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"Experts urge rethink on renewable energy and its hidden environmental impact"
#Renewables #Energy #Environment

Experts urge rethink on renewable energy and its environmental impact
Renewable energy has become a key part of the global energy transition, presenting itself as the clean alternative to fossil fuels. But green or renewable does not mean zero impact. Let's take a look at the fine print.

It doesn't take much to create a #fedi alternative to #Linkedin. We just need structured profiles (featuring experience and education) and posts (that let people know if they could still apply or position is taken).

Zimní pneu – Nahšč
#alternative

Newsletter service Ghost says publishers have earned $100M on it, its annual revenue is $8.5M , it now supports ActivityPub, and is upping new member pricing (Neel Dhanesha/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/ghost-makes-it-easier-to-publish-t…

Document: Xiaohongshu, a TikTok alternative known in the US as Rednote, has surged to a $26B valuation based on recent market transactions via a GSR fund (Echo Wong/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

It won't be an easy path. I think maybe they should consider merger with the Greens and an electoral alliance with PC. Maybe later
MP Zarah Sultana resigns from Labour to co-found a new party with Corbyn | Jeremy Corbyn | The Guardian
https://www.…

Was ist denn beim Spiegel Online kaputt?
https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/fedora-asahi-remix-alltagstaugliches-linux-fuer-macos-nutzer-a-769f47bd-6740-4254-9c9f-cba36550ceb6

Fedora Asahi Remix statt macOS: Ein alltagstaugliches Linux für neue Macs
Auch Macs mit Apple-Chips können zu Linux-Rechnern werden. Wir zeigen, wie Sie das alternative Betriebssystem Fedora Asahi Remix neben macOS installieren.

Und hier ein Witz für Insider:
Auf der suche nach Algiziden für den Pool bin ich auf diese nette Anzeige gestossen
https://www.ebay.de/itm/353135307648?
Da wird einen "Altarnative zu scharfer Chemie", die mit sanften Mineralien "hautfreundlich und nicht belastend" &quo…

Pool Mineralien 5 Liter statt Algizid | eBay.de
Statt scharfer Chemie bietet dieses Produkt eine sanfte Alternative, die dein Poolwasser pflegt und gleichzeitig deine Haut mit wertvollen Mineralien verwöhnt. Ideal für alle, die gesund leben und auf natürliche Pflege setzen.

Our meetup was well-attended with two interesting talks:
📋 Sarah Julia Kriesch presented "Docker vs Podman" - a beginner-friendly introduction to container basics and key differences between these tools.
🔧 Philip Laine showcased "Spegel", an OCI Registry Mirror that leverages torrent technology for efficient container image distribution - saving traffic costs and safeguarding against registry outages.
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The new party The Left by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana, despite not even having an official name yet, is currently polling at 15%, and hence even with Labour.
This is an incredible feat and I wish best of luck to the party and its success!

An Alternative MAGA

Good for you Andy Burnham.
"At the weekend the continuity rebels won the backing of Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester. Burnham, who has become increasingly vocal in recent weeks in setting out an alternative, more muscular, soft left alternative to what Keir Starmer is offering, ... he urged Labour MPs to vote down the bill."

Check out and share my latest blog post, “Hijacked Minds and Broken Trust”
https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2025/06/19/hijacked-minds-and-broken-trust/
(btw I blogged this on my iPad, which I’m trying to use more for media creation and sharing)

Da ich wenig Touren mit Fahrrad oder zu Fuß unternehme, ist Komoot und Strava für mich kein Thema. Aber ich habe mitbekommen, dass es da wohl zu einem Verkauf mit folgender Enshittification kam / kommen wird. Und tatsächlich bietet das Fediverse eine Alternative (soweit ich das beurteilen kann): Wanderer https://wanderer.to/welcome

Big drama over Discord warning a no-code platform called BotGhost that it will be kicked off unless it finds a new way to operate, due to a security vulnerability that has now been fixed.
https://update.botghost.com/#tldr-what-s-happening-with-botghost-and-discord…

Discord is Threatening to Shutdown BotGhost: The Enshittification of Discord.
Discord has issued BotGhost with a formal breach warning and given us an ultimatum: find a completely new way to operate without using bot tokens by July 14, 2025, or the platform will be shut down. The catch? That alternative does not exist, and Discord has offered no guidance, no support, and no path forward.

Here folks, we have the AI Ouroboros, nourished only on the Dead Internet Theory. A true Simulacra Net in the wild, pure Ghost Web creation, never intended for human eyes.
Yet here, you may behold the horror yourself.
Article literally had zero alternatives and spoke eloquently(?) on them. 😳😆
#DeadInternet

🤪 🤣
#autor #rechtschreibprüfung #sachbuch

Das war tatsächlich die ERSTE Metal-Band, ohne Modern/Alternative/Core/Post/sonstwas-Zusatz auf dem Leineweber, oder?
Weiter so! 🤘
#Bielefeld #Leinewebermarkt #PlanB

Hexotica | Craft A Self-Reliant AF Alternative Lifestyle With Christine Rice
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/hexotica-craft-a-self-reliant-af-alternative-lifestyle-with-christine-ri…

Health and Human Services head RFK Jr threatens that publicly funded scientists may be stopped from publishing in leading medical journals.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/28/rfk-jr-medical-journals

Ich bin jetzt auch ein Freund von #GNOME und unterstütze mit einem monatlichen Betrag.
Keep up the good work! @…
https://donate.…

Alternative Donations - GNOME
Donate to the GNOME Foundation and make a difference to GNOME

Mixture of Encoders is a vector-native alternative that models both structured and unstructured data in a unified embedding space. Join Filip Makraduli as he introduces the method, demonstrates how it powers natural language search and real-time recommendations, and shares open-source tools and benchmarks for replacing complex hybrid stacks.
Learn more:

Ich bräuchte eine Alternative zu Storymaps, um meine einzige Storymap dort wegzumigrieren: https://storymaps.com/de/stories/2d0cbaa26b774d1ba1f0abb20380f85e
Alle alten Storymaps-Konten müssen auf ArcGIS umgestellt werden, und dann fallen nach einem Mon…

Man stelle sich vor, man würde 30% der Fahrbahnen für Autos dichtmachen. Aber für Autoverkehr gibt es keine Obergrenzen, nur Mindestleistungen und vor allem Geld wie in ein Fass ohne Boden.
https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuertt

Weniger Bahnen, längere Wartezeiten ohne Alternative: Karlsruhe muss wegen Finanzkrise Nahverkehr kürzen
Karlsruhe muss bei den Finanzen hart durchgreifen. Die Verkehrsbetriebe beraten am 23. Juli ein im vergangenen Jahr bekannt gewordenes Sparkonzept. Der Gemeinderat entscheidet im Herbst.

Hi @…
Just wondering if you have looked at the #affinity suite? It is an alternative to Adobe.
Tour de France starts soon.

Eros and filmmaker Aanand L. Rai clash over plans to re-release the Tamil-language version of 2013 Indian film Raanjhanaa with an AI-enabled alternative ending (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/eros-aanand-l-…

Eros-Aanand Rai Dispute Over AI-Altered 'Raanjhanaa' Ending Escalates
Eros International and director Aanand L. Rai clash over AI-altered 'Raanjhanaa' ending, with both sides citing legal rights and creative ethics.

Randomly saw this on HN: "LibRedirect – Redirects popular sites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44344246 − http…

Fast prototyping of thin-film polyimide electrodes for neural interfacing: tantalum metallization as an alternative to noble metals #BCI

The #OpenAI paper by Baker et al, "Monitoring Reasoning Models for Misbehavior and the Risks of Promoting Obfuscation" comes to a troubling conclusion: #LLM s with #reasoning or

Robot Excavation and Manipulation of Geometrically Cohesive Granular Media
Laura Treers, Daniel Soto, Joonha Hwang, Michael A. D. Goodisman, Daniel I. Goldman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19999

Robot Excavation and Manipulation of Geometrically Cohesive Granular Media
Construction throughout history typically assumes that its blueprints and building blocks are pre-determined. However, recent work suggests that alternative approaches can enable new paradigms for structure formation. Aleatory architectures, or those which rely on the properties of their granular building blocks rather than pre-planned design or computation, have thus far relied on human intervention for their creation. We imagine that robotic swarms could be valuable to create such aleatory st…

Listening to the NW England and Wales Green Party hustings and reminded of my recent piece:
"We need to go beyond [policies] with what is sometimes called the 'elevator pitch' – the essential persuasive essence that can be conveyed in a couple of minutes, opening the door for deeper explanation, exploration and experimentation. This is not to dilute the message with a bland 'almost degrowth' label, but to emphasise the need to communicate and persuade effectively.…

Prospects for Degrowth 2025
The first in our series Prospects for Degrowth by Mark H Burton1 These are difficult times indeed, with terrible news on many fronts. What are the prospects for the degrowth alternative as we move …

“Many State Offices are concerned that Starlink proposals may be the lowest bid and alternative proposals may not be within the 15% window for consideration. What this analysis presents is that across many geographic areas Starlink may not be a qualified bidder as it may be unable to attain the required 100/20 Mbps service level (and, in deploying Starlink services, may actually degrade pre-existing users’ services to the point that they no longer receive minimal broadband speeds).”
#Enshitification #StarLink
https://communitynetworks.org/content/new-research-starlink-unlikely-meet-bead-speed-needs-scale

The hilarious talk on SBOMs by Jasmin Mair and Lukas Mika at @… 2025 is now online. Highly recommended as both an intro to SBOMs and as a fantastic example of an alternative approach to giving a conference talk. https://www.

I will admit that I’m a little surprised for not getting any remarks on this. As I was under the impression that many people using Mastodon are listening to podcasts.
The alternative hypothesis is that the choice of podcast app is very strong and not many are using, or even trying, alternatives. https://hachyderm.io/@al3x/114915731025463996

Wen wunderts. Zuerst wurde Senkung der #Stromsteuer auch für private Haushalte versprochen und nun will man davon nichts mehr wissen - während man der Industrie Steuergelder nachwirft.
Erneut Wahlversprechensbetrug.
Die Industrie wusste seit langem, dass sie in alternative Energie investieren muss - aber sie hat es darauf ankommen lassen. Statt zu investieren haben sich die Aktionäre Di…

Es ist ein Drama: #crossborder Tickets bei der Deutschen Bahn zu kaufen.
Nächste Woche muss ich nach Rotterdam. Mit dem Auto 2,5h Fahrzeit. Mit der Bahn kaum zu schaffen!
Trotz mehrfacher Eingabe von Alter UND Geburtsdatum (!) heißt es wiederholt Onlineverkauf nicht möglich! Mir wird alternativ ein Interrailticket angeboten. Nur einzelne Verbindungen sind buchbar, mit Umweg über …

Ooooh, free and open source Substance Designer alternative... Material Maker! I'll have to check this out in more detail at a later date. #FOSS

I don't follow this person (below), any ideas why they'd show up in my home feed?
No hashtags.
cc @…
https://lemmy.ca/post/48073052

Free Nanaimo Bars For Everyone Who Contributes to OSM! - Lemmy.ca
Time to build an alternative to Google Maps due their incidents [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/why-are-provincial-parks-listed-as-state-parks-on-google-maps-1.7466824l]…

@… @… OpenAudible ist auch eine Alternative https://openaudible.org/

Thought I might try jdupes as an alternative to old fashioned fdupes. Then went to the project home page, ignoring the SSL error, and found a bunch of edgelord shit there. J is real mad about people who are trying to be decent. I'll find some other tool.

Blaine Cook, an original Twitter architect is one of the backers of the new Canadian social platform #Gander
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/busi…

Tech leaders ready launch of Canadian social-media platform Gander to buck U.S. dominance
Founders aim to create alternative that addresses content, data sovereignty concerns

Det finnes alternative samfunnsformer hvor mennesker ikke nŸdvendigvis må forvalte livet sitt etter arbeidsmarkedets krav om lŸnn og profitt.
I dagens kapitalisme er det vanlig at arbeidskraft og produksjonsmidler eies av noen få, og at Ÿkonomiske beslutninger ofte tar utgangspunkt i profittmotivet og eksisterende hierarki.
I slike alternative systemer kan mennesker i stŸrre grad selv bestemme over egen arbeidskraft og leve uten å være avhengige av penger som hovednŸdvendighet fo…

He does, does he? I think he may find Scotland has other plans.
#ScotPol
#ColonialExtraction

Now that "Pocket" is shutting down, do you have another "Read It Later" platform / solution you are using?
https://getpocket.com/farewell
I've started using Pinboard for social bookmarks… not exactly the same, but this could be my alternative?

With the 5th #AAS246 presser come the paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07262 (ALMA-JELLY I: High Resolution CO(2-1) Observations of Ongoing Ram Pressure Stripping in NGC 4858 Reveal Asymmetrical Gas Tail Formation and Fallback), the press release https://news.arizona.edu/news/belly-beast-massive-clumps-reveal-star-factories-bygone-era-cosmos (In the belly of the beast: massive clumps reveal star factories from a bygone era of the cosmos) and the papers https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ada8a6 (UNCOVERing the Faint End of the z ∼ 7 [O iii] Luminosity Function with JWST's F410M Medium Bandpass Filter) with the press release https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-uncovers-galaxy-population-driving-cosmic-renovation/ and https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06198 (The "Dark-Matter Dominated" Galaxy Segue 1 Modeled with a Black Hole and no Dark Halo) with the press release https://www.utsa.edu/today/2025/06/story/researchers-offer-alternative-to-dark-matter-model.html

US-DNS-Server wie Google oder Cloudflare speichern unsere Surfhistorie. DNS4EU bringt das Telefonbuch des Internets nach Europa, schützt vor Tracking und bietet verschiedene Filter. Ein Schritt zu mehr Kontrolle über die eigene Privatsphäre. Jörg Schieb stellt die europäische Alternative vor #DNS #Datenschutz

New source, new possibilities: An exploratory study of Bluesky posts referencing scholarly articles
Er-Te Zheng, Xiaorui Jiang, Zhichao Fang, Mike Thelwall
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18840

New source, new possibilities: An exploratory study of Bluesky posts referencing scholarly articles
Amid the migration of academics from X, the social media platform Bluesky has been proposed as a potential alternative. To assess its viability and relevance for science communication, this study presents the first large-scale analysis of scholarly article dissemination on Bluesky, exploring its potential as a new source of social media metrics. We collected and analysed 87,470 Bluesky posts referencing 72,898 scholarly articles from February 2024 to April 2025, integrating metadata from the Op…

Talking about sustainability, has anyone found a good alternative to plastic washup-sponges? I used to buy the coconut coir sponges but found they used to disintegrate almost immediately.
#Sustainability

Schon mal was von ihr gehört, von der durchwachsenen Silphie?
https://www.telepolis.de/features/Silphie-bluehendes-Multitalent-auf-dem-Acker-10397187.html

Silphie – blühendes Multitalent auf dem Acker
Mais dominiert bisher deutsche Äcker, doch Dürreperioden setzen ihm zu. Die Durchwachsene Silphie könnte eine Alternative sein. Doch was macht diese gelb blühende Pflanze so besonders?

Data marketplaces can increase the willingness to share social media data at low prices
Meysam Alizadeh, Fabrizio Gilardi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16618 …

Data marketplaces can increase the willingness to share social media data at low prices
Living in the Post API age, researchers face unprecedented challenges in obtaining social media data, while users are concerned about how big tech companies use their data. Data donation offers a promising alternative, however, its scalability is limited by low participation and high dropout rates. Research suggests that data marketplaces could be a solution, but its realization remains challenging due to theoretical gaps in treating data as an asset. This paper examines whether data marketplac…

Who do I have to buy a giant coffee for so that this crap that’s been around for three million years finally gets fixed? 🤔 🍵 😏
In #PHP, you can use both elseif and else if - except when you use the alternative control structure syntax (: ... endif;), where ONLY elseif works.
Why does it have to be so inconsistent and confusing?
Wouldn’t it be great if PHP just picked one way t…

#Kunstundodergeschichtsschreibung 0.1 #JohnBerger hatte vor allem in den 1970ern versucht, eine alternative Geschichte der #Kunst zu zeigen - als visuelle Ebene der Kommunikation in der Klassengese…

My least favorite work interactions are with customers’ 3rd party “rockstar” consultants. I never know how to respond to certain sorts of queries. Ones where I could answer the question as asked but it really implies a deeper misunderstanding. I feel like I want to write him a treatise on VPNs: what they are and how they work. And Cc his boss (who shares his surname…) to communicate the depth of the problem.
I’m letting my boss handle it. He’s the networking guy anyway…

Just spent an hour trying to get Seafile (simpler alternative to #NextCloud) running in docker. So many failures. Had to create a VM without port conflicts to get it to work in docker. No thanks.

Update on my stance here: I’ve changed my mind after reading way more about #AI. Stopped using #LLM products, cancelled paid subscription to #ChatGPT and am currently exploring smaller, specialized, and open-source alternative language model solutions to keep business functioning where needed (tldr because of client requests for certain types of automation I can’t say goodbye to LMs completely).
Planning to write up how my thinking developed soon.
#technology #artificialintelligence #genAI

duf, an alternative to the classic df command to obtain information about the consumption of your hard disks, but with a nicer interface and even easier and faster to read.
#cli #linux

Boah, jedesmal wenn ich auf #youtube lande, denke ich hinterher, dass die Inhalte dort vorwiegend Dummschwätzer abbilden, die einem auch noch "vorgeschlagen" werden.
Die "alternative-Fakten"-Fraktion hat offensichtlich sehr viel Zeit, stundenlanges dummes und gefährliches Gelaber von sich zu geben. Und nein, das ist nicht harmlos, weil das Gehirn leider einige Schwächen hat,…

Die #AfD ist keine Alternative zu den demokratischen Parteien in Deutschland.
#WehretDenAnfängen

Hippocampal plasticity and navigational skills in blindness https://www.intechopen.com/online-first/1228782 "We discuss how cross-modal plasticity repurposes the visual cortex for navigation, the role of sensory substitution devices in facilitating spatial learning, and behavioral …

Hippocampal Plasticity and Navigational Skills in Blindness

Navigation is a fundamental cognitive ability that relies on the hippocampus, a brain region that is known for its role in spatial representation and memory. In individuals with congenital blindness, the absence of visual input leads to significant neuroplastic adaptations that support alternative navigation strategies. This review examines the structural and functional modifications of the hippocampus in individuals who are blind and explores the broader neural mechanisms underlying…

Au départ, j'avais pensé que d'un point de vue fonctionnel, https://github.com/OriPekelman/alpair était une sorte d'alternative open source Š https://

The Big Circus Project – Iris
#alternative

Interesting that some who replied to my post on tax and GDP growth yesterday missed the point.
The point isn't to debate whether tax -> growth (it might, with a tail wind).
The point is that
1) Growth won't happen like it used to.
2) That is good because GDP growth is ecologically and socially lethal.
3) So our leaders (sic) had better adapt to the new reality and use taxation and other measures to build a better, fairer future.
More here:

Getting Real about the Crises Facing the UK | Stop the Damage! Build a Better Future!
Britain and the rest of the world face a set of almost intractable challenges, ecological (including climate), economic and social. Yet political leaders with few exceptions are failing to propose the actions and policies that could address the scale of this pancrisis. Here though is an alternative initiative, a kind of alternative manifesto with a portfolio of illustrative policies...

The (alternative mix*) grass is growing in the driveway and the rock tracks are solid.
* It’s not grass at all. Mostly native clover, plus poppies and some small flowering grasses. It looks patchy but the stated goal on the bag is for about 75% coverage so that it can grow, flower, seed itself, and then fill in naturally next year. I will add a picture of our side path that we did last year. The clover has indeed filled in nicely and it is staying nice and green with minimal water. You can see it on the left in the very back of the picture. The clover is about 30cm/1ft tall and is full of blooms.
#yardwork #diy #portalberni #alternativegrss #clover #bloomscrolling

Various Artists – HB Parade 2
#acoustic

The need for a unifying left Alternative Economic Strategy,
#AES.
Look, here's a start we made on it last year.
https://gettingreal.org.uk/full-report/ in case you STILL hav…

Full Report | Getting Real about the Crises Facing the UK
Read the full report The pdf version will open in your browser or pdf reader. Or Download the print version Complete wit

I know that anything with aquarium on it costs more, but the aquarium tax for snowflake food is ridiculous. I've been keeping shrimp for less than a year, so maybe other shrimp keepers already know about this cheap alternative to snowflake food, but in case you didn't -
After watching some YT shrimp keeper channels, I've been feeding my neocaridina colony snowflake food a couple of times a week. They like it and I was almost out, so I was looking at the bag and realized it only has one ingredient - soy hulls. I paid $12 for 3 1/2 ounces of snowflake food.
I thought there must be a cheaper source, so I looked online and found soy hull pellets for mushroom cultivation were 10 pounds for $20. The pellets are exactly the same size as the ones in the snowflake food bag, and my colony eats them just as eagerly.
Snowflake food: $3.70 an ounce.
Bulk organic soybean husks: $0.13 an ounce. 28x cheaper.
@… @… @… #aquarium #nanotank #shrimptank #neocaridina

Nonlinear Nonlocal Metasurface for Harmonic Generation and Manipulation
Hooman Barati Sedeh, Yuruo Zheng, Jiaren Tan, Luca Carletti, Danilo Gomes Pires, Anna R. Finkelstein, Maria Antonietta Vicenti, Ivan Kravchenko, Michael Scalora, Natalia M. Litchinitser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06180…

Nonlinear Nonlocal Metasurface for Harmonic Generation and Manipulation
The discovery of second harmonic generation in 1961 marked the birth of nonlinear optics, unlocking a range of applications from frequency conversion to quantum light generation. Yet, phase matching in bulk nonlinear crystals remains a key bottleneck. Thinning nonlinear media eases this constraint but severely reduces nonlinear efficiency due to limited interaction length. Photonic metasurfaces, planar arrays of subwavelength meta atoms, offer a compelling alternative by supporting resonant mod…

"Reefs made from human ashes could revive British seabeds, says startup"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Oceans #Environment

Organic Crystal Active Waveguide as an All-Angle Signal Receiver and Transmission Platform for Visible Light Communication
Ankur Khapre, Jyotisman Hazarika, Rajadurai Chandrasekar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04874

Organic Crystal Active Waveguide as an All-Angle Signal Receiver and Transmission Platform for Visible Light Communication
Organic crystal waveguides, known for excellent light-guiding and photonic versatility, present a promising alternative to conventional optical media in visible light communication (VLC) systems. In a novel approach, the high photoluminescence quantum yield organic crystal 2,2dash-((1E,1Edash)-hydrazine-1,2-diylidenebis(methaneylylidene))diphenol (SAA) is used as an optical waveguide medium for real-time data communication in the visible range, employing a microcontroller unit with on off keyin…

Spread the word Canada and #Fediverse citizens everywhere! One of Trump's power grabs is through social media and big tech. The best way to take that power away is to take away power from the likes of Meta, Google and Apple who have far too much control and far too little social responsibility.
The Fediverse is the antidote to some of this. Talk to your MLA, MP, Representative, local politicians, and media. Get them talking about the alternative to platforms run by multinational corporations and foreign entities
#Mastodon #BCPoli #BC
https://socialbc.ca/@chris/114835376077242544