Daily Shaarli
August 14, 2021
The media frames the climate crisis as if there were no solutions or action to be taken. //
- Yes, the climate news is bad, but there's action to be taken.
Our hopelessness comes from a media system that doesn't place the blame on corporations to protect their bottom line.
We have to change our media diet if we want to feel less hopeless about climate change.
P.E. Moskowitz is an author, runs Mental Hellth, a newsletter about capitalism and psychology, and is a contributing opinion writer for Insider. //
The climate crisis news is constant: Wildfires start earlier and earlier in the year in California, extreme weather floods places not built to handle extreme weather, the Arctic is melting, and the world keeps getting hotter — all with no sign of stopping. And now the UN has said we can't avoid many of the worst impacts of global warming, no matter how hard we try.
Given the overwhelming negativity, it makes sense that people are either in denial about the magnitude of the problem, or end up feeling hopeless, defeated, and without recourse. The media spent the last few decades simply convincing people the issue was real. But that war has been won: Only 10% percent of Americans don't believe in the climate crisis at this point.
Now, we face a new problem: None of us know what to do.
While a large majority of Americans agree we need to act on the climate crisis, no one seems to know exactly what we should do, except push our government to do more. 40% of people who believe in climate change feel "helpless" about it.
But this helplessness is not an inevitable result of the severity of the crisis — severe as it may be. Instead, it's a conditioned response to a world in which the most powerful politicians and corporations want to cast the issue as too difficult and overly complex. To protect their bottom line, those in power want to obfuscate what should be an obvious truth: We can only stop global warming if we end fossil fuel extraction. And we can only do that through direct action, protest, and political revolt.
Spec revision № 1.0
Time Card is the heart of the Open Time Server Project.
This spec can be accessed using http://www.timingcard.com
Time Master is a critical part of a PTP enabled network. It provides accurate time via GNSS while maintains the accuracy in case of GNSS failure via a high stability (and holdover) oscillator such as an atomic clock. Exisiting products in the market are often closed sourced an far from sufficient features. The Time Card project presents an open source solution via a PCIe card.
Form Factor
- Standard PCIe Stand-up Card
- Single Slot - Passive Cooling Solution
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Repository content
- Bill of Materials (parts from Digikey)
- Schematic and PCB of the time card
- Driver (Kernel Module) CentOS 8
- CAD files for the custom PCIe bracket
Where can I get one?
You have all necessary source code, BOM, Gerber files and binaries to build it youself. However, we are currently working with several suppliers and will have their contact info soon available to allow you to puchase an out-of-the-box ready Time Card.
- Facebook engineers have built and open-sourced an Open Compute Time Appliance, an important component of the modern timing infrastructure.
- To make this possible, we came up with the Time Card — a PCI Express (PCIe) card that can turn almost any commodity server into a time appliance.
- With the help of the OCP community, we established the Open Compute Time Appliance Project and open-sourced every aspect of the Open Time Server.
In March 2020, we announced that we were in the process of switching over the servers in our data centers (together with our consumer products) to a new timekeeping service based on the Network Time Protocol (NTP). The new service, built in-house and later open-sourced, was more scalable and improved the accuracy of timekeeping in the Facebook infrastructure from 10 milliseconds to 100 microseconds. More accurate time keeping enables more advanced infrastructure management across our data centers, as well as faster performance of distributed databases.
The new NTP-based time architecture uses a Stratum 1 — an important component that is directly linked to an authoritative source of time, such as a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) or a cesium clock.
https://github.com/opencomputeproject/Time-Appliance-Project