in Frequency Control Ancillary Services (FCAS).
The battery is able to kick in quickly to stabilize the grid to keep the frequency consistent and is far cheaper than having the gas power stations running with reserve capacity to stabilize the grid. The battery is more there to shove a large capacity for a few minutes than to provide a small capacity overnight.
Looking at a state vs state comparison SA is generally the cheapest and beating Victoria that is typically 70% coal.
https://aemo.com.au/Energy-sys...
I'm attending https://2020.pycon.org.au/ online today (starting in an hour).
You can see previous PYCon Australia conference video on youtube now and expect to see this years conference appear on youtube over the next few days.
On youtube you can find linux.conf.au fosdem and other conferences.
There is a proper API for doing this so you no longer need to use the accessibility workaround to get this working.
I believe Lastpass does use this api.
From what I have heard every application needs to be updated to specify that it is a username and password input field and your password manager application can be used to query this information.
There is an open source application called gadgetbridge that can replace the pebble phone app.
https://f-droid.org/repository...
The eater egg is kind of dumb.
You can add a bowl to your quick notification settings where you can put out food for cats.
After a while you will get a notification that a cat has appeared and you can put out more food for cats.
Parkinson's Law: Work expands to fill the time alloted it.
