Final thought before bed:

If colleges using cops to violently repress students who are merely saying 'genocide is bad' on campuses across the country isn't the last straw to break your fragile political back before you finally go ACAB, then I don't know what will.

#ACAB #freepalestine #GazaGenocide #RightToProtest

Upside down. (2024). Digital Drawing. Yote Life 2024

When not in duty, comet loves to go back home and hang around in the trees that adorn the landscape of his planet. Wanna join? You can even eat some of the fruits hanging from the mangroves! 🍎 🍌

#art #furry #furryart

I often hear from people discouraged about the slow pace of climate action. “We’ve tried so hard to tackle climate change and nothing changed,” they say. “Why even bother anymore?”

While it may feel subtle or almost imperceptible at times, a lot has changed over the last decade. Just 10 years ago, 0.7% of cars sold around the world were electric vehicles. Today, 20% are. Before the Paris Agreement, the world was forecast to warm by up to 5 degrees C (9F). Now, as this article explains, that number has been dialed back to 2.7 degrees thanks to already enacted government policies around the world.

Of course we need to do more: the science is clear that every tenth of a degree of warming we avoid will prevent a measurable amount of loss and suffering. But a shift is underway, and if we don’t talk about what has been accomplished as well as what still remains to be done, we are disempowering and discouraging people from taking action.

Read on for more good news, not so good news, and how you can help reach a target of 25,000 climate conversations this month!

https://open.substack.com/pub/talkingclimatenewsletter/p/celebrating-the-earth?r=2eiy9u&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

THIS IS NOT A DRILL
#msdos 4.0 JUST GOT OFFICIALLY OPEN-SOURCED

HOLY SHIT

https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS

#Microsoft #opensource #DOS

GitHub - microsoft/MS-DOS: The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25, 2.0, and 4.0 for reference purposes

The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25, 2.0, and 4.0 for reference purposes - microsoft/MS-DOS

^GitHub

I decided to share my font with you 🌸

https://ko-fi.com/s/81a3058ffd

🎞️was nyaa~ice to meet ya again!

🐑@RamenTheRam (tw)
🐈@lennyaa

#fursuit #kemonofursuit #fursuiteveryday #kemono #furry #furryfandom #fursuiter #fursuiting #kemonosuit #fursuitphotography #furrycommunity #catfurry #catfursuit #fursuits #nfc2024 #nordicfuzzcon #nordicfuzzcon2024 #analogphotography

Working from home is great because I can start earlier, finish earlier, and I still have energy in the evening to work on personal projects.

Spending the day in the office is crap because I have to spend 1h travelling each way, so I start later, finish even later, and I've got only enough energy to feed myself and go to bed.

The real threat from working from home... the thing that wakes billionaires up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night... is the plebs achieving self-actualisation. That's why they want us back in the office.

The FCC has just voted to restore federal net neutrality rules for ISPs, banning them from blocking websites or selectively speeding them up or slowing them down for the first time since 2017.

It's a huge regulatory shift that paves the way for further rules on a sweeping range of issues and sets the stage for a legal battle with industry: https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/25/tech/net-neutrality-is-back

Essentially, distro developers are firefighters, putting out fires made by careless upstreams.

What I've wasted time on, today:

- making the non-standalone test suite of #Hatchling (sigh) work without #UV again, so that a critical build dependency of a growing number of #Python packages could be tested everywhere

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=cc6e54e1df5e0802198c793f39107a9028b8698f
https://bugs.gentoo.org/930662

- fixing effectively dead (but with a promise of revival) #PassLib not to break random stuff via printing warnings when using newer #BCrypt versions

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=c1e015b65b74283a51893672739c5e4784b95273
https://bugs.gentoo.org/925289

- hacking the test suite of #ImageIO work using an offline copy of test data, rather than cloning its git repository at the beginning of tests

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=77ff4bc09d68067f2c635d43d446f308990e0873

I really wish people would consider donating to distro developers more often, rather than to projects that create this thankless work for us.

#Gentoo

Climate protesters target BP and Drax shareholder meetings

Broadcaster Chris Packham and members of the Axe Drax campaign group gathered outside the meeting at 133 Houndsditch in the City of London on Thursday

Dozens of protesters crowded the building’s entrance with banners reading: “Stop burning trees” and “Invest in green energy”, and shouting “Axe Drax. Reparations now”

https://guernseypress.com/news/uk-news/2024/04/25/climate-protesters-target-bp-and-drax-shareholder-meetings/

#UK #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate #ClimateStrike

Climate protesters target BP and Drax shareholder meetings

The energy companies both held their annual general meetings on Thursday.

^{guernseypress.com}

How soon before Windows 11 has ads after every powershell command.

C:\> mkdir test

%% Enjoy Diet Pepsi %%

C:\> _

In bash, writing ${var?} instead of just ${var} or $var means if var isn't defined then bash will throw an error and _not_ execute your command, instead of expanding it to "" and carrying on.

mv file1 file2 $subdir # oops, I overwrote file2
mv file1 file2 ${subdir?} # error message instead of disaster

My favourite use of this is for example commands in documentation, with placeholders for the user to fill in. Then it's OK if a user accidentally copy-pastes it _without_ filling them in!

We might be closer to changing course on climate change than we realized

We find there is a 70% chance that emissions start falling in 2024 if current clean technology growth trends continue and some progress is made to cut non-CO2 emissions,” authors wrote. “This would make 2023 the year of peak emissions

The inertia behind this trend toward lower emissions is so immense that even politics can only slow it down, not stop it

https://www.vox.com/climate/24139383/climate-change-peak-greenhouse-gas-emissions-action

#pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Global greenhouse gas emissions are about to peak. There’s still work to do.

Greenhouse gas emissions might have already peaked. Now they need to fall — fast.

^{Umair Irfan (Vox)}

❤️

#mentalhealth #art

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OP @masterdon1312

I appreciate this article today, about how libraries pay more than consumers for digital books. https://www.kuow.org/stories/digital-reading-soars-in-seattle-creating-problems-for-local-libraries

The attached graphic really hits home.

Greta Thunberg (@gretathunberg) writes:

"When we say that our leaders have not been taking any climate action during the last thirty years, we could not be more wrong. In fact, they have been very busy. But not in the way that you might think — or hope.

"They have spent this time actively delaying action, creating frameworks full of loopholes that will benefit their own national short-term economic policies — and their own popularity. And as long as the level of awareness is as low as it is today, they will continue to get away with it."

That's from page 92 in The Climate Book -- https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/709837/the-climate-book-by-greta-thunberg/

#Politics #Economics #Environment #Climate #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #Greenwashing

"Listen," one guard said, "I know we have only just met-"

"No," the other guard said, "we've worked together for years!"

"-but you can trust me when I say-"

"I can't, you have the curse that's opposite from mine!"

"I don't care for you at all."

"Well, I... oh... I love you too."
#TootFic #SmallStories #Microfiction

if you want a small home server, don’t buy a raspberry pi and cry when the sd card gets corrupted yet again. buy a second-hand office computer.

dozens of these things go for <200 AUD every other month at my local auction house. they’re quiet, they’re fast, and they use less power than you’d think.

from left to right:
• jane — opnsense home router, intel 4th gen, 0 AUD
• tol — plex server with hardware encoding, intel 6th gen, 71 AUD
• smol — 3d printer server, intel 6th gen, 100 AUD