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"UK Government unveils £43m funding competition for low-carbon aviation innovation"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Technology

"Urban Farm Shops Combine Dutch Greenhouse Technology and Food-Retail into One"
#Netherlands #Technology #Environment

Urban Farm Shops Combine Dutch Greenhouse Technology and Food-Retail into One
A Dutch agri-tech firm has had the bright idea of combining a greenhouse grow operation with a grocery and delivery business.

Unintentional dark pattern (grey pattern?)
1. Use Firefox adblocker, website broken
2. Sigh in disgust, disable adblocker
3. Website still broken, turns out incompetence was problem, not malice
4. Somehow get things to work
5. Never turn ad blocker back on for site
6. Profit (for site's ad revenue)
#technology

FTW. You search for "coffee filter" and all 1000 results are for ground coffee to use in, and you won't ever guess this, *coffee filters*. 🤦‍♂️
#stupid #technology #ecommerce

"Malaysia bans e-waste imports and cracks down on illegal dumping"
#Malaysia #EWaste #Technology

Malaysia bans e-waste imports and cracks down on illegal dumping | The Optimist Daily
Malaysia has announced a full ban on e-waste imports, strengthening enforcement as it vows to stop being a dumping ground for global electronic waste.

You are being misled about renewable energy technology. by Technology Connections
#technology

"AI boom has caused same CO2 emissions in 2025 as New York City, report claims"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

🍞 Yeast Flakes as a Technological Ingredient for Salt Reduction and Flavor Enhancement in Bread
#food

"UK’s largest proposed datacentre ‘understating planned water use’"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Water #Technology

I don't know if this is true for all #EpsteinFiles the #DOJ just released but at least for the PDF linked in the quoted Bluesky post:
1. Open PDF in MS Word
2. Select All (CTRL A)
3. Set text color to Automatic
4. Read on
#redacted #technology #incompetence #unprofessional

Alec of Technology Connections explains why renewable energy, and solar panels in particular, will replace fossil fuels.
And then in the last third, he devastates the Trumpists, complaining all the way that he never wanted to do political videos.
#TechnologyConnections

"Study Shows Vaporizing E-Waste Makes it Easy to Recover Precious Metals at 13-Times Lower Costs"
#EWaste #Technology

Study Shows Vaporizing E-Waste Makes it Easy to Recover Precious Metals at 13-Times Lower Costs
One 2008 study calculated that one ton of mobile phones without batteries contains about 130kg of copper, 3.5kg of silver, 340 grams of gold.

"'Not a dumping ground for the world': Malaysia announces immediate ban on e-waste imports"
#Malaysia #EWaste #Technology

'Not a dumping ground': This country is banning e-waste imports
E-waste can contain lead, mercury and cadmium that pollute soil and water resources if improperly processed or dumped.

"Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply"
#Australia #Technology #Energy

I am about to give a workshop about #reproducibility in the context of #ROOT #technology using #doomemacs

1: Webdev who just wants a decent nav bar
2: Copilot
Not bad at all. 👏
#AI #LLM #webdev #Copilot #burn #Pixel #technology #phones #funny

"AI-generated wildlife photos make conservation more difficult"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Conservation

AI-generated wildlife photos make conservation more difficult
AI-generated wildlife photos and videos are changing public understanding of animals, creating risks for conservation, trust and coexistence.

"Waste heat from data centres ‘could help millions of UK households’"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Technology

"How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom"
#Batteries #Energy #Technology

How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom
Tech companies are turning to natural gas to help power the growing number of A.I. data centers in the U.S. Jigar Shah, a former Energy Department official, explains how installing batteries instead can help balance the grid, lower electricity bills, and support renewable energy.

"New calculator shows exactly how much environmental damage is behind your internet searches"
#Technology #Internet #Emissions

New tool reveals the hidden environmental cost of every website
9,000 monthly searches on YouTube.com uses 10 litres of water – enough for a capuchin monkey to survive for 77 days.

The morrow was indeed better☝️. As I suspected, there was some "Liquid in Jekyll (v3.10.0) on GH Pages" bug/feature:
Say you include `i.html` w parameter p, and this innocent line in it. Turns out this can change the type of var x in the caller. 😳
`{% assign x = include.p %} {% # x is string %}`
#webdev #technology #Jekyll #GitHub

OK, I give up*. This "Liquid in Jekyll on GH Pages" is just too fragile. 😒
*for today. I hope things are (magically) better tomorrow.
#frustration #webdev #technology #Liquid #Jekyll

In this edition of "Conversations with LLMs".
#LLM #technology #addiction #upselling #desperation

"UK households bin 168m Christmas lights and ‘fast tech’ items a year"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Technology #EWaste

"Well, Euro and USB-C worked, so TDMRep will also work."
- EU bureaucrats, probably. 😎 🧑‍💼
#EU #EuropeanUnion #bureaucracy #technology #naive

I like how "TDM Reservation Protocol (TDMRep)" has two docs marked "Final Community Group Report" with a stamp of "finality" in both docs. Distinct URIs and date stamps too. 🙄
#w3c #technology #consistency #fail #sarcasm

Anthropic Claude took out an ad to mock OpenAI ChatGPT for including, *checks the news again*, ads.
#irony #ads #advertisement #SuperBowl #technology #business #AI #LLM

Self-driving cars, self-growing cities. Same difference. 💁‍♂️
#sarcasm #space #moon #mars #technology #humanity #future #Musk

"Meta Wants Data Center in Sunny El Paso to Rely on Natural Gas"
#Meta #Facebook #Technology #Emissions

Meta Wants Data Center in Sunny El Paso to Rely on Natural Gas - Inside Climate News
EL PASO—In October 2025, local officials celebrated the groundbreaking of a 1-gigawatt, $1.5 billion data center for the tech giant Meta.  El Paso Electric had previously stated that existing infrastructure would support the data center and that Meta was looking to tap into a new solar farm. El Paso gets more than 300 days a […]

"Clicks" keyboard for phones. Also a "work phone" with nice specs.📱
Now, how do I convince my wife that I need the keyboard and the phone? 🤔🤓
#technology #gadgets #phone #keyboard #Blackberry #Clicks

Found this unnecessary (but I'm sure unintentional) gendering in W3C's TDMRep docs repo:
Submitted an issue: 🤞
#W3C #documentation #GitHub #gendering #technology #equality #fairness

Never thought I'd see the day when an #LLM in the current crop chooses #honesty over #fabrication. I guess, in this case at least, I beat #Copilot into submission (with an earlier criticism). But pretty sure it'll soon be back to confidently fabricating answers.
#hallucination #ethics #technology

"Ministers may cut green tech mandate from new homes regulations in England"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #England #Technology

"TikTok says users can’t upload anti-ICE videos due to technical issues."
The technical issue is that TikTok wants to block LICE videos but an implementation bug also blocks ICE videos. Or something like that. 🙄
#ICE #TikTok #censorship #technology #USA #sarcasm

20"-wide keyboard tray when a typical full-size keyboard is a bit over 17" wide and a mouse pad is about 8.5" wide. ⌨️🖱️🤦‍♂️
#design #utility #ergonomics #accessories #technology #business

What's worse: "AI", or the people hyper-selling AI and want no consequences?
(OK, that's an easy answer)
#OpenAI #AI #LLM #technology #ethics #society #accountability