Nigeria 🇳🇬 needs to ensure that #Shell safely dismantles its old wells & #oil pipeline infrastructure or pays to remove them from the Niger delta before its exit, says a SONO report on the environmental impact of the activities of multinational firms https://buff.ly/3T7FmPf
Have you ever frozen your Linux terminal by accidentally pressing Ctrl+s? That's a feature to stop it from scrolling off, and you can unfreeze it by pressing Ctrl+q.
Shell is pulling out of #Nigeria after befouling it for 68 years, casting it off like a dirty oil rag.
"#Shell called it a way to streamline its business."
Looks more like it's running away from its cleanup responsibilities.
"Activists in the Niger Delta, where Shell has faced decadeslong local criticism to its oil exploration, plan to ask the government to withhold its approval if the company does not address its environmental damage."
A UK court ruled that "13,000 farmers and fishers from the Ogale and Bille communities in the Niger delta were entitled to bring legal claims against Shell for alleged breaches to their right to a clean environment.
The judge ruled it was arguable the pollution had fundamentally breached the villagers’ right to a clean environment under the Nigerian constitution and the African charter on human and people’s rights."
"Local activists and international environmental groups want #Nigeria's government to delay approving the sale of oil company #Shell's onshore assets, claiming Shell is trying to shirk its environmental and social responsibilities in the highly polluted Niger Delta.
Protesters have appealed to the government of Nigeria, Africa’s top oil producer, to halt the sale until environmental concerns are addressed."
And now #TotalEnergies seeing the writing on the wall, is following suit:
"The #Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC), in which TotalEnergies holds a 10% stake, has struggled with hundreds of onshore oil spills as a result of theft, sabotage and operational issues that led to costly repairs and high-profile lawsuits over the years."
Did you know there are variants of common Linux shell tools that have decompression function built in? For example, instead of first uncompressing a file to then view it in less, you can simply use zless.
It’s bloody 2024, think we can agree on either wget or curl being installed by default on every freaking operating system by now so shell scripts can have a guaranteed way of carrying out http requests?
I mean it’s been about 35 years. I think it’s about time.
Projects like 'Onward' allow #Shell to pretend it’s helping find climate solutions instead of just accelerating the climate crisis” Paris Marx, a technology critic & host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast, told Drilled https://buff.ly/3wyn8Pf#greenwashing
I found that this #egg for #breakfast was cracked and in fact #frozen. So, after carefully removing the #shell, you can see the #yolk through the clear #albumin. Still, it made a good #omelette eventually.
Syncthing and other similar software are great, but sometimes you just want a simple, lightweight, and fast way to mirror things, specially if the remote and/or local machines have limited resources.
Here is my ultra minimalistic set and forget (I hope) 2-in-1 rsync based mirror script that can be used in a cron and called manually at the same time. If there is a problem with the transfer, you even get an email.