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Itβs very rare to hear of any positive world-leading policy from round here these days, but the UKβs now the first country to bin off coal power in favour of renewables. And they did it when they said they would too!
Iβm not one for feelings of national pride at all. But for all the shit over the last decade, itβs good to see something nice for once.
UKβs 142-year history of coal-fired electricity ends as turbines at Ratcliffe-on-Soar plant in Nottinghamshire stop for goodJillian Ambrose (The Guardian)
"You have found my darkest secret," the dragon said. "You can never reveal it."
"I will not," said the knight, "but why is it such a horrible secret?"
"It's my one vulnerability."
"This?"
The knight scritched between the dragon's horns.
"Mmm," it purred.
"This is nice."
"Mrrmrm."
@Darkhorse WinterWolf πͺπΊ I just thought to turn off wifi on my phone and tried it from there over mobile internet (should have thought to try that before)β¦ and it worked. Then connected to wifi againβ¦ and it still worked. Still doesn't work on my laptop on wifi. I wonder if they just don't like desktop firefox! Oh well, done now. Thanks.
For some reason at first they showed my bike as uninsured, then when I tried again it showed up as insured. That inspires confidence. π
Eveyone: "US customary units are BS."
USA: "We went to the moon on customary units."
France and UK: "Son, we went to New York and back three times a day, every day, for thirty years, at Mach 2.1, eating canapΓ©s and drinking champagne, on SI units."
Organist Anna Lapwood presents a beginnerβs guide to the organ, from stops, pedals and manuals to pipes and wind chests.Filmed at St John's Smith Square in L...YouTube
The terms "Super Hero" and "Super Heroes" have entered the public domain. Previously, these were trademarks jointly owned by Marvel and DC.
I saw The Wild Robot last night, and rarely has a film ever felt so close to my heart.
So much beauty and sweetness, but well balanced with some dark wit and mortality themes. It all blends so poignantly, and so many times during the movie I just felt so profoundly in love with it.
Also havenβt cried this much in a long time, but if that sounds like a warning or a negative, it isnβt. This movie couldnβt have come at a better time, and I hope it makes a billion because it should.
As I've been meaning to post for a few days now:
Aw. :(
(I was really getting into that, catching up on it every day, was even planning to do an audiobook-like reading of it. Oh well. :/)
Hey readers, thanks for joining me on this journey, but I'm going to terminate it here. My goal was to write a minimum 500 words a day every day WITHOUT EXCEPTION, proving to myself I could be consistent. (...)Royal Road
It's #fursuitfriday !!!
Squeezing a tune with an excited MeekoTooth ! π¦ππͺ :3
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I'm still moderately annoyed by this concept of pushing "memory safe languages" while tagging C/C++ "memory unsafe".
At the base level, yes, it makes sense. But every single article I've read ignores the fact that in C/C++, memory safety is on the programmer, and these bugs are almost entirely caused by sloppy design practices, NOT by the language. Most of the time, it's caused by not having a clear memory ownership law. Considering that effort that goes into regulating the naming of variables, you would think someone would consider that important.
This article goes even further, and says "hey, our code actually gets safer even if we never fix anything because attackers will just stop using the old vulns." Dude, if they can't find new ones, they certainly will re-discover the old ones.
Software SHOULD evolve. But telling the programmer they don't need to be diligent is a bad practice no matter the language. Software starts with practice, not deflection.
https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/eliminating-memory-safety-vulnerabilities-Android.html
Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep - Android team, and Alex Rebert - Security Foundations Memory safety vulnerabilities remain a pervasive threa...Google Online Security Blog
You know how we have Torment Nexus at home? Well it seems to be the same torment nexus, it's just pretending to be a TV.
X use has been plunging, dropping and then plunging some more in both the US and UK since May 2023. No suprise there, but good to see it quantified.
If May 2033 = 100, then UK users now down to below 70.
The post is from Scientists for EU which is usually fairly reputable.
#Musk typing his rightwing political opinions about inciting civil war whilst (allegedly) in a ketamine haze have been noted and the grown ups have left the building.
Protip: If you live in an area with mosquito-borne diseases, fursuits provide a thick barrier of fur between you and the biting insects. Wear your fursuit outside as PPE!
So the U.S. government is considering banning certain parts for connected cars, (which is virtually all cars now,) from Russia and China because they don't want them to have the ability to use cars sold in the U.S. for spying purposes.
Maybe if we didn't let our car makers turn our cars into spyware on wheels this wouldn't be an issue eh? Anyone ever think of that?
How can you read this!? There's no pictures!
Little concerned wah on acrylics over a super boring book about politics.
Long story short: I had ordered a book on Amazon and I received a completely different one, when I claimed for the mistake, they refunded me instead, not even asking for the mistaken book back. I quickly researched how much it was that book worth, it was only 14mxn (less than $1usd), so I had on my hands a boring book that I was not going to read it and I couldn't sell it back, so I decided to turn it in an art piece.
It may be exhibited at the MFF Art Show.
"And a princess' kiss will lift your curse and turn you back into a prince?" the princess said, bending down.
"No," the frog sighed. "I'm a milkmaid."
The princess paused. "Er... I'll get my brother."
"Is he a princess?"
The princess bent down again. "If it's for a good cause..."
