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Welcome to another #RailwaysExplained thread… this is my first completely new thread on Mastodon, and boy is it going to be an epic one.
HOW IT WORKS (AND WHEN IT DOESN’T) – DISCONTINUOUS ELECTRIFICATION
Something I get asked about A LOT is discontinuous electrification. A typical comment on social media will be something like “well with battery technology so readily available we can just electrify the easy bits and run on battery in between…”
#railways #OLE #OCS #OverheadLine
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It's not just the monetary issue of rebuilding bridges and tunnels - it is also the disruption that it can cause. Take the electrification of the Bolton-Manchester line, for example. The bridge at Moses Gate caused disruption for months as it was a major thoroughfare for the town's car traffic, contained utilities and the geology underneath wasn't as expected.
If they could have run on a battery through this, it would have saved so much time and disruption.
@Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫ @John Macintosh UUUUUUUULA!
And presently they came to Tillingham, where, if Wells had done his research properly, he would have known it is basically a mudflat and far too shallow to float a torpedo ram, which had a draft of 6 metres.
Me: Idly browsing through Amazon crap.
Amazon: Would you like a retro telephone handset that connects via bluetooth?
Me: Nah...
Amazon: What if it's RADIATION PROOF?
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#StarWars - 'Reign of the Empire' Trailer concept, this one #TheBadBatch through to #StarWarsRebels. #Ahsoka #AhsokaTano #Andor
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Star Wars - 'Reign of the Empire' Trailer concept
The second of my Star wars concept trailers, this one encompassing The Bad Batch through to Rebels. I've been sat on this video for weeks now as I finished t...YouTube
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I now have a Welcome To Paradise earworm! (~2:30) Wonderfully cathartic song for those brought up in that world.
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Front 242 Welcome To Paradise V 1 0 V
Front 242 - Welcome To Paradise. 1988 Wax Trax Records. A slick track by a slick band chastising tele evangelists. Great industrial example of angst and rebe...YouTube
This isn't something we see that often from the #IsleofWight but the weather conditions yesterday were perfectly clear.
These wind turbines are situated near Brighton, some 50 miles or so away. We were up on #CulverDown. I posted a video from there yesterday afternoon.
The Nab Tower is in the picture which is a well known Solent landmark.
#photography
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Does anyone know why Nvidia are shipping a firmware updater with a two-year out-of-date signature on it? It doesn't match any of the known-leaked keys, but it's somewhat suspicious to me!
nvidia.com/content/DriverDownl…
(In case they replace it, the signing cert at time-of-writing is:
Serial : 329EFDC406C491D67C01DBF8252A885A
Certificate expiration date:
notBefore : Aug 3 00:00:00 2018 GMT
notAfter : Aug 3 23:59:59 2021 GMT
)
#Nvidia #infosec #certificate #leak #ResizableBAR
Download NVIDIA, GeForce, Quadro, and Tesla Drivers
Download drivers for NVIDIA graphics cards, video cards, GPU accelerators, and for other GeForce, Quadro, and Tesla hardware. US / English download.www.nvidia.com
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"Given these precedents, there is a growing apprehension that Wu's digital silence signals a new chapter in China's human rights transgressions–one in which the LGBTQ community potentially emerges as the newest target of state-led oppression, in keeping with global trends."
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EXCLUSIVE: Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes
When China's prodigious tech influencer, Naomi Wu, found herself silenced, it wasn't just the machinery of a surveillance state at play. Instead, it was...Jackie Singh (Hacking, but Legal)
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Apparently the Latvian for "Article" is "pants", which as an English speaker makes the translation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights quite funny: ohchr.org/en/human-rights/univ…
OHCHR | Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Latvian
VISPÂRÈJÂ CILVÈKA TIESÌBU DEKLARÂCIJA ANO Åenerâlâ Asambleja pieðèmusi 1948. gada 10. decembrì PREAMBULA Ievèrojot, ka visiem cilvèku sabiedrìbas locekîiem piemìtoøâs paøcieðas un viðu vienlìdzìgu un neatðemamu tiesìbu atzìøana ir brìvìbas, taisnìgum…OHCHR
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I've been trying to move out of my old storage unit (because I can't afford it) but it's gotten delayed, and I'm at risk of losing it.
Any donations to help me keep my collection of old computers would be very helpful!
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Fediverse acclimatisation test. Do not write on both sides of this toot at once.
1) What is a stavlet?
2) Do you agree?
(1) Stavlet: follower of Zoëasstrianism, a yeastern school of philosophy.
(2) It is always safest to agree with the custodienne of the Var.
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StavLet - Oribi
StavLet Et avanceret staveprogram, som retter stavefejl og grammatikfejl på dansk Køb StavLet StavLet fungerer på Windows, macOS og ChromeOS.Oribi
If your spoon economy is anything like mine, "once or twice a week" is much more spoon-load than "twice a week", which in turn is much more than "every Wednesday and Saturday".
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Exactly 14 years ago , Satoshi Nakamoto designed the most pathetic / inefficient system ever invented by humankind : the blockchain.
Today, it weights 60 000 tons, wastes constantly 10 gigawatts (more than Belgium or Chile) to process less than 7 transactions per second :
Less than a 33 bps modem from 1990.
This could be a joke if it didn't have such gigantic environmental impact, wasn't enabling billion dollars ransomware industry and was not crushing thousands of lives in the process.
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I live in a country (where I was born) where I need to apply for government approval to move significant funds out of the country. No issues doing it now, but I am concerned with what would happen if they start saying no. My currency also loses roughly 10% value against USD per year (sometimes more). I also have to provide my social media accounts to get a US visa. Bitcoin is valuable in this context. Much more than running AC or playing games (but value is subjective)
@louis
The currency situation sounds shitty, and governments can be arbitrary, my sympathies.
The rest though...
One, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people' logic for electricity consumption looks even worse than with guns.
Two, I hope to see enough EVs running to power a small nation. They take gas machines off the road.
Third, farms run where power is cheap and exploitable. If it's a stranded source, that's just coincidental, & likely to crowd out others.
What I am trying to say is this:
1. Bitcoin has value to at least some (e.g. my government example), in the same way that some other things have value to some e.g. games.
2. Power generation creates pollution not bitcoin mining. So it's on equal footing with whatever else consumes power like gaming consoles, EVs or ACs or washing machines.
You have the right to your views but treating it as abolutely right compared to other uses of electricity is not an argument.
Prisoners with jobs: “Sire! Sire! The advertisers are unhappy!”
SuperGeniusMan: “What are they whining about now? Have I not created the best social media network in the universe?”
Pwj: “Sire, some of the userbase, er, that is, the Necessary Scumbags, have revolted against your benevolence and are blocking advertisers on sight. Thus they do not see the amazing cryptocurrency scams being offered to them.”
SGM: “Ha! They cannot foil me, the Smartest Man Alive. Remove the blocking feature!”
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I just wanted to visualize a waveform, randomly searched for "audacity like online", not expecting much... and by god, they did it. The maniacs.
Wavacity | Online Audio Editor Based on Audacity
Wavacity is a port of the Audacity audio editor to the web browser. Free and open-source. No install required.wavacity.com
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Sodaphonic - Record, edit, and share audio online.
An online audio editor for humans. Cut, copy, record and export to mp3 or wav files.sodaphonic.com
The world's longest rail tunnel has been shut to passenger services after a derailment in Switzerland causing damage that will take months to repair.
Swiss authorities said there was "no indication" when the Gotthard Base Tunnel would reopen.
Sixteen wagons derailed and are still stuck inside, a week after the derailment on 10 August.
bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66…
Gotthard: World's longest rail tunnel shut for months after freight crash
National Swiss rail operator SBB said a derailed freight train caused severe damage to tracks.By Thomas Mackintosh (BBC News)
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BREAKING: the world jigsaw authority have banned trans women from doing jigsaws with cis women citing their "biologically immutable advantage at connecting bits of cardboard together."
More as we have it.
#trans
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Debian Celebrates 30 years!
Over 30 years ago the late Ian Murdock wrote to the comp.os.linux.development newsgroup about the completion of a brand-new Linux release which he named "The Debian Linux Release". He built the release by hand, from scratch, so to speak. Ian...Debian Project
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Anyone after #retroComputing fonts?
Just found this GitHub repository full of fonts for quite a few systems
github.com/robhagemans/hoard-o…
GitHub - robhagemans/hoard-of-bitfonts: turns out I like bitmap fonts
turns out I like bitmap fonts. Contribute to robhagemans/hoard-of-bitfonts development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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you know what else is magic?
Getting in your climate controlled coach, driving to somewhere 40 miles away and arriving about a half hour later, and all the while you listened to a symphony played by a 100 piece orchestra.
I admit it's not as magical as being moved by words written someone 1000s of miles away or centuries in the past, but it is pretty damn good nonetheless.
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Anya (she/her)
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David Crooks 🏳️🌈
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That's the sound they are supposed to make???
Mine just insults me loudly when I open it! :catangry:
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