Today I learned that there are only three English cities with an electrical consumption greater than 200 megawatts: London, Manchester and Birmingham. By comparison, the people who want to build AI data centres here, which nobody asked for, want a supply of up to 1 gigawatt (1,000 megawatts) for […]

For the first time in years I'm trawling through my main #email #inbox actually deleting stuff. I'm now below 100k unread and on a roll. Let's see how low I can get it.

Colds suck.

jetbrains is far from the first company to make this particular pair of claims but it is simply, on the most fundamental level, impossible to mass-collect people’s terminal and editor contents and also not collect sensitive or personal data. I realize they […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Dear Labour Party - you don't neutralise the threat from Reform by adopting their policies or talking points. You do it by reducing inequality. Fascism doesn't flourish if people feel they're fairly recompensed, equally treated, well-fed and well-housed and their jobs are safe. So be more Labour.

If your #app or #website has a list of items where I can delete an item in the list, please for the love of cheese please give me a select all option. Last thing I want to do is cobble together a xdotool oneliner to iterate through them and delete each one and wait for it to do its thing to […]

[UK politics ukpol] So I drove under a footbridge early in #essex, and the flag shaggers had been out. This time, there were several St George's cross flags hung with the phrase "We Are All Charlie Kirk". Please tell me again how this St George's cross bollocks is "patriotic"? Because from […]

if you’ve been living under a rock these past few months before today’s #AppleEvent here’s two links as a quick refresher on Tim Cook’s latest fascist bootlicking asshattery: Apple CEO Tim Cook bends the knee to Donald Trump https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-ceo-tim-cook-bends-173140460.html […]

"Are you pondering what I’m pondering?" "I think so, Brain, but why would a federated social network care about our anniversary?” "Pinky and the Brain" debuted on 9 september 1995.

Today in dumb #job application questions: #FediHire #fedihired #jobs

Looking to leave GitHub? Try Codeberg — it's Git, but based in Germany (Europe), without all of Microsoft's nonsense. They're also on the Fediverse: @Codeberg. But wait — it gets better! Codeberg is open source, and you can even host your own instance. The software is called Forgejo, built by […]

This #wikipedia article made me laugh more that it should've considering it's just about a horse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoooooooo #til #wiki #funfactfriday

Just came across some IRL #OnlineSafetyAct protest posters. So it's not just the internet that's bothered by it. There's clearly discontent if it's reached this part of a small provincial town. #ukpol

For pete's sake, @mozilla : if you want to measure whether the AI/ML features are worth a damn, put a big green "disable all AI in my browser" button on the version update screen and put some telemetry around how many people instantly click it. Just about everyone I know who has taken the 142 […]

Good first half #irevjpn Strong start from Ireland. Would be great to see a try or two more from Japan in the second half. #rwc2025

Running for office on the single issue of Razing Eton To The Ground And Salting The Earth Upon Which It Stands

I have never worried about the singularity because I had a single conversation in 2007 with a guy who worked in a chip fab, and learned just the tiniest bit about the physical, mechanical process that goes into actually manufacturing a microprocessor, and how much of it requires direct […]

Jeez, call me old fashioned but if I expand the sidebar I expect it to stay open until I dismiss it. Please #webdev folk, don't try and second guess me and auto-hide seemingly at random. Especially when the alt text on the button is "Keep the menu expanded".

Email addresses are very simple, and you will score highly in this quiz. https://e-mail.wtf

An Open Source sustainability story in two slides. (for a coming talk of mine) Slide 1: car brands using #curl Slide 2: car brands sponsoring or paying for #curl support

The #uk government press release suggesting the population should delete emails to save water has riled me up. Skipping the systemic issues, it's the lack of perspective. Emails are (mostly) text and take up sod all space, let's say an average is 50kb. You'd need ~ 20,000,000 to fill a TB. An […]

"Embrace AI or get out" Welcome to the out club.

When an #adhd person says „I forgot“ what we often mean is: * I remembered 5 times but at the wrong time * I fully planned to do it but I felt overwhelmed * I shamed myself for not doing it that I did not do it

Are there any other #remarkable / #reMarkable2 users out there that also use #taskwarrior ? Curious how many folk are in the overlap with me...

The Eye. One of the better news outlets.

I love me some proper #gravy. Great to see all the love for it. Haven't the foggiest why everyone is posting about it though.

FFS, you couldn't make it up.

how it feels to come back to a programming project after a few months

I don't know how recent this change is but I noticed #firefox removed https:// from the address bar so now every link and every website I visit looks insecure. I know there is a padlock icon next to the address bar but it doesn't seem quite as easily scannable to me.

If you're wondering why you are separating the lids from yoghurt cups to recycle them properly, while in a parallel universe nearly 100 private jets arrive for the Bezos wedding, here's why: Because you are better person than each and every one of these massive cunts.

Anyone in the #uk have experience of setting up a #repaircafe ? There isn't one in my local town and I'm investigating setting one up. Especially with the #endof10 looming for #windows10 , I figure my experience with #linux and fixing stuff could be useful to others.

Welp, looks like I'm going to have to climb into the loft to suss out why the #raspberrypi acting as an #ADB-S receiver has decided to not come back up after a reboot. :/ It had been doing so well...

There is no justification whatsoever for the US or UK to provide any support, material or diplomatic, for Israel's attack on Iran. It is a war of aggression, clearly contrary to international law.

I've been recommended an app by several folk for a thing. After less than a day I'm already annoyed by it for a simple thing. The people behind the app have decided that a day starts at 0800. Log something at 0700 on Wednesday? Then it'll show under Tuesday. Urgh. #shittyuidesign #ux #ui

Why, in the year 2025, am I still having to deal with proprietary USB power cables? (USB-A to random barrel jack this time)

General PSA: don’t apply for a job at Canonical. Do NOT apply for a job at Canonical. Treat the blatantly artificially enormous number of job openings they post as the mirages of trickster fae. They are unhinged. Mark Shuttleworth is unhinged. They will drag you through the mud, disrespect you […]

I AM THE UNKNOWN GLITCH, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN JANUARY 1974 https://wholeearth.info/p/ii-cybernetic-frontiers-january-1974?format=spreads&index=63

It has been years since I did any nontrivial amount of work with HTML, and I wasn’t aware that any of these modern tags existed, imagining that devs were still kludging the effects together from primitive elements using whatever today’s equivalent of JQuery […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

On this day 35 years ago, TGV unit 325 set the land speed record at 515.3 km/h on the LGV Atlantique. This beat the previous record set by the same train on the 5th December 1989 of 482 km/h on the Hannover-Würzburg line Both these records managed to […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

It's awfully, awfully, awfully, awfully, awfully, awfully, awfully, awfully, awfully, awfully, awfully, awfully, awfully, awfully, awfully, awfully, awfully, awfully, awfully, awfully, awfully, awfully, awfully hard to not think that the public voting system is absolutely rigged. #Eurovision

Specifically the petition to ban conversion therapy practices is lacking enough votes from: - #germany (49.9%) - #sweden (49.96%) - #Netherlands (94%) - #austria (25.5%) - #slovenia (83.14%) - #portugal (24.46%) If you're a citizen of these countries you can help advance a ban on conversion […]

Not bad for something bodged together from parts off an old fence... #diy #makestuff

You can call me the Bee Whisperer. #bees #uk #photography #photo