Pablo Brasero @pablobm@nitech.online

Perspective: the biggest carbon capture plant in the world sequesters 1 millionth of our annual emissions. We would have to build a million of these plants to _not_increase_ the CO2 level. And we need to significantly _decrease_ the CO2 level.

Carbon capture is a scam.

#ClimateCrisis
https://www.fastcompany.com/91120071/climeworks-carbon-removal-factory-iceland

“do you know ascii code 7?”
“yea, that rings a bell.”

I've written up the above scam in more detail.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/bank-scammers-using-genuine-push-notifications-to-trick-their-victims/

Remember, no matter how clever and security-conscious you think you are, these criminals are highly sophisticated.

You have to be lucky every single time. They only have to be lucky once.

Bender & Shah 2024 is now officially published *as open access* at TWeb.

For everyone who is using or promoting LLM driven chatbots as information access systems: this one is for you

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3649468

They mostly come at night... mostly.

#aliens #newt #spiders #spider #infestation #weird #signs #humor #humour

You would be surprised at how much I would pay for this, if it actually existed.

I want to do a test on how much traffic and resources the Mastodon embed takes on my server, so boost this plz

Edit: *all done, you can stop sharing now lol*

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/steam-deck-most-played-for-april-2024-has-plenty-of-fallout/

Uuuh, I guess I need a new job soon...

Who's hiring Rust people at the moment? Preferably based in Germany/ Europe? CV is here: https://spacekookie.de/downloads/resume-kookie-2024.pdf

[ #GetFediHired #Rustlang ]

Ruby might be faster than you think

Link: https://www.johnhawthorn.com/2024/ruby-might-be-faster-than-you-think/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40152029

#ruby

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Oh, you think you’re better than me? Most people are, pal. You need higher standards

Z80 officially discontinued after 48 years:

https://www.mouser.com/PCN/Littelfuse_PCN_Z84C00.pdf

Browsers should refuse to respect paste-disabling. This is not something that any user wants.