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@billhorsman I think that excluded the energy required to harvest and then process the crop into ethanol. There's studies in the US to suggest that growing biofuels for transport might be so ineffective as to use more fossil fuel than they save!

@billhorsman I don't get the love for huge monoculture farming deserts. Fields aren't "natural" landscape, they're already industrialised.

And even in the UK, solar farms yield more than 6 times more energy than if used to grow biofuels. Some estimates suggest putting PV generated electric in an EV rather than ethanol in a combustion engine gets you 30 times further for the same acre of land.

And solar farms generally have far greater bio diversity than an arable crop.

@neil A couple of years ago I was in the office and the guy next to me spent a week on a critical issue. Pulling in many other people. The new kit to drive a critical business process wouldn't connect. Reinstalled everything. Hard reset network gear and rebuilt configs. Bench tested every bit of kit and switched things out that were known good. Turns out a "fresh out of the bag" 2m patch cable was faulty.

@thomholwerda I kind of assumed it was a malware toolkit that was useful once you'd broken in... but I know very little about cyber security. 😅

The quality of Ars has deteriorated since being owned by Conde Nast. Some of the cross network articles are pretty crappy. But the Ars in house stuff is still one of the best sources of general tech nerd news. It's probably the only site that's been in my bookmarks (or RSS feed) for 25 years.

@andrewstroehlein governments could create their own official Mastodon servers and be completely in control of their own platforms and content. Without the baggage of posting on a centralised network and giving implied support to the owner.

@volpeon A large proportion of the AdGuard traffic I block on my network was my Panasonic TV trying to contact Netflix. I don't even have a Netflix subscription. Given some of the content tracking methods TVs now use (like sending a pic of what you're watching several times a minute), I've taken it off the network. Thankfully it isn't too obnoxious about becoming a no longer smart TV.