A “hyperscale” datacentre in outer London would generate more than 1m tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, equivalent to the carbon footprint of 27,000 flights from London to New York, planning documents show.

The East Havering Data Centre Campus (EHDCC) in North Ockendon would be one of the largest datacentres in Europe if approved by Havering council, using 218 hectares of green belt to run servers and data storage systems for AI and cloud computing.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/21/proposed-london-datacentre-will-have-annual-carbon-footprint-of-27000-flights-to-new-york

7yo neighbour kid: "You can just grow grapes in your garden? That's allowed?"

Me: "Allowed? It's my garden. There is no law against it."

Kid blinking heavily: "But then why doesn't everyone do that? If you can just grow what you want, why doesn't everyone have like berries and stuff in their garden?"

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He honestly assumed there must be a law preventing folks from planting fun stuff in their garden.

#gardening

I'm autistic, which means I have a favourite seat on my morning train. Unfortunately, another autistic guy who gets on at my station has the exact same favourite seat. It has devolved into a silent, autistically passive-aggressive daily war over who can reach the seat first.

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117136600592645407

“rent-burdened millennials who abandoned avocado toast and fancy coffee and still can't afford a downpayment will tell you, the fact that being born in 1945 made it easy to trip and land on a couple million dollars' worth of real estate wealthy by the time you reached retirement age tells us nothing about how to solve the housing crisis of 2026.”

“By the same token, continuing to give trillions to AI companies because they experienced early success with theory-free inference at scale tells us nothing about how to solve the vast range of problems that theory-free inference at scale sucks at. Doubling down on AI to overcome its increasingly obvious limitations is like doubling down on building post-war suburbs to fix today's housing market.”

@fivetonsflax [gesturing] Have you ever seen a zero? Ever seen zero of anything? No! Nobody has! They even want our kids to believe in imaginary numbers, can you believe that? I've been talking to Pete, whose doing a great job by the way and anything you hear about airline carriers is fake news, I said Pete we have to stop these imaginary numbers before they get into our cities, our great american cities! I said, Pete, we need to be really strong on the algebrans. We need them wiped off the map.

Happy #caturday from Oscar, who woke me up multiple times in the night because he kept cuddling my legs, I'd wake up overheating, toss and turn until he moved, then I'd fall back asleep, only to repeat the pattern when he inevitably came back to hug my legs again. Then this morning he came to lie in front of my face and stare adoringly at me with his big broad face, which was very nice, so I forgive him for the poor sleep.

@NunavutBirder Been there on a few flights, too.

@fahrni @johnbrayton You need to retire Rob so you’ll have more time 😆

@cavyherd @regordane @ai6yr @gannet Even there, I don't know of very many programmers who could write code at the typing speed of a skilled 1960 secretary/typist. Basic touch typing was (and is) certainly a useful skill for a programmer, but the speed and accuracy that secretaries were trained for was *insane* by comparison.

Today, I joined my Senate colleague @KristopherWells and his acrobatic dog Finnegan at the Edmonton Pride Parade. We also handed out Canada flags - because it’s a good day to be proud to be Canadian. #yeg #yegpride #Edmonton #SenCa #cdnpoli #LGBQTQIA

Brey imagine buying a whole ass ticket to a WNBA game, and a $30 sex shop rubber dildo, to tell all of America "I am extremely big fucking mad about hypothetical trans women who aren't even in the WNBA."

You're fucking losers right? Like, I grew up in Trumpland culture and I can guarantee you that your fathers and grandafthers, nazis just like you, would not be impressed with this snowflake shit.

Like you bought a dildo? Wow. Fucking baby-shit soft.

@mattblaze @ai6yr @cavyherd @gannet

"Are there current skills that now mark you as an "assistant" the way typing once did?"

I honestly have no idea. I'm one of the best artists' models in London, having continued with something I originally started as a sideline.

But I retired from my main career more than three years ago, in which I'd freelanced since the turn of the millennium. So I really know nothing about modern workplace hierarchies

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/first-person-loan-car-to-stranger-9.7306763

These are some neighbours I'm very grateful to have 🥹✨

Edit: all of these neighbours, to be clear. The young neighbour who heard a need and suggested mutual aid. The older neighbour who reconsidered her privileges, chose empathy, and took a chance offering resources, time, and knowledge. The new neighbour who met an offer of help with humility and gratitude.

The report "ActivityPub and HTTP Signatures" was published today.

It documents best practices for how to use HTTP Signatures with ActivityPub.

The content of the report has been available and stable since June 2024, but due to a secretarial error, hadn't been published on the W3C site so far. (Sorry!)

LInk is on under "Final Reports": https://www.w3.org/community/socialcg/

@craiggrannell There are degrees of moral compromise. But if you're measuring degrees, you've already stepped over a line.

@encthenet i have a strong ideological bias against the approach taken by daniel jackoff bernstein regarding "timing attacks" and "data-dependent branches", as his entire theory on the subject is remarkably unscientific and fundamentally flawed. for example https://nacl.cr.yp.to/features.html#:~:text=No%20data-dependent%20branches

The CPU's instruction pointer, branch predictor, etc. are not designed to keep information secret.

if you are performing a cryptographic operation based upon secret data in response to an attacker-controlled query, you have an insecure cryptographic protocol. i completely absolutely do not believe that daniel junkie bernstein is able to write code that exhibits no data-dependent behavior, and he NEVER tests the result, because he directly claims side channel susceptibility is literally unmeasurable: https://cr.yp.to/antiforgery/cachetiming-20050414.pdf

Let me emphasize that I am not asserting that the software in Figure 8.1 takes constant time. On the contrary: I am saying that this sort of testing cannot provide a reasonable level of confidence that software takes constant time.

RE: https://social.coop/@adamgreenfield/117140296005875673

Bumping this for the North American crew.

🇫🇷 Serveur UnifiedPush déployé !

Un peu technique, mais concrètement pour vous : vous ne le savez peut-être pas, mais quand une application (même tierce, même libre) vous envoie des notifications (push) sur Android, elle passe par les serveurs de Google (infrastructure FCM).

Si vous êtes sur Android, si vous avez Conversations (XMPP), vous pouvez désormais remplacer ça pour les applications qui le supportent (exemples : Fedilab, Tusky, Moshidon, Elements...)

Préalable : vous devez installer la version de l'application depuis F-Droid (et pas depuis le Google Store, qui comme par surprise, bloque cette fonctionnalité).

Ensuite, allez dans les paramètres de Conversations et tout à la fin, "Distributeur UnifiedPush" ; entrez : push.gayfr.live dans "Serveur Push", et cochez votre compte XMPP dans le champ au-dessus.

Enfin, allez dans les options de compte ou de notifications de votre application, et validez le paramètre UnifiedPush ou Push Notification Provider. Le reste doit se faire tout seul.

Voilà ! La prochaine fois que vous recevrez une notification, elle passera par nos serveurs et plus par Google.

Note : bien sûr, si vous êtes sur iOS, vous êtes baisé, cette possibilité n'existe pas.

Lien en anglais avec la liste des applications supportées en bas de page : https://unifiedpush.org/

#UnifiedPush #XMPP #gayfr