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Same in Finland, Kesko said they've heard reports from systems NOT connected to their centralized monitoring systems.

You can lead a horse to water, but ...

Yes, VPNs would be the correct solution.

However, we're talking about companies that put unprotected systems on the public network and did nothing about it even after getting three weeks advance warning.

That sounds like the October event which was focused in France. The current one is all over Europe, from Ireland to Finland.

There's the view that republican Rome's military success was due to their public career path churning out OK military commanders at a steady rate. Not necessarily great, just good enough with a solid understanding of the basics.

The fall of that system then came about when politically ambitious characters started developing more personal and long-term relations with their troops.

I'd say that's an argument for term limits: you want them to get good but not set roots permanently.

The Finnish public broadcaster has used a model to predict final vote share for as long as I remember. The stated purpose is to offset the bias that comes from smaller, more rural municipalities reporting sooner.

It usually kicks in when 10-20 % of the votes have been counted and switches back to raw results near the 90% mark.

Didn't find an exact date when they started using it; an article says "dates back to 1960s" but it's definitely been a staple in 2000s.

Cool climate lets you use the waste heat in district heating systems, getting more bang for your buck.

It's not about the trees. We got plenty.

But if the very first thing you do on the construction site is disregarding the local laws and regulations, when they were explicitly told about environment assessment requirement, it's not exactly favorable first impression, is it?

https://www.hs.fi/politiikka/art-2000012304991.html for starters.

Basically the law says you need to do the assessment if you're removing the trees permanently from over 200 hectares. The company asked for an exemption, the relevant bureau said nope, they cut anyway.

Alas, not anymore. Still got friends there though.

I worked with district heating, no idea what the cooling guys are/were doing. It's a big company.

The vulnerability making the rounds in the comments is specifically in 800A: https://www.claroty.com/team82/research/freeze-the-controlle...

Modbus is the equivalent of VGA connector in displays and projectors. It does have a TCP/IP version as well, but it has no security whatsoever. Or any features besides reading/writing a 16-bit value (or a single bit, charmingly referred to as "coil")

This is true for many (most?) flavor compounds. A little salt is nice, a teaspoon isn't.

Some sort of clove extract is used in dentistry as an temporary fix if a full root canal isn't feasible at the time. Got the tiniest whiff of that on my tongue during rinsing and it tasted downright toxic.

Elering reports only their part, the very high voltage transmission losses. Then there are the distribution losses on the local level are they're about 4%.

https://www.ceer.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/3rd-CEER-Repo...

There are also reflector pedals (see above for reliability etc)

The US doesn't have a population register in the same way as European countries do.

For reference, the Finnish voting experience is such that about a month before the election you get a card to your registered address, telling what the election is and what's your polling place. Then you show up on the day in question, show an ID, they check that against their list and off you go.

ICC was established in 2002, hardly "in the aftermath."

Average density for non-uniform objects is pretty useless, since the cubic volume scaling makes a mess of things.

As an example, I pulled the stats for an electric locomotive. 19x3x4.4 meters, mass 90 metric tonnes. That's an average density of about 1/3rd of water.

Well, Finland's gonna insist on getting Celebrini in the trade.

The main sponsor did not renew the sponsorship deal for next year, though.

NOS thinks it's individual farmers getting a bit too frisky: https://nos.nl/artikel/2631141-boerenactivisten-mogelijk-ver...

The new planned datacenters aren't near major population centers, so potential for district heating might be limited. Eyeballing from the map one of them is about has about 25 km from Oulu (pop 200k), and another is 30 km from Kajaani (30k). But that's about it.

Edit: I was wrong, the locations do have small (5-10 MW) district heating networks.

I'm going to put in a good word for the SN100C / Sn100+ / SnCuNiGe lead-free solder. It's been my go-to for the past 8 years or so, and it flows almost as nicely as leaded.

Oh for Pete's sake, Sweden. Anything to avoid building more North-South connectivity.

Sweden is currently split into four pricing areas due to lack of grid capacity. All the cheap electricity is typically in the north (hydro) and then the price creeps up when you head south.

It's too bad the live electricity flow data is offline today, but there's a common pattern where SE1 pricing area in the north sends little under 2 GW to Finland (single zone) and most of it gets exported to SE3 around Stockholm.

Needs a Lisp Shading Language.

There's precedent, IP over Avian Carriers was tested back in 2001.

The Treedix cable tester is awesome. Ordered one after reading Terence Eden's positive review* and went through all my cables the day it arrived. My favorite was the cable with only the ground connected; went immediately into the bin.

*) https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/gadget-review-treedix-usb-c...

Xanthan is the best if you need non-toxic slime for artistic purposes (e.g. Halloween decorations).

Just make a stiff gel and hit it with a stick blender for desired consistency and lumpiness. This does introduce a lot of small air bubbles in it, so if you need clear slime let it stand for a few hours.

"valuable asset for Europe", and it's available in 5 countries. Yay.

We already have a bunch of local non-interoperable systems, so what's one more?

Sibelius was already in the last series of Finnish notes, so personally I'd pick Tove Jansson.

I'm in the EU and you absolutely can put a French building on a banknote. I'd much rather look at the Eiffel tower or the Tower of Pisa or Neuschwanstein castle than the European Court of Auditors.

Or if you like to have something modern, Paimio Sanatorium or Turning Torso.