you know when you have to put out a blog post saying "we dont suck, everything you read about us sucking isnt true and actually, the people saying that are the ones that suck" that things actually suck

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-commitment-to-windows-quality/

I switched our energy retailer from Amber Electric to Localvolts, and I've started to play with their pricing API. Fun stuff! I recorded a quick video showing some interesting subtleties in how pricing is different between the AEMO wholesale price, amber and localvolts.

Let me know if you have any questions, and I can make a follow-up video.

As always: This is a solo mastodon instance, so boosts = ❤️

https://youtu.be/mMVBfNC9zLY

#solar #battery #renewable #australia #amberelectric #localvolts

Whenever I see a “rice my Arch #Linux w/hyprland” video, I’m like:

You think that’s badass? You should’ve tried getting X11 running on a Linux machine in the mid-90s. You needed your monitor & video card manuals & a calculator (seriously) so you could calculate “modelines” for your X11 config file.

If you got the math wrong you’d fry your monitor by driving it at too high a frequency (back then nearly all monitors were fixed-frequency).

Typing “startx” for the first time was *so* stressful.

"Developers write integrations for devices they personally own. Reviewers test contributions against devices in their own homes. Break something, and you break your own house. Improve something, and you improve your daily life."

GitHub interviewed @frenck and did a great write-up on what makes Home Assistant so special.
https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/the-local-first-rebellion-how-home-assistant-became-the-most-important-project-in-your-house/

We're now finding out that as many as 70,000 people had their government IDs provided to prove their ages leaked by Discord. Like I wrote last week, this is an inherent risk (and made greater by a rushed process) of getting platforms to do age checks

https://www.theverge.com/news/797051/discord-government-ids-leaked-data-breach

If everyone was refusing to provide official IDs to verify their identity and age on social platforms, and just let their account rot there unused instead, we would soon see platforms themselves starting to advocate against these invasive laws to recover their users.

Just saying.
They need you more than you need them.
Stop complying with invasive requests.

#Privacy #AgeVerification

Too easy!

My @smh @theage cartoon.

Hey friends! I did a TEDx talk and it's now up on the TED Conferences YouTube. It's possibly the best and most important talk I've ever done.

I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! https://youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #ted