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Kristian Köhntopp.
German, living and working in the Netherlands.
1x engineer (https://1x.engineer).
I *am* the brute squad.
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Das heißt, es gibt hier einphasige Häuser (das sind dann immerhin 1x 25A = 5500 W Spitze oder so), aber das Netz in ein Wohngebiet ist nicht auf "alle Häuser ziehen zugleich Spitzenlast" dimensioniert.

Wir haben im Januar mit unserem 3x 25A Anschluß 1500 kWh im Monat gezogen, also 48 kWh am Tag im Schnitt, oder 2 kW im Durchschnitt. Der Tag mit dem höchsten Energieverbrauch war kalt und hat das Auto geladen, 88 kW = 3666 kW Durchschnitt.

Es wird darauf hinauslaufen, daß die Niederlande wie irre ihr Grid modernisieren muß, und selbst das wird nicht schnell genug gehen.

Unten die Benzinkarte.

Die Gasspeicher hierzulande sind leer. Also nicht fast leer, sondern leer leer.

Und die Niederlande hatten sich entschlossen, die Installation von Wärmepumpen langsam anzugehen, weil die elektischen Verteilsysteme überlastet und in älteren Wohngebieten leistungsschwach sind (eine Durchschnittlast von 1 kW pro Wohneinheit).

https://acoup.blog/2026/03/25/miscellanea-the-war-in-iran/

TL;DR:

  • Öl, Gas und Benzin sind gerade teuer.
  • Das werde sie auch bleiben.

  • Weder Iran noch die USA können gerade nachgeben, also bleibt die Straße absehbar zu.

  • Kann ich diese Energiewende noch einmal sehen?

    Miscellanea: The War in Iran

    This post is a set of my observations on the current war in Iran and my thoughts on the broader strategic implications. I am not, of course, an expert on the region nor do I have access to any spec…

    A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
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    #ChatControl stopped - mass scans end on April 4!
    ❌ But: Age verification and new mass scans loom ahead.
    How we narrowly won today's voting thriller, who voted how, and how the fight for digital freedom continues:
    https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/end-of-chat-control-eu-parliament-stops-mass-surveillance-in-voting-thriller-paving-the-way-for-genuine-child-protection/
    OH: “What is it about DNS that people find so difficult? It’s just cache invalidation and naming things.”

    But energy is not scarce. It falls on the ground and is blown over the surface of the planet, every day.

    This is not energy scarcity, it's stupidity abundance.

    The state of AI

    At the end of his ground-breaking novel The Shockwave Rider, John Brunner writes:

    “There are two kinds of fools. One says, ‘This is old, and therefore good.’ And one says, ‘This is new, and therefore better.’”

    This captures the current discourse around AI remarkably well.

    On one side, we see an influx of investment, personnel, and strategic focus that seems, at times, detached from economic fundamentals.

    On the other, there is a rejection of the technology that goes beyond skepticism and occasionally borders on the ideological, often accompanied by claims of a uniquely human superiority that is treated as self-evident rather than examined.

    This text is an attempt to step outside both positions. The goal is not to defend or attack AI, but to understand it: to explore why it is simultaneously glorified and vilified, and what a more realistic trajectory might look like.

    There is, of course, much more to AI than its generative capabilities. But much of the current discourse collapses these distinctions. For the sake of consistency, this text will do the same.

    1/9

    Technology: The state of AI

    AI is an interesting phenomenon: It is praised as ultimate solution and evil at the same time. This text is an attempt to step outside both positions. The goal is not to defend or attack AI, but to understand it: to explore why it is simultaneously glorified and vilified, and what a more realistic trajectory might look like.

    Literarily Starved
    • Vorsicht, Link geht auf eine PDF-Datei. PDF Dateien können aktive Inhalte in Form von Javascript enthalten.

    • Vorsicht, Link wird von der Regierung eines faschistischen Regimes, das illegale Angriffskriege führt, gehostet.

    Das hier ist die OSHA Hierarchy of Controls aus

    https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/Hierarchy_of_Controls_02.01.23_form_508_2.pdf

    Lest Euch das mal durch und denkt Euch dann den Umgang Eurer IT-Organisation mit Gefahr durch Phishing.

    Wo würdet Ihr Phishing-Trainings ansetzen und wieso?

    Gibt es andere Maßnahmen auf höheren Ebenen der OSHA Hierarchy of Controls, die besser geeignet wären, solche Risiken zu vermeiden und setzt Eure Firma die um?

    Warum dann noch das Phish-Training?

    I am writing on a longer piece on the current state of AI. But I want to discuss one thought of mine already.

    It was triggered by news like this one:

    https://www.the-independent.com/tech/mark-zuckerberg-ai-ceo-bot-b2943792.html

    My personal theory is that AI is an attempt of the big tech CEOs to achieve some kind of immortality.

    They know their bodies will eventually die. But they believe they are so brilliant, that humanity deserves them to persist in the form of a specifically trained AI that implements a bot persona of them.

    They will attempt to pass their fortune to this bot identity. This will take shape in the form of a foundation (which also saves tax).

    P.S. The longer piece is here: https://infosec.exchange/@masek/116295320755996705

    Mark Zuckerberg builds AI CEO to help him run Meta

    Tech giant’s tools include ‘Second Brain’ and an internal messaging board for AI bots

    The Independent