“...households will face another increase in their electricity bills, after the energy regulator approved higher network charges to fund upgrades to Ireland’s electricity grid.”

Why are we subsidising big tech as they waste our wind power and water for profit?

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41890366.html

School trip to Bristol in 1986. A middle aged woman in a newsagents called me "my lover" and it made me feel all awkward because I was only 14 and didn't feel up to making love to a middle aged woman. I've never been back to Bristol in case she finds me and repeats her request.

How fast is C++26’s std::hive?
https://lemire.me/blog/2026/08/02/how-fast-is-c26s-stdhive/
#cpp
#cplusplus

The New Zealand government is rewriting the law, specifically to protect the country’s biggest climate polluters.

They are shutting the courtroom doors in the faces of ordinary people by banning the public from ever suing big emitters.

The question that comes sharply into focus is Who holds power, and who is forced to live with the consequences of decisions made by that power?

#TimeToResist

@robpike My Very Excellent Mnemonic Just Seems Useless Now

Cosmic Garden Free Music Festival
5th Sept from 5pm
Inagh, Co Clare, Ireland
Details: https://www.facebook.com/events/1832174878392103
GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/cosmic-garden-festival
(With apologies for the genai.)

Is there a way to sort a user's Steam library by never downloaded, never played etc.? Asking for a friend.

Meeting C++ 2026 featured talk of the day: Daniela Engert - Same C++, but quicker to the finish line
https://meetingcpp.com/mcpp/schedule/talkview.php?th=30963a895a147e9b29a7733fd7887e632af52650
#meetingcpp
#cpp
#cplusplus

Initially, the video of the woman signing confused the hell out of me!

Them: Oh but if we tax wealth, the billionaires might go away.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jul/27/homeless-families-london-temporary-housing-air-conditioning

FUCKING GO ALREADY

Pro-Palestine protesters, who sprayed red paint and broke some windows, are about to be sentenced as *terrorists*. Neither they nor the jurors were told of this possibility during their trial for criminal damage. So they were unable to defend themselves against this far more serious charge.

Pakistan has deployed rooftop consumer solar power in two years equal to the entire country's fossil fuel capacity.

https://www.gadgetreview.com/pakistans-27-gigawatts-of-solar-boom-matches-its-entire-fossil-fuel-power-legacy

I have an electric car and the screen stopped working so I can't control the AC or listen to the radio. The book says you aren't allowed to work on it but it's in warranty anyway. The dealership who had it for a day said it would cost me £1500 to fix. I changed the fuse myself.

#foxesInLove #comic

Source: https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/823476706549645312
Copyright: https://foxesinlove.net

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com@bsky.brid.gy. Inspired by recent news about the SpudCell. NS subscribers can read about it here: www.newscientist.com/article/2532...

Meeting C++ 2026 featured talk of the day: Guy Davidson - Profiles are coming
https://meetingcpp.com/mcpp/schedule/talkview.php?th=414814a1f2afc6aca39e237ff200830670c92856
#meetingcpp
#cpp
#cplusplus

Would anyone in Ireland know how to put pressure on SIRO to get a connection point changed? We have tried two providers and they insist it has to go to a box on the front of the neighbours house two doors down rather than the pole. The neighbours are, rightly IMO, refusing. This seems ridiculous to me and they keep saying it can't be swicthed.

#ireland #siro #fuckvodafone #fuckvirginmedia #computersaysno

GitHub is introducing Stacks (https://github.github.com/gh-stack/introduction/overview/) which look a lot like GitLab's Merge Trains (https://docs.gitlab.com/ci/pipelines/merge_trains/).

This helps in persuading developers to adopt continuous integration in small codebases, where changes often cascade. I've love to know whether ppl think it'd persuade them to break down their commits.