what happens if u cut 4 wires out of an ethernet cable & then plug it into yr PC

Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc. Via @theconversation.bsky.social

Dear Britain, it’s now clear: 20mph zones save lives & don’t slow traffic. Implement them.— @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social. “Despite what detractors might claim, 20mph speed limits haven’t actually made journeys slower because journey times are largely dictated by junction delays, not vehicle speed.”

Poppie;

Der Bund publiziert eine Studie zur Klimawirkung eines Umstiegs auf Elektroautos nicht. Grundtenor: Sie könne falsch verstanden werden. Es gibt Richtlinien des Bundes, welche Studien publiziert werden: Keiner der Punkte hätte dieser Publikation widersprochen. Im Gegenteil.

Silence Is Complicity Straighten your spine Speak & live your truth

Der Bundesrat will Ausweispflicht & Vorratsdaten im Netz – ein Angriff auf digitale Freiheit & KMU wie Threema. Stoppen wir die Überwachungsverordnung! ✍️👇 act.campax.org/petitions/de...

First blog post in a year — what a streak 😅 I built a simple way to run tests for your #OpenFGA models — including a #GitHub Actions you can plug straight into your workflow. Check it out 👉 piotrooo.codes/openfga-test... #OpenFGA #Authorization #GitHub

Ursula von der Leyen, "The diary of Anne Frank." "A painful reminder to Europe to be vigilant and unyielding towards all those who see hatred and want to divide our society" "Europe knows this path all too well. And never, never again must we embark on this path"

This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

SVP-Initiative «Keine 10-Millionen-Schweiz»: Unter dem Vorwand des Umweltschutzes könnte sie zur Kündigung der bilateralen Verträge und zur Ausweisung Zehntausender Menschen ohne Schweizer Pass führen. «direkt» hat mit dem Geographen Antoine Dubiau über die Strategie der SVP gesprochen.

The overwhelming majority of jobs at the two biggest companies in America pay less than $20/hr. Meanwhile, the heads of those companies are some of the richest people on the planet. See the problem?

«Die Schweiz will mit dieser Revision einen riesigen digitalen Überwachungs­apparat bauen, damit die Behörden neu auf Knopfdruck unbegrenzt viele Auskünfte abfragen können.» www.republik.ch/2025/05/07/d...

Kubernetes v1.33: Image Volumes graduate to beta! k8s.io/blog/2025/04...

Stephen Fry's argument against God and His morals.

This great video also reminded me of an interesting facet of motonormativity: people can lose 100 hours a year in traffic and never notice; but they have one late train and it's all "Never again - you can't rely on them"

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An important lesson from Jean-Luc Picard that I’m still sharing all these years later.

Your pal Effin' Birds is nominated for a Webby Award. Vote for me as the best Weird account on the internet! Or vote for Zeppelinmoon, just keep the brands out of Weird! Weird is for the people! vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

Ever faced DNS problems? There’s no way it’s DNS. It was DNS. Download The Phonebook of the Internet—a printable PDF with domain names and their corresponding IPs. nlnetlabs.nl/news/2025/Ap... #OfflineFirst #DNS

Vaccines. 💪🏻💪🏻

No mistake was meep. We did not leak any classified information. They were all meeped. It was a minor meep, nothing more. Everything is under control. MEEEEEEP!

Fired? Chelsea Manning was sentenced to THIRTY FIVE YEARS in prison

the Signal fiasco is a good reminder that while these people are destructive, and cruel, and bigoted, and petty they are also really, really stupid

lmao getting fact checked irl

Just stumbled on this brutal gutpunch of a video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSq6... I've trained The Algorithm to show me stuff like this— randos working on projects and showing them to you? I've never seen this channel but I've seen a dozen like it. Dude fixes radios. The video is not about radios.

Most of what we call "tech" is about getting the right information into a database and trying to prevent the wrong person from reading or updating it.

Resisting comes in all forms. Here is a very creative one starting to pop up.

The Gulf of America? Sounds like the perfect spot for a comeback of the real American dream: The Million Dollar Homepage. Still there after 20 years—just like our best (and worst) ideas.

"Masculine Energy"

TIL: If you type 'geocities', 'Vincent Connare' or 'Comic Sans' into Google, it changes the font to Comic Sans. Read more about the origin of Comic Sans: www.connare.com/whycomic.htm

This company is deeply evil, and on top of that this move is going to be what finally makes Facebook collapse into itself

Exactly

It’s over 1,000km from Berlin to Paris There’s now a direct daytime train between them, that takes 8 hours and costs just €59. Leave at 10am, arrive 6pm. And… it’s just 1% the carbon emissions of the equivalent flight www.euronews.com/travel/2024/...

Had a lovely chat with @scott.hanselman.com! On the cozy web vibes of Portland, how anthropology taught me to think, and the need for more complex interfaces for "AI" systems.

Understanding pod termination in Kubernetes is critical for resilient apps. Check out this comprehensive guide: www.cncf.io/blog/2024/12...

I can hardly think of a better example of the moral decay in modern health care than a Goldman analyst noting that biotech cures for diseases like hepatitis are cool and all, until their success diminishes the business opportunity for pharmaceutical manufacturers. www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...

TIL: 10 new Git commands you should start using today Great summary of some useful, newly introduced Git commands. appwrite.io/blog/post/10...

Since the most important account 'World Bollard Association™️' is on Bluesky, I can go ahead an delete my X account. @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social

Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life. But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.