@ruari that's why I had a custom t-shirt printed for my husband

@HollieK72 @DavidPenington exactly. I just used an example of Amazon. The same maths works for any panel. So when you are a stack of 10 440w panel offered for sale for a good price. You can check the size with the maths I showed and see if they really are 440w panels or if someone is trying to scam you.

We’ve pushed young people completely out of our public physical spaces and now they’re getting pushed out of our digital spaces as well. Where are they supposed to go?

Researchers have found that the 2008 global economic crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic caused a significant decrease in air pollution in big cities. Mostly because people were commuting to work about 3-4 days a week.

There are several studies showing this impact. What impressed me is that they have observed that the effect of the 2008 crisis was significantly stronger than the pandemic.

The paper they published is available here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231025006247

Only bloke in an otherwise all-female dept. I once received a bollocking from HR because of my jokes, not because they are in any way racist or sexist - apparently my "excruciatingly bad dad-jokes that make everyone groan". Proud.

Important heads-up to FOSS maintainers by Daniel from curl:

"Any project that has not scanned their source code with AI powered tooling will likely find huge number of flaws, bugs and possible vulnerabilities with this new generation of tools."

Since I'm working for Alpha-Omega currently, please reach out to me if you could use some support regarding this. We're setting up various programs to help FOSS maintainers in the times of "high-quality chaos".

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/11/mythos-finds-a-curl-vulnerability/

@lowqualityfacts

That must be why it's so bloody expensive.

A passing thought. I do hope that undertakers never do unboxing videos.

In the end after a week of back-and forth I'll have to stop massaging the PR I was proposing due to irreconcilable differences between how me and the maintainer view the absence of a "thing" vs the "thing" being empty.

I won't say I completely wasted my time, but it's still a little unpleasant when reading the same specification leads to such different interpretations. Oh, wait... I've seen this with ActivityPub too, I shouldn't be surprised. But maybe it's time I introspect why this keeps happening to me, or do I need a couple more data points.

@DavidPenington the reason I used this example, is one of the main areas where solar panel power rating is often inflated is on small portable setups for things like hiking, camping, etc... it might not be what you need to run your apartment on, but it may be enough to charge your phone when camping.

VPN Regulierung jawoll

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000320131/eu-bericht-bezeichnet-vpn-dienste-als-schlupfloch-das-geschlossen-werden-muss

@thomasfricke

@TheBreadmonkey

this is not well known, so i thought i'd share this -
way back in 2020, ars released a short interview with rand miller about myst and the challenges of the cd-rom format. it's mildly interesting, but obviously cut from a much larger tapestry.

they eventually released the full, 2h interview with rand, but very few people saw it. in the extended version, he talks about the very early days of working with HyperCard, from the Manhole to Cosmic Osmo to Spelunx. he goes into obscene amounts of detail with the constraints of working with HC and 80s/90s macs, writing custom XCMD and XFCNs, building in 3d with StrataVision, and using Debabelizer to build palettes.

he does an amazing job of explaining what the constraints were for computing in that era. for anyone curious about what it was like making games in the 80s/90s, i can think of few other interviews that express the realities and joys of working in confined space so well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qxg0ykOcgM

#retrocomputing #macintosh #vintageApple #hypercard #myst #riven

There came a day when the great emperor fell ill with fever, and none of his doctors could revive him. Now the call went out across the empire, promising great reward for any who could find a cure.

And so it came to pass that one week later, on the exact same day and at the exact same time, two magicians from opposite and obscure corners of the realm at last presented themselves to the court.

https://www.the-reframe.com/one-thing-you-can-never-say-is-you-havent-been-told/

Das Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt (BMFTR) hat ein neues Rahmenprogramm für die Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (GSW) veröffentlicht.

https://www.bmftr.bund.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/DE/2026/05/070526-GSW-Rahmenprogramm.html

@pwaring Yes, this.

It absolutely does not deal with the issue of inadequate supervision / checking etc., but it is concerning in itself.