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It's motivated by the ideology of wanting a meritocracy - the idea that if you work hard you can reap rewards. Having some people in society that can sit at home and watch the S&P …

Germany actually subsidises fossil fuels to the tune of €20bn/year, so in that context €3bn doesn't sound so bad. Some of the latest estimates of the true cost per ton of carbon pu…

X is turning into a wasteland of angry people and bots. Bluesky is much more refreshing, similar to the old twitter.

Anything about 2C is extremely risky for civilised society. It’s likely that we’ve already surpassed the tipping point for the West Antarctic ice sheet which over time will lead to…

Did you know that tidal energy is actually not renewable? Harvesting tidal energy slightly slows the rotation of the planet over time. Here's a quote from the relevant paper by Liu…

Note that since about 2021 renewables have overtaken fossil-based sources of energy on price. New installations of utility scale wind and solar PV are now cheaper than their altern…

I don't understand how this is sustainable. The fuel is still being combusted and releasing CO2 isn't it?

You need to ask him what accommodations he needs in order to be effective. Only he can really answer this question. It could be small things like clearly indicating your intent - a…

I recently switched from Plex to Jellyfin. It's far more stable and hardware decoding works out of the box.

Capitalism naturally tends towards monopoly. The idea that it breeds competition is a nice fairy tale, but doesn’t reflect reality.

It’s a summary report of all of the climate science, research and conclusions that went into the sixth assessment reports. Available as a responsive html site (rather than hidden i…

Have a look at Qwik, it’s a new framework from the author of Angular. It does SSR without the need for client-side hydration. It’s fast and immediately interactive. I’m really hopi…

Relationships between components and the app state are serialised along with the html. A small (~1kb) library is used to lazy load javascript as the user starts interacting. The ke…

The richest 10% of the global population are responsible for an estimated 47% of emissions. The problem has never been that there are too many people. The problem is that there is …

Over time, the effects of covid19 on heart, brain, lungs, vascular system, sensory system, kidneys & more will become better understood. Until then, any reassurance that massive le…

The USA is the 2nd largest emitter of CO2, on a per-capita basis it's almost double that of China.

We already know that the US monitors internet traffic on a global scale, so it’s a bit rich of them trying to police the rest of the world on this.

They measured video quality subjectively. I don't think you can just take the researchers at their word that it "looked good enough". Any rigorous video quality test would use at l…

At what point do we draw the line between free software being beneficial and being overly ideological? If I buy a printer I'd like a copy of the driver source code so if the compan…

The climate crisis is the defining issue of our lifetimes. Solutions to this problem are unlikely to come from technology. Start organising, start protesting and demand that govern…

Netflix is already testing AV1 in production. If you enable test participation you may receive AV1 streams right now. Youtube is also now sending AV1 streams, including to newer sm…

I find a lot of go libraries are very well commented and very accessible, but the standard library and especially the crypto stuff is very sparsely commented.

I'm getting a ton of 503 Service Unavailable errors from the Google Drive API. I can't wait to see what caused such a large outage.