Science & justice. Also: coffee, cities, UX & code. Aghast at all the typos in my tweets. I'm an organiser at climateAction.tech, and I work at the greenwebfoundation.org. He/Him.
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Last Notes npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams @nprofile…5qc7 @nprofile…uk7q @nprofile…gndt @nprofile…4tyx FWIW I was a Ruby on Rails developer professionally before I coded django professionally. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams Oh boy, I get the feeling that voting Mamdani IN must have felt *even better* than voting Tories OUT of the UK last year. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams This post raised a full-on belly laugh for me at the end, but it speaks to a serious issue - I'm amazed by the lengths poor Dave Barry has had to go to, to convince Google to stop telling everyone he's dead in AI Overview answers. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams The price of batteries is coming down so fast, that this paper has basically said it makes more sense to build a solar project, and then 5-10 years later invest in batteries *then*, when the cost of batteries is so much lower than it is today. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams This is sobering look at energy growth and how it's affecting the supply of fossil energy in the mix. Demand growth is consuming 100%of renewable deployment, and as a result we are STILL seeing extra growth from gas and even coal. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams I spend more time on Masto than Bluesky, but I find it interesting that this guy is running almost the entire stack required for bluesky, including ingesting the firehose of all the millions of users, on a 200 USD / month server: npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams Wow, I did not know this was a thing in the USA now - browser-based counter surveillance of COPs in LA, using LAPD officer headshots and facial recognition technology: npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams @nprofile…hunl @nprofile…gfyr TLDR though: npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams Has anyone seen more info about how this switch from Microsoft in Denmark is being implemented? npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams @nprofile…m624 what’s your time frame for getting a new lappie? I’ve used Mac laptops since the late nineties, and the best option I saw was the framework when I refresh in future. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams WOOT! I pay for Youtube, to avoid the ads, and because honestly I easily use it enough to justify the cost, but paying something like couple of months of subscription fees to increase the chances of there being a viable alternative in future was an easy decision to make. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams Dear fediverse: appreciate the irony of asking for this, particularly on Mastodon: if you have come across any very good series or explainers on YouTube explaining how activitypub works, would you leave a comment in this thread? npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams Yesterday, at the #republica-adjacent #Mastodon meetup I learned that @nprofile…tga4 doesn't run on K8s, or Nomad, but Aurae (https://aurae.io) - the project Kris Nova presented at FOSDEM back in 2023: npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams If you're involved in the Mastodon / Fediverse #fediscovery programme, you've worked on the project, or you've been following its progress over the last year or so and you're going to this event, would you leave a comment in this thread? npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams I’d sign this if I could, but as a former EU citizen (thanks Brexit) I can't now, so the next best thing is to to encourage others who can, I guess? npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams @nprofile…ssyg I’m really glad you raised this as I work in this field and the framings I see used are often really problematic, because they shift responsibility to all the wrong places. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams This is such a good post, and does a really good job of explaining the strategic risks when going all in on what you might refer to as “deeply integrated closed cloud”. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams I had no idea there was even a thing called hookworm, but I was aware of the stereotype of”slow” Southerners in the USA, and while this might not be a fun read for the squeamish, it is a fascinating story. The idea that it is so widespread globally still today… yikes. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams If you have used and loved #Tailscale, and you still like the product but want a sensible insurance option to reduce your exposure to potential #enshittification, what *hosted* options have you looked at as alternatives? npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams I mean, this is just such strong Brexity "we can't find our arse with both hands” energy. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams This is breathtaking. It's like watching Brexit, but at the scale of the entire USA, with similar seeming people in charge. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams @nprofile…typy @nprofile…2d6k @nprofile…2lvc wow, I had no idea Orion existed - what a find! npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams 43. Blimey. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams Here's the project on Github too. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams WOW - The French government announced a project simple called Docs: npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams @nprofile…m624 I assume you’re referring to Protonmail - I use Fastmail and I generally assumed they were the right kind of boring I want from an email provider. I’ve used them for years and broadly, I’d recommend them to others too. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams I'm glad that there is Nextcloud, but I really would like there to be other credible defaults than Nextcloud when people talk about reducing their exposure to Office 365, Google Drive, etc npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams Folks, I’m looking for some good books / papers on the history of defence industry and the tech industry, particularly since OSS became mainstream, as I’m trying to develop informed opinions about how they relate to each other. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams hi folks, can I get your help? npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams @nprofile…q54u how familiar are you with the whole “Digital Public Goods” narrative? npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams Dear Brussels fediverse peeps. If you have a fave quiet cafe near Bruxelles MIDI/Zuid that you like and *have personal experience with*, and is within walking distance, would you share a recommendation. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams @nprofile…xt5t For what it's worth, I had @nprofile…f2x4 was one of the first people to contact me in response to my post. Devtank seems to be the company behind this thing: npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams @nprofile…xt5t @nprofile…6zhx this might be of interest to you Andy. A bit more detail: npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams This is such a good piece by @nprofile…eyyt - it really clearly lays out why so many projects to adopt open source alternatives to big tech products fail, and why we see so many large organisations adopting abysmal products like Microsoft teams and so on in the face of cheaper, less terrible software - it's about so much more than the software. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams I'm going to #FOSDEM in Feb. If you know if any of the teams who organise devrooms or similar spaces would be open to having CO2 sensors running in the rooms, and making the values visible to participants, I'd love to know. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams Dear Fediverse, have you come across an open data set of the carbon footprint / water usage per kilo of different kinds of food? I’m sure I’ve come across this before but am failing at finding it online. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams One nice surprise I discovered travelling from Berlin to Brussels, when #deutschebahn decided to divert me to Amsterdam instead of Frankfurt. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams I must be missing something obvious. Is there a nice way to do threads in one go with Mastodon? npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams @npub1jlj…skl3 this feels very “prisoners dilemma“ - surely elections when you expect there to be more elections are the definition of an infinite game, right? npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams Lanyap episode time - woohoo! npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams I have come to expect weird headlines from the BBC more and more over the last 10 years, but this new story from the BBC about how terrible it is that Spain has loads and loads of clean energy has such a bizarre framing - it manages to frame something which is broadly a positive thing as some kind of crisis. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams Dear #djangonaughts - is there a central repo of branding and media asset information for the django project? I'm looking for high quality versions of the django logo, the django pony , colour swatches and the like, and I couldn't find one when looking at the website. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams Every time I try to buy tickets to travel on the Paris metro, I realise how much I miss the comparatively stellar UX and attention to detail of German public digital services. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams This piece about how uncompetitive US and European EVs are compared to what’s being made in China is a real wake up call to anyone not familiar with the standard of cars “over there”. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams AAWWWW YEAH GO FLYING BUM! npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams Hello Internet, npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams I honestly don't know how to join Microsoft Teams calls without getting angry every time I try. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams Interesting announcement at #FOSDEM. The folks working on matrix (open source multiple messaging app) just announced that they’ve been working with WhatsApp to implement cross platform messaging. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams Hello #FOSDEM, this guy, Alberto Marti, announced 3bn euros for this open source European cloud project with an explicit focus on interoperability.That’s more than 2x the funding announced here back in December. Is there a link online for more info? npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams @npub19lt…qfjk haha! This is so cool! This pic raised a proper belly laugh when it showed up on my phone. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams I've started watching the IEA presentations on youtube since they began sharing them - they're about 45 mins - 1hr long (watch them at 1.5x). npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams Hi gang. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams Unexpectedly good interactive animation showing how Heat pumps work in the Graun. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams For people who live in shared buildings - do public status pages exist listing outages and open issues for stuff that’s in need of work? We lost hot water and heating AGAIN in ours and it seems like this information is basically invisible to future tenants or regulators, when it would really help inform management of a sector. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams Hello Fediverse, I wonder if you can help me. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams I was hung over this morning, and ended up watching Rebel Moon on Netflix. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams @npub1l0s…pgrv @npub1g45…0ka3 ah, danke. I wish we had this in Berlin. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams @npub1l0s…pgrv @npub1g45…0ka3 wow, I had no idea that Reported existed in NYC. Is any data in the public domain about how often it used used and how often the submissions lead to fines being levied on drivers? npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams @npub19lt…qfjk this is how you keep the flow of daily posts? I always wondered how you managed it. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams I’m happy with my 12 year old Brompton in the flatness of Berlin, but this piece in Heatmap about e-bikes and the myriad cool designs emerging is a fun read. npub16lurcvm4c984e78gg5leu327hp2ncpnw4dvt7x7xmccnjnh956ds9zyzpt Chris Adams If you’re on Mastodon, you probably have opinions about social media, and gawd I am late to the party but I hadn’t realised that @npub17ge…hgsu , one of the early devrel hires at twitter waaay back is now working with Mastodon officially. Good sign 👍
