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#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #fossilfuels

Starship 30 this afternoon being prepared for possible static fire testing tomorrow.

7/22/24

Washington Is Giving #Tax Breaks to #Data Centers That Threaten the State’s Green #Energy Push
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In 2019, #Washington adopted legislation requiring electric utilities to go carbon-neutral in a decade.

Yet lawmakers continued to promote the growth of energy-guzzling data centers with generous tax incentives.

#News #Taxes #PNW #Environment #Electricity #Power #Government #Regulation

https://www.propublica.org/article/data-centers-clean-energy-washington-state

EVERY TIME YOU TACK-WELD A BATTERY INTO AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE, THE GOD OF REPAIRABILITY AND HARDWARE MAINTAINABILITY COMES INTO YOUR HOUSE AND PISSES IN YOUR SOCK DRAWER

My experiment with non-centered new window placement on Plasma was concluded after a week.

My conclusion: My eyes are naturally resting on the currently opened stuff. Having a window open voluntarily in a place where I don’t currently have anything is hard to predict, and invariably resulted in me having to wait for the window to appear, and then drag it to a sensible place to use it.

A bit annoying on a laptop, absolutely horrible on my ultra wide monitor. Back to centered windows I go!

We just landed support for connecting / disconnecting #Bluetooth devices via quick settings on #Phosh's current development branch:

#LinuxMobile

Earlier this cycle Teemu Ikonen added support for displaying track position / length and a progress indicator to #phosh's media player widget 🥳 :

BREAKING!

The Antifa Turtle on #Twitter shared a Twitter API okta leak that shows there is a list of "protected accounts", all of them right wing, who are allowed to break #X Terms Of Services without consequence and includes a list of whitelisted slurs they are allowed to use.

The whistle-blowing Twitter account was suspended by mods shortly after.

#elonmusk #freespeech #whistleblower #leak @UnicornRiot @freedomofpress @OffTheHook

So thanks to @rmader@mastodon.social we managed to get the front camera in the Pixel 3a working with a libcamera/pipewire stack 🥳 Thanks to @flamingradian for the work on the whole port!

https://gitlab.com/sdm670-mainline/linux/-/merge_requests/1

#postmarketOS #LinuxMobile #Pixel3a #Snapshot #GNOME #GUADEC

To Boldly Go.

#Harris2024

Alpine 3.20.2 released

This release includes various bug fixes and security updates, including a security fix with low severity for OpenSSL CVE-2024-5535

https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.20.2-released.html

#AlpineLinux

Starbase launch tower 2 module 3 was stacked this morning.

7/18/24

Congress is set to vote next week on a law that will allow industry groups to own copyright in the laws we all must follow. We need you to tell them to oppose this outrageous proposal. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-don-t-let-anyone-own-the-law

USB & Thunderbolt Improvements Land In Linux 6.11

Greg Kroah-Hartman on Friday sent out all of the USB/Thunderbolt subsystem feature updates destined for the Linux 6.11 kernel of which there are many different patches across the board...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-USB

Major blow to the concept of software updates today.

Remember when developers would make an effort to bundle all their new features and bugfixes into a single stable build, and test that release thoroughly before sending it to users? We called it "shipping."

Shipping is old-fashioned now, and continuous deployment is in, which is why 5% of any given app is busted this week -- but don't worry, it'll be a different 5% next week.

JAAAAAAA! Mehr als 67.680 Menschen in Deutschland wünschen sich eine #Vermögenssteuer. Mit eurer Hilfe haben wir die erforderliche Anzahl an Unterschriften bei der Europäischen Bürgerinneninitiative (EBI) #TaxTheRich für Deutschland erreicht – ein wichtiger Etappensieg!

Damit die EBI erfolgreich ist, müssen wir nun zum einen mithelfen, dass weitere EU-Länder ihr Quorum erreichen – es braucht mindestens sieben. Sagt vor allem euren Freund*innen in Belgien, Dänemark und Italien Bescheid!

Außerdem müssen EU-weit länderunabhängig eine Million Unterschriften gesammelt werden, deshalb ist auch jede weitere Unterschrift aus Deutschland wichtig – teilt also bitte weiter so super wie bisher!

Für jeden Anlass die passende Kleidung im Schrank zu haben. So wichtig. #crowdstrike

Ah yes, let's ship a kernel driver that parses update files that are pushed globally simultaneously to millions of users without progressive staging, and lets write it in a memory unsafe language so it crashes if an update is malformed, and let's have no automated boot recovery mechanism to disable things after a few failed boots. What could possibly go wrong?

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"As our country continues to reel from this horrific event, we in Congress have taken action by enacting a nationwide ban on all roofs, roof terraces, and balconies." https://www.theonion.com/congress-bans-roofs-1851592883