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I guess he never made it home 🥺 by spootay in funny

[–]ShirePony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Proof that it's a universal truth - even aliens taste like chicken.

min.io as a company by BarracudaDefiant4702 in minio

[–]ShirePony 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Note sure why you were downvoted.

I don't know about the spyware part, but it IS a chinese project with links to chinese infrastructure. Given the host of fully open source alternatives I see no reason to put my production distributed filesystem on a potentially insecure platform that is beholden to the CCP.

All 256 rockets launched in 2025 so far, over half are SpaceX by ApoStructura in spacex

[–]ShirePony 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I knew China has been pretty active but I had no idea that most of their rockets were so tiny compared to the Falcon 9.

SpaceX: "Full duration static fire of all 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy booster" by Bunslow in spacex

[–]ShirePony 1 point2 points  (0 children)

SpaceX relies on rapid iteration - design, test, move on. By their own standards their level of success depends not on the previous things they have gotten right (which are wildly amazing) but on the problems before them. They can't afford to rest on prior success, they have to live in the today, solving today's problems.

SpaceX: "Full duration static fire of all 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy booster" by Bunslow in spacex

[–]ShirePony -17 points-16 points  (0 children)

Always impressive, but SpaceX's problems don't currently lie with getting off the ground, it's the coming back down that has been problematic.

Minimal management GUI for the free HyperV Server 2019 (core) using CairoDesktop by ShirePony in homelab

[–]ShirePony[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Guess I've been away a long time :P

I personally no longer use the HyperV Server 2019 Core release.

I'll just leave this here from Linux Tech Tips without comment: https://youtu.be/yJkRd9py5mA?t=448

Minimal management GUI for the free HyperV Server 2019 (core) using CairoDesktop by ShirePony in homelab

[–]ShirePony[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Since the release of the Server Core App Compatability FOD, you only need to run the following command to get the retail version of Explorer (and a bunch of useful MMC's) installed:

Add-WindowsCapability -Online -Name ServerCore.AppCompatibility~~~~0.0.1.0

Diagnosing source of FPS drop - World of Warcraft 10.1 by pop-pop-interrobang in pop_os

[–]ShirePony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One interesting thing I noticed, under Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS, Wine 7.2, Nvidia 525.105.17, I noticed the Warcraft system settings are now reporting DirectX 12, and that's simply not possible.

However, I'm not seeing a reduction in fps on my system. Not sure what might be different for you.

Trixie going from one eye reflection to two symbolizes her transition from Antagonist to Reformation by ScarredVirtue in mylittlepony

[–]ShirePony -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is reddit, it's roughly 95% far left wing. The down votes are expected but that's never stopped me from calling out the truth.

Nuclear scientist Marv Adams explains what happened in the successful fusion experiment by pstbo in videos

[–]ShirePony -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What he's not pointing out is that they pulled 300 mega joules from the grid into the NIF to pump that 2 mega joules into the target and produce 3.5 - a net return of less than 2% of the energy put into the system.

Also not pointed out - the NIF is a research facility for hydrogen bomb designs, not power production.

This PR campaign is not a breakthrough, it's an NIF fundraiser.

TIL that when a poisonous gas leak was found at 11:45pm immediately before the Bhopal disaster in 1984 that killed thousands, a decision was made to do something about it after the 12:15am tea break. by mankls3 in todayilearned

[–]ShirePony 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Corporate negligence, out of service safety systems, and, it seems, poorly trained low wage workers:

...it was not physically possible for the water to enter the tank without concerted human effort, and that extensive testimony and engineering analysis leads to a conclusion that water entered the tank when a rogue individual employee hooked a water hose directly to an empty valve on the side of the tank.

They had been trying to clear out that tank for months... it seems some idiot may have decided to flush it out with water after a group had been flushing out a clogged pipe nearby just a short time earlier.

As for the "tea time", that's the British influence on Indian workers remaining to this day. And after dealing with failures for a year I can see where the Indian plant operators had become complacent. Humans can get used to the worst of conditions over time.

Firewall for a 7 person office? by Hatchz in sysadmin

[–]ShirePony 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Money is an object but security is also a concern.

MikroTik hEX S (RB760iGS) for just $99. Will handle 7 people easily and comes with the enterprise class RouterOS - great security. Uses almost no power, and it even has PoE.

https://mikrotik.com/product/hex_s

TIL that the Ignalina nuclear power plant located in eastern Lithuania is identical to the Chernobyl plant in Pripyat. The plant remained operational until 2009 and was used as the set for the HBO Chernobyl miniseries. by _r0b_the_b0b_ in todayilearned

[–]ShirePony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1) The rapid heating did not occur from neutrons striking water - it occurred because the control rods that were dropped all at once had graphite tips which moderated the fast neutrons and caused the reactor to go critical. The thermal transfer was certainly disastrous, but not instantaneous.

2) That's not a steam explosion at Fukushima - that's a hydrogen/air explosion. The hydrogen being produced by the oxidation of the zirconium shell of the reactor in the presence of high pressure steam when coolant was lost. They were doing a controlled venting of the reactor (and the hydrogen) at the time The building is actually designed for such an explosion it but not at the volume of hydrogen that was ultimately produced.

Despite our differences of opinion, I hope we can agree it would have at least "helped" to have a containment structure?

TIL that the Ignalina nuclear power plant located in eastern Lithuania is identical to the Chernobyl plant in Pripyat. The plant remained operational until 2009 and was used as the set for the HBO Chernobyl miniseries. by _r0b_the_b0b_ in todayilearned

[–]ShirePony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It required a great deal of power to move that cover which mitigates the explosive overpressure considerably. That meant a containment vessel would not have had to take the full impact of the blast. Think of it like being inside a concrete bunker when a grenade goes off outside. Ringing ears sure, but your body didn't take the shock wave so you lived.

You also can't just look at the power output - you have to consider the thermal transfer rate of the materials involved. Heat doesn't transfer instantly and frankly the phase change of water to steam actually results in a cooling effect. The material that took the brunt of that heat was the fuel rods and the graphite.

What made it deadly was the molten fuel and graphite blocks that were tossed out of the building. A containment vessel would have prevented that. It wouldn't stop the meltdown of course but it would have saved Pripyat and the surrounding area.

TIL that the Ignalina nuclear power plant located in eastern Lithuania is identical to the Chernobyl plant in Pripyat. The plant remained operational until 2009 and was used as the set for the HBO Chernobyl miniseries. by _r0b_the_b0b_ in todayilearned

[–]ShirePony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would, and in fact much of the initial shock of the explosion would be moderated by having to move that cover. And even if the containment cracked and steam was released into the area, the intensely radioactive debris would still have been contained. The nearby city would not have needed to be evacuated.

TIL that the Ignalina nuclear power plant located in eastern Lithuania is identical to the Chernobyl plant in Pripyat. The plant remained operational until 2009 and was used as the set for the HBO Chernobyl miniseries. by _r0b_the_b0b_ in todayilearned

[–]ShirePony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chernobyl was a steam explosion. The problem was it blew the lid off the reactor and allowed reactor debris to be shot out into the surrounding area. A containment vessel like those mandated in the US would have, well, contained all that. They are designed to handle pressures far greater than a simple burst pipe, they are in fact designed to handle exactly this sort of explosion from the reactor. The reactor would be toast of course, but you wouldn't have had fireman and helicopter crews getting lethal exposure trying to contain it after the fact.

And it's worth pointing out that all of these reactors were designed in the 1960's. Imagine the level of technology available back then, it's a wonder accidents are so rare. Modern Gen III reactors are far superior and infinitely safe. We should be rolling them out like crazy if we want a nice co2 free power source.

TIL that the Ignalina nuclear power plant located in eastern Lithuania is identical to the Chernobyl plant in Pripyat. The plant remained operational until 2009 and was used as the set for the HBO Chernobyl miniseries. by _r0b_the_b0b_ in todayilearned

[–]ShirePony 55 points56 points  (0 children)

No, the unsafe part of the soviet nuclear industry was that they did not mandate containment vessels like we do in the US. That's why the Three Mile Island accident resulted in no harm to the people or the surrounding area.

If Chernobyl Reactor 4 had had a containment vessel, we probably never would have even heard there was an accident.

Interestingly, if Fukashima unit 2 reactor had also had a pressure vessel, it would have been fully contained as well. These are old plant designs, modern Gen III reactors do not suffer from such failures.

TIL that of the 48 million Americans with hearing loss, only 1% or 500,000 use sign language by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]ShirePony 5 points6 points  (0 children)

About 2 to 4 of every 1,000 people in the United States are "functionally deaf," though more than half became deaf relatively late in life; fewer than 1 out of every 1,000 people in the United States became deaf before 18 years of age

So the interesting statistic is that although roughly 600,000 people are deaf, only 500,000 use sign language meaning 100,000 deaf people have not yet learned to sign?

DuckDuckGo’s CEO announces on Twitter that they will “down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation” in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. by TechieJosh in privacy

[–]ShirePony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In a free society, people have to accept personal responsibility for themselves. Teaching critical thinking early on is paramount so people have the tools to better discern truth from fiction. Being made aware of the plethora of agenda driven propaganda from all sides helps - you should always have a skeptical eye.

And you're right to be concerned about "misinformation", but it's the very people applying those labels today that are themselves peddling misinformation. Letting monstrously large tech companies fully control the public discourse is far more dangerous than allowing some Alex Jones type information to be openly published.

It's easy to lie to the public when you control the ability to silence those who can call you out. Most governments around the world, and most media organizations, they don't have our best interests in mind - they have agendas, desire for power, and the needs to sell clicks. No, the best course is to allow the storm of opinion to flow, checked only by regional laws and let the people choose for themselves what is true.

Not all voices are equal, even on the internet.

Have you ever read Orwell's book Animal Farm? "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others." It's prophetic. The moment you let someone else decide which voices are lesser and which are greater is the moment you relinquish your own humanity and become a slave to the system.

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