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Is there anything newer than 2021 here?

Our transmission capacity is enough for our own needs (since the danes forced us to close the perfectly working nuclear plant Barsebäck) - but it’s not enough for our needs and Germany’s.

I’m very much pro EU but I do have issues with a huge part of Sweden having 10x the electricity prices of the rest of the country. It hits our manufacturing, farmers etc. I would be in favor of limiting our export to just our surplus. Germany could’ve skipped closing down their own fully working nuclear plants …

(Sweden and Norway are also the ones to thank for Denmark being able to live mostly off wind power since it’s our hydro and nuclear power that they use to balance their network)

I own a rather large property so I’ve had to become “an expert” on our electricity issues.

From the paywalled article:

I stället måste vi tidvis exportera el under dygnets mörka timmar till elbristens Tyskland. Därför blir strömmen 10-20 gånger dyrare i Skåne än i Norrland, Stockholm och Göteborg. Därför är det omöjligt att skapa en prisutjämning inom Sverige.

I live here and don’t need to guess :) We would be perfectly fine if Germany (mainly) wasn’t buying energy from us when prices are high on the continent. Due to how the energy market works we then have to pay those prices as well in the region bordering Germany.

Splitting Germany up into energy regions (like Sweden is split up into four) would help - but Germany doesn’t want to.

If you want to keep guessing instead of appreciating my first hand knowledge that’s fine - it’s just a bit tiresome.

https://www.sydsvenskan.se/2024-05-28/darfor-ar-elpriset-mer-an-tio-ganger-hogre-i-lund-an-i-lulea/

It’s the difference between Germany exporting when prices are low vs importing from us when prices are high. This is a huge problem in Sweden where one of our four electricity regions have almost 10x the price of the others.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/swedish-government-says-no-new-power-cable-germany-2024-06-14/

… importing all the green energy from southern Sweden causing our electricity prices to skyrocket compared to the other three energy regions in Sweden.

We’re not amused.

We lied when we created their first ones. We’ve taught them to lie when they create ones now.

… and all parents, globally, who already lie about their children’s age due to the US COPA will just keep on lying.

Firefox with plugins. If we want there to be anything but Chromium and Safari in the future it’s simply what needs to be done. Forks of Firefox will disappear when Firefox does …

As a dad I care about the subjects my kids care about, so I’m able to take a genuine part in their (almost completely online) lives.

Yeah I think you got the numbers crossed there :D

I think a lot of people start up a server because at the time it fits with what they want to do. Once you realize this is not a job (correct description) you wanted to take on it becomes much harder to motivate it.

As soon as you run a server for others outside of the immediate friends/family circle it can be really difficult to deal with the expectations of uptime and service. Also, some don’t want to ask for help but also take on all the moderation themselves too.

@seb@ioc.exchange publishes the costs for ioc.exchange:

Servers are hosted at Linode and hosting costs are around $300/month. Media files are hosted in AWS S3 and the costs are around $50/month. So in total our running costs are about $350/month.

Unfortunately the donations still don’t cover it.

This is your regular reminder that our hosting costs are roughly $350 per month. In the last 30 days you all have contributed $216. Thank you very much for everyone who has contributed - You are awesome!

edit: User numbers from fedidb: 1,737 MAU, 26,315 total.

Lots of OSS is created by people who want to create something, and happily gives it away to others too.

The problem is when others start depending, and demanding, work from that person. There is no good solution to that problem at the moment.

if I compile mtproto self from github

You didn’t understand why I quoted that part the first time around. Let’s try it again.

Yeah I am a cryptographer, reverse engineer and (whitehat) hacker. I’m also well versed in the russian influence operations having run rampant in the west for a bit more than a decade.

The Telegram-supporters are out in force right now specifically to make sure people keep using Telegram, believing it to be secure. Russia has already made used of their backdoors against Ukraine in the war.

Russia banning Signal now was a huge blunder, since that proves there’s nothing in Telegram they don’t have access to, having allowed it to keep operating.

“Access to the Signal messaging app is blocked in connection with violation of the requirements of Russian legislation which must be complied with to prevent the use of messaging apps for terrorist and extremist aims”

• Roskomnadzor

Russian authorities began to block access to Telegram, a widely used messaging app, in 2018. The action interrupted many third-party services, but had little effect on the availability of Telegram in Russia.

• Reuters

Your .ru domain makes your comments in this discussion meritless.

custom self compiled clients

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Not “somehow”. The authorities know Telegram can indeed backdoor their service, since they know it already is. They also know Signal cannot.

Thus, since Telegram can but refuses, he gets arrested.

Russia banned Signal, but not Telegram, to make sure their citizens couldn’t plan any subversive activities against the state.

That’s all we needed to know for sure.

What has Telegram got to do with privacy? Russia banning Signal but not Telegram tells you all you need to know.

Absolutely awesome tower defense games. We played it over and over for a very long time.