@gwire@mastodon.social2026-02-17 10:09:45
How is government still spending tens-of-millions on software development with nothing to show for it?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/17/uk-frictionless-post-brexit-trade-border-project
@gwire@mastodon.social2026-02-17 10:09:45
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-02-13 09:42:03
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
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-03-09 17:56:39
UK's AI drive, touted since 2024 and featuring splashy NScale and CoreWeave deals, to build datacenters is riddled with phantom investments and shaky accounting (Aisha Down/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-01-09 06:36:41
TFW you notice that your Synology-local-backup to cloud-backup hasn't been working since you moved in October 2024 because you’d stupidly hardwired the Synology DNS to the former residence’s now-wrong 192.168. Would have been sad if the house burned down. Would have been nice if the Synology had complained.
Discovered this in the course of a search for a non-US (ideally Canadian) Synology-friendly cloud backup. Promising: eazyBackup and ionos.ca HiDrive.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-02-10 09:32:52
"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…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-01-09 12:51:02
Filings: X's UK revenue fell 58.3% YoY from £69.1M in 2023 to £28.9M in 2024; pre-tax profits fell from £2.2M in 2023 to £767,000 in 2024 (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-03-09 19:20:56
Niedersachsens #Kommunen profitieren vom neuen #Beteiligungsgesetz zur #Windkraft.
Betreiber zahlen 0,2 Cent pro Kilowattstunde an die Gemeinden. Allein durch 2024 genehmigte Anlage…
@publicvoit@graz.social2026-03-12 18:03:55
Berlin 😍
I can relate when #socialmedia is a synonym with the #megacorp #algorithms (because the general public doesn't know about healthy alternatives
@bthalpin@mastodon.social2026-01-08 09:21:06
Total Cohort Fertility Rate and Total Period Fertility Rate for Ireland, using birth data up to end 2024. Consistent downward trend in both, the relative pause in the middle of the TPFR decline is associated with large net in-migration (including of young women) during the Celtic Tiger.
#mastodaoine
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-06 20:49:11
The Trump White House is changing the rules of our political system
through intimidation,
the distortion of information,
financial corruption,
and the dismantling of government offices.
In the final episode of this season, we examine whether the administration is also trying to change the rules of our elections.
Dawn Baldwin Gibson, a North Carolina pastor, tells us about how, in 2024,
her vote was challenged for reasons that still aren’t clear to …
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2026-02-07 22:11:01
Last Wednesday, the village of Grazalema (southern Spain, 900 m altitude) received 577 mm of rain in one day: the second highest ever recorded in Spain, only behind the deadly downpour in the Valencia region of 29 October 2024. https://malagaldia.es/2026/0…
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2026-02-10 19:09:26
RE: https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/115882407207303960
Good reads:
― the 2024 blog post
― the 2026 discussion in Lobsters.
Incidentally, I did stop using Discord. No regrets.
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-03-09 22:48:31
Linebacker Nakobe Dean agrees to three-year deal with Raiders https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7102874/2026/03/09/nakobe-dean-raiders-nfl-free-agency-2026/
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-03-06 18:51:28
Patriots re-signing backup QB Tommy DeVito to 2-year deal: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7094254/2026/03/06/tommy-devito-patriots-nfl-free-agency-2026/
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-03-08 05:35:04
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
The Gits:
🎵 Whirlwind
#TheGits
https://thegits.bandcamp.com/track/whirlwind-2024-remaster
@johnm@social.tchncs.de2026-01-13 09:08:40
Apple bestätigt: Google Gemini wird neue Siri! Was das bedeutet
#Apple
@avalon@jazztodon.com2026-01-09 22:34:57
#MarshallAllen interview (2024):
“the space age is here to stay,
there’s no place you can run away.
Run to the rock to hide your face,
rock cried out ‘no hiding place.’
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-03-06 09:25:47
A look at SpaceX's IPO, reportedly aiming to raise up to $50B at a $1.75T valuation, more than seven times higher than its ~$200B valuation in October 2024 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5bf1fe0c-1593-49b7-aaf1-18e7da9b36ed
@stiefkind@mastodon.social2026-03-05 17:13:43
Schon seit ein paar Wochen bin ich ein Album der Woche schuldig. Weil ich wegen anderer Dinge nicht so richtig Zeit fand zum bewussten Musikhören, rotierte »Really Good Terrible Things« von North Sea Echos (erschienen 2024) hier mehrere Wochen im Player. Alder/Matheos (früher Fates Warning) machen mal wieder ein eigenes Ding, sie haben sich dieses Mal aber der ruhigen Töne gewidmet. Mir zu langweilig. #rocknroll
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-02-06 05:11:07
SiriusXM reported Q4 net income of $99M vs. $287M a year ago, rev. of $2.19B vs. $2.17B est., and "robust" guidance including an in-car audio focus; SIRI up 9% (Adam Jacobson/Radio & Television Business Report)
https://rbr.com/sirius-xm-shares-soar-on-earnings-st…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-03-08 05:06:02
👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“.
Eine Umfrage hat diesen Glauben in der deutschen Bevölkerung erst 2025 wieder gezeigt. Schauen wir uns die Kosten an. Wie schneiden
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2025-12-25 03:23:04
Crows in the Cemetery on a Hot June Afternoon (2024-06) - Corvids chatting in a green space between a suburban recycling centre and a building site under airport flight path #fieldRecording #London #crows
@Dragofix@veganism.social2026-02-24 02:20:19
National survey finds microplastic pollution around Britain's coastline could be double than previously recorded https://phys.org/news/2026-02-national-survey-microplastic-pollution-britain.html
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-02-09 20:46:34
New testing on heading levels past 6:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/05/level-setting-heading-levels.html#Update01
Chromia:
• will make invalid `aria-level` values on `<h#>` level 1 instead of the `<h#>` level, and
• invalid …
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us2025-12-21 06:57:24
With this being the first Raspberry Pi 5 of the cluster, and since those are notorious for running hotter than the Pi 4. Which I did extensive testing on last year: https://blog.wyrihaximus.net/2024/12/building-a-kubernetes-homelab-w…
@publicvoit@graz.social2026-02-13 09:10:39
I added a quote from the #TechOversightProject:
"The documents provide smoking-gun evidence that #Meta, #Google, #Snap
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-01-06 17:18:06
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-03-14 05:06:01
