Mastodawn

Trump wants another 500 billion dollar for the war in Iran. For 500 billion dollars you can get 500 gigawatt’s of solar panels, which produce 500 terrawatthours of electricity per year. The US produces roughly 2500 terrawatthours of fossil electricity per year, so 5 years with that budget and electricity would be essentially free for the next thirty years...

#solarpunk #uspol

Marius Gundersen - mdg 🌻13h ago

Do you commit the built code in your git repo, or do you git ignore it?

#programming

	Commit
	Git ignore

Poll ends at 1:46pm.

Marius Gundersen - mdg 🌻15h ago

Everyone hates old code and legacy systems, and everyone likes to start new projects and write fresh code. But how long is your code designed to last? How long until the code you write right now becomes outdated and and in need of replacement? That is never part of any project spec. A bridge, tunnel or building has an expected lifetime, but in the age of AI code has become disposable, it only needs to work until the next feature is announced.

Marius Gundersen - mdg 🌻15h ago

A powerful US spy-tech company run by billionaires is linked to genocide in Gaza, helps ICE separate families, and fuels Trump’s war with Iran. And now it’s quietly expanding across Europe gaining access to our data, our hospitals, and our police systems. It’s time to expose it and stop its expansion.

https://action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-03-palantir-petition-EN?akid=s7505757..dGdLYU

Say No to Palantir in Europe

WeMove Europe

Marius Gundersen - mdg 🌻19h ago

Santiago Andrés Triana 21h ago

This, from @minaskar, is particularly lucid and insightful:

https://ergosphere.blog/posts/the-machines-are-fine/

The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.

On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.

Marius Gundersen - mdg 🌻20h ago

Sammi 1d ago

I feel I need to say something about Artemis as a former NASA employee, Space scientist and engineer.

I hope more than anything that the astronauts get back safely. But let us not be fooled by what this is.

Is it spectacular, yes. Is it a feat of engineering, yes. Does it make any advance in science, no. Does it help mankind explore the universe, dubious at best.

Why exactly are we sending humans to the moon? With our technology we will never send humans much further than Mars. The only way humans can possibly go further is through a scientific breakthrough. Good luck with that when Trump is gutting science.

Human exploration needs money spent on long-term advances - not using the same technology to do what we did before, however, glamorous it is.

So why do this and why do it now? Political theatre, a win for a Trump led NASA if it succeeds.

So I hope all works well and all return safely. But let us be clear what this is and why it is being done.

This is my opinion, I do not represent anyone.

Marius Gundersen - mdg 🌻1d ago

David D. Levine 1d ago

Not a joke: Microsoft's Copilot Terms of Use (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/for-individuals/termsofuse) assert that "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only." And they are charging HOW MUCH for this "entertainment" product?

Marius Gundersen - mdg 🌻1d ago

It's now very important to overfit a refined LLM model on the Claude Code source code so that it could reproduce it again from memory, since apparently that's not breaking any copyright laws.

#ai #ClaudeLeak

Marius Gundersen - mdg 🌻2d ago

Vedum har svart at konkurransen mellom bensinstasjonene nok sørger for lavere priser, Listhaug har bedt dem om å skjerpe seg, men hva med Nikolai Astrup? Hvor er de kloke økonomifolka i høyre, som tydeligvis trenger et introkurs i markedsøkonomi?

https://www.nettavisen.no/okonomi/konkurransetilsynet-darlig-konkurranse-mellom-bensinstasjonene/s/5-95-2963388

#Norsktut #politikk