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On Dec. 27, 2024, NASA’s Juno spacecraft witnessed the most intense eruption ever recorded on Io, Jupiter’s most volcanically active moon. The eruption spanned 65,000 sq km (larger than Earth’s Lake Superior) near the south pole and released 140-260 TW of energy, > 6x the total energy of all power plants on Earth.

3 other hotspots also lit up. Scientists interpret this as a single event affecting an underground network of massive, interconnected magma chambers.

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1. A massive hotspot — larger the Earth’s Lake Superior — can be seen just to the right of Io’s south pole in this annotated image taken by the JIRAM infrared imager aboard NASA’s Juno on Dec. 27, 2024, during the spacecraft’s flyby of the Jovian moon. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM 2. Map of IO from angle that is close to that of the images below, with the South Pole in view. And my guess for the scarred area of the eruption near Nemea Planum. 3D-map source: http://terkeptar.elte.hu/vgm/2/?show=globe&id=111&descid=219 3. Images of Io captured in 2024 by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s Juno show significant and visible surface changes (indicated by the arrows) near the Jovian moon’s south pole. These changes occurred between the 66th and 68th perijove, or the point during Juno’s orbit when it is closest to Jupiter. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Image processing by Jason Perry

NASA Juno Mission Spots Most Powerful Volcanic Activity on Io to Date

Even by the standards of Io, the most volcanic celestial body in the solar system, recent events observed on the Jovian moon are extreme.
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My wife and I are looking to add some exercise equipment at home and want to make sure what we get is actually accessible and easy to use.
We’re especially interested in things like a stationary bike, treadmill, or elliptical, but we’re open to other ideas too. If you have personal experience with equipment that works well for blind or sight-impaired users, or that has simple controls, good audio feedback, or an easy layout, we would really appreciate your recommendations.

Specific models are super helpful. Thanks in advance for sharing what’s worked for you!

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Jakob Rosin

I'm using the Sole F 60 treadmill, as recommended by @ricky_enger Nothing too fancy, I track my stats with my Apple watch indoor walk workout. The control panel has flush buttons, but they can be found by touch and are not touch sensitive. It does come with an app, which is inaccessible. My goal was to find a treadmill to walk on, and it does the job perfectly.
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People keep citing water/energy use to me and I remain unconvinced. The single best thing you can do for the planet is to have one less kid. A distant #2 and #3 are avoiding cars and flights: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.…

A recent estimate says using Claude Code is similar to running a dishwasher: simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/20/…

If you are a vegan monk who never drives and also hates LLMs, good for you: you have my respect and admiration. But I don't think this is what's motivating most people's arguments.

Electricity use of AI coding agents

Previous work estimating the energy and water cost of LLMs has generally focused on the cost per prompt using a consumer-level system such as ChatGPT. Simon P. Couch notes that …
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Nolan Lawson

BTW I am a childless vegetarian who drives a hybrid but mostly bikes and buses (ask my coworkers – they think I'm very eccentric), but that doesn't matter because that's not what this is about. People just want a rhetorical slam-dunk and they think they've found it.

@simon had a great comment on Lobsters where he pointed out that nobody seemed to care much about these things until LLMs came along, and they still only seem interested insofar as it applies to LLMs: lobste.rs/s/cw6f2s/ai_tribalis…


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Nolan Lawson

There was actually a really interesting TPAC session a few years ago that explored how the W3C could help sustainability efforts. There's a lot to consider here: hardware production (e.g. e-waste), server vs client energy usage, network costs, etc. youtube.com/watch?v=o8avSFOuT8…

There's now also a Sustainable Web Design Community Group that's put out a set of guidelines, which mostly read to me as sensible best practices around UX design, performance, and accessibility: w3.org/TR/web-sustainability-g…


WebPerfWG TPAC meetings 2022 09 16 - Sustainability and WebPerf

Užívejte si videa a hudbu, kterou máte rádi, nahrávejte originální obsah a sdílejte vše s přáteli, rodinou i celým světem na YouTube.
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Nolan Lawson

And no, this is not "whataboutism" – I'm trying to put things into _context_, because context matters. If you read the article at the top of this thread, you'll see that recycling basically does nothing for climate, even though it "feels good" to do it. How much time did we waste, and how much further along could we be in our climate commitments, if we hadn't been so distracted?
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Nolan Lawson

I also won't hide that I'm somewhat pessimistic about all these efforts: at that TPAC session, I mentioned the Jevons Paradox and basically argued that if YouTube were 5% faster, then people would consume 5% more YouTube. Nothing about human behavior that I've seen in my lifetime has convinced me otherwise, although I'm sure there are still improvements we can make at the margins.
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Nolan Lawson

At heart I'm basically a degrowther who thinks the only reasonable solution to the climate crisis, species collapse, pollution, and all the rest is to dramatically reduce our consumption of the Earth's resources. But I'm also enough of a realist that I don't think we'll go there willingly – I think degrowth will be forced on us.

This is a very emotional topic for a lot of people, so I don't really want to get into it. And I'm hardly an expert; these are just my opinions based on what I've read.

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miki

The only reasonable solution is to do whatever we can to invent better tech to solve these problems. Society will not accept degrowth (not until it's far, far too late), and a solution a society won't accept may as well be worthless from a Realpolitik perspective, even if it would solve the problem in theory.

I think we're doing extremely good work on that front. Solar is on an exponential growth curve right now (and we need more people talking about it), so are batteries, and batteries+solar will, sans environmental regulation, solve the energy problem in most places. In places where there's lots of sunlight and no demand for it, think deserts, solar can be used to capture carbon dioxide. That's extremely inefficient energy-wise, but it's not like people will use that sunlight for anything else, so it doesn't even matter. You can even capture it into biofuels afaik, which is another way to produce free energy that can easily be transported to places where solar won't work. There's also some very interesting work being done in making geothermal more economical and available in many, many more places, and that's basically infinite free energy again. Worst case scenario, we'll just let the Chinese build us nuclear reactors, they're doing a lot of that and know how to do it safely, quickly and cheaply, which the western world definitely does not.

The real problems we need to solve are a lot more prosaic. Making sure misguided environmental regulation doesn't slow down the switch from coal to solar (and accelerate the collapse of human civilization) just to save a rare species of frogs is one of them. Incidentally, this is the reason why Texas is building out far more solar than California for example, but this is far from just a US problem. We need to make sure there are no tariffs on Chinese solar, Chinese rare metals, Chinese batteries and Chinese EVs. In parallel, we need to make sure we're building all of those ourselves in the western world, and that there are no misguided regulations solving a small problem but causing a bigger one that prohibit us from doing this. We need to start building out nuclear now, because nuclear takes a long time to build. We might regret this in the future, but better to waste money building something we don't need than to not build it and have to use non-renewables. We have to figure out what to do with existing coal mines (in places where they still exist) and how to close them down as quickly as we can, despite the miners and their labor unions. We need to make sure that the government-associated, monopolist power companies aren't doing anything stupid to slow down the deployment of consumer solar. And when we've done all of that, we should do a carbon tax, to make it more economical for companies to invest in renewables than to stay where they are.

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miki

And re: LLMs specifically. Unlike basically any other technology, LMs have very light bandwidth and latency requirements, so you can plop an AI data center in the middle of Saudi Arabia and serve the world from there. If we're so concerned about LLM energy use, we should encourage companies to set AI datacenters up where energy is free and abundant, instead of in places where the regulatory environment is the friendliest.
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Matt Campbell

I personally don't care if people who write code using LLMs get the benefit of any and all of my published code having been included in the training data, even without attribution. Let that code be used by any means to create more accessible user interfaces. And yes, I should have been explicit about that by dual-licensing AccessKit (my main open-source project) under Apache and Creative Commons CC0 rather than Apache and MIT. Just wasn't thinking about that in 2021.
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Matt Campbell

At the same time, I worry that code that I write with the help of LLMs may be tainted because of the uncertain legal status of the training data. I especially don't want AccessKit's adoption, and hence its effectiveness in making more user interfaces accessible, to be hampered in any way by such concerns. So I may just not use LLMs at all when working on AccessKit.

So I guess my copyright concern ends up being more practical than ethical.

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A very nice first day at FOSDEM. I spent time at the @matrix booth and met overwhelmingly enthusiastic people, then left it to our fabulous team of volunteers.

I’ve met Allan and @jsparber at the @gnome booth, got one of those fabulous systemd T-shirts, said hi to the @postmarketOS gang, got a T-shirt and brainstormed with @pabloyoyoista, got to thank Proxmox and OpenTofu for the great tools they provide.

#FOSDEM is where internet friends materialize.

A picture of three T-shirts. One systemd/libadwaita, one postmarketOS and one Proxmox.
#fosdem @The Matrix.org Foundation @Julian Sparber @GNOME @pabloyoyoista @postmarketOS

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Me to Alexa: "What's the score in the Kentucky mens' college basketball game?"
Alexa's response: "Kentucky is leading Arkansas 85 to 77 with zero milliseconds remaining in the second half at the end of the second half."
Uh, somehow I seriously doubt anyone's gonna get anything done with what, by her definition, must be at most 0.00099999999999999999999999999999… seconds left on the clock.

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Not only does the public not support ICE’s current brutal tactics, there is no public support for mass deportation beyond criminal migrants. In this poll, and it is consistent with public opinion going back 20 years, Americans oppose deporting long settled undocumented immigrants by 65%-22%
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It is time for the mainstream media to join the resistance. Better late than never.

January 31, 2026
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RE: mastodon.social/@blogdiva/1110…

now that we know #JeffreyEpstein was paying m00t to keep #4Chan open and available for pedos like him and that he specifically requested to keep /pol/ going no matter what, let me bring this oldie but goodie:

❝ QAnon was created by Trump’s fascists to take attention away from the Anons working on Opeation Death Eaters and the Jeffrey Epstetn case.

QAnon is a new form of COINTELPRO" ❞

#fascism #pedophilia #QAnon


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#fascism #4chan #jeffreyepstein #pedophilia #qanon
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Send a message right now to the Department of Homeland Security’s #Tribal Affairs Director demanding that Tribal citizens #stop being terrorized by #ICE’s #racial profiling and that ICE release any Tribal citizens in ICE detention now. click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/u…

A Message to DHS Tribal Affairs Director

Minnesota has 11 federally recognized Tribes and due to ICE and CPB’s racial profiling, Tribal citizens are increasingly reporting being stopped, questioned, assaulted, and detained by federal agents.
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#ice #stop #racial #tribal

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I did something goofy at work today: we found a tactile drawing set, which includes a tactile protractor with a movable pointer in the middle of it. I was talking and moving the pointer in the middle of the protractor, according to the loudness of my voice, as though it were a VU meter!! People around me must’ve thought I was nuts ha ha ha. #proAudio #homerecording #WomenInSound
#HomeRecording #proaudio #womeninsound
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Zach Bennoui

Lol this is how you know you're a true audio nerd. I don't think I'd ever come up with an idea like that on my own, but I've done stuff like pretend whatever surface was in front of me is a piano and try playing it. Not entirely sure what the point of doing this was, there was no sound obviously, but I could just hear it in my head so that part didn't bother me. No idea if anyone could see me, but if they could I'm sure they thought I was a little weird

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I decided that I was going to take a look at how much I'm spending and where.
UFCU (my bank) automatically places my withdrawals into categories that it displays when I look at my recent transactions, but it sometimes gets things wrong (it thinks that Austin Current is travel, for instance, rather than a local news publication.) Regardless, I want my own categories, and I also need to look at Paypal and FNBO (for my credit card), neither of which define the same categories as UFCU, so UFCU's categories are useless to me.
So now I have a tab-delimited file listing my expenses for the month, along with their dates and amounts, and I have a script that puts them into the categories that I want and tallies them, optionally for a specific date range, or, optionally, it can tally what I've spent at a specific place, rather than the category that I've placed it into.
Most of my transactions are through FNBO, and I can download them to a .csv, and I also have a function that takes the csv and converts it to the format that I want, so now I have a semi-automated process for keeping the file up to date in the future.
Anyway, I know that ynab exists for instance, and I have no idea how it compares to what I have, but I like my script.

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For users of my Super Mario Maker 2 soundpack for #FastSM, another update has been posted, at the same link as always. This time, I've added the mention earcon, the same used in Tweese Cake, when you scroll over a post that mentions you, as present in the very latest FastSM commits. The pinned post sound has been changed as a result, now using the small, echoing ding that has previously been used as the geo tweet sound. x0box.xyz/uploads/soundpacks/S… @soundpackcentral
#fastsm @Soundpack Central
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I so badly want to see this site to take off.

If you're #ActuallyAutistic, you know just how much of a problem these things can be. For me personally, having the information about lighting and how to get service in advance would be a huge help.

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Infographic titled “prepped.to How it came to be” with the prepped.to logo at the top. Six illustrated panels on a light purple background explain the project’s origin. Rey needed preparation before new places to avoid overwhelm, so Rey’s mother made small booklets explaining what would happen. They reviewed sensory details together before outings. Rey is now an autistic adult who still benefits from preparation. prepped.to lets autistic people share sensory info, images, videos, sounds, and instructions so others can prepare before going to new places.

prepped.to | Sensory information and service instructions for better planning

Plan your visit at businesses and locations with sensory information and instructions, for and from the autistic community. Noise, lighting, smells, human load, payment methods, toilets and how to get service.
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