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Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #infrastructure, aggregated by home.social.

  1. How Many Users Can a 1-Core, 2GB RAM Server Actually Handle? We Stress-Tested It to the Breaking Point

    We stress-tested a 1 vCPU, 2GB RAM VPS running Nginx, Node.js and PostgreSQL. See the 2,500-user limit, CPU bottleneck and caching results

    thecybersecguru.com/glossary/h

  2. Rapid Urban Land Uplift Enhanced By Crustal Faults During Groundwater Recovery
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    doi.org/10.1038/s43247-026-039 <-- shared paper
    --
    thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3610903 <-- shared media article, ‘NZ's coastal cities are sinking – but pausing groundwater extraction could save them...’
    --
    H/T @Jesse Kearse |Mana Tūāpapa Fellow in Earth Science
    “🌍 Faults fighting sea-level rise?
    [Their] new paper shows how faults in Osaka 🇯🇵 act as underground dams, trapping groundwater and driving rapid land uplift!
    🛰️ The uplift also reveals hidden faults beneath the city…”
    --
    “Urban land subsidence driven by groundwater extraction is widespread, but the processes governing how groundwater recovery translates into spatially variable surface uplift remain poorly understood. [The authors] use[d] satellite geodesy and multi-decadal groundwater observations to measure vertical land motion in Greater Osaka, Japan, where aquifers are intersected by a dense network of crustal faults. [They] observe[d] widespread surface uplift at rates up to 12 mm/year, organized into distinct domains separated by sharp boundaries. Uplift rates vary abruptly across domain boundaries, which coincide with mapped faults. Where no faults are mapped, abrupt spatial changes in uplift rate suggest the presence of previously unrecognized buried faults. Uplift rates are positively correlated with groundwater-level rise in wells screened at depths up to 600 metres, while deformation modelling indicates dominant uplift sources are shallower than 500 metres. [Their] analysis suggests crustal faults act as hydraulic barriers to lateral groundwater flow, localising vertical land motion during aquifer recovery, with implications for groundwater management, infrastructure stability, and land-use planning in urban basins worldwide...”
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #Japan #Osaka #groundwater #extraction #subsidence #recovery #recharge #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #satellite #geodesy #elevation #monitoring #vertical #landmotion #aquifer #waterresources #fault #crustal #geology #uplift #hydraulicbarriers #faultgouge #flow #watermanagement #infrastructure #risk #hazard #damage #landuse #planning #policy #urban #urbanplanning

  3. Rapid Urban Land Uplift Enhanced By Crustal Faults During Groundwater Recovery
    --
    doi.org/10.1038/s43247-026-039 <-- shared paper
    --
    thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3610903 <-- shared media article, ‘NZ's coastal cities are sinking – but pausing groundwater extraction could save them...’
    --
    H/T @Jesse Kearse |Mana Tūāpapa Fellow in Earth Science
    “🌍 Faults fighting sea-level rise?
    [Their] new paper shows how faults in Osaka 🇯🇵 act as underground dams, trapping groundwater and driving rapid land uplift!
    🛰️ The uplift also reveals hidden faults beneath the city…”
    --
    “Urban land subsidence driven by groundwater extraction is widespread, but the processes governing how groundwater recovery translates into spatially variable surface uplift remain poorly understood. [The authors] use[d] satellite geodesy and multi-decadal groundwater observations to measure vertical land motion in Greater Osaka, Japan, where aquifers are intersected by a dense network of crustal faults. [They] observe[d] widespread surface uplift at rates up to 12 mm/year, organized into distinct domains separated by sharp boundaries. Uplift rates vary abruptly across domain boundaries, which coincide with mapped faults. Where no faults are mapped, abrupt spatial changes in uplift rate suggest the presence of previously unrecognized buried faults. Uplift rates are positively correlated with groundwater-level rise in wells screened at depths up to 600 metres, while deformation modelling indicates dominant uplift sources are shallower than 500 metres. [Their] analysis suggests crustal faults act as hydraulic barriers to lateral groundwater flow, localising vertical land motion during aquifer recovery, with implications for groundwater management, infrastructure stability, and land-use planning in urban basins worldwide...”
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #Japan #Osaka #groundwater #extraction #subsidence #recovery #recharge #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #satellite #geodesy #elevation #monitoring #vertical #landmotion #aquifer #waterresources #fault #crustal #geology #uplift #hydraulicbarriers #faultgouge #flow #watermanagement #infrastructure #risk #hazard #damage #landuse #planning #policy #urban #urbanplanning

  4. Rapid Urban Land Uplift Enhanced By Crustal Faults During Groundwater Recovery
    --
    doi.org/10.1038/s43247-026-039 <-- shared paper
    --
    thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3610903 <-- shared media article, ‘NZ's coastal cities are sinking – but pausing groundwater extraction could save them...’
    --
    H/T @Jesse Kearse |Mana Tūāpapa Fellow in Earth Science
    “🌍 Faults fighting sea-level rise?
    [Their] new paper shows how faults in Osaka 🇯🇵 act as underground dams, trapping groundwater and driving rapid land uplift!
    🛰️ The uplift also reveals hidden faults beneath the city…”
    --
    “Urban land subsidence driven by groundwater extraction is widespread, but the processes governing how groundwater recovery translates into spatially variable surface uplift remain poorly understood. [The authors] use[d] satellite geodesy and multi-decadal groundwater observations to measure vertical land motion in Greater Osaka, Japan, where aquifers are intersected by a dense network of crustal faults. [They] observe[d] widespread surface uplift at rates up to 12 mm/year, organized into distinct domains separated by sharp boundaries. Uplift rates vary abruptly across domain boundaries, which coincide with mapped faults. Where no faults are mapped, abrupt spatial changes in uplift rate suggest the presence of previously unrecognized buried faults. Uplift rates are positively correlated with groundwater-level rise in wells screened at depths up to 600 metres, while deformation modelling indicates dominant uplift sources are shallower than 500 metres. [Their] analysis suggests crustal faults act as hydraulic barriers to lateral groundwater flow, localising vertical land motion during aquifer recovery, with implications for groundwater management, infrastructure stability, and land-use planning in urban basins worldwide...”

  5. Tasmania's notorious St Marys Pass upgrade could cost almost $3b
    By Kelsey Reid

    A notoriously windy stretch of road in Tasmania could be upgraded with pricing revealed to be as high as $2.7 billion to re-route the road.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-10-02/st-

    #Infrastructure #Roads #TravelandTourism #TourismandLeisureIndustry #LocalGovernment #KelseyReid

  6. Tasmania's notorious St Marys Pass upgrade could cost almost $3b
    By Kelsey Reid

    A notoriously windy stretch of road in Tasmania could be upgraded with pricing revealed to be as high as $2.7 billion to re-route the road.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-10-02/st-

    #Infrastructure #Roads #TravelandTourism #TourismandLeisureIndustry #LocalGovernment #KelseyReid

  7. Tasmania's notorious St Marys Pass upgrade could cost almost $3b
    By Kelsey Reid

    A notoriously windy stretch of road in Tasmania could be upgraded with pricing revealed to be as high as $2.7 billion to re-route the road.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-10-02/st-

    #Infrastructure #Roads #TravelandTourism #TourismandLeisureIndustry #LocalGovernment #KelseyReid

  8. Everyone wants AI. Nobody wants the data center. That's not a tech problem — it's a geography-of-harm problem. New piece by @bledewitz.bsky.social works out the math.

    onlys.ky/the-future-of-data-ce

    #AI #DataCenters #LandUse #TechPolicy #Infrastructure

  9. Everyone wants AI. Nobody wants the data center. That's not a tech problem — it's a geography-of-harm problem. New piece by @bledewitz.bsky.social works out the math.

    onlys.ky/the-future-of-data-ce

    #AI #DataCenters #LandUse #TechPolicy #Infrastructure

  10. Everyone wants AI. Nobody wants the data center. That's not a tech problem — it's a geography-of-harm problem. New piece by @bledewitz.bsky.social works out the math.

    onlys.ky/the-future-of-data-ce

    #AI #DataCenters #LandUse #TechPolicy #Infrastructure

  11. Everyone wants AI. Nobody wants the data center. That's not a tech problem — it's a geography-of-harm problem. New piece by @bledewitz.bsky.social works out the math.

    onlys.ky/the-future-of-data-ce

    #AI #DataCenters #LandUse #TechPolicy #Infrastructure

  12. #cycling #Florida #diy
    “Why don’t cities roll out the red carpet for new #greenways — even as they host splashy ribbon-cuttings for the latest car #infrastructure?
    #MiamiBeach residents Charles Fischer and Matt Gultanoff asked themselves just that this summer, when local leaders staged an opening ceremony for a new parking garage. Those same leaders didn’t consider #activetransportation #infrastructure worthy of a photo-op. So the two men opted to host one themselves” usa.streetsblog.org/2026/09/28

  13. #cycling #Florida #diy
    “Why don’t cities roll out the red carpet for new #greenways — even as they host splashy ribbon-cuttings for the latest car #infrastructure?
    #MiamiBeach residents Charles Fischer and Matt Gultanoff asked themselves just that this summer, when local leaders staged an opening ceremony for a new parking garage. Those same leaders didn’t consider #activetransportation #infrastructure worthy of a photo-op. So the two men opted to host one themselves” usa.streetsblog.org/2026/09/28

  14. #cycling #Florida #diy
    “Why don’t cities roll out the red carpet for new #greenways — even as they host splashy ribbon-cuttings for the latest car #infrastructure?
    #MiamiBeach residents Charles Fischer and Matt Gultanoff asked themselves just that this summer, when local leaders staged an opening ceremony for a new parking garage. Those same leaders didn’t consider #activetransportation #infrastructure worthy of a photo-op. So the two men opted to host one themselves” usa.streetsblog.org/2026/09/28

  15. 🟡 InfrastructureDamage | 6/10
    🇸🇾

    Damage to power plant in Damascus
    The Director of Tishreen Power Plant in Damascus (Syria) reports significant damages caused by an explosion and subsequent fires.

    #OSINT #NewsGroup #Syria #Infrastructure #Energy

  16. 🟡 InfrastructureDamage | 6/10
    🇸🇾

    Damage to power plant in Damascus
    The Director of Tishreen Power Plant in Damascus (Syria) reports significant damages caused by an explosion and subsequent fires.

    #OSINT #NewsGroup #Syria #Infrastructure #Energy

  17. 🔴 DroneStrike | 9/10
    🇷🇺 🇺🇦

    Russian drone strike on data center in Pavlograd
    A Russian Geran-5 kamikaze drone hit the DTEK Pavlogradugol data processing center in Pavlograd, Dnipropetrovsk Region. The strike aims to degrade Ukraine's digital and industrial infrastructure.

    #OSINT #NewsGroup #Ukraine #DroneStrike #Infrastructure

  18. 🔴 DroneStrike | 9/10
    🇷🇺 🇺🇦

    Russian drone strike on data center in Pavlograd
    A Russian Geran-5 kamikaze drone hit the DTEK Pavlogradugol data processing center in Pavlograd, Dnipropetrovsk Region. The strike aims to degrade Ukraine's digital and industrial infrastructure.

    #OSINT #NewsGroup #Ukraine #DroneStrike #Infrastructure

  19. ⚡ NEW: A #video from Primordial Space traces how the first transatlantic #telegraph cable, laid 168 years ago, connected #NorthAmerica and #Europe.

    It follows the path from Nollet’s 1746 electric shock #experiment and Chappe’s semaphore towers through Volta’s battery, Morse code, and rival systems, noting that roughly 600 undersea #cables still carry global #internet traffic.

    👉 openculture.com/2026/09/the-ca

    #morse #history #communication #invention #victorian #technology #tech #engineering #atlantic #electricity #museums #infrastructure

  20. ⚡ NEW: A #video from Primordial Space traces how the first transatlantic #telegraph cable, laid 168 years ago, connected #NorthAmerica and #Europe.

    It follows the path from Nollet’s 1746 electric shock #experiment and Chappe’s semaphore towers through Volta’s battery, Morse code, and rival systems, noting that roughly 600 undersea #cables still carry global #internet traffic.

    👉 openculture.com/2026/09/the-ca

    #morse #history #communication #invention #victorian #technology #tech #engineering #atlantic #electricity #museums #infrastructure

  21. ⚡ NEW: A #video from Primordial Space traces how the first transatlantic #telegraph cable, laid 168 years ago, connected #NorthAmerica and #Europe.

    It follows the path from Nollet’s 1746 electric shock #experiment and Chappe’s semaphore towers through Volta’s battery, Morse code, and rival systems, noting that roughly 600 undersea #cables still carry global #internet traffic.

    👉 openculture.com/2026/09/the-ca

    #morse #history #communication #invention #victorian #technology #tech #engineering #atlantic #electricity #museums #infrastructure

  22. ⚡ NEW: A #video from Primordial Space traces how the first transatlantic #telegraph cable, laid 168 years ago, connected #NorthAmerica and #Europe.

    It follows the path from Nollet’s 1746 electric shock #experiment and Chappe’s semaphore towers through Volta’s battery, Morse code, and rival systems, noting that roughly 600 undersea #cables still carry global #internet traffic.

    👉 openculture.com/2026/09/the-ca

    #morse #history #communication #invention #victorian #technology #tech #engineering #atlantic #electricity #museums #infrastructure

  23. Thursday, October 1, 2026

    In pictures: A week of Russian jet drone terror in Kyiv . . . . . Russian troops confiscate Ukrainian drone-delivered food in occupied Oleshky as civilians injured by mines while fleeing . . . . . Russia threatens European arms factories supplying Ukraine, says they are not safe . . . . . and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  24. Thursday, October 1, 2026

    In pictures: A week of Russian jet drone terror in Kyiv . . . . . Russian troops confiscate Ukrainian drone-delivered food in occupied Oleshky as civilians injured by mines while fleeing . . . . . Russia threatens European arms factories supplying Ukraine, says they are not safe . . . . . and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  25. Thursday, October 1, 2026

    In pictures: A week of Russian jet drone terror in Kyiv . . . . . Russian troops confiscate Ukrainian drone-delivered food in occupied Oleshky as civilians injured by mines while fleeing . . . . . Russia threatens European arms factories supplying Ukraine, says they are not safe . . . . . and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  26. Thursday, October 1, 2026

    In pictures: A week of Russian jet drone terror in Kyiv . . . . . Russian troops confiscate Ukrainian drone-delivered food in occupied Oleshky as civilians injured by mines while fleeing . . . . . Russia threatens European arms factories supplying Ukraine, says they are not safe . . . . . and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026