"New research from Trinity College Dublin and Microsoft Ireland has found that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) is freeing up time for companies." Did it also find that using Windows save time compared to using Linux, BSD, or even Mac? I expect it also found that using cloud apps saves […]

[Trump, joke] When he met King Charles today, President Trump declared America should become a kingdom. It would be the biggest kingdom, the best kingdom. Charles objected, saying that a kingdom needs a king and Trump, for all his gold, is not a king. Trump responded that he would make America […]

I'm in favour of more wind power, but this is just the data center equivalent of carbon credits, right? https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0427/1570507-offaly-wind-farm/ #ireland #amazon #renewable #renewables #windpower

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116460901149173294 I tried this with both Lynx and Links, and they both work just as well. So new lifte hack: You can probably read any paywalled article with a text-based browser,l probably because they don't do scripts at all. #links #lynx #emacs #lifehack […]

[People who know programming will burn me at the stake for this] Fortran has better syntax than Rust.

[What's red and silly?] A blood clot

The writer and YouTuber Jason K. Pargin recently commented on someone claiming, erroneously, that trying something with a 1% chance of success 100 times guarantees a win. He challenged people to give the actual probability in the comments, and many people gave the right answer by directly […]

A mother fox and one of her cubs, in my back garden At this time of year, I can often see groups of fox cubs, running around, chasing each other, while their mother tries to keep them safe and stop them going too far #fox #animals #nature #wildlife

Last night I was forced to accept it is probably not practical to implement the Sūrya Siddhānta in Fortran. Let's see if Rust will fare any better. #programming #SūryaSiddhānta

Why are Irish farmers still paying rent to an English lord in the year 1404 AH?

International Haiku Day. But did you know It's about rhythm The rhythm of the Japanese language, but then English ain't like that The syllable thing Is a simplification For gaikokujin Spring https://youtu.be/Zf4CSYgsfhw #haiku #internationalhaikuday

Having conquered IT and programming, the furries are now extending their reach into aviation. https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/transportation/faa-investigating-after-pilots-heard-meowing-barking-over-radio-at-dca/4091524/

[USpol, Trump] I mean, it's more accurate than the thing it's responding to. https://www.thejournal.ie/hegseth-says-ai-videos-of-jesus-christ-attacking-trump-are-disgusting-and-detached-from-reality-7014592-Apr2026/

[Video games] I've been spending my free time over the last few weeks on Hand of Fate 2, a deckbuilder with rhythm-based hack'n'slash combat. It's been called a roguelite, and I can understand why, but if it is, it's by far the litest of roguelites. The individual elements aren't especially […]

Fidesz' massive defeat comes despite: - multiple active Russian disinformation campaigns - the US government actively supporting Fidesz - Fidesz owning the majority of TV & radio stations + newspapers - Fidesz having gerrymandered the crap out of the country - many documented cases of voter […]

You know who's great? Dentists. They're amazing

People from out of state: ugh, #NewJersey is so disgusting and ugly, also why are you asking if we've seen anything not directly between the airport and the Hudson? Obviously not, we go directly to NYC and never stop to wonder why a busy logistics corridor might […] [Original post on social.coop]

Today we're sending the first black person & the first woman to the moon. But I know that Dr. Mae Jemson was the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992 […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

I absolutely did not expect Waluigi to be the main villain of the Super Mario Galaxy movie. #supermariogalaxymovie #supermariogalaxy

Along with @astrokiwi.bsky.social and Laura Revell, we wrote "Cow-culation: Reentry Impact Risk to Livestock in the Satellite Megaconstellation Era" https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29324 This all started because the three of us were writing about pollution from satellites and bemoaning the fact that […]

Old kitty photo. Can't believe it's coming up on this little guy's third birthday soon~~🕯️🕯️🕯️ #cats #caturday #losangeles #california #photo #photography

OK I know this sounds crazy but hear me out. What if, instead of moving all the clocks forward, we just started and finished work an hour later? #daylightsavingstime

[Earthpol] The UN officially ruled that the transatlantic slave trade was a crime against humanity and urges those countries which benefitted from it to pay reparations to victims. https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/03/1167199 Almost the entire Global North, including all of the EU, abstained […]

two players with perfect strategy walk into a bar, intending to play tic tac toe. neither of them brought a pen or any way to annotate moves. they sit down at a table, across from one another. they reach out, shake hands, and agree to draw. "good game" "well played"

Is "2 kWhr per day" really easier or faster that "48 kW"? https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0324/1565027-vacant-dwellings-cso/

New word just dropped: "conspress" To express concern. "Despite his many conspressions you can't count on him." "I must conspress my fear for your future." "I will conspress him to our cause." Just pretend it's real and use it and it'll become a word in five years.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116262809209036712 Chuck Norris has died? Bruce Lee is waiting to give him one big arse-whooping on the other side. (The fear of this happening was why Chuck lived so long.)

Also, there's a lot of #alternatehistory in which Rome never falls. Screw that. What if Rome never rose? In 387 BC, the Sennones seize their momentum and utterly obliterate Rome, also doing lots of damages to the socii. Then a massive cholera outbreak devastates the Italian peninsula, impeding […]

So much #alternatehistory has a Euramerican point of divergence. Here's a free idea for an untapped vein. In 230 BC, a lucky arrow hits Ying Zheng , killing him, and so Qin fails to conquer Han. The Warring States never properly unify (at least until the Mongols come along), so instead of China […]

@genderpayie Boston Scientific

I made a patriotic cake to celebrate today. Presentation rules, but it fails in the eating. I used to be able to make a really nice sponge cake, but for some reason when I try nowadays, it always comes out rubbery (unless there is chocolate in it). Maybe it's […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all who drive snakes or the British Empire out of their countries.

RE: https://mastodon.ie/@davey_cakes/116240754579816848 Only Irish speakers will get this.

Happy Mother's Day to women of all chromosomal configurations who have children.

Church of the One True Protocol Monoprotocalism Advertising and Spam are sin.

I'm going to start an interoperability religion. This is the only way. DO NOT post that damn xkdc comic don't you dare.

Ladies please do not let some woman with a media empire, conservative influencer career and/or government appointments and **no kids** tell you that *you* need to be married, have lots of kids and not bother your silly little head with college. This has been happening multiple times. Please […]

Question for #blind #linux users. Is there a way to make the TTY login screen acessible via text to speech somehow? I think I can get Orca running once I log in but it's hard to know when I can enter my login creds and if it succeeded. 🥲

One enemy type in Hand of Fate 2 has Northerners, who are big burly Viking-type people who live in a cold land of ice and snow in the north (hence their name). Hand of Fate 2 was made by Australians in Australia. Australia, as you might be aware, is in the southern hemisphere, where north means […]

I'd prefer if lootboxes were an automatic 18, but I'll take a 16. https://www.gamesindustry.biz/games-with-loot-boxes-will-be-rated-pegi-16-from-june-as-part-of-sweeping-changes-to-the-age-rating-system #gaming #videogames

math wikipedia is topologically a klein bottle, which is to say, up its own ass. unlike literally any other discipline it has an amazing ability for every sentence to be an escalation in a war with the reader

Tux has a new friend! (#plushie acquired a couple weeks ago from the @Mastodon store; finally got around to taking a pic) #plushtodon

Happy Mario Day to all who celebrate.

I have to show off this absolutely unreal quetzal I had the pleasure of seeing in person. Otherwise I don't know if I could have been convinced that it wasn't stuffed animal. #nature #photography #birds #quetzals #costarica

Cool History Fact of the night Before woodblock printing (which was extensively used in China well before the west), there was a very clever, effective way to mass-reproduce the most important texts. A few different times in imperial China, stone tablets […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

I am psychologically incapable of giving a damn about sport, and I was still amazed at just how incredible Jim Thorpe was. Seriously, give this a listen […]

Quote in September last year for a high-memory compute server. £28,000. Quote today for the _exact same machine_. £90,500 This is for medical research. Saving lives. When I say LLMs are killing people by killing research computing, this is what I mean. @davidgerard.co.uk @edzitron.com

RE: https://mastodon.online/@gardiner_bryant/116167277424533129 Emulation (n): The act of playing an illegally-obtained copy of a game, regardless of whether a computer has to pretend to be a different computer to do so. Downloading a rom and playing it on an emulator is emulation […]

right i get what this is implying, but at the same time i doubt the people who wrote this law know what a bootloader is. i feel like this is a _bit_ of a reach because the law is like "developers must have a way to retrieve id verification status" and it assumes OSes with central online accounts […]

[antisemitism, uspol] now that the only group in America with a majority that supports Israel over Palestine is conservatives, it's helpful to remember that conservatives don't support Israel because they support Jews. they support Israel so that Those People (people like me) can go Over There […]