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"AI adoption in US adds ~900,000 tons of CO₂ annually, study finds"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

AI adoption in US adds ~900,000 tons of CO₂ annually, study finds
A new study published in Environmental Research Letters finds that continued growth in artificial intelligence (AI) use across the United States could add approximately 900,000 tons of CO₂ annually. This is not a small amount but equates to a relatively minor increase when viewed in the context of nationwide emissions.

"Eco-friendly technology removes toxic PFAS from water"
#PFAS #ForeverChemicals #Technology

Eco-friendly technology removes toxic PFAS from water
Rice University researchers, in collaboration with international partners, have developed the first eco-friendly technology to rapidly capture and destroy toxic "forever chemicals" (PFAS) in water. The findings, recently published in Advanced Materials, mark a major step toward addressing one of the world's most persistent environmental threats.

I can imagine a future where personal passenger vehicles are banned from city streets and autonomous vehicles of different sizes move us to our destinations. They, of course, should be integrated with walking, cycling, and mass transit. There's gotta be a cost benefit to eliminating tired, aggressive, or inattentive drivers from the road, and cities should fund all larger vehicles (6 passengers? ) to keep corporations from owning the streets.
#Technology #AutonomousVehicles
https://youtube.com/shorts/EqNU2jUQNcI?si=FlN0PdkJj6XcZaNb

"ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults"
In other words, they're desperate for money. Society be damned. 🥺
#OpenAI #chatGPT #sexting #chatbots #AI #business #technology

✍️ New post: What Could Go Wrong?
#blogtober #ai #technology #society

What Could Go Wrong? · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

"Indigenous women in Peru use technology to protect Amazon forests"
#Peru #Technology #AmazonRainforest

Indigenous women in Peru use technology to protect Amazon forests
In 2017, when Betty Rubio began patrolling the forests of her ancestral land, she began to question why she was doing it. It wasn’t easy. She knew that tackling environmental crimes such as illegal logging and mining came with risks, and that as a woman, those risks were even greater. “My children would say to […]

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

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

"Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows"
#Amazon #Technology

Yet another dev bitten by YAML parser stripping out underscores from strings that otherwise contain only digits. ✋
#technology #webdev #softwareEngineering #frustration

"Apple Watch and Mac Mini No Longer Advertised as 'Carbon Neutral'"
#Apple #Technology
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Apple Watch and Mac Mini No Longer Advertised as 'Carbon Neutral'
As spotted by the French blog WatchGeneration, the Apple Watch and Mac mini are no longer advertised as "carbon neutral" products on...

"AI-powered oil spill prediction system can improve emergency response accuracy by up to 25%"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

AI-powered oil spill prediction system can improve emergency response accuracy by up to 25%
Oil spills can be among the most devastating environmental disasters, with the potential to severely damage marine ecosystems, disrupt coastal communities, and impose lasting economic damage. Traditional numerical models, such as MEDSLIK-II, simulate the movement and transformation of oil particles in seawater, but their accuracy has been limited by dependence on expert judgment for tuning critical physical parameters. This manual calibration process, while informed by experience, is not always…

In this episode of Pointless Surveys;
WhatsApp: How was the call quality?
Me: 5 Stars, but the person I called is just downstairs, in the same home, on the same network. So, 🤷‍♂️
#technology #surveys

Obscure #Technology, #Malware #Investigations, #OpenSource

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

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

"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.

Public repo with text of a "Read Only License" and nothing else in the repo. So, can anyone else use that license text in their project? 🤔
(No license info -> no license grant, including no downloading, but would it kill to include a LICENSE.md?)
#technology #licenses #conundrum

"Google's huge new Essex datacentre to emit 570,000 tonnes of CO2 a year"
#Google #Climate #ClimateChange #Technology

✍️ New post: Play On
#blogtober #music #play #technology

Play On · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

"Al: Five charts that put data- centre energy use - and emissions - into context"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

AI: Five charts that put data-centre energy use – and emissions – into context - Carbon Brief
Many have warned that the rapid expansion of data centres could slow down or even reverse the global shift towards net-zero.

15.6" Acer portable monitor for $90? Run, don't walk, to a Costco warehouse.
#technology #Costco #savings #gadget #monitor

*AI* crawlers ignoring *robots*.txt file. The irony. 🤦‍♂️
#AI #technology #conventions #web

Now, if I can use the RPi 500 's keyboard as an external keyboard for another computer. 🤑
(The included RPi can be headless server for all kinds of uses).
#technology #computers #RaspberryPi #nerd

#Wanted: Vegan, vegetarian alternative to "Hamburger Menu"
#webdev #technology #labels #vegan #vegetarian #nomenclature

"Virgin Media 02 to scale tech reuse programme in Coventry"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Coventry #Technology

Now pouring over:
- BCP 47
- ISO 639
- ISO 15924
- ISO 3166
- ...🤓
#wipWednesday #occupation #service #standards #technology

You should always have a backup fiddle because you'll never know when your main fiddle goes wonky.
#AI #LLM #Copilot #Microsoft #technology

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

I wonder if the Schrödinger's cat knows what actually goes on. 🐈🤔
#quantum #cats #technology #physics #question #joke

Petition to discount boosts by bots from both stats and notifications. 📝🤖
#bots #socialMedia #technology #petition #idea #distraction

A very special "hello" to the folks who came up with HTML `title` attribute. An even more special "hello" to those who decided that an anchor's tooltip will be marked up as its "title".
🙄
#technology #design #webdev #html ##markup #sarcasm

Yes, use AI to organize tabs and save time because placing a tab in a group is such a demanding and complex task. 🙄
#AI #hype #Microsoft #MicrosoftEdge #technology #misuse #sarcasm