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"Green tram tracks cut heat and beautify cities. Why isn’t Australia doing it?"
#Australia #PublicTransport

Green tram tracks cut heat and beautify cities. Why isn’t Australia doing it?
Planting grass or succulents along tram tracks can cool streets, cut pollution and make cities feel more beautiful.

2025: AI is cheaper than a human worker! It will help your business cut costs!
2026: if each one of your developers isn't also paying a full senior developer salary to an LLM, you are a fool and a child. AI writes 70% of our code which also happens to be our service uptime ratio.

48 hour film festival's AI rule. I think it says a lot as to what is and isn't allowed. Some of it might just be pragmatic, but some of it may also reflect values of what is considered central and what more peripheral?

ICYMI, I have issues with Google’s Modern Web Guidance (MWG).
While it can help make less awful LLM vibe-coded output, the code is still rife with errors — but more subtle and requiring greater skill to evaluate.
It makes no promises while making promises.
https://adrianro…

Maybe Don’t Rely on Google’s “Modern Web Guidance”
Just in time for Google I/O, the Chrome for Developers site announced Modern Web Guidance (MWG): Modern Web Guidance is a set of evergreen and expert-vetted skills that guide your AI coding agents across many common use cases to build modern web experiences that are accessible, performant, and secure. Build…

It has been zero days since a piece of software prompted me to “Please enter a valid last name”
Bitch, my name is valid. Your shitty code isn’t.

RE: https://toot.cat/@plexus/116283016837715719
It should also be noted that beyond the ethical, political and environmental issues with this is that it doesn't work:
1. There is on average no mid to long term productivity gain with actual real-world software development that isn't just a "wow see what it can do" demo. (Multiple studies have shown that now.)
2. It won't help with 90% of the work when professionally making software, which, believe it or not, isn't coding. 90% of the work is designing and planning the software (these are things that happen both upfront and during development).
Maybe you have seen the recent Microsoft thing rolling back features in Windows they added?
E.g. Copilot in Notepad. What they did is essentially outsourcing project management to developers who then outsourced it to LLMs. But an LLMs can't plan and design software, and arguably barely can even generate code that works (as in reliable and performant). So now they have a buggy mess with features no one wants and they're rolling it back.
There's no silver bullets in software development.

Roku launches its first major homescreen overhaul in over a decade, including a large "marquee" ad spot to tout apps or shows, in a bid to drive more engagement (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne…

Roku Is Revamping Its Homescreen for the First Time in Over a Decade
Don't worry, Roku City isn't going anywhere. In fact, it's going interactive. But there will be more personalization and a more prominent ad unit, too.

Roku launches its first major homescreen overhaul in over a decade, including a large "marquee" ad spot to tout apps or shows, in a bid to drive more engagement (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne…

Roku Is Revamping Its Homescreen for the First Time in Over a Decade
Don't worry, Roku City isn't going anywhere. In fact, it's going interactive. But there will be more personalization and a more prominent ad unit, too.

“Rapid change isn’t just occurring in #Ukraine. Other developments across the western alliance show that European nations are working with shocking speed to free themselves from dependence on America. […]
"Our allies are increasing their #defense budgets and decreasing their dependence on American

Opinion | Ukraine Has Picked Up the Torch America Dropped
The world is looking to Volodymyr Zelensky for leadership.

Polymarket is making it harder to use VPNs to access its service, blocking some IPs and suspicious accounts, and is asking some customers to identify themselves (Michael Roddan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/polymarket…

Polymarket Wants Traders to ID Themselves as It Faces Sanctions, Legal Risks
In Russia, making bets on Polymarket isn’t permitted by the popular online prediction market’s rules. But that hasn’t stopped Ruslan Kashaev, a software developer who lives in the small Russian city of Ufa, a 15-hour drive from Moscow, from turning the site into a lucrative source of income. ...