Chris Adams

@mrchrisadams
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Science & justice. Also: coffee, cities, UX & code. Aghast at all the typos in my tweets. I'm an organiser at climateAction.tech, and I work at the greenwebfoundation.org. He/Him.
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climateAction.tech (community)https://climateaction.tech
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Personal Sitehttps://chrisadams.me.uk
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The largest five AI providers should support @ThePSF with a grant of 1 million USD per year each for a period of 5 years. All these companies and their business depend on Python and they should show their commitment to Python.
Companies like Meta offer millions to single AI persons. They should have the money for supporting #Python with a very small portion of their budgets.

https://fosstodon.org/@ThePSF/114975715473155253

Python Software Foundation (@ThePSF@fosstodon.org)

The PSF Grants Program has been temporarily paused after hitting our 2025 funding cap early. It was an extremely difficult but necessary decision to ensure the program and foundation’s near and long term sustainability. Learn more + how you can support the PSF’s future on our blog: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-psf-has-paused-our-grants-program.html

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The Apple QuickBinary keypad was released to allow dyadic individuals to type long strings of binary text easily. In the centre are 0 and 1, with combinations of two, and then three digit strings surrounding it. A true binary typist could enter binary faster than your average with just a few years' practice.

Here's what I would like:

* cheap, small battery powered devices that I can stick to the lid of a Tupperware.
* You turn them on when you first put a Tupperware in the fridge.
* they keep track of the time a Tupperware has been in the fridge and give some visual cues thereof. For example, every day another LED lights up, or the same led changes hue.

Where can I buy them, or the parts to make them?

Grateful for boosts, I am somewhat out of touch with what used to be called the #maker scene.

Any technical solution that is supposed to block teenagers from anything is not going to work very well, because you are facing an opponent that:

* is smarter than you,
* is very dedicated,
* has a lot of free time,
* has an extensive network of friends,
* faces no serious consequences if caught,
* outnumbers you,
* considers you an immoral crook.

You really, *really* want to have them on your side. That means education rather than control.

Think of a VPN as a really long ethernet cable! You're just plugged in over there.

lemon pig status
age = 210 days

#LemonPig

Just heard on the lunchtime news that there are no reports of any deaths or serious injuries anywhere as a result of the Pacific tsunami.

Take a bow, emergency planners of the Pacific region.

With so much crappy news around at the moment, it's lovely to hear that sometimes, people do their job really well and lives get saved.

#tsunami

So in the UK, there's a new report from the NESO - their national grid operator. Looks like they expect a ~3x growth in data centre demand by 2030 (!).

I'm still reading the report (it's 170 pages), but if anyone has come across any analysis of how this affects the UK 2030 goal of a decarbonised electricity grid, I'd love to read it, I don't understand how this report relates to existing 2030 targets.

Here's the full report
https://www.neso.energy/document/364701/download

That bittersweet moment when you close down Firefox in favour of Vivaldi as your default browser.

It's not just some of the bizarre product decisions that led to this switch: it's also that many of the tools I use on a daily seem to be designed for blink-based browsers, with anything using the Spidermonkey / Gecko combo of Firefox being a total afterthought.

To be fair - I am also very impressed with Vivaldi as a browser too. 90% of the codebase is the same as Chrome, (just less creepy bits)

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This piece from the creator of Gumroad* about him failing to find much in the way of Waste and Fraud when a brief abortive stint in DOGE in government, but being conditioned by it being endemic in large tech firms is quite something.

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/02/nx-s1-5417994/former-doge-engineer-shares-his-experience-working-for-the-cost-cutting-unit

* (a popular platform for selling ebooks and digital products)