Patrick H. Lauke

@patrick_h_lauke
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WCAG trash panda, web evangelist, ronin, sour kraut. uninvited expert. vague, but exciting. luddite. antifascist. european. #toryScum #a11y #pixelart #pixelfonts #photography #cisgender #TrumpIsAFascistCunt #FuckElon #JailNetanyahu #monocultureWarrior he/him

[Banner image: the top of a Fisher Price baby laptop, with colourful letters of the alphabet, a cartoon dog, and various cutesy images of a pig, duck, house, sun, lion, wagon]

personal site (mostly pixel fonts)https://www.splintered.co.uk
githubhttps://github.com/patrickhlauke
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Holy shit, look at this.

New renewables, installed in just the last year, met _all_ new demand for electricity globally. Battery costs dropped 20% in 2024 and another 45% in 2025. Fossil generation is dropping in China and India and that drop is not slowing down at all.

My god, look at these fucking graphs. Look at them.

We are still in this game.

https://ember-energy.org/app/uploads/2026/04/Global-Electricity-Review-2026.pdf

Brey, Palantir employees been mercing Palestinian kids with robots and AI literally non-stop since Oct 7th - don't tell me you had a crisis of conscience. I don't believe you. What you're seeing is the blowback coming. And honestly? I don't weep for murderers so fuck right off.
piqué sur le réseau 100% décentralisé à base d'AT proto
Palantir employees are talking about company's "descent into fascism"
Slack messages, interviews with current and former works paint picture of company in turmoil.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/palantir-employees-are-talking-about-companys-descent-into-fascism/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Some org started rehiring junior devs because AI companies keep increasing their token costs. It is becoming cheaper to hire humans again to handle basic tasks, like aligning a button on screen, fixing typos or even performing PHP+MySQL coding.

You just have to wait until the AI bubble bursts or the VC money dries up. Approx 40% to 50% of AI data centers planned for 2026 in the U.S. are likely to be delayed or canceled as banks and VCs are refusing to provide further financing 😂

Tokenmaxxing. Tokenmaxxing 🤣 amazing stuff.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Putting aside whether or not passkeys are a good idea, such patterns make me suspicious. That's a nudge: they make the usual login flow painful, and make the passkey flow as easy as possible, because the latter is what they prefer you do. I inevitably put my guard up whenever I notice a nudge, and start asking questions about why I'm being coaxed down this particular flow.


ticking off a long-standing "want to go" #photography pin today #liverpool

The speed at which a virus spreads depends mainly on two factors:

1: How dense the population is.

2: How dense the population is.