The Ukrainian Sanctions are working. Keep hitting the energy infra until the orcs have to beg and plead for it all to stop, because they can't do anything. Once Moscow and St Petersburg get *really* inconvenienced, someone will show Putin a very pretty window on the 14th floor somewhere...

There was NFT's. Then there was Blockchain. And now it's "AI" with LLMs. You'd think people would learn, but seemingly, that's too hard for the people with big salaries.

I promise. I'll flood y'all with pictures once I'm up north full time. It'll be a couple more weeks, then I'll be able to. I've got a few views in mind to begin with and then I'll roll from there.

When Russia lose, and they will, the world needs to insist that Russia as it is today, have to return any land stolen since 1900 to original owners/countries. After that, Russia is to be broken up, west of Ural, in at *least* five pieces. East of Ural is for Asia to decide. Delenda est Russia.

I've looked at this one, and I've read Peri's thoughts on it. I love the idea, I think the style is great. And I may very well get this to replace the Nokia dumbphone I have. But.. I need a very specific banking app, which won't run on the 8020. So I *still* need a smartphone somewhere.

#moving After 54h behind the steering wheel, and 3,600+ km driven, we're part-way done. Old house, we've just signed contract on sale of. So within two weeks, I don't ever have to come back. I still have this trip, and one more, to do to haul all our crap we're keeping north though. *sigh*

The "final product" will be just as shoddy, if not worse. Everything The Orange One touches turns to shit.

This is how a *skilled* person operates. Basically, know your shit and you don't need to babysit an LLM and verify if it dreamed up a problem or not. Would I be able to do what Daniel does? No. I have utmost respect for him and his skill/knowledge though.

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

I can confirm that bamboo, once it roots (and it doesn't take much for it to do that), spreads relatively quickly and it - as it is a grass - takes over the area. To remove, you either dig it up, all of it, or you pour diesel over the area killing the soil and everything else.

Back down in Tierp for the week. Might sell the house in this visit, without an estate agent being involved other than to draw up the contract. But another twelve hours in the car have taken its toll. I'm pooped.

Indeed a happy midsummer solstice. And i write this from the land of midnight sun, where we currently is in the day that began June 9th and will end July 5th. And I'm not even above the polar circle. 😁

The view out the livingroom window in my new house.

Code can be forked overnight; fabrication plants can’t. Javier Serrano, Nicholas Gates and Johan Linåker argue Europe’s tech sovereignty push stops at software—and that real independence means opening up hardware too, not just the code that runs on it.

It's a fun and interesting read. And, it is a complete delight to follow the facts and reasoning of someone who clearly "knows their shit". Not like the regime, who don't know their arse from their elbow.

Everything The Orange One touches turns to shit. Absolutely everything.

www.nsd.se/nyheter/kiru... Article headline that makes you look twice. "Firealarm went of at Rocketschool" Emergency services are looking at it, but no smoke visible from outside. -- Just reported, text updating. But one would think that rocket propulsion might produce smoke...

In case there ever was any doubt about #Brexit economical damage to UK - this thread should put it to rest. Rejoining isn't straightforward, because UK's dysfunctional politics and delusions of grandeur. It'll happen eventually, but UK has a lot of growing up to do first.

The melting ice on Greenland due to the planet warming up may cause .. problems. It's well known/understood. The issue is that salt water that cools off sinks, until enough fresh water contaminates the circulation, preventing the saline water from sinking. Jeff gives a good explanation.

www.nsd.se/nyheter/gall... The road to Ritsem is open again, after the skree that happened in May. Note: travel on this stretch of road is on your own risk, park only in designated areas. It's beautiful, but dangerous.

To give you an idea of how bad this El Niño could be, based on early data, have a look at this thread. It is *potential*, not a given. But if you're in an area that usually is affected badly during El Niño, you might want to take precautions. Just in case this becomes the monster it could be.

The #heatdome over #Europe this weekend is once again forecast to break records. The areas in Magenta are where the upper level heat dome are record breaking for the day. #heatwave Thanks @burgwx for the diagnostics!

www.nsd.se/sport/ishock... Luleå Hockey juniors were given a tough training session. In a bog (which if you've ever tried walking through one, you know how heavy it is to try and run in one). They did encounter a lot of mozzies as well.

www.nsd.se/nyheter/over... A lass from Lomträsk in Överkalix has managed 18,000 followers on TikTok and is inspiring girls to consider professions like mechanic, HGV driver and the like. Good! It's needed. And nothing wrong with a Volvo 244 from 1979. Except rust. Lots of rust.

www.nsd.se/kultur/konse... Sabaton coming back, sold out in Boden, they'll play Kiruna as well. That's two of the twentyone venues they'll play in the tour next year.

omni.se/a/43m4Lg Two incidents with Russian fighterjets today, one set a course for Stockholm, the other for Karlskrona. Gripen fighters went up to meet and turn the Russians away. -- If they carry on like this, weapons hot, lie further in from the border and if they cross it, get a missile lock.

omni.se/a/5pjaK1 Russian frigatte fires warningshot against sailboat in the English Channel. -- If the Russians can not behave; f***ing sink them. They can stay in their ports. Just torpedo that frigatte and fish the crew out of the drink and put them on a plane back to Russia.

Bob Odenkirk is a national treasure. Take 44 seconds and watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0rB...

a thing, a lot of coding projects on big corpos where always a bloody, unmaintained, deprecated mess that was never solved because of other reasons such as decent opsec or legit luck.

... either never materialised (other than a few FOSS models) or were never a threat in the first place. Like, these new "models" are good at finding vulnerabilities? Or where the code bases done by lazy, exploited or underfunded, outsourced programmers in the first place? Even before AI rot was...

c) there may not even be a market of sorts for this tech, not unless we can actually scale things for the average person, not the average American salary person. Also, it is really telling that one of the excuses used by the private equity and politicians was the CHINA threat, one that...

... I told him that a) Just the energy and hardware requirements make this practically impossible on this few decades, let alone in the next few years, b) the nature of this tech is more of a race to the bottom for the scarce resources that we have and...

I remember like 2 years ago after this ChatGPT thing kicked in that a fellow programmer friend of mine had serious questions of whether the singularity was upon us. Given that I had prior knowledge of how economy is actually scaled I told him to stop thinking too much about it...

So OpenAI 2025 costs was $34B. That's how much IBM paid to acquire Red Hat. And I can tell you that the beancounters at both Red Hat and IBM would not just yell at people if expenses was 3x income... They'd get people fired.

Spain - Kap Verde finish 0-0. Biggest shocker of the tournament so far. Spain needs to do some soulsearching tonight. This was far from acceptable from them.

Today, we are taking a historic step towards Ukraine's future within the EU, by opening formal negotiations for its accession. A united and determined G7 is essential to help bring this war to an end and achieve a just and lasting peace. #G7Evian

Football. So, have not been to an NBA, NFL or baseball game, but seen videos of them on youtube. The audience is *nothing* compared to real football fans in a stadium in Europe or South America. I've been at Elland Road. With 5k people there, it was already deafening. With 38k, unreal.

JUST IN: Hungary’s parliament has passed a measure limiting prime ministers to a maximum of two terms, or eight years in office.

There's a far better case for banning social media for people 65+ than for people 16-18

EU countries have agreed to open the first accession negotiations cluster with Ukraine and Moldova. Today we launch talks on the backbone of the process: including justice and fundamental rights. Enlargement is our best investment in a future of peace, security and prosperity.

Moving. As of 09:00 CEST today, June 16th, we became owners of a house in Överkalix. Lovely Elin from the estate agent phoned a little later to congratulate us. Many thanks to Akos Fonda and Elin at Fastighetsbyrån Kalix for their help and guidance through this purchase.

And this is why, in a system of private healthcare, politicians should have the level of care the same as that of the lowest earners with the least insurance. Mandated by law that can't be appealed, can't be amended, can't be ripped up.

While Trump desecrates the People's House with sweaty dudes beating the fuck out of each other for crypto, Putin continues his terror attacks against Ukraine. The world has definitely turned upside down.

Cultural genocide: "acts and measures undertaken to destroy nations' or ethnic groups' culture through spiritual, national, and cultural destruction". russia does what it always does: destroys all that is beautiful if it cannot steal it Europe should do so much more for Ukraine

The state of Israel and their warcriming "leaders" are going to torpedo any "deal" that comes along. Until the Israel political elite and most of IDF brass is in ICC custody, there won't be peace. Never mind The Orange One's venality and ghoulishness. That's *a* problem, not *the* problem.

Good read, lots of good information. I used to keep bees, but mine was pretty feral so it was scary and I gave it up after a few years. It's harder than it looks. Bumblebees are just cute.