Mastodawn

We need to decarbonise far more urgently and from a Scottish perspective, this is our opportunity because we have won every energy jackpot over the last three centuries. We had wood in abundance, then coal, then hydro, then oil and gas, then wind, solar, geothermal, tidal, you name it, we have it in abundance. So why has your energy bill just gone up?

The UK energy market simply is not fit for purpose.

Dependency on oil is ludicrous with Scotland's green jackpot

https://www.thenational.scot/business/25957356.dependency-oil-ludicrous-scotlands-green-jackpot/

Dependency on oil is ludicrous with Scotland's green jackpot

An independent Scotland simply won’t run our energy market like this.

The National

Graham K 6h ago

David Gerard 15h ago

this is what actual nuance about AI looks like - Dorian Taylor @doriantaylor on how LLM coding is vaguely possible, but of limited usefulness for real work

https://buttondown.com/dorian/archive/slop-machine-future/

Graham K 21h ago

paulwalk 1d ago

Google search keeps getting worse. Such a shame - I vividly remember seeing Google search for the first time - it was such an exciting development then. Now, it's kinda embarrassing how low it is sinking.. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/20/google-search-is-now-using-ai-to-rewrite-headlines

Google Search Is Now Using AI to Rewrite Headlines

Link to: https://www.theverge.com/tech/896490/google-replace-news-headlines-in-search-canary-coal-mine-experiment?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IjI0Q05IV0dlS3EiLCJwIjoiL3RlY2gvODk2NDkwL2dvb2dsZS1yZXBsYWNlLW5ld3MtaGVhZGxpbmVzLWluLXNlYXJjaC1jYW5hcnktY29hbC1taW5lLWV4cGVyaW1lbnQiLCJleHAiOjE3NzQ0NzIwOTAsImlhdCI6MTc3NDA0MDA5MH0.3exwHWG6qdR5YeFLjzS1qvUy3tgfASQhbFZDTbHrkKE&utm_medium=gift-link

Daring Fireball

Graham K 21h ago

Alanna 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️1d ago

I'm not anti the general field of Artificial Intelligence, it's an extremely interesting subject. I am deeply skeptical of the LLM/GPT products that are being deceptively sold to people as "AI solutions" or claiming to be the science fiction of Artificial General Intelligence. The cult-like following developing around them is even more disturbing, it is like something from Dune or W40K.

Please learn how these things actually work, even on a basic level, before making such wild claims.

#ai

Graham K 21h ago

Liam Proven 1d ago

Payment biz pulls plug on open source charity after KYC spat

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/21/fsfe_dropped_by_its_payments/

Free Software Foundation Europe says it was asked for supporters' passwords; Nexi insists it only wanted test credentials to check cancellation flows

<- by me (& Paul Kunert) on @theregister

Payment biz pulls plug on open source charity after KYC spat

: Free Software Foundation Europe says it was asked for supporters' passwords; Nexi insists it only wanted test credentials to check cancellation flows

The Register

Graham K 21h ago

Дими́трий 1d ago

read this somewhere:

"the money spent going to war for oil could have been spent eliminating the need for oil."

Graham K 21h ago

Autonomie und Solidarität 1d ago

#Surveillance #SurveillanceCameras

Graham K 21h ago

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1d ago

For nearly 30 years, journalists have relied on the Internet Archive to see how stories were originally published, before edits, removals, or changes. We need to safeguard that. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/blocking-internet-archive-wont-stop-ai-it-will-erase-webs-historical-record

Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record

Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s....

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Graham K 1d ago

Viss 1d ago

read this and try to tell me cloud wasnt a mistake

https://labs.watchtowr.com/8-million-requests-later-we-made-the-solarwinds-supply-chain-attack-look-amateur/

8 Million Requests Later, We Made The SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack Look Amateur

Surprise surprise, we've done it again. We've demonstrated an ability to compromise significantly sensitive networks, including governments, militaries, space agencies, cyber security companies, supply chains, software development systems and environments, and more. “Ugh, won’t they just stick to creating poor-quality memes?” we hear you moan. Maybe we should, maybe

watchTowr Labs

Graham K 1d ago

Eric Schultz 1d ago

A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date.

This is being done rapidly by people with questionable justifications and being merged with no youth and few marginalized people involved.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/-/merge_requests/176#0b07c0cc4d49be119f65cdb2037440f56eed647a

user: Add BirthDate with polkit-gated GetBirthDate and SetBirthDate methods (!176) · Merge requests · accountsservice / accountsservice · GitLab

Summary Add a BirthDate field to the user account interface. For non-homed users, the value is stored...

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