Contrary to what the article seems to point, the problem was not the infrastructure, that was already one reason why the problem was so bad.
The infrastructure for Spain and Portugal is wide and well connected. they have many lines and renewable sources. A failure in one should not have affected the others. Nuclear and Gas are more centralized, so more risky for this to happen... if it was not one small detail:

Nuclear and Gas have inertia, so a small problem may be erased by the inertia, but on most current renewable we don't have it... we actually can have it too, but right now most connection to the grid are set to follow the grid and if something goes out of sync, they should shutdown. So instead of erasing the problem, the current setup makes things worse, as they add even more fluctuation.
Sure, wind have inertia... but that is useless if that is isolated from the grid by a electronic switch that disconnect the turbine if their output doesn't match the grid one.
Hydro have inertia and most do have that inertia build in, simply because they are older. All new setups saved money by ignoring that small detail, after all, the grid is always fine, right!!

The solution is simple: add more inertia... the quick fix right now is to keep gas working.
the future new solution is to add flywheels, gravity batteries, even normal batteries, like Musk did in Australia... that simply helps to erase any fluctuation and may help also storing energy for more demanding hours... so win-win
the long term solution is that more renewable don't shutdown, but instead use other way to make sure they are fine and keep working as they were.

Another solution for this localized problem in Spain (and Portugal) is the interconnects with the rest of Europe. France have been blocking the connection of cheap renewable from Iberia to the rest of Europe, to protect their lucrative nuclear plats selling energy. The problem is that Spain and Portugal are really an island in the matter of electricity. They can't export energy and can't also get help from France to add more inertia to the grid. Maybe this will finally unblock this problem and force Europe to have a more interconnected grid. There are already plans to link Spain to Italy, to bypass France, increase the connection to Morocco. Portugal is trying a connection with Morocco and North of France too

So yes, this was first a management problems, trying to make as much money as possible and everyone left to the next guy to add inertia to the network.
The tech exist, but was postponed until renewable usage higher... and it is higher already than Coal, Gas and Nuclear

True, and all that push many people to stop voting and we end only fanboys will be voting, making everything even worse. then we have uprising and revolts...

I should have wrote: democracy should not be a popularity contest.... and we should have hope in the future and keep voting

>>democracy is not a popularity contest
>Yes, it literally is.

I mean people voting because how a politician look, talk, color of the tie, whatever... we all know people that vote for some weird reason, even when they know they are full of sh*t

>>People are voting for the wrong reasons
> Democracy is the idea that people get to vote, even if it is for the wrong reasons. If you don't want them to be able to do that, then you do not want Democracy

Please don't imply things that i didn't wrote!
i'm complaining about people voting not for the country benefit but voting for direct gain or whatever other weird reason. No where i said they should not be able to vote. We should educate the population, not ban anybody. Sadly we are letting TV, youtube, twitter, tiktok, etc educating people and we can see the results

For all the rest, i agree that USA is in a bad state exactly because the top 1% control everything. But looking to other countries, things are a little more balanced. Not all people want to be the richest man alive, buy/getting everything, learn how to better balance their life and lean how to respect and help others. This are the kind of people we all should highlight, not crazy, egocentric and rich people like trump or musk

Swiss people vote directly to several laws
Northern Europe countries have multiple political party and most of the time the government are coalitions that agree to work together

Yes, True democracy is very hard, but we can get closed with google people representing their voters... but to get there, we need first good politicians... and they are getting worse every year

IT IS POSSIBLE, it just require a swift in the way population think AND good politicians

you need to research about JA3, JA4, bot score, attack score and bot detection ID
there is lot more than user-agent... i actually only use user-agent to whitelist some requests from certain ASN, most of the time, they are just totally ignored.
bot score on the other hand...bot score == 1 is 100% certain that is a bot... and many have chrome or firefox user-agent

JA3 and JA4 are standards, go read wikipedia

Bot score used machine learning and static rules to give a score to a request. score 1 is a bot, score 100 is a human. Usually the graph is a U, with bots and human detected.

attack score is based on the request itself and payload

Some exampled of bot IDs arriving to one of my sites, so you can better understand what may be detected... of course, this is a cat and mouse battle, detection improves, attackers/bots finetune things, creating new patterns that need to be mapped and added, repeat.

33554530 (Scraping bot - TLS Signature )
118152435 (Google Images - Verified bot)
120623194 (GoogleBot - Verified bot)
33563990 (Unclassified bot - TLS Signature )
33554530 (Scraping bot - TLS Signature )
33563831 (Python - TLS Signature )
33563859 (AI Bot - User-agent (ClaudeBot))
33563986 (AI Bot - User-agent (OAI-SearchBot))
126255384 (OAI-SearchBot - Verified bot)

so no, user-agent is just a VERY small part of this

The problem is that, democracy is not a popularity contest, not a local team fan boy, not a "i have something to gain from one campaign promise"

It should be what is better for all of us and the country! and i'm talking about all countries, not just USA

People are voting for the wrong reasons, many of them are really corrupted by promises or even worse, voting blindly in teams.
Broken electoral setup, like in the USA (only 2 party, winner takes it all) makes the problem worse
True democracy needs people working together, not 2 extremist sides that refuse to listen to the other side

as a site admin that used cloudflare, i say you are wrong.
we have several settings we can use to finetune things, but bot score equal 1 is really a bot... and that don't even look to the user-agent
also, trying to fake googlebot or other known bot will trigger the "fake googlebot" rule, that you can block or allow

it is very effective on accidental arriving to those sites.
not effective if a minor really want to see it, either steal their parents IDs, or ask a older brother or simply search for unblocked sites.

porn will ever exist and minors will always be able to find a way, but at least they will be older and smarter, not age of 7 trying to understand what site is that one that they eared in school

Social apps, chats and games are right now a mess for young people. parents should not give a phone to a kid, nor allow them to play online without exactly knowing what is the game culture. but at least this kind of actions may help.
Notice that this may also help the reverse, blocking adults from entering kids games and social apps... while adults with kids may be easy to bypass, adults without kids will have harder time to bypass this checks too

how? Any system will list what is being request and will not have access to other data.
i can ask the age, now what? only older than 50 can see the site?
if you have a site that have anti-gov site, maybe you don't install and require the app?

if it ask name, you can say no, just like now you can login with google, facebook, etc... but say no and login with email or phone and not connect to the other sites.
the web admins will choose what to ask and the users accept or not what to share.

if you want to block a site, it is easier to just block the dns and IPs

check the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Those were started by big private corporations fighting legit governments in central America

Just because you never feel it, doesn't mean that it didn't happen and for sure will happen again in the future

a system well designed will only be able to check the age field of your ID card, nothing else
the current system we already have in Portugal to authenticate in government sites lists what is trying to read and you can approve or not. it list what fields are requests, so you confirm if they are asking the age or something else. Expand this system to be standard and you have a clean and safe way to confirm the age

not all government are corrupt/useless like USA, cental America, middle-east and most African countries
There are for sure no perfect governments, but many actually work well... but USA always think that any government that takes care of their own is communist, that is why they don't get it

My ID card have a chip that can be read using a card reader. Maybe newer versions will have nfc.
the data is encrypted with several keys, you are only allowed to read using the approved software and only get the keys for what you are allowed to read. (no background read of everything both the software denies and even if you hack it, it is still encrypted)
I also have my ID card in the phone as a virtual card using the national ID app

Any site can install the card software and request the data, the user will read the card or approve the app reading the card. It will show what data will be read before approving. you can deny if you think it is too much, usually it is just my national ID and name for most sites, but porn ones could ask only the age and nothing more.
the site receives the data signed by the card (physical or virtual) and prove that the info is correct

all that is needed is card reader/nfc for desktop, or a phone app/browser that can call the phone national ID app

At least in Portugal, i already use something similar for authentication in several government sites, namely the tax filling site

the flesh-eating rats, of course

In South America, due the huge size of tropical forest, is much harder to do the sterilized male flies method, Central America being thin and North America is mostly too cold for all year flies surviving, helped a lot in this having success. But in the south, other methods are needed and gene editing may be helpful, even if it may not solve the problem, may help it make less prevalent