I wish things were as easy as they were with X11. Being able to ssh into a box and “export DISPLAY=192.168.0.7:0.0” then start an app and have it show up locally is just magical.

Your X network traffic would be clear text over the network if you did it this way.

Instead, you should "ssh -x" or "ssh -y" to pull the traffic over the ssh encrypted channel.

The -y option should be used with caution; read the docs.

> Your X network traffic would be clear text over the network if you did it this way.

that's exactly what I want on my local home network

You will also need to xhost +(host) which has its own problems.

It's capital -X and -Y

-x disables X11 forwarding.

Whoops.

Yeah, the days of remote displaying unwanted adult content on other computers on university lab for anyone clueless about xhost command, as teenagers do.

We had a bright future in the past.

Something tells me modern remote access tools that use video codecs are much more performant than SSH + X forwarding when dealing with resolutions and desktop effects we use today.

You mean a kind of "Spectres of Marx", Jacques Derrida, 1993, hauntology type thing?

There's waypipe.

This still works if X11 is installed on the remote. I have a remote that runs Wayland locally, and I run Wayland in the client machine as well, but I have X11 installed on the remote and X11 forwarding still works, it just opens the remote application in an XWayland window inside the local Wayland session. No biggie

For now

Sheffield in the UK has tram trains - it was the first such implementation in the UK, and runs on national rail lines as part of the journey to Rotherham.

Any website that hijacks scrolling can get in the sea.

That is a rather dismissive attitude that could cause you to overlook some great technologies.

Or it's a quick heuristic to filter out misaligned philosophies.

Try for yourself: https://mirage.decart.ai/

You didn’t even need to do that. Just needed an /etc/hosts entry for the domain.

My ISP (Virgin Media) does DNS filtering and IP-based blocking and TLS SNI inspection. So you have to use ESNI or domain fronting, which last time I checked my browser could not be easily configured to do.

At this point, what's the difference between the UK and China other than the specific content they block? Some ISPs have even started blocking wireguard here & I've had to resort back to xray/v2ray

Very little difference. But blocking wireguard is huge change, which ISPs are doing that?

I currently live in student accommodation so not sure what they're using upstream. The university network also drops wireguard connections but only to known providers like Mullvad (assuming obfuscation is off)

You may have some success with DPI bypass tools we've been using in Russia for years now, like GoodbyeDPI and Zapret.

Is that common for all ISPs or just Virgin? When I lived in the UK (already a number of years ago) it was all just DNS-based. Running my own DNS resolver unblocked everything. I don't recall which ISP.

I think it's just Virgin doing the SNI stuff, but I wouldn't be surprised if others are doing IP filtering. I'm not sure if anyone's done a good survey of what the different ISPs are doing (it'd be an interesting project).

TalkTalk, Sky, BT & pretty much all domestic mainstream ISPs do DPI down to SNI.

They also exercise an IWF proxy so your already MiTM'd.

https://www.iwf.org.uk/

A colleague created a banner ad that was an image that had the text “told you I could do this mate!” and targeted an individual to prove a point.

The general public have no idea how much ad providers and data brokers know about them.

Seems just like retargeting in that case. Ask “victim” to visit page A. On that page A place a retargeting pixel, then now everywhere on the Internet you can display a message for that user as long as you are willing to pay a high price for that impression (high price is way way way less than 0.1 USD)

Reminds me of the time when Signal(the private messaging app) once tried to get ad data from Facebook and show it to users with a high degree of specificity eg “You got this ad because you’re a middle aged woman who enjoys kpop and loves reading about Christopher Nolan”

Relevant article: http://archive.today/fzUL4

I need you to tell me how I do this right now. This will put so much cred into my spiels with people in meatspace. So many bricks will be shat!

Here’s a write up: https://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking...

It’s harder to do this now, but think a bit - set the net wider and catch a few more, who cares! All you care is your target gets hit.

The answer is shareholders.

It is like we need to find a "post stock market" capitalism? The stock market is kind of the original crypto scheme after-all. Capitalism doesn't require a stock market.

Privately held companies exist too. They also do layoffs.

Fast response battery systems largely solve the frequency issue. Unfortunately there is a lot of incentive to put solar on the grid by individual players, while the cost to do the frequency response is collectivized so tends to lag behind what is needed.

Bit surprised countries aren't just legislating this away. For every MW you put on the grid that doesn't have rotational inertia you need to contribute X money to a fund that builds stabilization capacity.

My understanding is that this is mostly a technology problem. Current solar does a lot of grid-following. If solar instead did some sort of "grid driving" with an external synchronizer I would expect this to be a fairly solvable problem.

The term of art you are probably looking for here is grid forming inverter. The ENTSO-E class list on Wikipedia is probably a good starting point for some of the problems that one might want to handle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverter-based_resource#Grid-f...

Put a motor-generator pair next the solar or wind farm and the problem of frequency stabilization is largely solved. Adds a big flywheel for more initial mass.

But now you've changed the economics by adding a big, inefficient (0.95*0.95%), and expensive piece of equipment.

You don't need that, though, the problem is entirely solvable through the inverters. Having some batteries also helps. Combined it's much better grid intertia than spinning motors.

It’s crazy that our grids are still held together by the speed of a physically spinning generator. It’s like driving your electric motors with brush motors or using analog tape instead of digital audio, POTS instead of VoIP. A perfectly reasonable but still obsolete technological anachronism that will be gone within our lifetimes.

Watching the enormous progress we’re making on upgrading our energy infrastructure is definitely one of the most exciting things happening in tech. People seem determined to stick to old ideas.

Inverters are the problem. They're closed source and power engineers cant test their fault behavior well.

(One of ) the problem with inverter the angular velocity of a spinning rotor is trivially easy to define and measure. The operating frequency of the grid that an inverter needs to target is hard to define under the realtime constraints of a failing grid.

Which is what brought Spain down. It wasnt the panels and windmills, it was the inverters.

It would, indeed, make sense to have standardised behaviour for the inverters (they can simulate inertia perfectly well, but a lot do not), and incentives to contribute that value to the grid. It's not a hard to define target if you just want something that looks like inertia.

And the root cause of the blackout in Spain is still mostly the subject of speculation. AFAIK there has is no official report yet into the details of how things went wrong.

flywheel nonsense, just add battery.

Which requires inverters, which are a huge problem.

Riddle me this, what instantaneous voltage should an inverter target if the grid's at a fault condition? Stated another way, how do you define the frequency of a non-sinuoid?

Careful, get the wrong answer and you get a short and you help melt millions of dollars of equipment, some with year old lead times.

it is no riddle. you are asking questions from 1942. except you put inverter into it. so you either think about current technology or go spark some wires.

you can island and not island at same time. decentralized grid means DECENTRALIZED grid.

every renewable needs battery next to it.

Indeed, not a problem to solve if you have all day to measure it.

The trick is measuring a frequency in the 60s of Hz of a non-sinusoid within a thousandth of a second.

Otherwise you get a short.

> flywheel nonsense, just add battery

Flywheels are batteries. If your model is predicated on a particular chemistry of battery, it’s overfitted.

Why would anyone build a solar-only grid?

Nobody would, but the nuclear and carbon lobbies like to use straw men models - combining things like laptop batteries with solar to "prove that you cant live without them" and these models leak into public discourse.

A fully green energy grid would most cost effectively comprise of:

* Solar (generally strongest when wind is low, ~5x cheaper per kwh than nuclear power)

* Wind (generally strongest when sun is low, ~5x cheaper than nuclear power)

* Large scale interconnected grids to offset intermittency.

* Batteries and pumped storage for short term storage (~90% roundtrip efficiency but expensive to store long term)

* Syngas for seasonal storage (~50% roundtrip efficiency but cheap to store long term).

You answered that as if you haven’t done it yet?

Not with Epic, we work with Kipu and Athena for now

It uses openai.