As a fellow tab hoarder, I recommend using Tab Session Manager plugin. You can easily save all tabs, although from my own experience I've almost never restored them anyway lol
I prefer Tab Stash. It can be also used as a side bar for your tabs, but can close every currently open one and put them into a group you can optionally name for later reuse.
Facebook Messenger is the most used communicator in my country (Poland). Without it I would be basically disconnected from my friends and people from university/work. I'm not really happy about how dependent we are on having a Facebook account.
The issue is there is no good equivalent to Signal that lets you use a username instead of a phone number as the primary identifier, unless you count OTR, which isn't very user friendly.
I should have clarified I was one of early adopters and my main gripe then was mainly about its performance, not the syntax. I mean it was okay, but still not up to my expectations. But that was over a decade ago! Next time when I have the luxury of choosing the language for a new project I'll definitely take Go into consideration. It has its quirks but overall it's quite simple and manageable - you can easily understand code written by someone else which is a huge advantage.
Previous GDPR infringements have a huge impact on severity of future punishments. If they continue to violate GDPR they risk getting fined 4% of the Meta’s worldwide annual revenue (not profit!) or getting outright banned from processing data of EU citizens which would be absolutely devastating for them.
> log into their accounts, having access to their usernames so that you can do it, so that you know what they're up to.
Wouldn't it damage the trust between you and your child? I think even monitoring internet usage in-person or outright restricting access to potentially dangerous websites would be less intrusive. If your kid discovers you can access their messages at any time, it would make them more inclined to make other accounts and not discuss about any dangerous interactions on them out of fear of being discovered.
The only way that's going to damage your trust with your kid is if you are secret about it. Show them and tell them that you're getting onto their accounts. They could even be sitting in the room with you.
Eventually you have to stop doing this, they have to grow up, but especially when they're very young it is very important that you're actually on their account because they don't know enough to see and report when something harmful is going on.
A political issue with this is that Northern Norway has been exempt from the 25% VAT as one of many measures to make living in Northern Norway more attractive. Until now the cost of power in both north and south has been pretty much the same, meaning people in power zone NO4 have paid about the same price for power, but not the VAT.
But now that the price has gone up by such an enormous amount in the south, connecting north and south will not reduce the price in the other zones, it will likely just cause NO4 to go up to the same level as in the rest of Norway. This is mainly due to the NO4 being basically not connected to the the synchronous grid of Continental Europe, while the other regions are to a much larger extent due to underwater cables going to the UK, Denmark and Germany. This means that the price of power in Europe directly influences the price of electricity in NO1-3, but not NO4. At least not to the same extent, although Sweden makes a killing buying cheap power from NO4 and selling it to mainland Europe, or even straight back to southern Norway. As such, connecting NO4 to the rest of Norway and by extention the European grid, would not be very popular in the north, but to be fair, the price increase has not exactly been popular in the south either.
The industry in Norway is highly electrified and some sectors are very energy intensive, such as aluminium production, which due to using electrolysis, runs almost entirely off the grid. Manufacturing used almost 37% of all power consumed in Norway in 2017, with power-intensive manufacturing accounting for over 80% of total energy use in the manufacturing sector that year.[0] This is also an issue which will need to be considered when talking about increasing transfer capacity between the two zones.
I hope this gives some insight, even if I rambled a bit and touched on a lot of different aspects. I'm by no means an expert, but have become interested in the subject as so many other Norwegians have lately. I'd love to answer more questions if you have any!
This is a great post. This part: <<This is mainly due to the NO4 being basically not connected to the the synchronous grid of Continental Europe>> and this part: <<Sweden makes a killing buying cheap power from NO4 and selling it to mainland Europe, or even straight back to southern Norway.>>
Ouch! Is this not enough to push for interconnect? Or will the electricity price increases prevent such a change?
Alternatively, why hasn't more heavy industry been built in NO4 zone? Or is it not possible due to winter weather?
I also heard that in Norway, a high percentage of electricty is generated from gravity (water dams). That would make aluminium production ideal. I have heard this is one reason why Iceland, with excelent geothermal energy sources, is also a major aluminium producer.
Hey, apologies for not seeing your reply before now.
I agree the selling of power to ourselves via Sweden seems weird, but I suppose it's better to do just that instead of having to drain the dam without producing electricity at all, and it's a solution which works at this moment instead of waiting for an interconnect to be built. I would hazard a guess that it does slightly reduce the cost of power in other regions whenever we do sell to Sweden from NO4, but I have no data. I haven't really heard much about this exact issue being discussed though, so I don't have much information regarding that. But the issue with prices jumping to European levels would be relevant here too.
There is a lot of heavy industry in the north, such as petroleum, mining, refining and others. Norway does have a large aluminium industry which does rely more or less exclusively on hydro power, and seems to be in the top ten of aluminium producing countries, just above Iceland.
Never say electricity is generated from gravity, that is an instant reveal that you don't know much physics. It's hydro power, water power, or hydroelectric power. Gravity is everywhere, water is not. Energy can be extracted only where the water is.
Already exists. The main limitation is the number of cables and GW capacity.Also ramping up cable production has a bit of latency and installing them even more. And it's capital intensive and only makes sense when electricity prices are high. They are right now but that's not a permanent situation.
And the problem with building massive interconnects that are rarely used is that it’s not economical to do so. They need to be encouraged by outside means.
That's disappointing. The title's "Why No IPv6?", the domain is "whynoipv6.com", the first (and largest) header is "Why No IPv6?", but I'm yet to find an answer to that question. So - Why No IPv6?
What do you mean by that? Both Poland and Sweden are members of the EU.