kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

How behaviour of math functions in #javascript is undefined and changing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://macwright.org/2020/02/14/math-keeps-changing.html

"Are bigger populations more innovative? Let's look at a few papers emphasizing the distant past to see what they say."

https://threader.app/thread/1228087002513301504

These issues plague *all* engineering and always have. In long term, they can be solved. #Greenpeace and alike however like it black-and-white: solar is a pink unicorn that we just need to do more to get rid of #nuclear asap! This is where they hit the reality.

"Developers, contractors and bankers all struggle to come to terms with the risk of large power loss factors, grid stability problems, connection problems, and equipment performance issues … So we’re out."

https://reneweconomy.com.au/were-out-big-contractor-dramatically-quits-australian-solar-sector-33796/

“If Germany had decided in 2011 to phase out 20 gigawatts (GW) of coal plant capacity instead of #nuclear, it would have reached its #co2 emission targets and now could be rightly recognised as the European climate champion.”

https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/features/germany-nuclear-power-plants-2/

With a nice shitstorm currently going on around various "revolutionary" proposals on how to rebuild online #advertising I would like to bring back this excellent 2015 presentation that goes into technical details *why* exactly #adtech needs all this surveillance exactly https://idlewords.com/talks/what_happens_next_will_amaze_you.htm #privacy

The world decarbonised faster in 1970s and 1980s than the 2000s and 2010s without really meaning to...

Unfortunately, even largest modern wind and solar deployments provide fraction of energy provided by large-scale hydro and nuclear deployments a few decades ago.

"All need consumer data in order to fuel their businesses (...) relationships, realized through continuously replenished data, are the core asset of their enterprise"

https://www.adexchanger.com/ad-exchange-news/post-cookie-apocalypse-iab-unveils-project-rearc/

OpenPush - A Free, Decentralized Push Messaging Framework for #Android
https://f-droid.org/en/2020/02/03/openpush-talk.html

Biologist Patrick Moore leaving Greenpeace in 1986, doctor Lewis Thomas and biologist Paul Ehrlich leaving Friends of the Earth in 1977 in protest against anti-scientific fanaticism left these organizations what they are today: anti-scientific lobbyists, who actually hurt environment.