Both Portugal and Spain want to have power lines connecting the Iberian Peninsula to the rest of Europe.

The problem is that France refuses to allow the construction of lines to export energy from Portugal and Spain to the rest of Europe because that would threaten France's very own business of exporting the power generated by its nuclear power plants to the rest of Europe.

In this latest power outage it would've been especially beneficiary to Portugal to be connected to nations other than just Spain, since Spain's problems dragged down the Portuguese grid, and if there was a different place from where Portugal could have sourced enough power to make up for the sudden crash of the power coming from Spain, the country might have avoided the total collapse of power.

Solar is generated as a DC current which has to be converted to AC and the grid voltage (so, 220V in Spain) in order to supply it to the energy grid, so all that it takes to control the flow of energy from solar generation into the grid is to be able to remotely tell the DC-AC converters of the solar farms to stop sending power to the AC side. When the converters are in that state, energy is not flowing down to the energy grid and all that happens on the other side is that the solar cells get a bit more warm.

Of course that means it has to mandatory for any solar supplier to the mains network to have a converter which can be switched off remotely by the grid management company.

Similarly, wind generation can be reduced and even stopped by changing the pitch of the blades and similarly it must be possible for the grid management company to do so remotely.

Switching on and off power sources (for example, switching on or off power turbines in dams or gas power stations) has long been how the grid management company balances production with consumption in order to avoid blackouts.

The problem is not an inherent inability of the new forms of renewable generation to be reduced or stopped when needed, it's that if not forced the businesses generating that energy won't pay the extra money to have systems in placed to do so which can be remotely activated by the electric grid management company: the flow of renewable energy is not controllable because the power supply operators won't spend the money into making it controllable unless forced and at least until now there was no political will to force them to do so.

It's a political (and Capitalism) problem, not a technical problem.

I vaguely remember that they were already preloading the Office DLLs way back in Windows 95 or XP days.

If I passed that impression, I'm sorry.

I'm well aware that plenty of people in Germany are fighting Far-Right extremist in all its forms, both at home and abroad and I definitely don't think of Germans as "all the same" (if I did I would be a massive hypocrite) - as with everybody else Germans come in all sorts, good, bad and everything in between: so is human nature.

What I see is a political and press environment in Germany (and, as I said, I see similar things in other countries) spreading a way of thinking about other people which is the same that the far-right has, hence in my view it's indirectly boosting the far-right in that country partly by confirming to people who already thought like that, that it's fine to think so, and partly by teaching others to think like that.

This is not a German thing: the same kind of environment anywhere else would have the same result.

Yes, I consider all the people who argue “the Gaza genocide should be the most important political issue of our time in every country of the world” one group, namely the group of people who bring it up in every political discussion everywhere.

Please point out exactly were I said that "Gaza genocide should be the most important political issue of our time in every country of the world"

Beyond that:

• I'm making the point, repeatedly, that politicians building support at home for their policies of supporting far-right extremism abroad (which is what Israel - an ethno-Fascist white colonialist nation with Appartheid constitutionally enshrined - is as is it's ultra-racist Genocide in Gaza) is tightly related to the growth of far-right extremism at home because to do the former means spreading the way of viewing the world of the far-right hence it boosts the latter.
• Your whole point is "if you go after one of those things you stop the other thing from being addressed", which implies that those things are totally unrelated, plus it relies on the ridiculous falacy that people cannot deal with more than one problem at the same time.

Your point relies on the notion that repeated and overt statements in favour of Racial Descrimination (which is exactly what people like Schulz do when they say that "Germany unwaveringly supports the Jewish Nation" to justify sending weapons to Israel to carry on executing their Genocide) somehow don't embolden Racists to think that "Racism is ok" and hence that those criticizing the former somehow, magically, are derrailing the fight against the latter.

First, this really jumped out from your post:

you people got Trump elected

Perfect illustration of somebody who mentally reduces other human beings from persons into groups.

The curious thing is that somebody who thinks like that about human beings is pushing a "nothing we can do about it with certainty, let's not talk about the Gaza Genocide"...

Second: how exactly does the political system in the US make this behaviour of the German authorities and political class any less hypocrite? In fact, how does it at all relate given that Germany has a mixed system including a Proportional Vote component, so totally different from the US?

Third: What's exactly is your point? Because that exact argument structure can justify closing your eyes and make believe it ain't happening for everything bad :

• Gaza Genocide: "no evidence that their preferred option changes anything about it"
• Environmental destruction: "no evidence that their preferred option changes anything about it"
• Fascism; "no evidence that their preferred option changes anything about it"
• Poverty: "no evidence that their preferred option changes anything about it"

Best just give up on politics altogether to stop evil-doing! How convenient for the evil-doers.

That view is literally "in Germany" and is certainly widespread (if you count both people who support the AfD and people who support the mainstream's party take on Israel), because it's literally "in Germany" that politicians and a segment of the press have been spreading as "normal" to support or not of people based on their race.

It's kinda the whole point of my post that if you spread and normalize Racist takes on other people you're cultivating Racism and hence get lots of Racists, and that's exactly what's happening in Germany (and the US, and Israel, to name just a few other supposed Democracies were this shit should not be happening).

Now, if you think the political and press environment in Germany spreading Racist views on human beings I something that reflects poorly on Germans, that's all you.

From my own post

the entirety of the German political mainstream

and

German politicians

Please point out exactly were I am making statements about "Germans" in general

If when you read such a post what you see is criticism of those never mentioned in it - "Germans" - rather than criticism of those repeatedly mention there - "German politicians" - then the Racist As Fuck part is coming from your side.

Those eagerly cultivating at home a Fascist way of thinking (from the Racism of "unwaveringly support for the self-proclaimed representatives of a race whilst they mass murder children" to the Authoritarianism and total contempt for the Rule Of Law of "expelling foreigners without Trial for attending demonstrations"), will never get rid of the Fascists because it is they themselves who are feeding Fascism.

Either the German authorities and politicians are dumb as doorknobs and they're unable to understand that endorsing Fascist Thinking creates Fascists, or all their "dealing with the fascists at home" is either performative or just infighting between the different pro-Fascism powers in Germany to decide who ends up at the top of the Fascist hierarchy.

“The ethnicity-and ancestry-based conception of the people that predominates within the party is not compatible with the free democratic order,” the BfV said on Friday.

Pretty much the entirety of the German political mainstream is right now "unwaveringly supporting" a fascist regime commiting an extreme Genocide in Gaza, and that support has been very openly because of the ethnicity the murderers claim to represent, or in other words, due to "ethnicity-and ancestry-based conceptions".

Normalize race as an excuse to support no matter what those commiting the most atrocious of actions and all that it takes is to add "if it applies to them, then surely it applies to us" to that normalized racism to get something like the ideology of the AfD.

German politicians have long been plowing and fertilizing the field from which the AfD sprouted with great vigour.

This right now is just hypocrisy: the AfD is but the tip of the iceberg which is the view in Germany that the way people are treated should depend on their race and even the most horrible of deeds are excusable if one's race is the right one.

I was thinking the same - it's missing the albedo texture but it has the normal/bump map plus at the very least fixed metalicity and roughness values.

An almost perfect post and then you had to call the US "free world" :(

Yes. The "exception" was that the UK could stay out of the Schengen zone.

I would say that either without the other would not have ended up in that Referendum being held.

So what exactly are you doing to clean up the Democrat Party of a leadership who managed to lose against none other than Donald Trump, TWICE?

Or are you just another tribalist muppet that thinks "the chief is always right and needs not concede anything to anybody and it's everybody else who has to just do what the chief wants" hence rages against those who are not of your tribe and didn't follow the wishes of your "chiefs" rather than against your "chiefs" for not even trying to appeal to those other people?

Because it would've been way easier for the handful of people in the Democrat Party leadership to, rather than totally refusing to care as they did, listen to and start addressing the concerns of the millions who were hesitant in voting Democrat, than for those millions of voters to magically change their minds when the party which should have been trying to appeal to them couldn't give a rat's arse about their worries.

Yeah, good point.

I forgot about that.

With suitable prodding, you can get surprisingly great speed out of a chicken, the problem is that guidance is all over the place.

Indeed.

Like Marmite, nobody would have stopped them from selling whatever disgusting seasoning they favour on the side. It's the having it pre-added that's the problem!

Being an EU member comes with both Rights and Obligations and the objective was to have the former without the latter.

In fact the Referendum was done because the UK wanted to not to have to obbey the Freedom Of Movement rules for EU citizens entering its country (i.e. the Obligation) whilst keeping it for its citizens entering other EU countries (i.e. the Right) and was using the threat of holding a Leave Referendum to try and blackmail the rest of the EU, and the rest of the EU said "No!"

(This was actually just the later of a long series of instances of the British Government using that technique to get from the rest of the EU "exceptions" from the EU treaties, which went all the way back to Thatcher's time and was how Britain had so many exceptions that nobody else had).

The British Exceptionalism part is that many Britons genuinelly expected they would get that (and also similarly for a lot of other Rights and Obligations, such as being able to import bleached chicken from the US at the same time as having open and uncontrolled access to the Free Market were such food products are forbidden) from the EU as part of the Leave Negotiations.

Gzip encoding has been part of the HTTP protocol for a long time and every server-side HTTP library out there supports it, and phishing/scrapper bots will be done with server-side libraries, not using browser engines.

Further, judging by the guy's example in his article he's not using gzip with maximum compression when generating the zip bomb files: he needs to add -9 to the gzip command line to get the best compression (but it will be slower). (I tested this and it made no difference at all).