@datenwolf @hzulla Such an attack is more feasible with a relatively small number of devices if you attack the links between larger electricity networks.
Here's an article from 2017 (German only)
https://www.heise.de/news/Botnetze-koennen-das-Stromnetz-sabotieren-3927886.html?seite=all
This is FASCINATING. Researchers were able to pin down the cause of measurable global 60 second power spikes to software that does regular tasks on the minute mark. They found large scale battery installations as one major cause, but obviously this is true for any other computerized system that does cron jobs and has a synchronized clock. As weird as it sounds, adding random 0-59.999s delays to cron jobs in Linux distributions and other software would actually help the power grid.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/117541821348447444
“And at some point, as we watch every new rape allegation against Trump dismissed with the same arguments by the same editors of the same media empires, we can only conclude that these journalists and editors simply don't think rape counts as a scandal at all, at least not when the rapist is wealthy or powerful.”
RE: https://newsie.social/@royaards/117539951630387804
TIL Shell was originally a Dutch company but at the beginning of the last century it merged with a UK transport company and now it’s HQ are in London.
i have always thought of them as Dutch ―and the kind of company the Dutch have used, for centuries, to hide as profiteers of atrocities.
this is a particular part of Dutch history i’ve explored a bit, trying to find the banks and investment groups that might have profited ―via stock options― from my ancestors enslavement.
Over a $Billion spent on the US election ads this year, yet it's near impossible to find enough money to keep kids from being hungry.
Society really has their priorities messed up
Dieses Meme hat mir viel Freude gemacht #netzfund
Amsterdam Ed
#SoftenUpAHorrorFilm
A Lift
#SoftenUpAHorrorFilm
House of 0,000 Corpses
The day the ‘European Union’ was born. 🇪🇺
On 1 November 1993, the Maastricht Treaty entered into force, officially establishing the European Union, formerly the European Communities.
From 12 to 27 Member States, we've come a long way.
Here's to our shared European future! 💙
Years of work are all (finally) coming together, it feels amazing!
Pixelfed - est. 2018
FediDB - est. 2020
Sup - est. 2023
Loops - est. 2024
Columnly - est. 2025
2027 is going to be another big year for Pixelfed and friends 🚀
Pixelfed has an anti-AI contribution policy, yet we still get AI PRs 😒
@oudzeikwijf zeker weten.
Dat is al een heel oude techniek.
Facebook was een ster met een variant er op:
Maak de mobiele webversie zo wrak met ontbrekende functionaliteit dat mensen wel de app gaan gebruiken. (Spoiler: alle normale functionaliteit gaat prima in een mobiele browser versie)
What if women have a longer life expectancy because far more wives are slowly poisoning their husbands than anyone suspects‽
Als we in de EU nou eens een beetje zelfvertrouwen zouden tonen, kwamen we best heel ver. We zouden ons toch goed kunnen redden zonder die hillbillies?
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-vaccine-policy-creates-huge-opportunity-for-europe/
Austrian Martin Sellner, a self-described ex-neonazi, who travels Europe to argue that foreigners should be deported, is now mad that France has deported HIM, a foreigner to France.
‘Het gaat om je eigen veiligheid en die van je gezin’. Ja maar vergeet ook niet de veiligheid van de medeweggebruikers!
Honderdduizenden auto's ondanks mogelijke defecten toch de weg op, zo zit het met jouw auto https://nos.nl/l/2637553
ExxonMobil Profits Double to $15.4 Billion https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/ExxonMobil-Profits-Double-to-154-Billion.amp.html