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Spotify automatically found some copyrighted music in this episode and took it down. I think I have fair use on my side because only a portion of the song was used and it was the topic of the discussion. I need to figure out what to do here because talking about music is the whole basis of this podcast.
#spotify #podcast

Drugs and Rock & Roll's post
Our first episode is up! Please enjoy this discussion about #lithium! #science #Nirvana #podcast #music #chemistry #drugs

Claude Code is good at doing research!
In this case helping find the disposition of 126,000 digitized US Supreme Court dockets (cert denied or full opinion), and then reporting why in a archive.org review (using like a wikipedia discussion).
This took real hand-holding and QA to be sure, but it is super helpful. Looked at court listener, the supreme court site (and the old one via the wayback machine!), the Caselaw Access Project at harvard. So good.

When, in 2024, Chinese scientists reported developing an artificial-intelligence tool to design conotoxins, it raised eyebrows in some quarters.
In an e-mail to a private AI and biotechnology discussion group seen by Nature, a senior US government employee flagged the study as a possible biosecurity risk.
The employee, who asked not to be named because of concerns for their job, felt it was especially concerning that the conotoxin AI is based on an open-source protein language …

AI can design viruses, toxins and other bioweapons. How worried should we be?
Scientists are debating whether to limit biological AI software to ward off threats.

“For an Irish Government Minister, no movement is imaginable unless the Minister experiences an external pressure. Making decisions because the actions might be a good idea doesn't even enter the discussion.”
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the-promise-of-no-change/

The Gist: The Promise of No Change
For every action needed, why is there an equal and opposite inaction? This is the Gist.

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@GlasWolf/116664309465577981
This is an absolutely brilliant discussion. Worth a listen:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@aka_pugs/116840098196799526
i like the part in
PRELIMINARY DISCUSSION OF THE LOGICAL DESIGN OF AN ELECTRONIC COMPUTING INSTRUMENT
(28 june 1946)

Pretty sure here are people interested in the history of NeXT, Inc. On the occasion of the new book "Steve Jobs in Exile: The Untold Story of NeXT and the Remaking of an American Visionary" by Geoffrey Cain, the Computer History Museum published a recent discussion with Geoffrey Cain with some early and central NeXT people. Enjoy: https://www.

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/116672590901693172
@… I'm glad to read about the discussion, but not the vibes…

Interesting discussion of summer camp.
https://slate.com/life/2026/05/parents-summer-camp-monitoring-safety.html

I Run a Summer Camp. I Have One Piece of Advice for Parents Nervous About Sending Their Kids.
Your baby isn't having a bad time. He's transcending.

@… Thought you might be interested in this printer discussion that came up in response to KDE Linux dropping the hplip package/kernel. Apparently there's whole sets of printers still being sold that only work with hplip and don't support ipp?

@… thanks for sparing me the hassle. s6 it is then :P
https://github.com/g-pape/runit/issues/28

Stance on AI · Issue #28 · g-pape/runit
hiya! I'd make this a discussion but that feature is disabled; I was just curious whether this project rejects contributions involving AI? that's all, thank u :)

When the Radiologist Becomes the Expense
On March 25, 2026, at a Crain's New York Business panel discussion of the city's hospital sector, Mitchell H. Katz, MD, president and CEO of NYC Health Hospitals, told the assembled executives what cost-cutting now sounds like in the largest public hospital system in the United States. "We could replace a great deal of radiologists with AI at this moment…

When the Radiologist Becomes the Expense | David Boles, Blogs
On March 25, 2026, at a Crain’s New York Business panel discussion of the city’s hospital sector, Mitchell H. Katz, MD, president and CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals, told the assembled e…

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The Sideline Story: Rugby League Podcast
Take the discussion of Rugby League to another level, delving into the hottest topics from the NRL, Super League, international game, women's game, lower grades, and much more...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/sideli

Yesterday, in our very warm office, an interesting discussion emerged: there was no dedicated taxonomy for evaluating Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) in MISP.
So, we created one called: cti-evaluation
🔗 https://www.misp-project.org/taxonomies.html#_cti_evaluation

Raiders Receive Compelling Take on Free Agent Deebo Samuel https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/compelling-take-free-agent-deebo-samuel/

Someone wrote a viral article claiming that Claude installs Spyware on your computer. The technical observation is real, but the threat is not. I took a closer look, and I would argue that the real issue with the Claude extension is somewhere else entirely, and I've seen little discussion on it: Matt Hand at Origin found that the extension actually allows almost *any* software on your machine to control your browser.
I wrote it up as an example for how threat modeling can be helpfu…

I recalled a G183 discussion on a TPGuy post from a few years ago.
Vispero memory-holed it all when it subsumed TPGuy:
https://vispero.com/resources/well-color-us-surprised-this-sc-can-be-a-tricky-customer/
Thankfully, there’s Way…

Well Color Us Surprised—This SC Can Be a Tricky Customer [Quiz] - Vispero
SC 1.4.1 Use of Color can sometimes be misused as a tool to enforce underlines on links, but it's not quite as simple as that. Do you know when it's a genuine pass/fail?

I love this nerdy #Slidebean discussion into colorspaces (sRGB, HDR10), gamuts, dynamic range, gamma curves, nits, monitors, etc.! 🖥️
https://youtu.be/6hAVA6_Sczs

The most accurate philosophical discussion about LLMs. I only disagree in the point that I don't think embodiment is a prerequisite for consciousness. https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01kv4vtdwrteaxv8e1eghe8dew

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious | annotated by Samuel
"It’s fortunate that LLMs are not conscious," Ted Chiang writes, "or else the actions of the big AI firms would be even more scandalous than they already are."

Over on reddit there's a great discussion on the difference between mosquito larvae and tadpoles. Good to know the difference before dumping contents of a container on the ground to kill them. #mosquitoes #diptera #frogs #karma https://www.reddit.com/r/MosquitoHating/comments/1tseic7/accidentally_started_a_mosquito_farm/

Vielleicht nutzt ihr ja auch RSS Feed Reader – auf jeden Fall bin ich neulich auf RSS Guard gestoßen.
Allerdings sind die Builds unter macOS kaputt. Nachdem ich einen Workaround dafür gefunden und im Issue dafür geteilt habe, hat der Maintainer bei den Beteiligten um Hilfe für die Builds gebeten. Also hab ich mich da mal an einem PR versucht ohne viel Ahnung von Packaging unter macOS zu haben:

Fix and improve macOS builds (#2052) by muellermartin · Pull Request #2214 · martinrotter/rssguard
See discussion in #2052.

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Wouldn't an itinerary tracing various culinary stples be fun? I've often pondered a food-centric tour - either around the Mediterranean, or along a cost of the Mediterranean and then through the Middle East into India. (Working in a semiconductor company, with employees from pretty much everywhere, I remember the intense discussion between an Iraqui, an Indian (Mumbai) and a Korean on the right way to cook rice.)
Tracing one delicious snack around the Mediterranean showed m…

Tracing one delicious snack around the Mediterranean showed me that modern borders are absurd
Migration and cultural exchange have always been the norm between coastal European and African nations. We should celebrate this shared history, says Federico De Blasi, an Italian food writer based in Barcelona

Wouldn't an itinerary tracing various culinary stples be fun? I've often pondered a food-centric tour - either around the Mediterranean, or along a cost of the Mediterranean and then through the Middle East into India. (Working in a semiconductor company, with employees from pretty much everywhere, I remember the intense discussion between an Iraqui, an Indian (Mumbai) and a Korean on the right way to cook rice.)
Tracing one delicious snack around the Mediterranean showed m…

Tracing one delicious snack around the Mediterranean showed me that modern borders are absurd
Migration and cultural exchange have always been the norm between coastal European and African nations. We should celebrate this shared history, says Federico De Blasi, an Italian food writer based in Barcelona

Migrating from #Go to #Rust
https://corrode.dev/learn/migration-guides/go-to-rust/

Audrey Tang @… on 'Software Freedom as Civic Care' and so much more - 'care ethics, democracy, local stewardship and self-governance' https://civic.ai/software-freedom-as-c

Software Freedom as Civic Care
A discussion on how the Free Software movement is foundational to care ethics, democracy, local stewardship and self-governance.

A great 50min sit down discussion with Jon Favreau & Tracy Smith about Star Wars, Marvel, his acting & more.
▶️ Extended interview: Jon Favreau - CBS This Morning
https://youtube.com/watch?v=FT46j6trJXY&si=UecTYz6rxh5VO1v1

Join the May 5 UKSG discussion “Why we all need to #DefendResearch” with Declaration co-authors Alice Meadows and myself, Terri Teleen of Emerald Publishing, and David McMenemy of CILIP! Register here: https://www.

France: "we're going to ban short-haul flights where alternative train routes exist, in order to curb carbon emissions"
Rest of EU: "we'll start a commission to create a panel which will lead to a discussion on.."
US (via #AccidentallyTheEcoPresident): "what if we started a war so disastrous and stupid that it kneecapped ALL sh…

Lufthansa cuts 20,000 flights as Iran war causes jet fuel shortage
The German airline says 20,000 short-haul flights would be removed from its ⁠schedule between now and October.

RE: #AI. In the long run …

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Quick strategy discussion, for those who understand Google indexing and SEO:
If I want to yank a web site out of Google’s now-fully-extractive search, should I (1) disallow googlebot in robots.txt or (2) add `<meta name="googlebot" content="noindex">` to all the page headers?
The goal here is not just to remove my contributions to the commons from Google’s results, but to •make Google aware• that sites are pulling consent. What will best do that?
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Sources: Anthropic is in talks to rent servers powered by Microsoft-designed chips; source: Anthropic has steadily increased its Azure usage since November 2025 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-talks-use-microsofts-ai-chips…

Anthropic Is in Talks to Use Microsoft’s AI Chips
Anthropic is in talks to rent servers powered by Microsoft-designed AI server chips as it seeks more computing power to meet rising demand for its AI, according to two people who spoke to executives involved in the discussion. Winning Anthropic as a customer would be a coup for Microsoft, whose ...

The most tedious discussion of religion is atheists arguing over biblical interpretations, triggered by a silly meme.
#SubToot

Plastic Poisons Primates: One Focus of 2026 American Society of Primatologists Conference https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/blog/2026/6/17/plastic-poisons-primates-one-focus-of-2026-american-s…

Plastic Poisons Primates: One Focus of 2026 American Society of Primatologists Conference
Plastic pollution is among the topics of discussion at the American Society of Primatologist's 2026 Conference.

RE: https://discuss.systems/@activegroupgmbh/116799591020374428
It took many hours of thought and discussion - I'm infinitely grateful to our team at @…

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The longest train journey in the EU.
https://jonworth.eu/the-longest-train-journey-in-the-eu/
saved 2026-04-25 https://

The longest train journey in the EU
Anyone who has been following my work for a while knows I have long had a rather abstract discussion about the definition of the World's Longest Train Journey. I started calculating this back in 2021, after an incorrect map on Reddit went viral, and have updated my thoughts about it

OpenTRV Archive Material and Sources - Archival collection of OpenTRV history, events, links, discussion, and related material. #OpenTRV #heating #cutCarbon -

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every week I wear a different football shirt to the discussion section for my world cup & the politics of football class and I get to start by telling everyone about the shirt I picked for that week. this week class was about race& global football so I'll be wearing Vasco bc of The Historic Response

Playing with CSAF 2.1 CSD02 and GCVE extensions.
https://discourse.ossbase.org/t/csaf-and-gcve-bcp-05-extensions/1093
I think more and more that having GCVE extension on all vulnerability standard format makes much more sense nowadays.

CSAF and GCVE BCP-05/extensions
We had a quick discussion about the use of CSAF in GCVE and especially about BCP-05 (if we stick with CVE record format or going for something more versatile). In order to review, what’s possible, we did a quick extension for CSAF 2.1 CSD available at https://gcve.eu/schema/csaf/extensions/gcve-bcp-05-x-01_1.0.0.json and we tested a conversion of the GCVE enriched CVE dump It’s still in very early stage. We also mention it to the CSAF OASIS TC.

The Speakers
This is a spoken word poem read on top of a vaguely hip-hop backing track posted on the "Twanger Central" section of the guitar-oriented discussion board www.tdpri.com by a player whose screen name is "cminor9." The poem was a morning poem (sometimes I wake up with some lines) that I didn't know what to do with. It fit here. "Speakers" is a synonym for "humans" in this context.

I opened a random online discussion, skimmed the replies, upvoted a uniquely constructive comment. Turns out the author is @…. No wonder.

RE: #Wikipedia Talk …

This (link below) appears to be @…'s (very careful) commentary on the ongoing #BambuLabs #GPL violation row.
It's an interesting read, and …

Dealing with Incomplete Copyleft Source That Doesn't Correspond
Years ago, copyleft violations were often a mere misunderstanding; vendors intended to comply but made mistakes. In those “before times”, a simple request and short discussion often led to the complete, Corresponding Source (“CCS”) for the the distributed binary works (or, in the case of network-service copyleft, the deployed systems).

It has begun 🌀

Discovered a segfault in #FastAPI very strange, does only happen on MacOS with Python 3.14.0 ALPHA
The reason was that I was unaware that I ran an alpha version of Python 3.14.
FastAPI segfaults with Python 3.14.0 on MacOS · fastapi/fastapi · Discussion #15819

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Remembering dear Roman Verostko, who died this month two years ago, aged 94. An highly influential figure, not just for algorithmic art in general, but also for younger me personally, after meeting him during a panel discussion at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and then corresponding for several years after...
Living as a monk and ordained priest in the 1950/60s, he absolutely cherished his limited computer time which he had first access to as student. The more he learned a…

“The vast majority of German political science scholars and the German international relations community have made virtually no analytical contribution to the discussion.
Either they refrained from taking a stance, or they went so far as to use their own academic authority to justify Israeli warfare or to endorse official Israeli perspectives on the conduct of the war. Such justifications were offered without any substantive engagement with the available analyses and documentation of wa…

Hanno Hauenstein on Twitter
Read full article HERE: https://hannohauenstein.substack.com/publish/post/201012022?back=%2Fpublish%2Fposts%2Fscheduled

RE: https://floss.social/@soller/116429029395748738
To those reading the discussion, consider a cold beverage with it. 🥤

Thermals on the VM server seem dramatically improved from the recent upgrades!
The changes made were:
* Swap the existing cheap 2x 120mm case fans with floppy connector and no PWM/monitoring out for Noctuas with a normal 4-wire fan connector
* Add two new 80mm Noctua fans on the back of the chassis, which previously had no fans in that spot but obvious screw holes where they could be added
* Add PCIe slot fan next to the NIC
* Use IPMI commands to force all fans to …

@… refocusing on false assumptions: further discussion might help, but not today.
Not least, because it's way past midnight …

In one of the most extreme anti-speech policies ever imposed at a public university, Texas Tech issued a ban on LGBQT topics
The policy bars professors from discussing LGBTQ topics in core and lower-level courses
and eliminates entire fields of study across the five-university system.
It even requires that if an industry-standard textbook includes content on sexual orientation or gender identity, instructors must skip over it and avoid discussion around it.
Most …

Texas Tech Issues Ban On Students Writing On LGBTQ+ Topics
The ban applies to theses and dissertations, and is expected to begin going into effect on a rolling basis.

@… Ouais… J’ai reconnu certains éléments mentionnés dans le fil, mais l’interprétation est... bizarre. Si j'ai bien compris, la keynote et la discussion étaient en anglais, donc il y avait potentiellement un problème de communication, mais je suis d'accord en ce qui concerne le ton du post…

@… Ouais… J’ai reconnu certains éléments mentionnés dans le fil, mais l’interprétation est... bizarre. Si j'ai bien compris, la keynote et la discussion étaient en anglais, donc il y avait potentiellement un problème de communication, mais je suis d'accord en ce qui concerne le ton du post…

There should be more discussion about the costs of AI related to their actual added value in organisations. It is great to have an enormously capable model like Fable5, but is it worth it, can't we do the same tasks or parts of those tasks with much cheaper models?
https://artificialanalysis.ai/#price

@… the Roave Discord holds a monthly discussion/show and tell/banter. Not sure if Roave itself is on Mastodon /cc @… @…

Beyond Rumi: Sufi Art and Practice - New Smithsonian Online Initiative
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Discussion at parents meeting about mobile phones, screen time and other topics, quite clear that most parents (including me).have no clue what our kids are actually doing on their devices..
Also clear how clueless so many parents are about data privacy, security and online safety.
The black boxification of tech will be our downfall.

To the attendees of #RIPE92 : I suggest a discussion to switch the locations of RIPE93 and RIPE94. Then Sofia would have the unique opportunity to host a RIPESC in May 2027 😁
#ripencc #escwinner

More U.S.-Iran peace deal talks are in discussion, White House says (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/14/trump-iran-war-strait-of-hormuz-negotiations.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260414/p70#a260414p70

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, HUD Secretary Scott Turner have heated discussion over homelessness, Biden
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5878670-gillibrand-hud-turner-testimony/

These days, we often read that the richest person in the world is getting even richer. There is hardly any discussion of the nature of this wealth – namely, that it consists largely of fictitious capital, the capitalization of a claim to wealth to be produced in the future.
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In other words, we as a campus community have an active debate about which debates are even worth having — and we have room to exercise judgement about which voices we as a community choose to amplify.
Amplifying all voices is not a route to free society; it’s a route to total noise. Flooding the zone is just as effective a means of censorship as silencing all opposition. As people trying to foster useful discussion, we have an obligation to choose choose wisely our topics of discussion and the voices we elevate.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116768002223420962
This could also end the discussion about the toot length. 140 characters should be enough for everyone.

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Pushing back on the idea that GenAI is "just another tool" for coding.
This comes up all the time in discussions on its use in open source software. People will fall back on the argument that it's like linters or autocomplete, and all that matters is whether the code passes muster. But it's not. In addition to the ethical issues, GenAI is a fundamentally different kind of "coding tool" and needs to be considered differently.
A comment to that effect in…

Policy on accepting PRs that include LLM generated code? · helix-editor helix · Discussion #15408
Hello! I've just been checking out Helix recently, and I quite enjoy what I've seen so far! It's fast, intuitive, ships a lot of nice defaults, and works well with what I've used it for thus far! I...

CfP: Interreligious and Intercultural Perspectives on Resources and Sacred Boundaries
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I wrote this in a discussion where someone was posting anti-ebike stuff:
“I’m a cyclist who switched to an ebike last year due to health issues. As a bonus it also allowed me to bike to work. I ride as courteously as I did on my acoustic, maybe more so. It’s about the rider, their experience, and the respect they show others, more than it is the bike.”
This seems like it’s shaping up to be a rough summer for responsible ebike riders who read the comments.

Watch Dr. Rick Altice, Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Medicine, discuss the ongoing fight against HIV/AIDS. Moderated by the Rev. Peter D. Thompson '15 M.Div.
https://www.youtube.com/live/yCTtPwW0kSQ?si=dsuUGAeac9fxtdap

CfP, Conference in Innsbruck, 7-8 April 2027: Religion, Meteorology and Climate Anxiety in Late Antiquity
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Last month, I was in Vienna to talk about #Wikipedia and AI (and #Wikidata, #AbstractWikipedia, and the Wikidata Embedding Project). It took me some time, but I have now written down most of my talk…

An under-mentioned aspect of the trump disaster is that it has effectively put a stamp of approval on crime.
If there is discussion - it is almost about fairly major crimes of corruption.
But minor crime has, by my non-scientific assessment, significantly increased.
For example, it seems that illegal email spam (often containing more serious criminal attempts) has enormously increased. Same for scam telephone messages, both oral and textual.

I have finished the outward architecture of #ProFed as a base for discussion. I've used AI to help me put my braindump into a more consistently readable text. be prepared to see a free AI-isms, though it isn't terrible, I think.

Well Played
Conversations on Marketing and Brand is a discussion through the lens of Kate Ware and Esther Kelleher; two career marketers who have seen the industry evolve from the inside since the early 2000's...
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@…
1948/1949 Philips type 520A television and radio - UK Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration Discussion Forum — <https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/showth

CFP (ONLINE SEMINAR / PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITY): Borders and Sustainability: Human, Natural, and Textual Resources — Entangled Histories Seminar Series 2026–2027
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Oh boy. The #Wikipedia article on the Iran war lists “Iranian victory” as the war’s result on the article infobox. (But this is tagged as disputed and there’s a lively discussion on the article’s talk page.)
I’m sure this will not help with the very dim view of Wikipedia already held by conservative, MAGA, and Israel-allied sections in the United States and Israel. 🇮🇷🇮🇱🇺🇸

Here's @… — who is fundamentally a spiritual person — leading a very serious discussion about how we do politics. Worth a listen.
Accidental Gods: Grown Up Politics: A Chance for Change - Round Table with Neal Lawson of Compass and Rupert Read of the Climate Majority Project
Episode webpage:

Some recent discussion on one of the OpenTTD groups led me to reminisce about SimCity, and I wondered what it would take to start playing again.
Read more 👉 #FortMcclellan

Old Memories, New Discoveries, and a Few Reasons to Worry – Bob Mueller
Fort McClellan memories, an Alabama snowstorm, lighthouse libraries, SimCity nostalgia, surveillance concerns, and more.

The best and worst of CA housing policy, on display at UCLA conference - 48 hills
https://48hills.org/2026/04/the-best-and-worst-of-ca-housing-policy-on-display-at-ucla-conference/

The best and worst of CA housing policy, on display at UCLA conference - 48 hills
Some rational discussion based on facts, and some Yimby presentations with no facts

The best and worst of CA housing policy, on display at UCLA conference - 48 hills
https://48hills.org/2026/04/the-best-and-worst-of-ca-housing-policy-on-display-at-ucla-conference/

The best and worst of CA housing policy, on display at UCLA conference - 48 hills
Some rational discussion based on facts, and some Yimby presentations with no facts

Ah... what better way to start a Saturday morning at 5:20am then getting into a discussion of the capitalization of "Internet" on a #Wikipedia Talk page! 🤣
https://en.wik…

Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks to lease a proposed 10GW data center campus in Ohio as part of a deal that could include financial backing from Nvidia (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-t…

OpenAI in Talks to Lease 10 Gigawatt Ohio Data Center with Backing From Nvidia
OpenAI is in advanced negotiations to lease a proposed 10 gigawatt data center campus on federal land in Ohio as part of a deal that could include financial backing from Nvidia, according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions. The campus under discussion would be among the ...

I am having an interesting discussion with my GB grid #FiT administrator about its view on me adding #plugInSolar to my existing #gridTied

On GB/UK Solar PV FiTs and Plug-in Solar (2026-05)
Can you add plug-in solar to an existing system with Feed-in Tariff? #solar #plugInSolar #nanogeneration

@…
"It's completely pointless to even start any discussion about that junk!", shouted the participant who encouraged discussion by adding 170 words of AI-generated text.
<https://forums.fr…

Also a discussion in Denmark right now..
Radiolab: What is a Pig Worth?
And to whom.
Episode webpage: https://radiolab.org/podcast/what-is-a-pig-worth
Media file: https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/14/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dts.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/waaa.wnyc.org/758af4c0-a2c3-47ec-a2d8-05f41bfbde51/episodes/725f7958-636d-482c-a7d2-6aa6deb1dfdd/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=758af4c0-a2c3-47ec-a2d8-05f41bfbde51&awEpisodeId=725f7958-636d-482c-a7d2-6aa6deb1dfdd&feed=EmVW7VGp

In classrooms and public events and private conversations, my campus regularly facilitates discussion (often heated) about the virtues and dangers of capitalism and Marxism and every economic theory you can think of, about human rights and AI and abortion access and data centers and civil wars and genocide and myriad other subjects of •extreme• controversy.
We do not, however, make space for and amplify people who believe the Earth is flat, because that would be a f***ing waste of time.
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A theorem of software engineering: the shortest possible schedule.
https://bertrandmeyer.com/2019/11/01/theorem-software-engineering/
saved 2019-11-02

A theorem of software engineering - Bertrand Meyer's technology+ blog
Some of the folk wisdom going around in software engineering, often cluessly repeated for decades, is just wrong.  It can be particularly damaging when it affects key aspects of software development and is contradicted by solid scientific evidence. The present discussion covers a question that meets both of these conditions: whether it makes sense to ... Read more

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I've started my development log for May. It's really mostly about tooling -- specifically, editors and debuggers.
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RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/116345269637598744
On truthfulness and openness
The quoted post, unedited, linked to a plea, in Reddit, for:
― rational discussion
― no false assumptions.
The pull request in Codeb…