Fossil fuel are getting progressively harder to produce, since easily accessible oil and gas fields were the first to be exploited, and are (soon to be) depleted, leaving hard to reach ones. So they’re getting more expensive even without taxing them.

Renewable sources are getting progressively cheaper.

The EU is planning to enforce CBAM soon, and other may follow and tax import from country that have 0 carbon tax.

So even if they’re not motivated for dumb political reasons, they’re going to feel more and more financial pressure.

The years is 2025, and the USA is betting on early 20th century energy sources.

Guess what happens next.

This could further accelerate the arms race between malicious srappers and websites.

My fear is this would create collateral damage, block legitimate scrappers and visitors, hassle people with an increasing number of captcha.

Please make an effort to avoid X.

If you’re looking for someone’s or an organization’s feed, look for alternatives such as:

• Look for that person’s Mastodon account,
• Look for a blog or website. It may have a RSS feed, if not try https://fetchrss.com/generator/generate
• Look for a bluesky account, and get its RSS feed with a tool like https://fetchrss.com/generator/generate

RAOP stands for Remote Audio Output Protocol and is the key to enabling Airplay on Linux

https://medium.com/@ed.sav/enabling-airplay-from-linux-1f6358c9ca1c

Ecosystem collapse

A non-zero number of employees scripted random daily prompts to maintain LLM usage stars.

Murder mittens

Referencing this parody as if it’s a serious study should be ground the rejection or retraction.

I wonder if journals and reviewers have tools to help detect fake and/or retracted study in references. Some already screen for the phrase “vegetative electron microscopy”.

Robert F. Kennedy, long time vaccine scaremongerer, was appointed to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

He’s already done various bad things, he’s likely to do more bad and stupid things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3j9muCo4o0

They’re not assholes. If this is the work of the federal gouvernment then they’re just following the law.

A work of the United States government is defined by the United States copyright law, as “a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties”.[1] Under section 105 of the Copyright Act of 1976,[2] such works are not entitled to domestic copyright protection under U.S. law and are therefore in the public domain.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_the_federal_government_of_the_United_States

I guess the amount of enthalpy or energy required to summon a rabbit

There should be more textbook exercices like this. Now I want to know the answer.

Creating a temp folder does not allow to read aloud articles using TTS. That’s the only reason why I use Pocket. I don’t use it to manage bookmarrks.

10 to 100 Times less reliable than WiFi

The Android app has a decent read-aloud feature. Hope it will still works after the service closes. I don’t use it for article discovery, nor for sync.

I’m carefully spending my money by buying less games, mostly DRM-free indie games.

She was immediately placed under expedited removal—a process to quickly remove her without the right to have her case brought before a judge

Mateo’s attorney, Luis Campos, told reporters that when he attempted to visit her at TMC, ICE agents blocked the entrance to her hospital room

Isn’t she being denied the right to a fair trial, which is proclaimed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the United States Constitution? And the right to counsel?

I hope the USA see consequences for ignoring basic human rights and the rule of law. Including effects on tourism and foreign investments; fewer people would come to a country or invest in a country that blatantly ignore the rule of law and human rights.

Bruce Springsteen is welcome in Europe, to visit and enjoy freedom of speech here.