Google’s reported that its DIRECT water usage surged in 2023 by 34% year-on-year to 10.9 billion gallons (approximately 41.26 billion liters).
Neither Google nor Amazon report indirect water usage.
Meta does. It's INDIRECT water usage is 20 TIMES HIGHER than its DIRECT water usage.
Go figure
https://www.chosun.com/english/industry-en/2026/07/07/RQAGC7X4BNEYHD4IJFXKHG5Z5Q/
Europese Commissie misbruikt kinderen als breekijzer om toegang te krijgen tot onze privécommunicatie https://archive.is/Y85m3#selection-1239.77-1239.94
Schandalig! 😡 #EU🇪🇺#ChatControl👁️#privacy
Stop deze coup en waarschuw Europarlementariërs NU: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/#contact-tool ✍️
https://mastodon.social/@Matthijs85/116861737838629836
They're going to try to force #ChatControl down our throat until they succeed. They only need to succeed once to open the door. Then it will be barely possible to close the door again.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@r_alb/116878691038594948
Also, what a lot of "I have nothing to hide" people miss is that stuff-that-needs-to-be-hidden depends on social and political climate at any given moment and changes with time.
Being pregnant while crossing the US border used to be a non-issue, nothing-to-hide type thing. Now US fascist lawmakers are pushing for pregnancy tests at the border.
This is just a very fresh example, there are endless others.
Once our data is out, we have no control over it. Will it be dangerous in 5-10 years? 👀
CHAT CONTROL IS BACK → Today the urgent procedure for Chat Control 1.0 was passed.
NEXT UP: The EU Parliament is voting on Thursday.
If Chat Control passes: your messages, pictures, videos will all be scanned because the law will allow it - this removes privacy and welcomes mass surveillance in the EU.
Share this post, make some noise, and let's fight for our right to privacy. ✊🏻♥️🇪🇺
Pictured: Parliament President Roberta Metsola (EPP) who revived Chat Control 1.0!
While Ansible's open source AWX has seen no release for over two years (tbh, I've almost given up checking and have endless :shrugs: for it now), this person has made a native iOS client for Ansible Semaphore and is looking for feedback
https://www.reddit.com/r/ansible/comments/1un44s5/i_made_a_native_ios_client_for_ansible_semaphore/
This is really cool.
Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys https://www.ecoportal.net/en/switzerland-5000-alpine-solar-muttsee-dam-winter-power/28487/
UPDATE: Since the article above is #AISlop from a BuzzFeed-style content farm (even though its content is accurate) here's a 2023 Reuters article on this solar plant https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/switzerlands-solar-dam-sun-snow-perfect-mix-green-energy-drive-2023-02-06/
(Edit - by David Abruzzese, one of the best rock drummers on earth)
This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
After five and a half years as the sole Android developer for the official Tomorrowland Radio app, my assignment ends. It’s the perfect time to reflect on the accomplishments during this period.
RE: https://aus.social/@JohnLamp/116876269589836858
Trump will be claiming he found the culprit for all the problems with the Reflecting Pool.
Wondering why everything that has dedicated tooling for tracking stuff ends up, one way or another, in an Excel sheet on Sharepoint.
We are here. #USpol #worldcup2026 #tfg
"De Rode Duivels sturen de VS terug naar huis"
Ze zijn al thuis...
I feel this drawing could've been a lot worse...🤣
Oh, goodie. KVM Guest-to-Host escape
"Januscape (CVE-2026-53359)" -- https://github.com/V4bel/Januscape
Heerlijk uitgebreide lijst van welke computer te zien is in welke film 😅
Starring the Computer https://www.starringthecomputer.com
I know "move to Linux" is most often useless advice, but seriously it is the only path to having fun with computers these days.
Everything else is drained of all that may have ever made it good.
Rovio,
Your Angry Birds password recovery system is not functioning correctly. I have not received an email. Respond.
Worf