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Yeah, isn’t loading at the moment here either.
hits archive.org
Are you looking for specific values in some field in this table, or substrings in that field?
If specific values, I’d probably import the CSV file into a database with an column indexed on the value you care about.
Cape Town apparently decided to use desalination.
Permanent desalination is planned because seawater is available all the time, whether it rains or not, so it’s more reliable than any other water source. About 97% of water on Earth is in our oceans. We can make use of this huge resource through the process of desalination, which makes it drinkable and usable for us. Although desalination is the most expensive supply option and there are environmental issues that need to be well-managed (such as the salty ‘brine’ it produces as a waste product), it is an important part of the diversified water supply ‘mix’ going forward.
Says they start construction in 2026 and expect production starting in 2030.
I’m not familiar enough with Cloudflare’s error messages — or deployment with Cloudflare — to know what exact behavior that corresponds to, but I’d guess that most likely it can open a TCP connection to port 443 on what it thinks is your server, but it’s not getting HTTPS on that port or your server isn’t configured to serve up the right certificate for that hostname or the web server software running on it is otherwise broken. Might be some sort of intervening firewall.
I don’t know where your actual server is, may not even be accessible to me. But if you have a Linux machine that can talk to it directly – including, perhaps, the server itself – you should be able to see what certificate it’s handing back via:
$ openssl s_client -showcerts -servername akaris.space IP-address-of-actual-server:443That’ll try to establish a TLS connection, will send the specified server name so that if you’re using vhosting on the server, it knows which site to return, and then will tell you what certificate the web server used. Would probably be my first diagnostic step if I thought that there was a problem with the TLS handshake on a machine I was running.
That might provide enough information to you to let you resolve the issue yourself.
Beyond that, trying to provide much more information probably isn’t possible without more information about how your server is set up and what actually is working. You can censor IP addresses if you want to keep that private.
Donald Trump: “Enemy of God”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20g1zvgj4do
‘Anointed by God’: The Christians who see Trump as their saviour
This timeline.
Probably have better luck working on making mines that self-disarm to bound the time that they’re a danger. If states assess mines to be militarily-important — and this war has shown them to be pretty useful — they probably won’t forego them.
Also this legitimates the tech. Just like porn and VHS, the drug cartels endorse stardink.
“Hi there! I’m José Perez. Between 2025 and 2032, I ran over two thousand tons of cocaine into the United States. And when I needed reliable, high speed Internet access to safeguard my very valuable cargo, I knew that I couldn’t settle for the second-best. I used Starlink™. Only Starlink™ gave me the peace of mind that my critical business operations would remain robust in the face of unexpected difficulties, be they hurricanes or US Coast Guard cutters. In today’s fast-paced, competitive business world, whether you need a reliable video stream to a conference room in one of your branch offices or to a night-vision piloting camera on a semi-submersible smuggling platform, you can count on Starlink™!”
I mean, it’s a magical talking bat and a magical living skeleton. Surely breasts can be magical.
Why should the Pacific Ocean be named “the Pacific Ocean” when it could be “the American Ocean”?
I’m sorry, you are correct. The syntax and interface mirrors docker, and one can run ollama in Docker, so I’d thought that it was a thin wrapper around Docker, but I just went to check, and you are right — it’s not running in Docker by default. Sorry, folks! Guess now I’ve got one more thing to look into getting inside a container myself.
While I don’t think that llama.cpp is specifically a special risk, I think that running generative AI software in a container is probably a good idea. It’s a rapidly-moving field with a lot of people contributing a lot of code that very quickly gets run on a lot of systems by a lot of people. There’s been malware that’s shown up in extensions for (for example) ComfyUI. And the software really doesn’t need to poke around at outside data.
Also, because the software has to touch the GPU, it needs a certain amount of outside access. Containerizing that takes some extra effort.
https://old.reddit.com/r/comfyui/comments/1hjnf8s/psa_please_secure_your_comfyui_instance/
ComfyUI users has been hit time and time again with malware from custom nodes or their dependencies. If you’re just using the vanilla nodes, or nodes you’ve personally developed yourself or vet yourself every update, then you’re fine. But you’re probably using custom nodes. They’re the great thing about ComfyUI, but also its great security weakness.
Half a year ago the LLMVISION node was found to contain an info stealer. Just this month the ultralytics library, used in custom nodes like the Impact nodes, was compromised, and a cryptominer was shipped to thousands of users.
Granted, the developers have been doing their best to try to help all involved by spreading awareness of the malware and by setting up an automated scanner to inform users if they’ve been affected, but what’s better than knowing how to get rid of the malware is not getting the malware at all. ’
Why Containerization is a solution
So what can you do to secure ComfyUI, which has a main selling point of being able to use nodes with arbitrary code in them? I propose a band-aid solution that, I think, isn’t horribly difficult to implement that significantly reduces your attack surface for malicious nodes or their dependencies: containerization.
Ollama means sticking llama.cpp in a Docker container, and that is, I think, a positive thing.
If there were a close analog to ollama, like some software package that could take a given LLM model and run in podman or Docker or something, I think that that’d be great. But I think that putting the software in a container is probably a good move relative to running it uncontainerized.
US naval vessels themselves will become targets
They already have been the target of missiles launched by the Houthis provided by Iran. Thus far, missile defenses have stopped them.
I suppose that Iran probably has some ability to ramp up how many anti-ship missiles they’re throwing, but the US also has the ability to drastically ramp up the number of bombs being dropped on Iran; I doubt that climbing the escalation ladder is going to be advantageous to Iran.
If the gas price skyrockets
We’re a net oil exporter these days, thanks to hydrofracking.
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-products/imports-and-exports.php
In 2020, the United States became a net exporter of petroleum for the first time since at least 1949.
If the gas price skyrockets, (a) if it becomes really serious, it’s possible for the US to not export oil and (b) more US oil production will come online.
Loss of oil access was a potent lever against the US in the 1970s, but it isn’t in 2025.
Oh good. Americans will die.
Trump will be fine.
I dunno. Iran got caught by American intelligence trying to assassinate Trump not long ago, under Biden.
Russia, China, and all their friends will sink arms and money into Iran like the West has for Ukraine.
Iran was sending arms to Russia to use against Ukraine not long ago, and now Iran and the US are fighting directly, if it makes you feel better.
I don’t know if this would be regime change or just destroying the nuclear stuff.
My guess would be the nuclear stuff. Hard to do regime change from the air.
Maybe this would be a good year for people in Japan to try out some exotic foreign cuisines based on other staple foods. Millet, wheat, corn, cassava, barley, etc.
Probably because it provides a battle damage assessment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_damage_assessment
Bomb damage assessment (BDA), also known as battle damage assessment, is the practice of assessing damage inflicted on a target from a stand-off weapon, most typically a bomb or air launched missile. It is part of the larger discipline of combat assessment. Assessment is performed using many techniques including footage from in-weapon cameras, gun cameras, forces on the ground near the target, satellite imagery and follow-up visits to the target. Preventing information on battle damage reaching the enemy is a key objective of military censorship.
They apparently have some temporary desalination stuff in place now to bridge the gap, dunno what it’s using.
The planned permanent plant apparently uses reverse osmosis (which, at least last time I looked, was much more widely used than distillation).
https://greencape.co.za/library/paarden-eiland-desalination-plant/