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Notes on contributing to WebExtensions in WebKit: https://dotproto.com/2026/01/26/notes-on-contributing-to-webextensions.html

Domain Name Stat: the number of .ai domains has surpassed 1M; data suggests Anguilla, the UK territory managing the domain, made ~$70M in fees in the past year (Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/now-more-on…

There are now more than 1 million “.ai” websites, contributing an estimated $70 million to Anguilla’s government revenue last year
Data from Domain Name Stat reveals that the top-level domain originally assigned to the British Overseas Territory of Anguilla passed the milestone in early January.

To me, Banks is the first prophet of Judith and Octavia's Jihad.
> One of the most important tasks in setting up and running a stable and internally content civilisation is finding an acceptable balance between the desire for freedom of choice in one's actions (and the freedom from mortal fear in one's life) and the need to feel that even in a society so self-correctingly Utopian one is still contributing something.
A Few Notes on the Culture, by Iain M Banks

The United Nations General Assembly has voted to recognise the enslavement of Africans during the transatlantic slave trade as
"the gravest crime against humanity",
a move advocates hope will pave the way for healing and justice.
The resolution - proposed by Ghana - called for this designation, while also urging UN member states to consider apologising for the slave trade and contributing to a reparations fund.
It does not mention a specific amount of money…

UN votes to recognise enslavement of Africans as 'gravest crime against humanity'
The landmark resolution calls for an apology and contributions to a reparations fund, without specifying an amount.

Many subprime toots were packaged into Mastodon-backed shitposts (MBS) and ultimately defaulted, contributing to the 2026 Fediverse crisis

"Greenland Seaweed Carbon Storage Pathways Extend Hundreds of Kilometers Offshore"
#Greenland #Oceans #Environment

Greenland Seaweed Carbon Storage Pathways Extend Hundreds of Kilometers Offshore | Happy Eco News
Greenland seaweed carbon storage pathways reveal how floating macroalgae travel hundreds of kilometers offshore and sink to deep ocean layers, contributing to natural carbon cycling.

🧪 The Ozone Success Story With a Complicated Ending
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Ozone-Success-Story-With-a-Complicated-Ending.html

The Ozone Success Story With a Complicated Ending
Efforts to replace ozone-depleting CFCs have led to successive generations of refrigerants that may be contributing to the global buildup of toxic trifluoroacetic acid, raising new environmental and health concerns.

"Some are proud because they made a lot of money while cutting down a forest. Others are proud because they are planting trees that will produce the oxygen breathed by their grandchildren. What if success was not privatizing resources but instead contributing to the commons, to make it each day better, richer, stronger?" — @…
Why there’s no European Google?…

Why there’s no European Google?
Why there’s no European Google? par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

🎯 Schema-based input validation via Protobuf strict typing mitigates injection attacks & rejects malformed inputs at serialization layer
📋 Google Cloud contributing gRPC transport package to MCP SDKs - community-backed consistent interoperable deployment for gRPC practitioners
🏢 Spotify already using experimental MCP over gRPC internally - benefits include ease of use, developer familiarity & reduced work building MCP servers

Ben Adams contributing io_hiring support for .NET:
https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/pull/124374
@…

Use io_uring for sockets on Linux by benaadams · Pull Request #124374 · dotnet/runtime
Resolves #753 Summary This PR adds a complete (opt-in), production-grade io_uring socket I/O engine to .NET's System.Net.Sockets layer. When enabled via DOTNET_SYSTEM_NET_SOCKETS_IO_URING=1 on ...

<https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#style> mentions the one-sentence-per-line rule for manual pages, however:
a) there's no such rule in mdoc(7) <

Series C, Episode 08 - Rumours of Death
[Liberator. Teleport bay.]
TARRANT: [V.O.] You can tell Avon the new orbit is now confirmed and steady. Green on all systems.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/308/364 B7B5

2026 NFL Draft: Which colleges are supplying the most premium talent in this prospect crop? https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-nfl-draft-which-colleges-are-supplying-the-most-premium-talent-in-this-prospect-crop

Hat tip to Cascadia Journal
Parksville, BC
Entrepreneurs who come from a long line of commercial fishers are capitalizing on an ocean harvest that has nothing to do with catching fish.
Kelp is presenting growing possibilities on international markets, contributing a valuable, self-regenerating ingredient to agriculture, food products and even the skin care industry.

Under <https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#github-pull-requests>:
"… the normal FreeBSD review and development process (described below) instead. …"
I can't see the description.
(I…

The most frustrating part of contributing to software #documentation is when the reviewer does not understand the improvement and asks for elaboration a dozen times and you keep explaining it over and over again. 🧘
And then states that they are lacking resources for reviews, but still find the time to meticulously explain how they do not see a benefit and thus hold back.

Joe was one of those early bloggers who was at every opening and event, but was never an "influencer" https://sfist.com/2026/03/13/joe-kukura-lover-of-san-francisco-longtime-voice-on-sfist-dies-at-55/

Joe Kukura, Lover of San Francisco and Longtime Voice on SFist, Dies at 55
It is a sad day here at SFist as we mourn the loss of one of our own — and this is a first for a website that has been in existence 22 years. Joe Kukura, who began contributing to the site in its earliest days and became its associate editor in the last decade, has died at age 55.

Ethnic cleansing about to happen.
“Springfield [OH] and Clark County are coming back…It’s an upward movement. Part of that upward movement comes about because, frankly, of Haitians who are working and contributing to the economy and…and doing all the things that working people (do)…it is not in the best interest of Ohio, for these individuals who are workers and working to lose that status.” Ohio Governor DeWine as quoted by Timothy Snyder

Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio?
Nazi Lies in Vance's America

Ampere expects global sports streaming spend to hit $14.2B in 2026, with Prime Video contributing 27%, DAZN 22%, YouTube TV 14%, Paramount 8%, and Netflix 5% (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/prime-video-top-streaming-sports-righ…

Prime Video Set To Replace DAZN As Biggest Sports Rights Spender In Streaming – Ampere
Prime Video is set to replace DAZN as streaming's largest investor in sports rights, according to Ampere Analysis.

<https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/625dc44832cd760be3d7242d8e21a530c7e32bfc/CONTRIBUTING.md?plain=1#L86> now using
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no longer requires
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So … I have been busy contributing to this
tldr: real-time #telegram archive of the Russian War against Ukraine.
It’s 100% built with Claude Code in a bit more than 2 months
it’s near 200.000 lines of #python code, without counting with documentation of course.
check it out !

Sad to hear that Andy Drinkwater passed away before Christmas.
Top tier SEO who I met several times and was an inspiration to myself and many others.
https://www.seroundtable.com/andy-drinkwater-rip-40675.html

Urban Texture 🧩
城市质地 🧩
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Contributions to FreeBSD: LLMs and AI
From <https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#when-not-to-use-a-pull-request> for the src tree:
＂Do not submit a pull request for … changes generated by AI t…

Just saw someone on a YouTube video referring to the "Road Tax" in the UK.
There's no road tax - as in a tax that's specifically used to maintain UK highways - roads are maintained from general taxes.
It's a long-running anti-cyclist canard that cyclists use roads without contributing. The Conservatives promised - in 2018 - to make this real by ring-fencing Vehicle Excise Duty, but then quietly dropped this.
It doesn't help that AI assistants will …

@… I think so many people switched to distributed VCS that enthusiasm for contributing to SVN also dried up. Same reason for many SVN tools being sunset and integrations lacking.
So despite having years to catch up, there's no velocity to get there. The biggest new feature I've seen is shelving, but it's still experimental.

"Environmentalist hugs tree for 72 hours for Kenya’s native forests"
#Kenya #Environment

Environmentalist hugs tree for 72 hours for Kenya’s native forests
A Kenyan environmentalist hugged a palm tree for 72 straight hours in Nyeri county to draw attention to the rapid loss of the country’s native forests, many of which face extinction. Truphena Muthoni’s feat, reported by Mongabay contributing editor Lynet Otieno, is in the process of being considered for a new Guinness World Record. It […]

HeatMat: Simulation of City Material Impact on Urban Heat Island Effect
Marie Reinbigler, Romain Rouffet, Peter Naylor, Mikolaj Czerkawski, Nikolaos Dionelis, Elisabeth Brunet, Catalin Fetita, Rosalie Martin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22796 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.22796 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.22796
arXiv:2601.22796v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, defined as a significant increase in temperature in urban environments compared to surrounding areas, is difficult to study in real cities using sensor data (satellites or in-situ stations) due to their coarse spatial and temporal resolution. Among the factors contributing to this effect are the properties of urban materials, which differ from those in rural areas. To analyze their individual impact and to test new material configurations, a high-resolution simulation at the city scale is required. Estimating the current materials used in a city, including those on building facades, is also challenging. We propose HeatMat, an approach to analyze at high resolution the individual impact of urban materials on the UHI effect in a real city, relying only on open data. We estimate building materials using street-view images and a pre-trained vision-language model (VLM) to supplement existing OpenStreetMap data, which describes the 2D geometry and features of buildings. We further encode this information into a set of 2D maps that represent the city's vertical structure and material characteristics. These maps serve as inputs for our 2.5D simulator, which models coupled heat transfers and enables random-access surface temperature estimation at multiple resolutions, reaching an x20 speedup compared to an equivalent simulation in 3D.
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Different Corners III ▶️
不同的角落 III ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

@… for convenience, and anchored:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/blob/main/CONT…

"Germany, France, Netherlands curtail 3.9 TWh of renewables in 2025"
#Germany #France #Netherlands #Energy

Germany, France, Netherlands curtail 3.9 TWh of renewables in 2025
Analysis by energy advisory service Montel finds Germany, France and the Netherlands all saw record levels of renewables curtailment last year, with the build out of solar in each market contributing to midday generation peaks and consequential price cannibalization.

"Australian rooftop solar reaches record 4,407 MW output in Q4 2025"
#Australia #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Australian rooftop solar reaches record 4,407 MW output in Q4 2025
Rooftop solar generation reached 4,407 MW in Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM) in the fourth quarter of 2025, contributing to peak renewable supply of 78.6% and reducing daytime operational demand.

"Cleaner air is (inadvertently) harming the Great Barrier Reef"
#GreatBarrierReef #Coral #CoralReef #Environment

Cleaner air is (inadvertently) harming the Great Barrier Reef
Air pollution is now recognized as one of the greatest threats to human health, contributing to an estimated 4.2 million premature deaths in 2019, according to the World Health Organization.