“I want to be crystal clear on one point: whether on environmental or digital regulation, we set our own standards, we set our own regulations,” says EU Commission chief.
So if we are adding so much renewable power generation capacity, why are we not shutting down coal and gas powered plants? Why, in fact, are we *adding* more?
A large part of the answer here is – *siiiigh* – AI.
And if you hear anyone claiming – like heavily AI invested¹ Bill Gates has claimed² – that "AI" will help solving the climate crisis, remember this:
We really don't need a supercomputer to tell us what needs to be done. This is not rocket surgery. We need to lower fossil fuel emissions. That's it. And we already know this.
AI "helping" with climate crisis is purely hypothetical at this point. But the harms related to this bubble are already here. In form of coal plants not being retired.
Hey, @frameworkcomputer! It's really disappointing to hear you decided to sponsor Hyprland! It's all well and good sponsoring popular Linux software, but do your due dilegence: Hyprland is run by a transphobic asshole who has been ejected from Freedesktop.org over repeated code of conduct violations, and has continued to be wildly toxic in the time since. I don't know if you can back out of that sponsorship now, but whatever you can do, you have to do better.
Newcomers: I’m not going to yell at you about alt text.
But I will tell you, just as a factual matter, if you don’t add alt text to your images they may get fewer faves and boosts. There are people here who rely on it to know what you’ve posted, and many more who won’t engage with media that doesn’t have alt text.
twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross
I've been trying to get the cybercrime journalist @vxdb to abandon their seat at the Nazi Bar, or at least to also post here. So please join me in giving them a follow and a friendly hello.
Two 17-year-old boys have been arrested after a cyberattack on nursery chain Kido.
Police say the pair tried to extort the company by leaking photos of children, alongside the names, addresses and contact details of their parents and carers.
I'm a death lawyer. It's nice. But what surprises me is how rarely people do cool stuff with their money (or their bodies) when they die. "UhHhH tAkE cArE oF mY wIfE wHeN I DiE," "i LoVe My ChIlDrEn EqUaLlY." Grow up.
Where are the bequests of fortunes to shirtsleeve relatives in exchange for spending a night in a haunted house? What about having your remains loaded into a cannon and fired into rush hour traffic? Where are the scholarships for bagpipers and other undesirables?
I love reddit as an endless source of terrible examples. As the new symbolic style has a potential to be very useful outside of GNOME itself, it's maybe worth showing exhibit 3548 for why I hate semantic naming of icon assets:
maybe it's spatial but in the real world. Files get dropped at particular locations where you take your laptop. If you want to access a file again, you must travel to that place.
Just had a dipshit suburbanite yell at me and @monster out of a car window to “not walk on the road” while we were on the bike lane because there is no sidewalk.
In the (cough) single bike lane in my city, it is a point of contention that there's [parking lane][bike lane][sidewalk of debatable utility] and there are numerous auto tyre patching shops along the street. They string the compressor hose across the bike lane; the tyre patchers sit on the bike lane to patch the right-hand tyres of cars.
All the stupid externalities from cars are so maddening.
Rozhovor s muzikantem s ~milionem sledujicich na Instagramu:
"Ja zadnej link delat nebudu. Zadnej muzikant nikdy zadnej link nedelal. Linky mi posilaj. Poslete mi link a kdyz se mi bude libit, tak si ho dam na Instagram."
Kdybyste nevedeli, jak se dela sales v hudebnim svete, tak ted uz to vite. Poslete link.
“The ‘Freedom Convoy’ was a foreign-funded occupation and political destabilization movement, not a grassroots movement about COVID mandates." And of course #PeePee was its hand servant. cultmtl.com/2025/10/observatio…
De opleidingscommissie van de Vakgroep Wijsbegeerte en Moraalwetenschap aan Universiteit Gent besliste om het gebruik van generatieve #AI voor bachelor- en masterproeven dit academiejaar te verbieden. Maar die beslissing wordt van hogerhand teruggefloten. #UGent omarmt generatieve AI en dat geldt voor alle opleidingen.
Het enige waarvoor dat AI gebruik goed zal zijn op termijn is voor hoe goed ik me voel over mijn eigen diploma wijsbegeerte dat nog met eigen, echt onderzoek verkregen is...
Dat de opleidingscommissie dergelijke beslissing neemt, toont alleszins aan dat er ook nog anders gedacht durft worden. Ik neem aan dat de discussie niet gaan liggen is, integendeel.
Nee, het speelt er hard weet ik. Zowel de vragen rond wat AI betekent (voor de filosofie als discipline, voor ons kennismodel, voor onderwijs, voor onderzoek...) als hoe er mee om te gaan. Papers zijn potentieel waardeloos als ze geschreven zijn met/door AI, en ook diegenen die het niet gebruiken zijn hier de dupe van. En laat het (na de computerwetenschappen) nu net de filosofie en andere (vervelende!) menswetenschappen van die faculteit zijn die er misschien het meest interessante over te zeggen hebben!
I am a bit sad today, because I won't be able to finish the next animal illustration, inspired by the Ubuntu release, in time for the official release date tomorrow. It will probably take another two weeks.
Nevertheless, Focal Fossa will ensure the focus remains high ☀️ 💕 ☀️ 💕 Boop the nose for good luck! 🍀
I am sorry to hear that. I presume some people just don't know how to behave. Don't feel sorry, if people are d!cks they deserve to be thrown out of your timeline.
I suddenly realized that quite a few users I follow blocked me. So I blocked them back. I tend to avoid blocking. Most times muting an account is enough, but if we happened to have interactions and you block me just because I wrote something you disagree with, without even giving me a clue or taking part in the conversation, then it's over for me too.
We're happy to keep sponsoring and enabling more of the Linux ecosystem! We've also just recently joined @linuxfoundation and become (maybe the first?) corporate sponsor of LVFS (Linux Vendor Firmware Service).
I have to do a coding thing for work that deals with XML. I forgot how much I hate XML. I know that, in theory, it has some advantages over JSON, but I don't care. It's so annoying to work with that I'd rather work around JSON's limitations than continue to fight with XML. This is an API situation. There's nothing in the XML we were sent that couldn't be done in JSON. Nothing. I hate it. Okay, rant over--for now.
I ended up deciding that we could just stomach thirty seconds or so of pre-processing time. That document only changed once every few weeks at most, so it was fine to download it when building our docker image, extract what we needed into a JSON file (which was like 2mb at most), and then use that in prod.
"After two years of genocide in Palestine, a massive demonstration converged in Mexico City to demand that the government sever ties with Israel. The march was blocked by police, who assaulted and arbitrarily detained protesters and members of the press. Later, at a rally in front of the US Embassy, speakers condemned the Mexican government's complicity and demanded an immediate end to all military cooperation with Israel."
A dos años del genocidio en Palestina, una multitudinaria movilización convergió en la Ciudad de México para exigir al gobierno la ruptura de relaciones con Israel.
it's ok. Your phone just runs costly background processes after updating. For months. No you're overexaggerating the problem! It doesn't happen to meeeeee! Maybe phone warming up randomly is a feature! Now you get your very own digital handwarmer, perfect for the cold winter months! It's not that bad, relax! You just misremember how much battery you had before iOS 26! Uh... sorry. I got a litlte carried away there with my annoyance at this stupid problem. It's bad. Very bad. Someone on Reddit even did a power draw experiment and who'd have thought, it seems to actually be real. Also I don't trust techtubers. If there's one group of normal people who do normal things with normal devices, that's probably about as far as you get from that. lol
All the implant manufacturers have been acquired by either Epson or HP. At the time of installation, you need to pair your implant with your phone via Bluetooth and install their app. It serves no purpose other than tracking, and ordering refills. The implant stops working when one of the flavors goes down to 40%. You tap the button for "sweeter" and the implant complains, via your phone, "no umami left, please buy a refill". You say, "only sweet, please", and it goes NO UMAMI.
Early prototypes of the product used manual settings, with the first few publicly available versions using telemetry and AI to quickly learn from users how to adjust flavor levels properly. However, as time went on and people switched to using entirely automated settings, the product was forced to train on what was essentially its own output. Reports of hospitalizations are pouring in, as the latest version goes "Oh, you like $flavor? HERE'S A DEADLY AMOUNT OF IT."
Ran across this gorgeous diagram (at left) of the cyclic execution schedule of the software used on Skylab (1970s). I love this way of thinking about cyclic execution, but I didn't realize anyone else used it!
At right, one of my (less pretty and much less hand-drawn) diagrams from an article I wrote on graphics demo architecture... 40 years later. (And ten years ago, gosh.)
In the replies below, I talk about the old ways of drafting, if you're curious.
One of my favorite parts of the Skylab drawing: it's clearly hand-drawn.
It's _very well_ hand-drawn, of course, but there are tells. Note that the sector dividing lines don't meet in a point in the center, for instance -- this is because the dividing ruler was centered, so the lines are offset by one pen width, creating a tiny pentagon where the lines intersect.
Also, note that the fill patterns are not always at the same angle, but rotate. This is not how tool-generated fills work -- they're usually in a global coordinate system -- but is very much what you get when doing fills by hand with a guide.
There's also some mild kerning inconsistency, which strongly suggests that the lettering (in Futura medium, naturally, this was the Space Age after all) was done with a dry transfer lettering sheet, or _potentially_ with a template guide at very large scale. But my money's on dry transfer.
Dry transfer lettering is a thing I'm _just_ old enough to have learned about in drafting class. For those of you who learned to draw post-computer, let me introduce you to Letraset:
As a child, the best thing you could get me was a Letraset sheet. My parents worked at separate offices where there were draftspeople around, and they brought home the leftover sheets. I loved to play with them so much.
one of the questions I find myself asking increasingly often as I get older: "what the hell could I have possibly eaten that did this to me" 😅
one of the things I never realized I'd taken for granted when I was younger: being able to eat like a fuckin billygoat and never give it a second thought 😂
My Apache server is getting for many days a massive amount of requests on a particular repository, which kills it (due to maximum workers limit passed). I've deactivated the repository and I'm banning IPs still trying to access it, and in less than an hour I have already ~17000 unique IPs banned.
That really looks like a DDoS even if I have no idea why somebody would attack my server.
How can I deal with that? Note that I don't want to use Cloudflare.
@daniel yeah, thinking about it, but I'm not sure about consequences on accessibility. Also in this case I'm still having requests when I've blocked the URL, it's returning 403 (but still creating workers, which at the end block Apache).
I may have to move to NGINX, it should handle better this kind of things.
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TheHatedOne has interviewed Hanna - and it was one of nicest interviews ever. 🥰 Check out what we at Tuta think not just about privacy, but also about ethics, AI, and how putting privacy front and center makes marketing more difficult - and why it still matters! 👉 invidious.f5.si/watch?v=6Xzv3n…
Interview with Hanna from Tuta Mail, the most secure email provider in the world. This is no sponsored, so support my work here: https://www.patreon.com/thehatedone
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Very interesting - especially to hear a human voice of one of the people behind Tuta, and I think Hanna's answers will make everyone at Tuta proud and me as a customer feel I have chosen the right provider.
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