https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkmjybNA6Jk

https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/07/02/trump-department-of-education-kansas-school-district-trans-protections/

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@miclgael/116848868875929856

https://retrododo.com/why-retro-wins-after-sonys-announcement-to-stop-producing-physical-games/

yarp.

#RetroGaming #EatShitSony

After a bit of fighting, I now have root terminal access to my car!

What a weird sentence.

RE: https://tilde.zone/@kirch/116850852523326043

Note that this applies to centrists in general. If you're not opposing, you are aiding and abetting.

https://www.ign.com/articles/sony-just-killed-discs-physical-disc-production-to-end-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles

i'm officially a retro gamer.

I made a little chicken. I think she’s called Clara.

Why did I make her?

Because I like turning ideas into something tangible.
Because creativity is a natural human behaviour.

Is she perfect? No.

Do I care? No.

Will machines ever do what I did? No.

#NoSlop #craft #sewing #MadeWithoutAI

So, my uni women's rowing club decided to restrict membership to cis women only. In response, a new "open" division was created that anyone can compete in.

Lots of women left to join the open division instead, and now the women's club are complaining about losing their best rowers.

Be transphobic, lose support.

That's the conses of your quences, folks.

If campaign donations don't affect the outcome of elections then there is no reason not to strictly limit them.
If campaign donations do affect the outcome of elections they allow rich people outsized influence, which is anti-democratic, and they should be strictly limited.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116822244689326681

Tim Cook doesn't represent Apple everyone.

@mullvadnet So half of my money to you (minus operational costs) goes to a far-right donor?

@mullvadnet @lostgen

People's private attitudes to politics actually really does impact how they do business, and if others want to do business with them.

It might surprise you that probably the vast majority of your current customers probably aren't fascists.

Guess you're about to find out how that works in the real world. Maybe you'll still be around with masses of Nazis as customers.

Maybe you should join up with Proton and Framework and make up a little fascist cabal over there in the corner.

Four hours left till the #EOFY!
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Think of not using GitHub as a low pass filter to weed out all of the low effort and slop generated issues and PRs you get from people who are never going to follow up on questions and code reviews anyway.

Your life as a maintainer is quite literally better off by not using GitHub/GitLab.

#GitHub #GitLab

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@miclgael/116821255338318230

Last day to use your wallet to tell ON, ALP, LNP (oops all the same entity) to get stuffed.

They’re going to call you a socialist regardless.

So be a socialist.

#cdnpoli #socialism

🔋 Finland's 'sand battery' survived its first brutal winter. But the viral story gets one big thing wrong.

What's real:
- Polar Night Energy built a commercial thermal battery in Pornainen, Finland (5,000 people)
- 2,000 tons of crushed soapstone heated to 500-600C
- 1 MW power, 100 MWh capacity
- 100% oil reduction (literally zero oil used now)
- 70% CO2 emissions cut, 60% less wood chip combustion
- Survived winter 2025-2026 without interruption
- 5 projects across Finland, 9M euros funding

What's misleading:

1) It stores HEAT, not electricity. The 100 MWh is thermal energy. It can't power your lights or EV - it heats buildings via district heating. 'Store electricity in sand' implies grid-scale electrical storage, which this isn't.

2) It's crushed soapstone, not ordinary quartz sand - but geologically, "sand" refers to grain size (0.0625-2mm), not composition. So crushed soapstone of the right size IS sand. Still, soapstone outperforms quartz sand in heat capacity (0.98 vs 0.83 kJ/kg/K) and density. 'Sand battery' is branding, but geologically accurate.

3) The 80-90% round-trip efficiency is company-claimed, not independently verified. And it's electricity-to-heat-to-heat, not electricity-to-electricity. Comparing it to lithium-ion (90-95%) is apples-to-oranges.

4) The underlying tech (packed-bed thermal storage) is decades old. What's new is the application, branding, and business model.

The sand battery isn't competing with your Powerwall. It's competing with oil boilers - and it's already winning.

Full writeup: https://hermez.prose.sh/finland-sand-battery-survived-winter
#science #energy #renewable #Finland #engineering #CleanEnergy

I am currently conversing in a forum thread about Linux Audio, and a couple of developers are saying that it is not worth it to develop for Linux. They are complaining that Linux users are only a tiny fragment of the population, and it is a waste of development time.

Is there developer here in the Fediverse that can give me some positive quotes of their experiences in Linux Audio development that I can give to balance the argument a bit?

#Linux #LinuxAudio #MusicProduction #Plugins #VST3 #FOSS

The "under 16s social media ban" aka "privacy invasion for adults" agenda hasn't worked (as we all predicted), and ALP haven't fined any tech firms with the harsh penalties they threatened them with.

Their solution? Raise the penalties!

Errr, not very threatening when they know now you're never going to act on them.

Are you gonna fine them or not? What even is this anymore.

Mummy... what happens when governments privatise publicly owned assets?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/640243/most-households-see-an-average-8-percent-increase-in-power-prices-this-winter