2026-03-22 03:23:06
On UK Central Heating Season (2022) - Home heating dates. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-survey-UK-central-heating-on-off-dates.html
On UK Central Heating Season (2022) - Home heating dates. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-survey-UK-central-heating-on-off-dates.html
Updated my post on `<figcaption>` exposure (https://adrianroselli.com/2025/01/brief-note-on-figure-and-figcaption-support.html#Update01) to reference @…
“You and your fellow settlers are nothing other than common thieves.”
– Dr. Ghada Karmi
#israel
(Note: it’s using the T-Mobile network if that makes a coverage difference for you.)
Also bis jetzt, keine Notizen im Feed. Der Haupt-Feed funktioniert. Hoffentlich bleibt das jetzt beides auch so.
https://rausgerufen.de/note-2026-04-20-1802
The suicide pod now has a built in AI to check any user's wellbeing to see if they're fit to commit suicide. That has to be the easiest peace of software to ever exist, because if anyone trusts an artificial intelligence with their own life, they're certainly not mentally fit and need help.
On a more serious note: the assisted suicide debate is an important one, where I clearly position myself on the side of it's legalization. However, I could only truly support it with a better health…
On the Zoom H1n "Handy" Field Recorder: Review - Finally time to get my own portable audio recorder! - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Zoom-H1n-field-recorder.html
From that observer who was taken yesterday, shared here with permission, because we could all use a good laugh. (Note: Whipple is the fed bldg that’s ICE’s MSP HQ)
❝So here’s my story about returning to the world…
When they let you out of Whipple, they give you back your personal effects (minus your phone). And just send you out the front door with whatever you were wearing when you came in.
So I’m walking out the front door of Whipple, probably looking like an ice agent coming off shift, and pulling all of my random shit out of my bag/dropping it in the snowbank, etc.… And I can hear the protesters at the gate, taunting me… “oh did you drop your phone, you piece of shit?” “You’re TERRIBLE!” “Fucking Nazi!” And I was just loving it, actually. But when I got closer and used my big voice “You assholes are barking up the wrong tree…. These MF’ers just released me!” The crowd went absolutely crazy.❞
Es sieht so aus, als ob der Artemis-II-Start verschoben wird. Die Startfenster im März würden sich damit schließen, aber wenn die Verschiebung bald erfolgt, bleiben die Optionen für April erhalten.
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/0…
"Vienna is turning parking spaces into parks and it’s changing the city"
#Vienna #Environment
Note to self: don't eat the whole bag of licorice at once. You will pay the coming day - pooping away
What do you do when Microsoft Purview retention policies aren't applying, archive mailboxes aren't expanding, or inactive mailboxes aren't getting purged?
✅ #AI‑Powered Troubleshooting for #Microsoft #Purview
How come I never heard about ast-grep before today? On a related note, holy crap, how can it do AST-matches across almost 8000 Java files in half a second? That is sorcery. Definitely adding that to my toolbelt.
On edie Live and Utility Week Live (2017) - "Energy/Sustainabilty/Resource Efficiency" and "The Transformation of Utilities" - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-edie-Live-Utility-Week-Live-2017.html
Please note that I don't care if he personally uses LLMs and for what purpose.
My gripe is with the structure of the article, instead of admitting that these things have problems and explaining why he still chooses to use them he just directly attacks people who have nothing to do with him like some sort of third-rate right-wing podcast host is ranting about "illegals".
The whole vibe is off.
Ars Technica apologizes after publishing an article it says had fabricated quotations generated by an AI tool attributed to a source who did not say them (Ken Fisher/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-re…
On Website Technicals (2020-11) - Tech updates: work storage, Let's Encrypt auto-renew, lazy wins, slow https switch, AMP https only, soft canonical, Apple touch, Apache stop, ad sub. - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-42.html
RE: https://sfba.social/@drahardja/115942046300941923
Note that this is the House, so every one of these people will be up for a primary challenge this year.
Check the list. If you see your Rep, you have your homework.
Ars claiming the AI article that just made up quotes was a one off. Seems legit.
https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/
Maxx Crosby rumor gives Cowboys, Bills, Eagles and Patriots minimum trade price https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/maxx-crosby-rumor-cowboys-bills-eagles-patriots-minimum-trade…
On one hand, "carbon footprint" was made up by oil companies to shift the blame. On the other, commons management benefits from collaboration and social pressure. On that note, I've been thinking about starting a Lemmy community called "carbon challenge" where you can post about crazy things you do to reduce your fossil fuel consumption. For example, we moved apartments entirely by bike (like 10 trips with a bakfiets).
Would you join a community like that?
Maxx Crosby rumor gives Cowboys, Bills, Eagles and Patriots minimum trade price https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/maxx-crosby-rumor-cowboys-bills-eagles-patriots-minimum-trade…
Plus de 13 000 millionnaires ne paient aucun impôt sur le revenu, selon une note inédite de Bercy
https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2026/02/18/ces-13-335-millionnaires-qui-ne-paient-aucun-impot-su…
Note to self: Next time don't be a know-it-all and disable fast boot in Windows on a dual-boot . Windows disks not freaking out anymore. I am not entirely sure if it's related - might be an ASRock hardware/BIOS defect or a compound problem - but the MAC address of the motherboard's wired networking also stopped changing itself (or disappearing completely, which was very alarming).
Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive".
And no one in the media said a thing.
☑️ Musk Endorsed White Nationalism | Religion Dispatches
https://religiondispatches.org/2026/01/09/musk-endorsed-white-nationalism…
An example of how the DOGE fallout is still impacting government agencies. Note how IT is primarily affected despite the supposed move toward automation and modernization, which require IT resources.
IRS looks to shrink office space after losing a quarter of its workforce last year https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2026/02/irs-looks-to-shrink-office-space-after-losing-a-quarter-of-its-workforce-last-year/
last night i dreampt that is was reading one of my posts, but it was all jibberish. i couldn't remember typing any of it, also i noticed, it contained the words "gwenridge recorder" i don't even know what a "gwenridge recorder" is. unfortunately i awoke before i had chance to search it up. i will do it later if i can be bothered. i made a note of it so i don't forget.
A ground operation by the US Marines headed to Iran likely would involve targeting Iran’s enriched uranium stockpiles and deeply buried facilities — to locate, secure or disable nuclear material that cannot be destroyed from the air.
Although Donald Trump said the June 2025 U.S. strikes had "obliterated" key nuclear sites, analysts note that critical elements of Iran’s program
— particularly enriched uranium stockpiles and deeply buried facilities — likely remain intac…
On iButton Temperature Logging Insulation Upgrade (2011 to 2014) - Monitoring temperature in and around a newly-aerogel-drylined bedroom using iButton sensors. #temperature #dataset -
Oh the joys of a mainframe upgrade.
Defining what type of testing is needed and specific test cases to verify that all functionality for the system is available.
Also, a short briefing note for the upcoming board meeting to describe what is being done, why, when, where the backup will be running from, who is doing what portions and how we verify that it all went smoothly.
It should go smoothly (famous last words), but we will verify that the upgrade was completed and comp…
#today my latest 'clever' attempt to finesse how my MacBook Air interacts with my off-grid system didn't really work, though is marginally better than it was before:
https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-…
Standards and Safety: an Overview
Luca Dassa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17173 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.17173 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.17173
arXiv:2602.17173v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This note is intended to provide an overview of the implications of regulations and standards on the safety of mechanical equipment, with a focus on accelerator components. Each research facility has different internal rules and standards which are applicable to specific cases; however, the main reference legal frame in Europe is everywhere based on the applicable European Directives. After a brief introduction to the 'safety' for mechanical systems, the process of 'risk analysis' will be introduced. The majority of this note will then deal with regulations and standards for pressure and cryogenic equipment. The European Pressure Equipment Directive (PED) will be briefly described, together with the concept of 'harmonized standards' and their implications on the entire lifecycle of a pressure equipment, with some hints at the peculiarities of accelerator components. In the second part of this note, regulations and standards for machinery, load-lifting accessories and buildings will be briefly mentioned to complete the picture of the most common cases in an accelerator facility.
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Sandbar, which is developing the Stream Ring, a $249 AI-powered wearable that transcribes audio notes, raised a $23M Series A, bringing total funding to $36M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/sandbar-secures-23m-series-a-fo…
A year ago, my sister cooked the engine in her car and because she was still paying the note on it, she just left it in my parents' back yard. I'm thinking about grabbing a screwdriver, a jump pack, and my headphones and driving over there to see if I can get it started. I'm curious if the brakes are rusted shut.
karate: Zachary Karate Club
Network of friendships among members of a university karate club. Includes metadata for faction membership after a social partition. Note: there are two versions of this network, one with 77 edges and one with 78, due to an ambiguous typo in the original study. (The most commonly used is the one with 78 edges.).
This network has 34 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
On Condensation Management - Learn how you can best avoid problems with condensation, damp and mould in winter. #mould #condensation #ventilation -
Debates on Degrowth: what drives us to keep growing?
Editors' note We are delighted to publish this article by Marga Mediavilla on a systems approach to degrowth. It serves to summarise a number of the issues in the Prospects for Degrowth series and also represents an echo of the methodology used in the report which was a major influence on degrowth thinking, the 1974 Limits to Growth report by Donella Meadows and colleagues.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@prietschka/116246991856667527
Surely I can’t be the first person to note that quantum computing is in a state of superposition between existence and bogosity.
Florence Germond, la grande argentière lausannoise qui quittera ses fonctions Š la fin de la législature, a dévoilé mardi les comptes 2025 de la capitale vaudoise. Et le sourire était de mise: alors que le budget initial tablait sur un déficit de plus de 60 millions, la ville affiche finalement un bénéfice de 7,4 millions de francs. Une habitude lausannoise de prudence budgétaire qui, cette année encore, se transforme en «joli résultat» final.
https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/a-lausanne-florence-germond-boucle-quinze-ans-de-finances-sur-une-note-positive
from my link log —
Running Ada Lovelace’s program to calculate Bernoulli numbers.
https://enigmaticcode.wordpress.com/2015/09/24/running-the-first-program/
saved 2026-04-13
I've been seeing a lot of videos and blog posts about the resurgence of #piracy in response to #enshittification . A common note is that its a _service_ problem, not a _product_ problem which is correct.
A company that has known this from the get-go and has never
This morning I found
A love note on my pillow:
Eggs, milk, butter, cheese.
#dailyhaikuprompt - note
#haiku
#poem
This is the most depressing thing I've read in a long time.
https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening
Of particular note:
"The people building this technology are simultaneously more excited and more frightened than anyone else on the planet. They believe it…
A CBS News producer quits, saying stories may now be evaluated "on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations", causing self-censorship (Alyssa Ray/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism…
Listening to the doctor talking up 'Heidi', the 'AI' scribe used by doctors to speed note taking... and struck by the irony of the call being interrupted by technical issues. It's crucial to realise this system only works if we've got working int'l connectivity, and are paying eye-watering amounts to the foreign service providers.
A Mega-Sena acumulou e vai pagar 70 milhões no próximo concurso. Os números sorteados foram: 15 18 28 31 52 58.
Considere agora os dígitos de pi e "e", os números transcendentes mais importantes da matemštica:
31 4 15 9 26 53 58
27 18 28 18 28 45
Note que cinco dos números sorteados estão nesses dígitos! Coincidência?! Claro que não, é um sinal dos céus de que eu é que vou ganhar nessa joça! rs
Cowboys Legend Pens Thank You Note to Trump After Receiving Pardon https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-legend-pens-thank-you-note-donald-trump-after-receiving-pardon
On UK Central Heating Season (2022) - Home heating dates. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-survey-UK-central-heating-on-off-dates.html
What do you want to bet the site, or at least the data, was AI-generated? Also note places where deported people are mainly being arrested are near prisons.
Exclusive: DHS admits its website showcasing the ‘worst of the worst’ immigrants was rife with errors https://ground.news/article/exclusive-dhs-admits-its-website-showcasing-the-worst-of-the-worst-immigrants-was-rife-with-errors_eb0d26
Read the note on the cover before fabricating guilt.
Note to self, don't respond to small minded thoughts.
Especially if they're thoughts of others, just watch them flow away.
On Website Technicals (2026-02) - Tech updates: tweaking energy management, optimisation... - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-105.html
Correct.
Also note that this was more or less true of the Third Reich.
These people are both extremely stupid and extremely dangerous. In fact, they’re dangerous in large part •because• they’re stupid. https://infosec.exchange/@Nonya_Bidniss/113954158760559158
Donald Trump has a strange effect on others.
I’m not the first to note that it seems like half his cabinet and strongest allies were virulently against him before they fell in line behind him.
These kinds of flips have been known to happen in politics before,
but never anything approaching the scale of the Trump phenomenon.
And it doesn’t just happen with officials serving under him and prominent allies in his administration.
The effect extends to people in …
Sources: Granola, which makes an AI-based note-taking app, aims to raise $100M led by Index Ventures at a $1B valuation, up from a $250M valuation in May 2025 (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20
Si les finances lausannoises respirent, elles le doivent en grande partie Š un allié inattendu: la réforme de l’OCDE sur l’imposition minimale des grandes entreprises. Les recettes fiscales des personnes morales ont bondi de 22 millions de francs par rapport Š l’année précédente, atteignant 129 millions. «C’est l’effet combiné de la croissance organique des sociétés et de cette nouvelle fiscalité internationale», a souligné Florence Germond.
https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/a-lausanne-florence-germond-boucle-quinze-ans-de-finances-sur-une-note-positive
Sources: the Daily Mail broke an embargo on Prince Harry and Meghan's Australia trip; the outlet later took the article down after the royals' team complained (Amanda Meade/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/ap…
karate: Zachary Karate Club
Network of friendships among members of a university karate club. Includes metadata for faction membership after a social partition. Note: there are two versions of this network, one with 77 edges and one with 78, due to an ambiguous typo in the original study. (The most commonly used is the one with 78 edges.).
This network has 34 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
On 16WW Mains Inlet Water Temperature - Domestic mains water temperature data for 16WW on tap; seasonal min/max about 10C/20C in winter/summer. #dataset #water #temperature -
Your weekend reading:
"We all know that our addiction to growth must stop because it is destroying the very foundations of our lives, but knowing that we must stop an addiction is one thing, and being able to do so is a different one. Capitalist growth is a complex and insidious dynamic that should be analysed through the lens of systems analysis and feedback in order to be addressed."
Debates on Degrowth: what drives us to keep growing?
On Building a New Efficient Home in the South of England (2017) - Where to start, what to remember, and useful resources. Save your wallet, warm toes, and the planet! #greenBuilding #lowCarbon #frugal
“Trump is trying to pay his way out of the war he started,” wrote New York-based political activist Melanie D’Arrigo
Critics were quick to note the irony in the plan reportedly being considered by Trump, who has frequently accused former President Barack Obama of giving Iran “$150 billion in cash,” an inaccurate claim referring to the “high-end estimate” of Iranian funds that were unfrozen after the lifting of sanctions,
much like what the Trump administration is reportedly consi…
CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane says he is leaving the network, and looking "forward to some independence and finding new spaces to share" his work (Scott MacFarlane/Scott MacFarlane on LinkedIn)
https://www.linkedin.com/pos…
Note I say “change strategy,” not “leave” or “stop.”
Who knows what’s next, but my expectation is for them to switch to things that are less visible, things that don’t look so bad on video. Maybe that means night raids? More likely, I’m guessing it means more rural action, targeting of remote job sites (e.g. farms), nabbing people from prisons, more activity in detention camps that disallow observers, that kind of thing.
Cowboys, Bears and Patriots should take note of Texans free agency rumor https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/new-england-patriots/news/cowboys-bears-patriots-should-take-note-texans-free-agency-…
On the Zoom H1n "Handy" Field Recorder: Review - Finally time to get my own portable audio recorder! - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Zoom-H1n-field-recorder.html
Please note I don’t mean this in a snarky “yet you work under capitalism lol” way.
I specifically mean big tech (like Microsoft, Google or Meta) and staying there for years without even looking for another job.
You can make choices for your life.
On the Zoom H1n "Handy" Field Recorder: Review - Finally time to get my own portable audio recorder! - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Zoom-H1n-field-recorder.html
Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro details priorities in a staff memo: maintaining creative excellence, leveraging technology, and operating as "One Disney" to align teams (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/busi
Editor’s note: Several hours after this story published, the brochures were returned to the site.
The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument.
Among the anticipated changes?
No longer calling his murderer a “racist.”
Edits to the brochure have removed that reference to Byron De La Beckwith, according to Park Service officials, who asked not to be named for fear of retribution.
Other edits inc…
Well now that’s an eye-popping graphic.
The DOGE headline is the notable one — but also please note the less-than-advertised contribution of AI-driven layoffs to the current awful job market.
EDIT: I took “lossed” to be yet more corporatespeak gobbledeygook, but per comments, it may actually just be a hilarious misspelling of “lost.” I’m not sure which is more depressing tbh.
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https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/116076599342808912
On UK Central Heating Season (2022) - Home heating dates. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-survey-UK-central-heating-on-off-dates.html
On Website Technicals (2026-02) - Tech updates: tweaking 16WW energy management, optimisation, data change, moving goal-posts. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-105.html
On 16WW Data Collections and Graphs - Open for research home #dataset - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-data.html
On Website Technicals (2026-04) - Tech updates: per-minute Eddi tweaks, Time Machine bug, virtual plug-in solar, merit order, intensity forecast, USB power wrangling... - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-107.html
On Condensation Management - Learn how you can best avoid problems with condensation, damp and mould in winter. #mould #condensation #ventilation -
On Condensation Management - Learn how you can best avoid problems with condensation, damp and mould in winter. #mould #condensation #ventilation -
On Spacetherm Aerogel Thermal Insulation - Learn about the highest-performing robust wall insulation for where space is at a premium: small homes in expensive cities. #aerogel #IWI #insulation -
On Variations in GB Grid Electricity CO2 Intensity: Samples - CO2 per grid kWh by h/d/m/y. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-UK-grid-CO2-intensity-variations.html
On UK Central Heating Season (2022) - Home heating dates. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-survey-UK-central-heating-on-off-dates.html
On 16WW Data Collections and Graphs - Open for research home #dataset - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-data.html
On Setting Up a Raspberry Pi 3 Off-grid Server (2018) - RPi3B upgrade for more speed and space... #frugal #offGrid - https://www.
On Website Technicals (2023-02) - Tech updates: Apache scripts, FOSDEM energy and Java, GraalVM AOT. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-69.html
On the SIKP 2000 A1 Portable Induction Hob: Review (2010) - See how easy this one-pan portable induction hob is to use! How does it compare with a built-in induction hob? #cleanAir #induction #cutCarbon
On Website Technicals (2026-03) - Tech updates: EOM, Mastodon share button, bug fixes, low, RSS sadness, routing snafu. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-106.html
On Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency - Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars -
On the Best Time to Fix Your Home Heating: Summer! - Do not wait until ice is forming on your bath to find out that your heating is broken! Upgrade or fix in summer, test early autumn. #OperationTuneup - https://www.
On a Possible UK Policy Modelling Tool (2009) - What-Ifs and Goal-Seeking for policy makers and the rest of us in the UK? - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-UK-policy-modelling-tool.html
On Website Technicals (2026-02) - Tech updates: tweaking 16WW energy management, optimisation, data change, moving goal-posts. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-105.html
On Website Technicals (2018-12) - Tech updates: feeds, IMG beyond AMP, Gallery CMS, test cases, random rebuild order, speakable structured data, lighter 404, moar AMPy, featured snippet. - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-19.html
On UK Central Heating Season (2022) - Home heating dates. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-survey-UK-central-heating-on-off-dates.html