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DoomsdaysCW<p>I'm not sure what's going to happen, but I plan on making sure all my electronics are turned off and disconnected, and might put some of them in a makeshift <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FaradayCage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FaradayCage</span></a> until after the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CMEs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CMEs</span></a> hit Earth. I'd like to think utilities and such will have learned from warnings from 2013, but then again, it's the human race we're talking about. Unless there's a buck to be made, we seem to be woefully unprepared for stuff that can happen -- unfortunately...</p><p>"If a massive CME were spotted, such 3-day forecasts give us some lead time: there are some measures <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElectricUtilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectricUtilities</span></a> could take to protect their equipment, such as quickly disconnecting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/transformers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transformers</span></a>. Polar flights, which travel at the highest altitudes, could be rerouted to avoid contact with damaging solar particles, and some <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/satellites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>satellites</span></a> could be switched into a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SafeMode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SafeMode</span></a> to minimize damage. Here on Earth, at the very least, we’d have some time to prepare for potential power <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/blackouts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackouts</span></a> and other problems."</p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-damage-could-be-caused-by-a-massive-solar-storm-25627394/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">smithsonianmag.com/science-nat</span><span class="invisible">ure/what-damage-could-be-caused-by-a-massive-solar-storm-25627394/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarFlare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolarFlare</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarFlares" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolarFlares</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarCycle25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolarCycle25</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CannibalCME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CannibalCME</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CannibalCMEs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CannibalCMEs</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarringtonEvent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CarringtonEvent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CMEs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CMEs</span></a></p>
Edge 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈<p>Someone posted about <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/backups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>backups</span></a> recently, saying to back up, and be sure THEY'RE ACTUALLY THERE.</p><p>Of course, since I run 3 different <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/MacOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MacOS</span></a> Time Machine drives I smirked, then went to check. None of the drives had completed a backup since Jan 10th.</p><p>So I thank this person, whose post I cannot find.</p><p>I've also spent more than a day trying to find out why the bkups aren't completing. They work in <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/SafeMode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SafeMode</span></a> but not after a normal boot, and of course leave no error messages.</p><p><a href="https://vmst.io/tags/FunSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FunSunday</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/DamnApple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DamnApple</span></a></p>
DEF CON<p><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/hackerjeopardy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hackerjeopardy</span></a> in the time of <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/safemode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>safemode</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/defcon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>defcon</span></a></p>
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