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ENGIE has acquired UK Power Networks. Does this mean that the UK’s energy infrastructure is now more integrated with the EU than it was before Brexit?
https://en.newsroom.engie.com/news/eng

ENGIE announces the acquisition of UK Power Networks, UK’s best-in-class electricity distribution network
ENGIE today announces the signing of an agreement to acquire 100% of UK Power Networks (UKPN), the best-in-class electricity distributor in the UK, for an equity value1 of £10.5 billion. This acquisition marks a major milestone in ENGIE’s ambition to become the best energy transition utility, by strengthening its position in regulated electricity networks. It will also bolster the Group’s presence in the UK, which will become its second-largest country of activity.

from my link log —
Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eink development platform.
https://blog.lidskialf.net/2021/02/08/turning-an-old-kindle-into-a-eink-development-platform/
saved 2021-02-09

Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eink development platform
I fancied getting an eink screen to use for future projects. I bought a wee one with a raspberry pi “hat” attached. However, I realised later that I could maybe just re-purpose an old A…

I don't think I'm ever going to enjoy gifts.
I can get why people would give them to children. After all, children don't have their own budget. However, I'm talking about occasional gifts, not a new toy every second week, because "we must outcompete the other grandparents". But to adults?
Once I've heard that you should gift people with what they won't buy themselves. Well, that's won't work for me. I'm a minimalist. If I don't need something, I don't want to have it. Unnecessary junk is only emotional burden to me.
I can get why you'd enjoy something handmade. But something people bought? If I need something, I can buy it myself, when I need it. And I definitely don't need people to prove to me that they never cared to learn who I am, and just buy whatever they like or whatever is "fashionable"; which usually means exactly the opposite of what I'd prefer (i.e. something minimalistic). Or even worse, I don't need people manipulating me through gifts.
Sweets? Besides my diabetes, I don't really enjoy expensive shit that people generally buy because it's what's advertised. For the money they waste on it, I'd buy three times as much sweets I'd actually enjoy.
Gift cards? Oh yes, "you aren't supposed to give money, so let's just give the equivalent of money that's actually worth less than money". Actual money? And here we reach the true nonsense; we exchange the same amount of money, so it's just pointless gesture. Unless one of us gives less money…
What I'd really like, as a gift? Maybe that people would finally bother accepting me as who I am. The absolute minimum of caring that I hate consumerism, and not fueling it "for me".
#AntiCapitalism #minimalism #ActuallyAutistic

I've been experimenting with #eca on #emacs and managed to make a start on one of my TODO's which was make a useful #gnus

eca: improve the output and functionality of the symbol tool · stsquad/my-emacs-stuff@2719f81
Restricting the total results makes sense to not burn tokens but we should output something to let the tool know it could have narrowed the search down.

Astronomie: Zweiter Babyplanet in Staubscheibe eines anderen Sterns entdeckt
Bei WISPIT 2 wurde erst voriges Jahr ein Exoplanet entdeckt, der eindeutig eine protoplanetare Staubscheibe leerräumt. Jetzt wurde dort ein zweiter gefunden.

Sächsisches Luftfahrtprojekt zielt auf Markt für Regionalflieger
Am Flughafen Leipzig/Halle entsteht ein Werk zum Bau eines kleinen, sparsamen Regionalflugzeugs. Regionalflüge sollen dadurch nachhaltiger werden.

Sikorsky liefert ersten autonomen „Black Hawk“-Helikopter an U.S. Army
Die Integration eines Fly-by-Wire-Systems und der autonomen Matrix-Software in einen "Black-Hawk"-Helikopter ist geglückt. Der Helikopter kann autonom fliegen.

Schlappe für WhatsApp: Landgericht Berlin verbietet Datentransfer an Facebook
Das Landgericht Berlin hat der Weitergabe von WhatsApp-Nutzerdaten an den Mutterkonzern Meta enge Grenzen gesetzt und die Einwilligungspraxis von 2016 gerügt.

Fritz-Repeater 6700 Pro kommt mit Wi-Fi-7-Triband
Fritz nutzt die Mobilgeräte-Messe MWC zur Ankündigung eines neuen Routers und seines bislang schnellsten Repeaters.
https://www.heise.de/news…

Ex-Astronauten kritisieren Nasa für Hitzeschild der Orion-Kapsel bei Artemis-2
Mit der Artemis-2-Mission könnten erstmals seit über 50 Jahren Menschen den Mond umrunden. Einige Experten äußern allerdings Zweifel am Hitzeschild der Kapsel.