"Lithium-ion battery prices have declined from USD 1,400 per kilowatt-hour in 2010 to less than USD 140 per kilowatt-hour in 2023, one of the fastest cost declines of any energy technology ever, as a result of progress in research and development and economies of scale in manufacturing."

https://www.iea.org/reports/batteries-and-secure-energy-transitions/executive-summary
#Energy #EnergyTransition #Batteries #Grid #Power

Executive summary – Batteries and Secure Energy Transitions – Analysis - IEA

Batteries and Secure Energy Transitions - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.

^IEA

🚨 noyb has filed a complaint against the ChatGPT creator OpenAI

OpenAI openly admits that it is unable to correct false information about people on ChatGPT. The company cannot even say where the data comes from.

Read all about it here 👇

https://noyb.eu/en/chatgpt-provides-false-information-about-people-and-openai-cant-correct-it

ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it

noyb today filed a complaint against the ChatGPT maker OpenAI with the Austrian DPA

^noyb.eu

I can't believe my almost 75 year old mom has been using Fedora (KDE Spin) on her laptop and it's been working well for years now.

Distro upgrades like recently from 39 to 40? "yea just click 'upgrade to fedora 40' in Discover" "okay [...] okay fedora 40 is installed now".

Accessing photos? "Yea they're all in Seafile"

Making posters for the garden club? "Easy enough with Libreoffice"

Desktop Linux isn't complicated anymore. If my 75 year old mom can figure it out, so can anyone

“How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland? | by Anna Andersen”

Glad somebody wrote about this because it’s an objectively hilarious UX case study

(And they just announced that eleven people managed to get the requisite number of endorsements in time) https://uxdesign.cc/how-do-you-accidentally-run-for-president-of-iceland-0d71a4785a1e

How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland?

To run for President of Iceland, you need to be an Icelandic citizen, at least 35 years old, and have 1,500 endorsements. For the first time in Icelandic history, this endorsement process is digital…

^{Anna Andersen (UX Collective)}

91% of Europe’s cities are looking to nature-based solutions to fight climate change

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/04/29/91-of-europes-cities-are-looking-to-nature-based-solutions-to-fight-climate-change

#Europe #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

To keep us distracted from what’s really going on in the world, our rulers constantly provide more and more circuses — a new Marvel superhero movie, the latest celebrity scandal of the week, a huge sale at Amazon — because if everyone was paying attention to *genuine* reality, the whole capitalist charade might just collapse.

But guess what: Earth's climate and environment pay no heed to such circuses. Instead, they respond directly to real physical inputs, the continual burning of fossil fuels, the ever-increasing amounts of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, the enormous heat being trapped and absorbed...
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March 2024 was the hottest on record and the tenth straight month of historic heat, with sea surface temperatures also hitting a "shocking" new high.

It is the latest red flag in a year already marked by climate extremes and rising greenhouse gas emissions, spurring fresh calls for more rapid action to limit global warming.

Every month since June 2023 has beaten its own "hottest ever" tag – and March 2024 was no exception.

The EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said that March globally was 1.68ºC hotter than an average March between the years 1850-1900, the reference period for the pre-industrial era.

Huge swathes of the planet endured above-average temperatures, from parts of Africa to Greenland, South America, and Antarctica.

March was not only the tenth consecutive month to break its own heat record, but capped the hottest 12-month period on the books – 1.58ºC above pre-industrial averages.
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FULL STORY -- https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2024/04/09/global-temperatures-hit-record-highs-for-tenth-consecutive-month-in-march_6667824_114.html

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Last 12 months have been the hottest ever recorded on the planet

The EU's climate monitor said Tuesday that March globally was 1.68°C hotter than an average March between the years 1850-1900, the reference period for the pre-industrial era.

^{Le Monde with AFP (Le Monde)}

Are you a:

girl? good girlboy? good boyenby? good scrongly

Content warning: Discussion of suicide, UK politics Reveal/hide

OpenAI slapped with GDPR complaint: How do you correct your work?

Irresistible magical tech runs headlong into immovable personal data regulations Privacy activist group noyb (None of Your Business) has filed a complaint against OpenAI, alleging that the ChatGPT service violates GDPR rules since its information cannot be corrected if found inaccurate.…
#theregister #IT
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/04/29/openai_hit_by_gdpr_complaint/

OpenAI slapped with GDPR complaint: How do you correct your work?

^{Richard Speed (The Register)}

The amount of CSS novelty in the last two to four years has been staggering. Multiple innovations have been released and are now supported in all modern browsers, and some of them fundamentally change how to make websites.

This page is a cheat sheet for new CSS things I want to start using in 2024. I hope it helps others catching up!

https://thomasorus.com/new-css-that-can-actually-be-used-in-2024.html

New CSS that can actually be used in 2024

^{Thomasorus's Wiki}

www.youtube.com##[url=https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ytd]ytd[/url]-shelf-renderer:has(span[id="title"]:contains("For you"))<br>www.youtube.com##[url=https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ytd]ytd[/url]-shelf-renderer:has(span[id="title"]:contains("Previously watched"))<br>www.youtube.com##[url=https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ytd]ytd[/url]-reel-shelf-renderer<br>www.youtube.com##[url=https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ytd]ytd[/url]-shelf-renderer:has(span[id="title"]:contains("People also watched"))<br>

Gilda Griffon at Midwest FurFest 2016.

One of my fav ever fursuits.

aha, someone linked me to this: *this* is the artist whose works I remembered when I attempted my own cumulative exposure photos of the Tempest coin-op attract mode!

https://www.rosemariefiore.com/projects-1999-2007-/photographs/1

On This Day 1994: 30 years ago today, Commodore declared bankruptcy marking an end of an era for the company that brought us the Commodore 64 and the Commodore Amiga 500 among other machines.

#Commodore #Commodore64 #C64 #Amiga #RetroComputing

Came up in a discussion, and I think it's an important point: You don't need to write software to be mass marketable. It can be niche, weird and fun and as long as it speaks the common protocol, who gives a fuck if only you and some friends use it :)

We have an unhealthy obsession with naming things "sensibly" and making sure it's marketable.

Sod that, be fun with it! It's for you and your community first.

I was reverse engineering an app which generated a bunch of temporary files and then deleted/unlinked them quickly. I wanted to read the files so I made an LD_PRELOAD which disables unlinking of files.

/*
* gcc -Wall -fPIC -DPIC -c ununlink.c
* ld -shared -o ununlink.so ununlink.o -ldl -lc
* LD_PRELOAD=./ununlink.so app
*
*/

int unlink(const char *path) {
return 0;
}

ran the problem with LD_PRELOAD=./ununlink.so and then I could explore all the files it generated.

It’s a BIG BLUE STOOPiD Monday!
🔵 - @furry_the_jake
📸 - ID-ID

#fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiting #mascot #furry #furries #furryfandom #fursuitphotography #foxfursuit #costume #cosplay #lupesuits

I'd like for us to stop using AI in the same way we stopped using Uranium in glassware.

There are legitimate uses for AI, just not in a lot of ways it is being pushed now.

2 died of Ebola: They said Obama should resign.

4 died in Benghazi: They had Hillary testify for 11 hours, held 33 hearings, and launched a 4-year probe.

891,488 Covid deaths, an armed insurrection & theft of classified documents: They cheered, and worship Trump as God-King.

Content warning: Twitter has fucked up their email setup Reveal/hide

Reverse DNS no longer matches (x.com vs twitter.com) and therefore my mail server rightfully rejects emails from Twitter.

A user of my mail server made me notice, as I myself no longer use Twitter.

Well, that's what comes of this domain change thing. Though I have done a domain migration for an organization before and therefore, this kind of thing is funny.