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It’s generally best to make the change in your configuration.nix or flake.nix rather than with the imperative tools. Then you just version control that file (or files if you break it up)

So what’s the user agent for their bot? They don’t seem to specify the default in the docs and it looks like it’s user configurable. So yet another opt out bot which you need your web server to match on special behaviour to block


No, hence all their examples using User-Agent: *

>So yet another opt out bot which you need your web server to match on special behaviour to block

Given that malicious bots are allegedly spoofing real user agents, "another user agent you have to add to your list" seems like the least of your problems.


Not 'allegedly' - it's just a fact. Even if you're not malicious however it's still sometimes necessary because the server may have different sites for different browsers and check user agents for the experience they deliver. So then even for legitimate purposes you need to at least use the prefix of the user agent that the server expects.

It is cloudflare who made the claim that they are well behaved unlike those other bots and that their behaviour can be controlled by robots.txt

If I need to treat cloudflare bots the same as malicious bots, that undermines their claim.


In 2023, peak renewable generation capacity was 75% of typical energy demand:

https://www.eirgrid.ie/news/new-record-wind-energy-all-islan...

For actual generation over a longer time period, in February 2026, 48% of energy used was generated from renewable sources, of which the vast majority (41% of energy use) was wind:

https://www.eirgrid.ie/news/almost-50-electricity-came-renew...

(The previous February was slightly better with 54% renewable and 48% wind)

https://www.eirgrid.ie/news/renewables-powered-over-half-ele...


With 75% in 2023, it means there are still headroom for expansion without hurting the economics too much of existing wind farms. Denmark had a very clear growth of wind farms up to about 100% of demand during optimal weather, and then a very clear stop in growth afterward. On average it still only produce about half the energy consumed in Denmark, so over time I do not expect to see Ireland to go much higher than 50%. It might get a slight advantage given the improved wind farm technology to utilize low wind conditions.

I do see in the political goals for Ireland that they, like Germany and many other countries in EU, are relying on the idea to turn wind into green hydrogen once they hit that 100% during optimal weather. Peoples faith in that strategy has gone down significant in the last 5-10 years.


Because at the moment wind has been the winner in the Irish climate, especially when you look backwards long enough to account for the time scales over which energy buildouts occur. Renewables have grown to 40% of the overall supply, resulting in the most expensive plants (currently coal plants, and before that peat) closing. Solar is entering the market rapidly though, it grew from like 1% to 4% in the last 3 years. So I wouldn’t be surprised to see some gas plants closing in the next few years, given the more expensive options are now already gone

Solar is priced based on gas prices as a financial incentive to encourage producers to build solar. That’s because profiting from the difference between the cost of production for solar and the cost of production from gas is supposed to be the incentive to build solar.

The gas prices went up massively in 2022 with the war in Ukraine, and even though that subsided before the war in Iran a little, the existing supply companies are not going to give back an increase in the price they’ve gained because their prices dropped.


I was mugged as a teenager, and my house was burned down as an adult because a drug dealer lived on the same street.

Does that count me as sufficiently wronged to not be dismissed for sharing the parent posters viewpoint?


If it doesn't.. it wasnt.

> although dresses were worn much longer than necessary for toilet training, so they must have had another purpose or benefit too

Easier to reuse across a wider range of child sizes (either the same child over time, or siblings). You don’t need to worry about e.g. leg diameter or crotch/knee heights like you would with trousers, so can get by basically just folding it to fit height and waist. In an era where people modified and repaired their own clothes more rather than having modern cheaper but more disposable clothes, that would matter more.


Oh, it was. It was fun being unable to type a euro sign or the name Seán without it being garbled. Neither were matched quotation marks, and arguably computer limitations killed off naïve and café too.

Don’t confuse people groaning and putting up with limitations as justifying those limitations.


I remember US based sites insisting I provide them a post code for like a decade before most of my country _had_ post codes.

Hah. Post codes are just weird and non standard. I've had times travelling where the point of sale asks me for a zip code after using my non-US card.

I learned from a cashier to type 00000 and it has always worked.


Or some strange concept of state. Well there is some upper divisions, but postal service does absolutely nothing with them and they are never part of any address.

It feels like there's different restrictions pushed by different groups. Gen Z is pretty prudish and seems to be the most in support of some of the adult content or internet censorship, while anti-LGBT/bathroom policing/etc seems to be more of the older generations.

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