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https://web.archive.org/web/20250627211645/https://resource.capetown.gov.za/documentcentre/Documents/Graphics and educational material/Desalination_Booklet_English.pdf

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.

https://resource.capetown.gov.za/documentcentre/Documents/Graphics and educational material/Desalination_Booklet_English.pdf

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:443

That’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™!”

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.

On a related note, I’ve been wondering whether the masking for COVID-19 will have any long term effects. Like, little kids didn’t see faces much for years during their formative years. I don’t know how much people need to learn to associate facial expressions with communication at a particular point in their development.

I like self checkout. I struggle with talking to people and it can really drain on me so it’s a godsend to have if I only need to run in for a few things.

Valid take.

That being said, I’d probably prefer human checkout unless we can get a more-automated form of self checkout. Self checkouts have gotten a lot better since the early days, but human checkers are still faster than I am at the self-checkout and if a human is doing the checkout, I can dick around on my phone or whatever.

Cost savings are nice, but cost savings on my groceries just aren’t a massive concern for me. There just isn’t that much human time being expended on checking my back out. I don’t have strong feelings about the human interaction one way or another.

Maybe one day, we can get some sort of robotic arm setup that can do checkouts as well as a human checker, and then I’d quite happily be in the “machine” camp.

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.

kagis

Ah. Sounds like they have pretty protectionist rice policy.

https://time.com/7283809/japan-us-trade-talks-rice-agriculture-protectionism-reform-trump-tariffs/

“Rice has always been highly protected and shielded from trade negotiations. Its liberalization is a political taboo for the LDP,” says Waseda University Professor Yuka Fukunaga.

“Look at Japan, tariffing rice 700%,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a press briefing in March. “President Trump believes in reciprocity, and it is about dang time that we have a President who actually looks out for the interest of American business and workers.”

That 700% figure, which Japan’s farm minister called “incomprehensible,” is not quite true. In 1995, after facing a rice crisis in 1993 and mounting pressure from the world to open up its rice market, Japan entered into a “minimum access” deal with the World Trade Organization. That means that Japan imports 770,000 metric tons of rice each year without any tariffs, around half of which comes from the U.S. most years. Above that quota, Japan imposes a tariff of ¥341 (about $2.30) per kilogram. (In 2005, Japan’s farm ministry showed that was equivalent to a 778% tariff based on international rice prices between 1999 and 2001, but more recent data suggests the tariff is around 227%, according to a calculation by the Japan Times.)

Yeah, can probably pull it off the world market if they want, then.

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.