Yes the last 10% will be hard, yes we should probably consume less stuff, yes capitalism. But right now we have proven technologies, available at the necessary scale to real make some serious progress; and they are actually cheaper than doing the wrong things. The "easy" parts make up 80-90% of […]

Delighted with this Chinese "Lego" kit. Moving pistons & everything! 😎🏍️ https://makertube.net/w/e8Zuq46yHD9w2kMJFQTgLr

Merry Christmas from Austria 🇦🇹 #weirdcarmastodon

this is in the top 1% of all release notes quality

When an entire class of technology states on the packaging that it was made in China but intended "for overseas use only," this should really give you pause before plugging it into your network. You will find this verbiage on a lot of Android TV streaming […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

What do you mean you don't obsessively count the number of chocolates in a tub of Celebrations every year and put the results into an Excel spreadsheet!? Anyway, the 2025 results are in: Bounty x5 Galaxy x5 Galaxy Caramel x5 Maltesers x5 Mars x9 Milky Way x9 Snickers […] [Original post on mas.to]

Absolutely top-notch comic-ry from #xkcd today.

@ifixcoinops @TransitionShow “just getting on with the job” should be the Transition Show’s tagline The antithesis of fake news. @chrisnelder does the hard work and we’re all smarter for it.

Making a New Year Resolution? For 2026 why not dress like an Australian?

Christmas is officially here! New album from Euros Childs just dropped ❤️ Free download / pay what you want https://www.euroschilds.co.uk Nadolig Llawen! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🎄

If (when?) this becomes mainstream tech, an #ev will be lighter than an ICE vehicle!! https://www.electrive.com/2025/12/17/welion-achieves-824-wh-kg-energy-density-in-lab-for-solid-state-battery/ #electrification

I watch Jeopardy most days, and it’s become clear to me that my knowledge of African geography is abysmal. So I made myself a tiny web app with a blank map to help me practice remembering where all the different countries are on the continent. Test your own knowledge! […]

If you're a tech tinkerer and you're in the market for a discount #ev that requires some rolling up of sleeves, the Fisker Ocean is looking like a hell of a good deal right now. Open source EVERYTHING, wholly managed by the owner's club! https://youtu.be/hD0HOUCqLJo (I'm looking at you, @neil […]

"Pull here to open" is the biggest lie of the modern age

Did you know: you can avoid the need for backups by failing to do anything worth saving a copy of Follow me for more computing lifehacks

Ran into a problem in prod? Just generate a fake cloudflare error page and blame it on them - gives you time to fix. #foss #devops #cloudflare #infosec

RE: https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/115724867511547887 We need something like this in the UK! My guess it would actually generate money: ~10 million subscribers at ~£100/month would generate >£10bn revenue - which I understand is more than is currently paid in to public transport in fares...

Well that's it for me. Happy Christmas, poppers! See you on the other side... #totp

Wow, your *actual* Hollies #totp

Mmm, anyone thirsty? #totp

Yazz always looks so happy to be doing whatever she's doing. I like that 😃 #totp

Double PSB!! You are spoiling us 😍 #totp

Eddi taking a noncommittal approach to miming I see #totp

Extremely decent cover version alert 🚨 #totp

Utterly magisterial #psb #totp

"Definitive cover version" etc ❤️ #totp

PSB JOY!! 😍 #totp

1988 already 1000% madder than 1998 #totp

Nice moody #totp performance from Faithless 🫶

"That piano's not even plugged in!" etc #totp

Was everything half speed in 1998? 🤷‍♂️ #totp

This is insanely catchy. I actually love it! #totp

Say what you want, the full-on use of Autotune on this is 👌 #totp

I guess my prejudice is showing, but I'd love this track if I didn't know it was Stereophonics #totp

The William Orbit stuff is peak Madonna for me 😍 #totp

This is your regular warning DO NOT Google for Steven Tyler's toes! 🚨 #totp

Blimey, Tim Booth is *skinny* in 1998 #totp

About the Commodore PET startup sound #retrocomputing #commodore #pet #mildlyinteresting @retrocomputing https://scruss.com/blog/2025/12/11/commodore-pet-startup-sound-again/

In Ep. 264, we kick off a new miniseries on South Africa’s energy transition with one of its key progenitors, Professor Emeritus Anton Eberhard of the University of Cape Town, who has been agitating for power sector reforms there for over 35 years […]

Remarkable how CCS crumbles whenever it's held to any sort of real performance standard In @heatmap.news --> heatmap.news/am/energy-de...

Huh. Just chatted in person with someone who's been on #mastodon for a while, now, who honestly thought that all the Mastodon domains were run by Mastodon. And having a different domain was, like, just a vanity thing to look cool. It only came up because they were complaining about an issue they […]

We need this in Edinburgh!

Sen. Mark Kelly: "When Trump was driving the Taj Mahal Casino into bankruptcy, I was being shot at over Iraq. When Trump was writing birthday greetings to Epstein, I was the first on the scene to recover the bodies of my fellow astronauts. When Trump was peddling conspiracy theories against Pres […]

The new Melodifestivalen app sounds promising - not just for Swedes #eurovision | #melfest2026 | #melodifestivalen

Nuclear power has no special virtues that could possibly justify overpaying for energy like this. Instead of asking—as so many do—how to make nuclear cheaper and faster after decades of real-world proof that it’s nigh-impossible to do (outside of China), we should be asking—as virtually no one […]

Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables —at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere —if governments have the courage to change the rules. For […]

UK government proposing 3p/mile EV tax. Have your say here: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-the-introduction-of-electric-vehicle-excise-duty-eved

If you think that making roads a place for people not cars is a new concern, then bear in mind that almost 200 years ago the UK passed a law to keep people out of the streets. A law which was then used overwhelmingly to send young, poor children to jail. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_zone