Putting data centers in space doesn't really make sense unless you think it puts them beyond the reach of the law.

Folkdata är Idéen om ett brett folkligt kooperativ för digitala tjänster. Det sker inte över en natt, men här är startpunkten. https://www.patreon.com/posts/vad-ar-folkdata-149654606 #folkdata #kooperativ

Hey remember in the late aughts when a weird janky cheerful little program called "Sweet Home 3D" on a Windows XP box was the easiest and funnest way to map out a floor plan of your house and fiddle with furniture arrangement Well it's 2026 now and it runs on Linux and still doesn't suck

No idea where this is, but it's amazing. And it is an old picture I saved waaaay before AI, so no.

https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/harvard-rolling-joints-robotics #tech #robotics

Bruce Schneier being a famous security expert: "AI Coding Assistants Secretly Copying All Code to China" https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/ai-coding-assistants-secretly-copying-all-code-to-china.html

Hello #fediverse! Thanks to my new DFF grant, I'm now looking to hire a PhD student to join me at AAU in Aalborg 🇩🇰 to work on "usable decentralization", i.e. on making distributed and federated cloud services accessible to the everyday user. For more details, see link below, and please don't […]

American conservatives really are like “you’ll change your mind about this extrajudicial public execution of a man trying to provide first aid to a stranger when you hear that he KICKED A CAR ONE DAY” It merely made me a bit sadder that I never got to shake the hand of Alex Pretti, who sounds […]

Ireland has dismantled its first commercial wind farm to make way for a step-change in scale. At Bellacorick Wind Farm, 21 early-generation turbines have been removed so Oweninny Wind Farm can expand. Each new turbine now generates more power than the entire 1992 Bellacorick site, illustrating […]

These people are infuriating. You know the ones. 🙄

It's rare to see how lobbyists operate. But the Epstein-Mandelson correspondence shows us what happens all the time: plutocrats and government ministers conspiring against the public interest. This is why all lobbying should be in the public domain, but despite Labour and Con promises, it's not. 🧵

Hard to clean but vibes

Great expression that should be used more.

@sundogplanets I first read that as "Kardashian II-level situation", which probably still makes more sense than the actual filling.

Postscript: and before the cult of space Karen start with the "so you're an expert in orbital computing this week are you?" Well. One of my first jobs out of uni involved designing an onboard control system for a satellite. My design has literally been to space. I know what I'm talking about on […]

This of course completely overlooks all other practicalities of orbital datacentres, that makes putting high power computing in orbit. Which for a summary include: too much radiation noise making the systems unstable (see Wikipedia for "single even upset"), cooling when you have to dump heat […]

There are currently about 12600 satellites in orbit. As a result on average every day 3 fall out of space, dumping metals and other nasties into the upper atmosphere. If we continue that rate of satellite loss, 1 in 4200, and extrapolate it to 1,000,000. That would be ~238 satellites PER DAY […]

@[email protected] just said at #FOSDEM that 2 years ago Mastodon had a booth. Last year Fediverse had half a day. This year, there's a FULL TRACK of #fediverse#FOSDEM! THAT is growth! That is EXCITEMENT! That is people spreading this thing. Keep up the amazing work ALL of you! ALL OF US MAKE […]

I hit up Half-Price Books today; I think @amoroso is rubbing off on me :)

@psvensson check out https://app.groups.place/explore

Video: 6,000-pound robot helps Cornell team 3D-print concrete underwater in trials https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/new-underwater-3d-printing-method #tech #engineering

Y HELO DERE, this is quite the things yes? Quantum tunneling breaks light's resolution limit, enabling atomic-scale imaging https://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news3/newsid=68594.php #physics #tech

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thinking about how there's a true solution to the trolley problem and union workers were the ones to point it out

“Bruce Springsteen responded to Pretti’s death with a fiery protest song, “Streets of Minneapolis”. It denounces “federal thugs”, castigating Kristi Noem, head of the DHS, and Stephen Miller, the architect of the president’s immigration policy. Dropkick Murphys, a punk band, had already […]

Germany has issued a travel advisory to its citizens travelling to the United States, citing risks linked to immigration enforcement and public-order situations https://www.newsweek.com/germany-issues-formal-travel-advisory-for-us-11421830

https://interestingengineering.com/energy/hydrogel-coating-slashes-solar-panel-heat #engineering #tech

Trippy. Nice. New laser-powered optofluidics enable 3D microprinting of metals and micro-robots https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/laser-optofluidics-3d-microprinting-metals-robots #physics #engineering #tech

Cannabis Drinks Are Growing in Popularity https://www.discovermagazine.com/cannabis-drinks-are-growing-in-popularity-and-helping-some-people-drink-less-alcohol-48599 #biology #medicine #psychology

I'm #colorblind and I use https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/ frequently. Randall 'xkcd' Monroe did a survey of over 100,000 readers where he showed them random rgb colors and said "what would you call this?" and afterwards he did his best to sort the results into the most popular color names and the […]