Tootfinder

Turns out the Azure Agent for Linux has been costing me $50/month in Azure disk usage. Graph from before and after me uninstalling it.
It's a DNS server. The whole zone file is <<10KB. 50 GB read and 25 GB write per day.
#Azure
#Billing

I just can’t agree with this. I mean…yes, I feel for the guy. I’ve never been in his position. I don’t know what kind of pressure he was under.
What I •do• know is that if you publicly, eagerly capitulate to fascists, whatever reasons you might have for that, you accept the consequences of that choice. Collaborators who capitulated out of self-preservation instead of belief are still collaborators.
https://mastodon.social/@Sgns/116441133941793969

OpenAI agrees to acquire Astral, which makes Python tools for developers, to integrate its team into Codex, and says Codex has 2M users, up 3x since January (Agnee Ghosh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Everything we’re learning now strongly suggests that Donald Trump’s war is about to get worse.
♦️First, officials leaked word to The Washington Post that the Pentagon and the White House are likely to
💥demand $200 billion more from Congress.
Trump sort of confirmed this in remarks to reporters while adding some unsettling threats of unspecified additional military action.
♦️Second, sources told Reuters that Trump is considering the deployment of thousands of troops…

Trump War Takes Darker Turn as Leaked Plans Unnerve Experts: “Madness”
In an interview, Congressman Adam Smith, the top Armed Services Democrat, sharply condemns the newly leaked war schemes—and tells us that Dems must not agree to one more dime in war funding.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ChoralEvensong
Heathcote Statham, Jeremiah Clarke, Herbert Howells, Robert Walker, Katherine Dienes, Asher Oliver, George Martin, Guildford Cathedral Choir & Katherine Dienes:
🎵 Psalm 78
https://open.spotify.com/track/7s2n3zugxmq7O8YydTbT4f

@… I think you’re probably right, though the article makes no mention of the women’s team 😬
edit: this article seems to agree with that assumption too

from my link log —
The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do.
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-one-science-reform-we-can-all
saved 2026-03-04

The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do
OR: the long overdue forest fire

Can we just smash all the computers already, just like the dune books?
2025 Was The Year of No Return For The Internet
https://youtube.com/watch?v=aECSgXr5-hY

"Banks accused of failing to tackle methane emissions"
#Banks #Finance #Methane #Climate

Indian edtech startup upGrad plans to acquire rival Unacademy in an all-stock deal; Unacademy was valued at less than $500M in 2025, down from $3.5B in 2021 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/unac

Unacademy to be acquired by upGrad in share-swap deal as India’s edtech sector consolidates | TechCrunch
The deal comes after Unacademy’s valuation plunged from $3.5B to under $500M, as India’s once-booming edtech sector struggles.