I can stop whenever I want, I swear, not addicted to Russian LNG.

I suspected LLM scrappers when hearing about the DDOS attack. Those are doing a continuous DDOS on many projects.

Debian trixie has a fix https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-31431

Sounds about right

This may sounds crazy but hear me out: planting gardens in the ground, putting solar panels on roofs, not the other way around.

The articles does mention another option:

growing crops under solar panels, a burgeoning field known as rooftop agrivoltaics

That sounds interesting. I hope the cost is going to be studied. Growing vertically and on rooftop can be worse in some ways. More energy intensive if there’s a need for irrigation that requires more pumps to bring extra water to rooftop. More material intensive if the weight of soil require more concrete and steel so the building can support it.

Blowing so much money on fossil fuel subsidies left the EU vulnerable to an oil crisis, greatly limit the budget available to invest in renewables or to react to such crisis.

Are you aware of the Piefed API? It’s provided specifically to allow building front-ends and bots while avoiding scrapping.

This was apparently rejected by members of the European Council.

[…] the EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg held on Tuesday

I wonder what the commission and parliement think about this.

Claude Desktop may be lacking controls and docs on how they integrate with browsers extension, but the write up seems overly dramatic.

It’s not clear any browser extension actually were installed in the browser on the author’s system. Until such extension is installed, the native messenging manifest are inactive, no browser would use them. This standard web technology allow, by design, for specific browser extensions to reach to specific apps outsider the sandbox. A pairing occurs, where the native app allow only specific extensions (cf pre-installed manifest), and the extension request a specific app. Both need to occur to allow the communication.

Looking at one the extension info on the chrome store, it’s obvious what they do. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/claude/fcoeoabgfenejglbffodgkkbkcdhcgfn

I would trust neither app nor extension in my system, not without extra sandboxing, as an abundance of caution. But this write-up comes up short of showing spyware behavior.

Thanks. This explain why cruise ships are much more wasteful than ferries:

perhaps the biggest difference is the payload. […] The reason, of course, is that a cruise ship is a floating village, with shops, restaurants, swimming pools and the like

This is why it’s important to compare transportation mode all things being equal. Keep in mind there’s lot of people flying coach, very few planes with individual cabins and restaurants. Cruise ships are designed for entertainment and luxury. Ferries are designed for transportation.

I’d be interested into some data on this topic.

My undersranding is plane is one of the most polluting mode of transportation, all things being equal. It probably vary a lot depending on the specific ship/plane, route, …

Data from the UK’s Department for Energy Securityand Net Zero (2022) shows the carbon footprint is 8x higher for short/long-haul fight than for ferry. (CO2eq per passenger-km). Carbon footprint is strongly coupled with fuel consumption. It’s not quite the same, but I’d expect the ratio to be roughly the same.

Right, I know nothing except it seems to involve jet fuel. This is a general comment on vacations by plane, don’t take it personally.

If oil shortage is severe enough and long lasting, we might see passenger ships coming back for transatlantic travel. How badly do you need to cross the atlantic?

Vacations doesn’t require jet fuel.

Relatively few people in the world visit the other side of the world by plane. For our sake it should remain a rare occurrence. For most vacations, there’s plenty of places that one can reach by train and bus.

If your area has shitty train infrastructure or too few bus lanes, I’m sorry, you may want to have a close look at where your taxes are going.

Praise be EU solidarity

Is that Oracle’s Larry Ellison on the right?

Averages are affected a lot by outliers with very large values, and the effect is larger when there’s large inequalities. If measuring by income or wealth (higher is better) in a stadium with 1 billionaire and 999 homeless people, the average people is millionnaire.

This study still uses averages and flips the effect with a povery score (higher is worse). It gives more weight to the other end of a spectrum, very poor persons that need 300min to win 1$ makes the average much higher.

Using median values, or better 20-80 centiles values would be more meaningful.

Rumors; didn’t read.

Anyway the last few versions of Windows already convinced it’s best to keep avoiding it.

Fair point. Fossil fuel cannot be replaced overnight. Such a sudden disruption is doing to cause harm.

The need to decrease fossil fuel has been clear for 30+ years. It wasn’t seriously acted on, and we missed the opportunity to decrease their use in an orderly and painless way. Now we’re facing chaotic and painful changes.

I hope we’re not loosing sight of the goals, and don’t bring back coal to compensate.

Board of (oligarchs and dictators sucking to Trump who think this would help him gets the) Peace (prize)