hobbyist sysadmin and tech support person, still occasionally seen on IRC
interests: windows 98, macos 9/8, plan9, systemd, athena, x.25, all kinds of 80s-00s "retro" computing & networking
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| Location | Lithuania |
Discord keeps dying mid-raid so we're trying out the built-in voice chat in WoW and it feels like we're dusting off a feature nobody has used in decades
I mean it works quite well (aside from the UI being five kinds of glitchy) but kinda has the vibe of going back to Win98 NetMeeting
there's *spectrograms* (p77)
https://eepublicdownloads.blob.core.windows.net/public-cdn-container/clean-documents/Publications/2025/iberian-blackout/Final%20Report%20on%20the%20Grid%20Incident%20in%20Spain%20and%20Portugal%20on%2028%20April%202025.pdf#page=77
four pages of eventvwr.msc of it falling over in just two minutes (p116)
https://eepublicdownloads.blob.core.windows.net/public-cdn-container/clean-documents/Publications/2025/iberian-blackout/Final%20Report%20on%20the%20Grid%20Incident%20in%20Spain%20and%20Portugal%20on%2028%20April%202025.pdf#page=116
black start procedure (p339)
https://eepublicdownloads.blob.core.windows.net/public-cdn-container/clean-documents/Publications/2025/iberian-blackout/Final%20Report%20on%20the%20Grid%20Incident%20in%20Spain%20and%20Portugal%20on%2028%20April%202025.pdf#page=339
I'm curious how communication happens between grid operators during a blackout. I guess cell phone towers (and the associated datacenters) keep running for a few hours? Not days?
(I've heard they run fiber along/inside of the transmission lines but not what exactly they use it for)
<grumpy>another one of those websites whose designers think "font-weight: 300 looks great on my Mac" and then everyone else has to read razor-thin text<grumpy>
fortunately, Stylus
I'm reading<Ctrl-W>skimming through the final report on the last year's Spain grid collapse and huh that's a *lot* of graphs and math, and I didn't know they keep "oscilloscopic records" at like 400 Hz of Every Single Thing
https://www.entsoe.eu/publications/blackout/28-april-2025-iberian-blackout/#Publications_&_Documents