The US is looking at a year of chaotic weather
Massive Western heat wave, potential El Niño raise concerns about unpredictable, extreme weather.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/the-us-is-looking-at-a-year-of-chaotic-weather/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@Federation_Bot
My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"
Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC
That'd power a whole lotta Delorean time machines.
https://electrek.co/2026/03/19/the-world-added-a-record-814-gw-wind-solar/
There's a "Wayland set the Linux desktop back" blog going around now and ... it just makes me so tired.
That take is so amazingly wrong, but so persistent and popular. It is the "immigrants took mah job!" of takes for software. It is so flawed in so many different ways, and utterly ignores the host of actual reasons that Linux has stalled on the desktop.
It is apparently seductive, too, because it offloads the blame entirely on the crew developing Wayland without the person casting the blame considering for even a second the actual complexity of the problems. I could literally write a book on the reasons that the Linux desktop hasn't caught on; and I would, too, if I thought people would actually buy it and read it (a lot of people, I mean - enough to justify writing a book...)
But it boils down to this: Linux desktop development doesn't have more than a tiny, tiny fraction of the funding per year that Microsoft or Apple spend on marketing a single product line. Much less the kind of funds that go into R&D.
Vendors, mostly, are disinterested in supporting an OS that has less than 10% market share. At times they have even been actively dissuaded from doing so by certain other companies...
Users are, by and large, not willing to deal with inconvenience or having to learn new things in order to adopt the Linux desktop, even though the two main vendors are constantly making the user experience worse and continually taking away control of our own devices.
Wayland? It's a convenient scapegoat.
I'm not, by the way, arguing that Wayland is perfect, or that the community behind it has executed everything perfectly. And I'm certainly not arguing that people haven't had bad experiences with Wayland; that hasn't been _my_ experience, but I also have been using Linux for 30 years now -- and I choose hardware based on its Linux compatibility. I also have different expectations from a desktop than someone who has used Windows or macOS most of their life.
OK. Rant over. Be nicer to the Wayland folks. Stop blaming them for everything. In fact, let's maybe consider that what would really be useful is constructive takes on how we can succeed from here.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116260876501374382
#Bluesky leadership "too busy" to announce #BainCapital #crypto #VC for an ENTIRE YEAR, the new brand of can't-quite-be-bothered-to-lie-properly ushered by #Trump.
Bain Capital crypto, lobbying for financial deregulation regularly targeting the #SEC (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission), while choosing to promote an all-male team on International #Women’s Day (so they DO know a thing or two about announcements timing).
Glad I removed my #bridge to Bluesky earlier this year!
Chuck Norris Dies: ‘Walker, Texas Ranger’ Star & Martial Arts Expert Was 86
#News #Obituaries #ChuckNorris #ReturnoftheDragon #WalkerTexasRanger
https://deadline.com/2026/03/chuck-norris-dead-walker-texas-ranger-star-was-86-1236761332/
Rest in Power, Chuck Norris.
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/116261896167740378
It is time that we ended the Cult of the Sacred Driving Licence https://kimharding.net/blog/the-sacred-driving-licence/
It's finally here! The new Newsmast Foundation website 🎉
Our new website focuses on our Apps for Change programme which is bringing real values-aligned organisations and groups to the Social Web.
It's a big change from our original website with an increased focus on actions and solutions to protect information sharing ecosystems on social media.
Check it out 👇
Dear Malta Gaming Authority,
Yes, I hacked you, and the data obtained has been shared with media partners, authorities,….
And yes, we will expose the organized crime enablement schemes you created while presenting yourselves as a “legitimate public service”.
The town mayor is in another phase of pitching.
Busy couple of weeks.
Keep your fingers crossed.
hii! if you're someone learning webdev and specifically css, what are some difficult or hard to understand/grasp parts for you?
i wanna make some beginner-friendly tutorial stuff and it would be good to know what i should focus on the most
3 media files
old fears never die
#PixelArt #Art #Comic #Comics #AnubiArts
Most home medical devices run on backup batteries that last only 3 to 8 hours.
Yet people in over half of U.S. counties experienced at least one power outage lasting more than 8 hours between 2018 and 2021, according to scholars who study which groups need the most help in cases of emergency.
https://theconversation.com/power-outages-can-threaten-the-lives-of-medical-device-users-knowing-who-is-most-at-risk-will-help-cities-respond-276501
New from 404 Media: a tiny city in Michigan say it is legitimately fearful of Iranian drone strikes now because of plans to build a new data center that will help nuclear weapons research. Even city's own attorney says "bulls eye" on the city, residents pushing back
We have a shiny new roadmap site, and an equally shiny new blog post to tell our community all about it:
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/03/introducing-our-public-roadmaps/
Sénégal : ce commun vouloir de vie commune
Le Sénégal est le théâtre depuis quelques semaines d’un défoulement homophobe sans précédent, à la suite d’un scandale sexuel impliquant des personnes de divers horizons. Le débat sur l'homosexualité est relancé. Cette fois-ci dans des circonstances dont la charge dramatique facilite l’expression d’opinions incompatibles avec notre commun vouloir de vie commune. › https://blogs.mediapart.fr/ndeye-fatou-kane/blog/200326/senegal-ce-commun-vouloir-de-vie-commune?at_format=link&at_account=mediapartblogs&at_campaign=mastodon&at_medium=custom7
@_elena @mat reminder, the Bluesky team explicitly mentioned commercial use of their data in their 2024 arXiv preprint:
“…as Bluesky grows, there are likely to be multiple professionally-run indexers for various purposes. For example, a company that performs sentiment analysis on social media activity about brands could easily create a whole-network index that provides insights to their clients. Web search engines can incorporate Bluesky activity into their indexes,…” pg. 5
it’s been part of the model from the start…
RE: https://todon.nl/@noize/116261071806517867
Lezenswaardig stuk (rood vlees). Alleen vind ik het gebruik van 'radicaal rechts' voor partijen zoals de #PVV erg problematisch. Die zijn ook #extreemrechts. De #FvD noem ik voor het onderscheidt dan maar ultrarechts. Ik begrijp dat die benamingen zo door de AIVD zijn bedacht, maar het is onjuist en bagatelliseert het. Daarnaast is de AIVD een staatsactor en daarom is wantrouwen op diens plek. De #journalistiek moet eens leren om niet achter autoriteiten aan te hollen.
Een eenmanspartij zoals de PVV is op diens eigen manier net zo problematisch als de FvD. De FvD is een proxy van Rusland en de PVV is een proxy van Israël. Allebei genocidale extreemrechtse regimes.
Maar goed, laten we er geen semantische discussie van maken.
