A grid is great because it allows power to be moved around to where it is needed. It's a thing we should definitely pursue having. But we should also be promoting community microgrids and other similar organization structures for power generation to make power delivery as robust as possible in disaster scenarios. Especially as AGW increases severity and frequency of severe weather events, we're going to suffer increased numbers of power outages which threaten lives by disabling oxygen concentrators and CPAPs. People often have batteries for these things, sometimes even in the devices themselves now, but outages can easily outlast those batteries. I got to experience power out for a couple of days in Santa Cruz county due to the 1989 Loma Prieta quake. I currently live in a town which does not even have a disaster plan.

Yes, there are down sides, but there are also up sides to forks like new things being tried.

There are risks inherent to any development model. But there are lots of corporations dependent on Linux today, so they are motivated to back a plausible successor so that they can continue to profit.

Having a succession plan doesn't guarantee success, either.

I take it you're the author of the rsilvergun-impersonating LLM based on your accusation. What a surprise that you're also a coward.

I've opposed people using Ad Hominem arguments about things he's said, which is not the same thing.

I've been marked unwilling to moderate for years. I didn't get mod points for years before that anyway.

Your trolling is really dumb considering my posting history where I criticize China more than anyone else who can construct a complete sentence.

Hamas is funded by Netanyahu, just ask him. Also, pop quiz dipshit, when was Hamas founded? How many Israeli terrorist groups predate that?

Until last year or so Ford owners could download someone else's tune on the internets and load it into their PCM with a $15 cable (A $10 cable that's been hacked to add a switch which does a pin swap.) Alas, Ford has begun locking PCMs recently, and they were pretty much the last manufacturer not to.

You're really not paying anything extra for any of the equipment if you don't use it in this case, because they need that hardware to do maximum regenerative braking. It works in both directions, and they're "only" not allowing you to use it to make the car accelerate faster without paying them. I think that too is wrong, but you're overstating the case.

Even in a pay-for-range scheme (which I don't rule out happening eventually, but will probably be the last thing they implement along these lines) you're still getting something — better battery lifespan since they'd still be using the same battery pack, and "only" not allowing you to fully discharge it, meaning that it wouldn't be subjected to the same deep discharges.

That's not what happened. The offenders got caught. The protocols did their job. The machinery of justice moves slowly. By all means fix that, but don't complain about the parts that worked.

You wouldn't know an actual leftist idea if it fucked you in the eye socket.

Look I get it, you've got fantasies of mental competence, but every time you reply to one of my comments lately you prove you're nowhere near.

Does it even take a technical background? Just a little paying attention and a willingness to look things up if you lack personal familiarity goes a long way. There's maps of power connections, you can download free GIS data that shows where the transmission lines are and load it up in free software... (I use QGIS)

Your desire to avoid it explains why you clicked into the story and posted a comment.

Wait, what?

Slashdot is owned by a corporation on which an algorithm runs. And it is functionally the same as the algorithm behind every social media network: If people engage with it, deliver more of it.

Guess what you did by engaging with the content you say you don't want to see?

The world as we experience it, due to the influence of our societies, is designed to benefit the wealthy, maximize their profit, and keep them in power. To that end, it's also designed to reward those who help them achieve their goals, and punish or indeed eliminate everyone else.

Speaking as the voice of privilege to tell us all how to fit in will surely help!

It's not a sin to be neurotypical, but GP never asserted otherwise. Neurotypical people do often act like it's a sin to not be one of them, though, as do many aneurotypical people who are lying to themselves about whether or not they are.

Society depends on both kinds of people, but as it was in fact willfully designed, it doesn't need many geniuses (who are generally atypical in multiple regards) and does need a lot of people who will show up for their wage slave jobs to crank out more bullshit widgets we don't need in such profuse quantity if we would build them to last instead of to maximize profit.

You mean Bosch? Otherwise you can't say "the" company, because all of the German automakers cheated, but they all did it with assistance from Bosch, who makes the PCMs for all of their vehicles. (And most of the sensors and actuators, too.)

They are called grids, but they are a hybrid of a grid and a tree structure, and many cities (or even entire counties) are fed by only a single connection. Virtually no neighborhoods are multiply connected. At the interstate level it's fairly gridlike, but the closer you get to a house, the less like a grid it becomes.

Your "proper electric grid" is no substitute for a real grid. It's predominantly tree-structured, with generation far from the point of consumption. What would actually be as robust as possible would be a system which could break itself into small pieces and allow local generation and storage systems to provide power to as many users as possible in scenarios where there is damage to the network. The place for centralization is in standards for that equipment to follow so that they can cooperate to deliver that without presenting a threat to linemen who are trying to restore connections to the so-called "grid".

That's an anti-gaslighting feature.

OTOH the moderation system is trash. It should either work more like reddit's (higher max scores) or who voted how should be public.