@zachleat@zachleat.com2026-04-16 18:18:07
@… We still need Precise Math utilities!
@zachleat@zachleat.com2026-04-16 18:18:07
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2026-02-12 19:07:01
When the government offers to provide rebates or tax credits to low income Canadians, as recently announced by our Federal Government, most welcome the extra cash. But it doesn't address the key issue in affordable food, housing, or utilities. All of that extra government cash, provided by taxpayers BTW, gets sucked up by corporations that continue to rake in record profits. If you want to truly attack the #Affordability problem then implement laws that penalize excess profit taking by corporations. Take key necessities (food, transit, shelter, utilities, etc.) and create public options that are run as cooperatives and have controlled profit margins.
Marit Styles points out the difference between food prices at independent grocers versus the big chains. The policy position from @… on establishing a public grocery option makes sense, as long as we also protect the small independent vendors in our communities.
#CorporateProfiteers
https://youtu.be/Hj-ncCLSaZY
@datascience@genomic.social2026-02-14 11:00:01
Sometimes {renv} just isnt enough to ensure your environment is controlled. Maybe {slushy} could be an option? https://gsk-biostatistics.github.io/slushy/index.html
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-02-03 12:06:58
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2026-03-09 22:39:08
I have a common problem with several work-related projects. After quite a bit of pondering, I believe I have found the solution in my archives - a bash script linking a few very cool utilities that I wrote 20 years ago in the heady days of Egressive. Probably took weeks to get it right (it automates a business-critical backup process). I'm very chuffed my archives are still with me. You can never tell when they might come in handy. This will likely save days of work.
@jtk@infosec.exchange2026-03-10 12:37:53
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org2026-02-11 00:03:20
More radicale goodness on :nixos: NixOS: services.radicale.git can now sync regularly and on change via radicale with multiple remotes. Currently, it'll prioritise the remote's state in case of conflicts. It's so amazing to have a git history of your calendar and addressbook! 🤩
https://
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-04-06 18:59:04
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The Weakerthans:
🎵 Utilities
#TheWeakerthans
https://withthisfire.bandcamp.com/track/utilities-the-weakerthans
https://open.spotify.com/track/5BczdAv9uSU1VvwayolquM
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-03-04 23:26:04
Sources: the WH's data center pledge relies on enforcement by local utilities and states through rate deals, without penalties for tech firms refusing to comply (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-04…
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2026-02-04 22:47:13
Balcony Solar is very popular in Germany , and available in most of the EU. These are solar PV systems that plug into a regular outlet, providing electrical power behing the meter. Utilities hate them!
California might (if we nag our state Senators and Assemblymembers) actually allow us to install "Balcony Solar" - aka plug-in solar. That would be great for renters. SB868 (Wiener) expressly allows this, and blocks utilities from prohibiting their use. Please write your sta…
@paulwermer@sfba.social2026-02-04 22:47:13
Balcony Solar is very popular in Germany , and available in most of the EU. These are solar PV systems that plug into a regular outlet, providing electrical power behing the meter. Utilities hate them!
California might (if we nag our state Senators and Assemblymembers) actually allow us to install "Balcony Solar" - aka plug-in solar. That would be great for renters. SB868 (Wiener) expressly allows this, and blocks utilities from prohibiting their use. Please write your sta…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-27 17:54:53
Health care, new cars and new homes feel unaffordable to most Americans,
a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll shows.
Most Americans say that they can afford basic necessities like their current housing costs, groceries, utilities and gasoline.
But large numbers across income levels also say larger expenses and the cost of things associated with an enjoyable life
— including taking a weeklong vacation
— are out of reach.
Overall, 53 percent of adults say…
@fathermcgruder@jorts.horse2026-04-14 01:32:44
@roland@devdilettante.com2026-03-24 15:47:46
Remember 2013 when i wrote ruby scripts, https://github.com/rtanglao/momogs , that used the get satisfaction API to report on Mozilla Thunderbird Desktop SUMO metrics? Neither do I :-) but i'm cooking up something better in python! hooray for "free compute" and i wish ruby was as popular as p…
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-01-30 09:42:03
from my link log —
Usable colours for command line utilities.
https://blog.xoria.org/terminal-colors/
saved 2026-01-29 https://dotat.at/:/PT5YI.…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-02-22 19:51:02
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
@esoriano@social.linux.pizza2026-01-26 09:04:22
😻 "A comprehensive line-by-line commentary on the UNIX Fourth Edition (1973) source code. Covers the kernel, file system, device drivers, shell, and utilities. This commentary explains not just what the code does, but why it was designed that way."
https://gith…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-01-18 10:44:36
I've just been reading up on the municipality of Vega, in #Norway:
"Vega Municipality is responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services, senior citizen services, welfare and other social services, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads and utilities."
Population of Vega? 1,208
Why can't mainland
@grumpybozo@toad.social2026-01-21 20:40:08
I have Unix “muscle memory” that is older than the millennium and remains valid on most of the machines I administer.
E.g. the old “net-tools” utilities (ifconfig, netstat, etc.)were supposedly replaced a couple of decades ago but they remain functional on most Unix-like platforms. Almost no one ever uses the iproute2 (i.e. ip, ss, etc.) tools. @…
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org2026-02-04 10:27:30
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-23 18:55:53
Ubicquia, which provides software to utilities, cities, and companies to manage energy infrastructure like transformers, raised a $106M Series D (Katie Fehrenbacher/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/climate-deals/2026/02/23/ubicquia-106-mill…
@gwire@mastodon.social2026-03-23 14:24:51
Any government going down the path of de-regulation of utilities really needs to consider the case in which providing service to citizens can be dropped entirely in favour of commercial use.
https://calmatters.org/economy/2026/03/nevada-utility…
@j_honegger@swiss.social2026-01-19 11:51:41
From #AnnafromUkraine @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
#RUSSIA HUGE UTILITIES COLLAPSE: GAS HEATING ELECTRICITY WATER Vlog 1293: War in #Ukraine
Dozens of russian regions experience huge…
@newsie@darktundra.xyz2026-02-19 20:58:46
Researchers warn Volt Typhoon still embedded in US utilities and some breaches may never be found https://therecord.media/researchers-warn-volt-typhoon-still-active-critical-infrastructure
@jtk@infosec.exchange2026-03-27 18:00:29
Ubuntu will be adopting ntpd-rs as the default time sync client/server if all goes according to plan for release 27.04 (~2027). For most this means replacing chrony.
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ntpd-rs-its-about-time/79154/1
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-03-23 08:05:46
Google signs deals with five US electric utilities for 1GW of "demand response" in total, to reduce data center power consumption during peak grid demand hours (Laila Kearney/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sus…
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org2026-01-27 08:24:58
@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-02-26 14:00:05
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org2026-01-23 17:17:55
Thanks @… for the #forgejoAneksajo 14.0.1-git-annex0 release earlier today 👍
…
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org2026-02-17 22:41:45
@j_honegger@swiss.social2026-02-09 16:20:43
... #utilities fail, and #Starlink is off for the russian #invaders.
#Ukraine #russia #russoUkrainianWar
https://youtu.be/UU9vd_bljpE
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@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2026-02-24 14:05:54
Good Morning #Canada
A few weeks ago our local #CBCradio host was interviewing an debt counselor, likely due to the arrival of Christmas credit card bills. The segment reinforced the data that Canadians carry high levels of debt, unfortunately among the highest percentage of income worldwide. Mortgage debt, according to ##StatsCan, is flat to slightly declining, likely because new home purchases by younger Canadians is down, but car loans, personal lines of credit, and credit card debt are all up in 2025.
Our government continues to try and respond by offering tax credits and supplemental payments which invariably get sucked up by corporations. They have to change the game - build public housing or invest in leasehold or cooperative homes, build public options for utilities, internet, food or other necessities. Invest heavily in public transit and subsidize it so that it's low cost or free. Remove corporate profits from necessities.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Finance
https://globalnews.ca/news/11544814/canadians-debts-rise-survey/
@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-03-21 12:00:05
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org2026-02-23 17:20:19
:nixos: #NixOS module to regularly upload media from #Mattermost team channels to #Immich:
