#maintenance
Pardon, wir hatten ein kleines, eh, Infrastrukturproblem, das dazu geführt hat, dass die Federation von und zu anderen Pods ein bisschen kaputt ist. Das Problem ist behoben, aber wir haben nun über 5500 Jobs in der Warteschleife, die sich jetzt erstmal langsam abarbeiten müssen. In ner Stunde oder so is dann alles wieder gut.
Due to an acute misalignment of the stars causing a spike in electromagnetic radiation that upset our servers, we had some issues processing Federation tasks in the last 16'ish hours. We fixed that, but there's more than 5500 background jobs in the queue waiting for their turn, so please give our poor servers an hour or so to catch up. Sorry for that!
Smart Garbage Trucks with AI are perfect for spotting street maintenance issues
If you’ve ever had trouble with a footpath, bus stop, or other piece of urban infrastructure, you probably know the hassles of dealing with a local council. It can be incredibly difficult just to track down the right avenue to report issues, let alone get them sorted in a timely fashion.
In the suburban streets of one Australian city, though, that’s changing somewhat. New smart garbage trucks are becoming instruments of infrastructure surveillance, serving a dual purpose that could reshape urban management. Naturally, though, this new technology raises issues around ethics and privacy.
I know in our own Province of Western Cape, in South Africa, they had been experimenting a few years ago with vehicles to drive around and record potholes for repair. But that was before AI (meaning that it need no longer just be for potholes) and it was all done with a specific vehicle in mind (way better to put it on a vehicle that regularly travels along most streets in a city).
Not only can this timeously record issues, but even more important, it can measure how long it takes to actually be repaired. I get really irritated when our own municipality closes out calls as soon as they’ve been scheduled for repair, as the actual repair may only be a month later. As I pointed out to them in an escalation, citizens measure performance by when something is actually repaired, not by how quickly it can be scheduled for repair to happen later.
And yes I get it that many may be quite worried about privacy, but I suppose that is also why these streets are called public roads. I would expect such a system to have some assurances (and audits) that facial recognition is not being used (no, I don’t suppose the municipality would prevent number plate recognition, because after all, they’ll want to recover those outstanding speeding fines while they’re at it).
Something I’ve also long suggested to our municipality also is, why can’t the garbage trucks beacon out their location, so we know exactly when to put our bins out. Maybe we can get that functionality in exchange for this AI scanning.
See https://hackaday.com/2023/08/24/smart-garbage-trucks-help-with-street-maintenance/
#Blog, #AI, #localgovernment, #maintenance, #technology
Rue 89 Bordeaux
Un parc photovoltaïque de Sainte-Hélène (en Gironde) fermé après une « forte récurrence des départs de feu »
https://mcinformactions.net/Un-parc-photovoltaique-de-Sainte-Helene-en-Gironde-ferme-apres-une-forte
#photovoltaique #maintenance #incendies
La vie des idées
Conserver, entretenir, réparer
http://mcinformactions.net/Conserver-entretenir-reparer
#maintenance #ecosysteme
Réseau Sortir du Nucléaire
France : Blayais : Incendie, séisme : des câbles exposés, la sûreté questionnée
http://mcinformactions.net/France-Blayais-Incendie-seisme-des-cables-exposes-la-surete-questionnee
Heute Abend ab 22:00 gibts ein paar Wartungsarbeiten an der Server-Komponente die fürs Bilder ausliefern zuständig ist. Falls es kurzzeitig ein paar Probleme mit Bildern von anderen Pods gibt, sorry!
Tonight, starting at around 8pm UTC, we'll be doing some maintenance on server components that are responsible for delivering images to you. If there are some issues with media from remote pods, please bear with us!
"How to Bleed Hydraulic Brakes - Magura®" https://youtu.be/k91lB1zMhfk
Really need to do this on my bike! Rear brake loses pressure on rough downhills, almost caused a wreck last week. Scary feeling grabbing brake and nothing happens.
Tags: #dandelíon #mountainbiking #cycling #biking #brakes #magura #hydraulicbrakes #diy #maintenance #parktool
via dandelion* client (Source)
Surchauffe au cœur de la machine nucléaire : la série podcast
Une série documentaire réalisée par basta! et Radio parleur plonge au cœur des centrales nucléaires, aux côtés des travailleurs qui s’activent, chaque jour, pour produire notre électricité. À écouter sans plus attendre. https://basta.media/surchauffe-au-coeur-de-la-machine-nucleaire-la-serie-podcast
#Nucleaire #EDF #SousTraitance #Maintenance #Electricité #Travail #ConditionsDeTravail #RisqueNucleaire #Management #Podcast #Serie #Documentaire
« Surchauffe au cœur de la machine nucléaire » est une série de podcast documentaire de 4 épisodes de 20 minutes chacun, produits et réalisés par Basta! et Radio Parleur. Nous avons donné la parole à celles et ceux qui travaillent dans les centrales, qui nous confient leurs inquiétudes sur le risque d'accident. Pour elles et eux, si accident il y a, ce sera plus probablement à cause de l’organisation du travail qu’à cause d’une catastrophe naturelle. Ce regard de l’intérieur est peu valorisé par les directions des centrales et d’EDF. Il est pourtant très éclairant. Notre journaliste Nolwenn Weiler vous présente la série en vidéo : https://youtu.be/X8GGvvJilJ4
Une série à découvrir sur les sites de Basta!, de Radio Parleur et sur la chaîne de podcasts L’Actu des luttes, disponible sur toutes les plateformes, mercredi 13 juillet 2022 à 18h.
Nos précédentes enquêtes sur le risque nucléaire :
https://basta.media/Le-risque-nucleaire-78
Pour soutenir notre travail d'intérêt général, indépendant, sans pub et en accès libres, faites un don à Basta! : https://basta.media/don
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#Nucleaire #Serie #Podcast #Documentaire #Temoignage #Enquete #EDF #Travail #ConditionsDeTravail #ReacteurNucleaire #Entretien #Maintenance #SousTraitance #RisqueNucleaire #DeniDuRisque #Management
« Les centrales nucléaires accumulent des risques qu’EDF anticipe mal et sous-estime largement »
Dans les centrales nucléaires, les travailleurs témoignent d’un recours à la sous-traitance qui ne cesse d’augmenter, de collectifs de travail abîmés, d’un inquiétant vieillissement du matériel et d’une sûreté fragilisée. Enquête. https://basta.media/les-centrales-nucleaires-accumulent-des-risques-qu-edf-anticipe-mal-et-sous
#EDF #Nucleaire #Travail #Management #Privatisation #SousTraitance #Risque #DeniDuRisque #Maintenance #Reacteur
A notice about diaspora*'s project infrastructure
Hi everyone.
In the night from March 1st to March 2nd, starting at 21:00 UTC until 04:00 UTC, the project infrastructure will be unavailable. Our infrastructure provider is undergoing major datacenter construction, and because of that, our servers will have to be moved from the current datacenter into a freshly built building.
This downtime will affect
- our Discourse forum
- the project website, blog, and wiki
- the Gem server set up by the project, which will cause brief interruptions when updating your pod or setting up a new pod, so please don't do that during this period!
This downtime will not affect any pods and the diaspora* social network will continue uninterrupted!
We'll try to keep the downtime as short as possible, but given this maintenance involves physically moving multiple racks into a new building, there's a limit to how fast this can be.
#Joindiaspora and #Sechat had certificate issues. As a result both servers were only syncing one way.
That is now resolved and missing posts/likes should recover over time.
Thanks @Y A and @Doc Edward Morbius for bringing the issue to my attention.
And sorry for any inconvenience!
ERG to invest €1.9 billion in renewables development
Energy company ERG’s board of directors have approved a plan to invest €1.9 billion (US$2.31 billion) to add 1.5GW of renewable energy capacity to its portfolio.
https://www.pv-tech.org/erg-to-invest-e1-9-billion-in-renewables-development/
#news, #operations, #italy, #m&a, #maintenance, #power, #solar, #purchase
Hey, That Carb Heat's Not Right - AVweb
https://www.avweb.com/insider/hey-that-carb-heats-not-right/
Hey, That Carb Heat’s Not Right
Paul Bertorelli
May 5, 2021
7
I was thinking the other day that I’ve come to view social media as sort of like four busy Unicom frequencies continuously splattering each other until the occasional legible word breaks through. Then I realized I’ve always thought that, just more so now. But the legible word did break through last month on our YouTube channel.
A few days after I posted the engine failure video, this comment appeared: “At 13;45 your view of the carb heat control is totally incorrect, the airplane you filmed that on should be corrected. The cable clamp bolt in the arm of the butterfly shaft should rotate, the one you showed does not, and clearly the cable is bending as it actuated the arm. The wire is clamped thru the hole in the CLAMP only.” This got my attention because, well, it’s my Cub he’s talking about.
His description is mangled, but he correctly identified a problem I missed and may have caused. The Cub’s carb heat knob is probably a choke cable from a 36 Dodge—the trim control is the window crank—and the cable snakes down to an arm on the carb heat box. Some time ago—quite a while, I think—I started noticing that the carb knob wouldn’t seat correctly, as if the heat flapper wasn’t closing entirely.
I chalked this up to an old, creaky airplane showing its age, but I uncowled the engine and assured myself that despite the cable oddity, the heat was opening and closing fully. Following the sharp-eyed viewer’s comment, I uncowled the thing again and had someone work the knob while I observed. You can see what’s happening in the video; the cable binds slightly and acts like a weak spring, pushing the knob off the fully closed position while the flapper remains shut, as it’s supposed to.
That cable has a little jog in it that passes through a hole in the bolt attached to the actuating arm. The self-locking nut just snugs it up, but doesn’t really lock the cable in place. A little shimming with lean washers freed up the bolt to rotate and now the cable is bind free and works like it used to.
I probably caused this myself when I removed the carburetor chasing a fuel leak. I didn’t notice the error when I reassembled it and neither did the IA signing off the annual. It’s kind of a subtle thing and you have to know what you’re looking for and at. I do and I missed it.
It reminded me of something I was told when I visited the Rotax factory to see how the engines are made. These days, engines are assembled with a lot of electronic oversight. Torque settings for major fasteners like rod caps and main bearings are done with electronic torque wrenches and the data is stored for posterity. But there are a lot of hand assembly steps that aren’t backstopped this way and are subject to what the factories sometimes call “four eyes.” That means one assembler does the work, a second comes along with a checklist and assures it was done correctly. They still occasionally miss things, but not much.
In my case, I had benefit of more than 2000 eyes, there being more than 1000 comments on that video. But only one pair caught the problem. But that was all it took to alert me to fix it.