Mastodawn

Hat tip to John Kemp for admitting that he was wrong to blame Spain's blackout on excessive reliance on inverter-based renewables and insufficient inertia, and 👏 for his very decent explainer on what actually happened. https://jkempenergy.com/2025/06/19/spains-blackout-blamed-on-poor-voltage-control/

Spain’s blackout blamed on poor voltage control

19 June 2025 Spain’s massive blackout was caused by overvoltage on the transmission system and the failure of the country’s generators to compensate by absorbing more reactive power, according to t…

JKempEnergy.com

Denny 🏳️‍🌈14m ago

Matthew Garrett 1h ago

My first paid software development job was on accessibility software. I remember visiting a user to help set up our code, and the sheer joy he had at being able to communicate more quickly than he had been able to for years.

Seeing the effort put into improving modern Linux accessibility is heartwarming. There's been almost 20 years of almost nobody caring. It's important. It's worthwhile.

Say thank you to the people doing that work. Stop amplifying the people saying that work isn't happening.

Denny 🏳️‍🌈36m ago

Denny 🏳️‍🌈12h ago

"Researchers have just confirmed what is also certainly the largest data breach ever, with an almost incredulous 16 billion login credentials, including passwords, exposed."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/06/19/16-billion-apple-facebook-google-passwords-leaked---change-yours-now/

16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked — Act Now

Change all your account passwords now — don’t wait: 16 billion credentials are confirmed as having been leaked.

Forbes

Denny 🏳️‍🌈12h ago

The Penguin of Evil 21h ago

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-our-storms-call-for-names

The Met Office is soliciting future storm names. Needs as many people as possible IMHO to submit the names of oil companies and other big polluters causing #climatechange problems.

That and of course #muppets 8)
Storm Piggy ...

Name our Storms

Met Office

Denny 🏳️‍🌈12h ago

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mcc 17h ago

The problems I saw raised were:

Raised by me: The new intellectual property clause was permanent/irrevokable; Mastodon retained rights to your posts even after they were deleted.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/35086

Raised by Cory Doctorow: The new TOS forced users to give up the right to sue in court, & forced use of arbitration instead. 😬
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114706885462760813

Raised by Sarah Jamie Lewis and others: It was ambiguous if *other federated servers* counted as "users" under the TOS.
https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/114699476927561899

New Terms of Service IP clause cannot be terminated or revoked, not even by deleting content · Issue #35086 · mastodon/mastodon

Summary Since it first opened, mastodon.social has operated without any sort of explicit IP grant from the users to the service, which is unusual for a social networking service. Today Mastodon ann...

GitHub

Denny 🏳️‍🌈12h ago

"Researchers have just confirmed what is also certainly the largest data breach ever, with an almost incredulous 16 billion login credentials, including passwords, exposed."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/06/19/16-billion-apple-facebook-google-passwords-leaked---change-yours-now/

16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked — Act Now

Change all your account passwords now — don’t wait: 16 billion credentials are confirmed as having been leaked.

Forbes

Denny 🏳️‍🌈13h ago

Low Quality Facts May 10

Give the trash panda due process or we riot.

Denny 🏳️‍🌈13h ago

Police State UK 13h ago

"If passed, the changes would make it harder for people with disabilities to claim benefits, and the UK Government's own analysis has found that the cuts would push 250,000 people into poverty, including 50,000 children."

#UKPol #Disability #Benefits #Cuts

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25252322.independent-mps-table-amendment-scrap-welfare-bill/