2026-03-16 09:51:02
KEHS talk: Draughts, Insulation, Ventilation (2024) - Kingston Efficient Homes Show 2024 small talk by Patrick M. - https://www.earth.org.uk/KEHS-2024-talk-Draughts-Insulation-Ventilation.html
KEHS talk: Draughts, Insulation, Ventilation (2024) - Kingston Efficient Homes Show 2024 small talk by Patrick M. - https://www.earth.org.uk/KEHS-2024-talk-Draughts-Insulation-Ventilation.html
Wind-solar-nuclear electricity production in China, 1992-2024
https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/line_race_electricity_production_cn_1990-2024.html
So viel Entschädigung zahlte die Bahn 2025 an Reisende
Ist die Bahn verspätet, gibt es ab einer Stunde Wartezeit Entschädigung. 2025 zahlte die Bahn einen dreistelligen Millionenbetrag, aber weniger als 2024.
https:…
Kijk hoe /e/OS mijn apparaat beschermt tegen datalekken!
Weten waarom trackers in apps veel impact kunnen hebben op je privacy en vrijheid? Lees onze Privacy Guide op https://e.foundation/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/murena_white_paper_privacy.pdf
The NIST narrows its National Vulnerability Database priorities to CVEs in CISA's known exploited catalog, to deal with a backlog after its 2024 funding lapse (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/nist-narrows-cve-analysis-nvd/
Hoher Peißenberg (September 2024)
(From my series In The Lands Of Via Claudia Augusta, the ancient and most important Roman road through the Alps which connected the Po Valley in the south with Augsburg and the Danube as northern terminus)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
Report: Ex-Canes DE Bain drove in fatal car crash https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/48471125/ex-miami-de-rueben-bain-involved-2024-car-accident-which-1-person-later-died-report-says
I hate how rapidly Intel EOL's CPUs.
Like, my office workstation has a pair of Skylake-SP's (Xeon Scalable Gold 6144) which were launched in Q3 17 and hit end of support in December 2023. That's only six years.
And Vtune 2024.x is the last version that supports it. I have to pin an old version of VTune to be able to do profiling now.
I know it's getting on in years now, but it's still a pretty decent processor (CPUMark per-core performance competitive wi…
The Sun reports pre-tax losses of £53M in the year to July 2025, up from £18M in 2024; phone-hacking legal costs more than doubled to £36.7M (James Warrington/Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/04/14/murdoch-loses-more…
from my link log —
A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks.
https://loriemerson.net/2024/08/31/a-brief-history-of-barbed-wire-fence-telephone-networks/
saved 2026-02-12
I'm shocked, shocked, that waiving the transfer tax on downtown office to residential conversions did not result in a single such conversion happening.
Well, not that shocked. (The real point of March 2024 Prop C was the sneaky provision letting the SFBOS reduce the transfer tax altogether without an election. Not to produce housing but to cut downtown landlords' taxes.)
NFL Teams 'Investigating' Possible Cowboys Draft Target Rueben Bain's Fatal 2024 Crash https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/nfl-teams-investigating-possible-dallas-cowboys-draft-target-rueben-bain-…
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 10.03.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
"February 2026 was Earth’s fifth-warmest February on record"
#Climate #ClimateChange
ht…
J'ai une question pour l'ARCEP. Il y a UNIQUEMENT en France, que l'on a ces appels abusifs, ces numéros usurpé, le non respect totale de la réglementation. En Belgique, Allemagne, Italie, il n'y a rien de cela. Et chez l'ARCEP, il se passe: Rien! Ah oui, on fait la statistique des victimes. Y a un pilote dans l'avion?
Dear #Business. Here's a reminder to you who rely on #OpenSource in your software and services.
Your digital infrastructure is cheap because you CAN get it for almost no cost.
How cheap?
Look at the Harvard Business Review study from 2024: The ROI of Open Source is 2000 ×.
…
Und wieder ein Artikel auf #orfat zu #RepairCafe Initiativen in Österreich 😃
https://wien.orf.at/stories/3342166/…
Na próxima terça-feira (17), o *Humanitas* recebe o neurocientista Miguel Nicolelis para a conferência:
“A Inteligência não é Artificial. Intenções humanas, extrativismo e o poder por tršs das mšquinas.”
💻 Na conversa, Nicolelis propõe um olhar crítico sobre o avanço da Inteligência Artificial e seus impactos sociais e ambientais. Em 2024, cerca de 300 bilhões de dólares foram investidos em empresas de IA, um crescimento que levanta questões urgentes sobre consumo de energia, šgu…
Sources: UK paraplegic athlete Claire Lomas was being filmed for Apple Vision Pro series Adventure when she crashed a microlight in Jordan and died in July 2024 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Bericht: Neue Siri doch nicht in iOS 26.4?
Seit Sommer 2024 warten Nutzer darauf, dass Apple seine Sprachassistenz endlich smarter macht. Nun könnte es erneut zu Verzögerungen kommen, heißt es.
https://www.
The people who actually decide elections aren’t in the base
— and they’re turning.
Political independents and soft partisans — voters Trump converted in 2024 to beat Harris — are more loosely attached to Trump and support his policies less.
When political conditions deteriorate for the GOP, it’s these voters who are the first to leave.
What MAGA elites think might matter to other elites (people who have dinner with Steve Bannon),
-- but when it comes to electi…
Diesen Film zum Thema Wirtschaftssysteme jenseits der gegenwärtigen politischen Ökonomie kann ich echt empfehlen: „Outgrow the System – Wirtschaft neu denken“ ist eine schwedische Dokumentation aus dem Jahr 2024, die gerade frisch in die Arte-Mediathek gepurzelt ist.
https://www.arte.…
from my link log —
That British mid-century signage font is called “Festive”.
https://precastreinforced.co.uk/2024/04/22/that-mysterious-font-is-festive-not-stymie/
saved 2026-02-12
auston matthews 2024-2026 is the new EP40 2024-2026 or something but who cares it's just sportsball :-)
Google handed over a trove of personal data about a student and journalist to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in response to a subpoena that had not been approved by a judge, according to a report by The Intercept.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/goo…
Kamala Harris Sold Her Email List to D.N.C., Then Paid Off Old 2024 Debts (Shane Goldmacher/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/us/politics/dnc-kamala-harris-email-list-debt.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260214/p9#a260214p9
Accounting for the effects of year-to-year climate variation on population growth rate can substantially decrease the size of a species' expected geographic range— by an average of 22% in this simulation study with a new method for range modeling
https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.30.621023
I wrote https://jws.news/2024/hp-z4-g4-workstation/ two years ago about buying an old workstation off eBay to try running local LLM models. It didn't go as well as I had hoped, but between tariffs, hardware shortages, and my own lack of cash, I think that it is going to be another two years before I get to try again.
Heute 14 Uhr Syrienkonferenz im Museum Bochum:
Mehr als ein Jahrzehnt nach dem Beginn des Krieges ist die Lage in Syrien weiterhin von Gewalt, Unsicherheit und schweren Menschenrechtsverletzungen geprägt, religiöse und ethnische Minderheiten wie Alawiten, Drusen, Christen, Eziden und Kurden sind unzureichend geschützt.
Im Fokus der Veranstaltung stehen Fragen nach dem Schutz besonders vulnerabler Gruppen, nach den Folgen der Machtübernahme durch die HTS sowie nach Möglichkeiten von…
POL-WL: Verkehrsunfallstatistik der Polizeiinspektion Harburg für das Jahr 2025 Buchholz (ots) - Verkehrsunfallstatistik der Polizeiinspektion Harburg für das Jahr 2025 Im Jahr 2025 erfasste die Polizei im Landkreis Harburg 6974 Verkehrsunfälle, das sind 56 Unfälle weniger als im Vorjahr (Vergleichszahlen des Vorjahres 2024 ... https://www.
I visited Budapest in the spring of 2024. It is an •incredible• place, not just the awe-inducing history visible everywhere in built environment, but the present: the vibrant life, the artistry and skill everywhere, the rich and varied intersections of cultures, the spirit, the marvelous people I met through seemingly every door I entered.
Sending Hungarians love and strength from Minneapolis today. You are amazing. Your home and your society are worth fighting for.
/end
When you say what a word "means", what do you mean by "mean?" It's actually not a trivial question.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/bounded-vs-centered-sets
Chrome’s developer properties have been problematic for years so this just corresponds to its descent into disrepute.
Ref: https://adrianroselli.com/2024/07/dont-use-webdev-for-accessibility-info.html (it discusses developer•chrome•com)
Sources: Grafana Labs, which makes cloud and AI monitoring tools, is in talks to raise at a $9B valuation, up from $6.6B in 2024; its ARR hit $400M in Sept. (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/grafana-labs-talk-raise-9-billion-valuati…
Kenne ich jemanden, der mir eine Paper aus der Zeitung #Allergologie (ISSN: 0344-5062) aus 2024 schicken kann?
#CanIHazPaper #followerpower
Funny they are looking into 2020 but not 2024 where there are some definate oddities in the results for House Represenitive races vs national and state wide race results for that district.
FBI subpoenas election records in Arizona, expanding 2020 inquiry https://ground.news/article/fbi-subpoenas-election-records-in-arizona-expanding-2020-inquiry_77e5cd
Top NFL Draft prospect Rueben Bain Jr. involved in 2024 crash that resulted in passenger's death https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7193371/2026/04/13/nfl-draft-prospect-rueben-bain/
"The #Labour party won one third of the votes (34%) in an election in which under two thirds (60%) of the electorate voted. Only one in five (20.4%) registered electors in Britain support this government. It has no mandate to do anything. If it tries to do anything radical, then, as Thatcher did with the poll tax, it will find the difference between Westminster games and real politics.
T…
I've updated (mostly culled) my list of Milwaukee Mastodon users.
This list used to be over 80 people, but the vast majority only posted in 2022/2023. A few straggled into 2024. I removed anyone who hasn't posted more than once in 2025.
It kind of sucks, but meh... it is what it is.
Also, I should try to find more people. And, move this off of GitHub at some point.
Erlebnispfade im Nationalpark #Schwarzwald begeistern die Gäste
Der #Lotharpfad ist seit langem einer der meistbesuchten Orte des Nationalparks. Rund jeder zweite Gast war bereits dort und auch die Wiederbesuchsrate ist sehr hoch. Seit 2024 wurde der Lotharpfad um den Spechtpfad erweite…
Katherina Reiche: Berufen, weil sie „vom Fach" ist. Das Fach: Atomausstieg mitbeschlossen (2011), Netzausbau vergeigt (2009–2013), danach Lobbyistin für Netzbetreiber (2024), jetzt Ministerin die Netzausbau bremst. Das Wort „Batteriespeicher" kommt in ihrem FAZ-Gastbeitrag kein einziges Mal vor. „Fusionskraftwerk" zweimal. @…
The Federal Trade Commission sent letters to 13 data brokers warning them of their responsibility to comply with the Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024 (PADFAA).
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/pres…
I bought those very same memory sticks for €130 in October 2024. Now they are being sold for €510. The motherboard that I ordered alongside this RAM cost €212, the same motherboard now being sold for €174.
One other thing that annoys me to no end is that AMD recently worked with Sony to bring FSR 4.1 INT8 to PlayStation, but also AMD won't even acknowledge the existence of FSR 4.0.2 INT8, let alone deliver it officially, for PC GPUs that they released 2-3 years ago.
A Rome court deemed illegal (sent. 01/04/2026, n. 4993) some Netflix continuous price increases since 2017 and instructed to make reimbursements up to 500 euros per user.
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Netflix, per il tribunale illegittimi gli aumenti dal 2017 al 2024. Ora rimborsi fino a 500 euro
Un cliente premium che abbia pagato ininterrottamente dal 2017 ad oggi ha diritto alla restituzione di circa 500 euro, mentre un cliente standard alla restituzione di circa 250 euro
"…
Nein, liebe Spammer/Scammer/Phisher oder was auch immer ihr seid: *So* überzeugt ihr mich nicht. Weniger wäre mehr …
https://dnip.ch/2024/04/24/wie-viel-swissness-und-bitcoin-steckt-in-swissbitcoin-etf-betrug-erkennung/
@… I have found some forum posts that confirm the above. EagleFiler 1.x requires Rosetta 2.
I also read that a 2.0 version is in the works since late 2024. No further updates since though.
2024-25 COVID vaccine 80% effective against death, CDC estimates:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/2024-25-covid-vaccine-80-effective-against-death-cdc-estimates
Liveübertragung: Donnerstag, 26. Februar, 15.05 Uhr
Der #Bundestag berät ein Gesetz zum Schutz von #Journalisten und anderen öffentlich tätigen Personen vor missbräuchlichen #SLAPP Klagen. …
Boye Mafe to help fill void in Bengals' post-Trey Hendrickson era https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48198524/boye-mafe-help-fill-void-bengals-post-trey-hendrickson-era
"Netherlands hits record electricity production and exports in 2025"
#Netherlands #Energy #Renewables
In The Lechtal Alps (2024)
Previously (same valley):
#MountainMonday
Now the US has chosen an admirer of Putin as president, who subsequently halted aid to Ukraine, Europe stepped up, filling most of the gap.
https://www.kielinstitut.de/publications/news/ukraine-support-after-4-years-of-war-europe-steps-up/…
April 12, 2026 -- By the end of 2024, inflation in the U.S., which had soared in the aftermath ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-12-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260413/p39#a260413p39
Cowboys' 2024 Breakout Star Not Opposed to Return to Dallas https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-2024-breakout-star-not-opposed-return-dallas
Adobe patches a zero-day in Acrobat DC, Reader DC, and Acrobat 2024, which hackers have been actively exploiting for at least four months (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/adobe-fixes-pdf-zero-day-sec…
Roku reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $1.39B, vs. $1.35B est., and an $80.5M net income, vs. a $35.5M loss in Q4 2024; ROKU jumps 9% after hours (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/business/roku-earnings-q4-2025/
BPOLD-H: Bilanz der vorübergehend wiedereingeführten Binnengrenzkontrollen an der deutsch - niederländischen Grenze in Niedersachsen im Zeitraum vom 16.09.2024 bis einschließlich zum 28.02.2026 Hannover / Bad Bentheim (ots) - Seit dem 16. September 2024 kontrolliert die Bundespolizei in ganz Deutschland den grenzüberschreitenden Verkehr mit vorübergehend wiedereingeführten Binnengrenzkontrollen. Für Reisende zwischen Niedersachsen und ...
Kuba Suder's blog:
How Bluesky works,
What works well and what doesn’t,
And also, what’s likely coming next.
https://mackuba.eu/2024/02/21/bluesky-guide/
Microsoft raises prices for Surface PCs, with Laptop 7 and Pro 11 now $500 more expensive than at their 2024 launch, citing higher memory and component costs (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/s…
I had to stop at a friend's house on Saturday to pick something up. I saw a large pothole in front of their place, took a few minutes to snap a photo and report it to the city, and... it just got filled in.
Reported on Saturday, fixed on Monday.
I don't know how to convince more people to do this.
https://
NFL Draft prospect Rueben Bain Jr. involved in fatal car accident in 2024, per report
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-draft-prospect-rueben-bain-jr-fatal-car-accident/
The EU approves UMG's $775M acquisition of Downtown Music, a deal UMG expects to complete in the coming weeks after announcing it in December 2024 (Edith Hancock/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/m…
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
Sygaldry, which wants to design AI data center servers that integrate quantum hardware and classical chips, raised a $34M seed and a $105M Series A (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/04/14/exclusive-chad-rig…
Report: Cowboys watch former third-round WR leave for Miami https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/03/13/cowboys-wr-jalen-tolbert-signing-dolphins/89139595007/
Robotik-Start-up entwickelt Universal-Industrieroboter in unter zwei Jahren
Noble Machines wurde erst 2024 gegründet. Doch ihr erster Industrieroboter ist schon bereit für seinen Einsatz.
https:/…
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
Paris-based digital health insurance startup Alan raised €100M led by Index Ventures at a €5B valuation, up from €4B after raising €173M in September 2024 (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/health-insurance-startup-alan-reaches-e5b…
From No. 3 picks to Super Bowl LX: Redrafting the 2018 and 2024 top 10 as Sam Darnold, Drake Maye face off
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-redraft-2018-2024-sam-darnol…
Beneath Democrats’ near-universal opposition to what they call the president’s “war of choice”
are simmering tensions about the way America should engage with the world,
especially when it comes to the Middle East.
Since losing to Trump and his America First agenda in 2024,
which promised not to start new wars, leading progressives have urged Democrats to reclaim the “anti-war” mantle.
“Voters, especially young people and working families, are exhausted by ‘for…
Disney agrees to pay $2.75M to settle California AG Rob Bonta's 2024 lawsuit alleging Disney violated CCPA by failing to honor consumers' data opt-out requests (Alyssa Ray/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/publ
Cowboys Linebacker Delivers Powerful Response to Controversial Video https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-linebacker-delivers-powerful-response-to-controversial-video/
Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten vor 2018 durch Registrierungsdatum ersetzt. Sonderregelungen nach
Man pleads guilty in athlete home burglaries case https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/48104437/man-pleads-guilty-2024-athlete-home-burglaries-case
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Neil Diamond:
🎵 Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed So Good)
#NeilDiamond
https://sonnenwellen.bandcamp.com/track/neil-diamond-sweet-caroline-geh-haim-illegal-2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/62AuGbAkt8Ox2IrFFb8GKV
Roku reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $1.39B, vs. $1.35B est., and an $80.5M net income, vs. a $35.5M loss in Q4 2024; ROKU jumps 9% after hours (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/business/roku-earnings-q4-2025/
Sources: Binance has fired its employees in late 2025 who uncovered evidence that Iran received $1B through Binance between March 2024 and August 2025 (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/13/binance-investigators-fired-iran-sanctions-potentia…
Coinbase reports Q4 revenue down 22% YoY to $1.78B, vs. $1.84B est., transaction revenue down 37% to $983M, a net loss of $667M, vs. a $1.3B profit in Q4 2024 (André Beganski/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/357925/coinbase-q4-miss-667-million-loss-bitcoin-retreat
Disney agrees to pay $2.75M to settle California AG Rob Bonta's 2024 lawsuit alleging Disney violated CCPA by failing to honor consumers' data opt-out requests (Alyssa Ray/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/publ
EssilorLuxottica says it sold over 7M Meta AI glasses in 2025, up from the 2M that the company sold in 2023 and 2024 combined (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/11/ray-ban-maker-essilorluxottica-triples-sales-of-meta-ai-gla…
Israeli startup Onyx Security, which helps secure and manage AI agents' operational risks, raised a $35M Series A led by Conviction, after a $5M seed in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjmra11x911g
Crypto transaction volume linked to suspected human trafficking, largely based in Southeast Asia, hit hundreds of millions of dollars in 2025, up 85% YoY (Chainalysis)
https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/crypto-human-trafficking-2026/
Source: the 2024 cyber-attack by the Scattered Spider group on Transport For London resulted in the theft of personal data of ~10M people (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz0ggkr2g77o
Spotify says artists from 75 countries made $500K in royalties in 2025, up from 66 in 2024; ~50% of an average artist's streams came from outside their country (Ethan Millman/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/mu…
Sources: General Catalyst is in talks with investors to raise about $10B; it raised $8B in capital in 2024 and had more than $40B in AUM as of last summer (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
KPMG citing PitchBook data: UK fintech investment totaled almost $11B in 2025 across 418 deals, down from ~$13.4B in 2024 across 527 deals; Revolut raised $4B (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
Translucent, a health care finance startup that helps hospitals improve cash management, raised a $27M Series A led by GV, after a $7M seed in August 2024 (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/11/exclusive-…
Google closes its acquisition of Israeli cybersecurity company Wiz for $32B, marking Google's biggest acquisition ever; Google initially approached Wiz in 2024 (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/google-completes-32b-acquisition-of-wiz…