Notices by Nicovel0 (nicovel0@mastodon.social)

@glynmoody Microsoft is now limber and cool? Says who?

@aral @noybeu but that’s something that could lead to a big EU fine if they pick it up

@christineburns @ChrisMayLA6 the only chance Europe has now is if they can leapfrog Li ion to salt batteries, but we’re lagging there as well.

Today in “that’s not ethnic cleansing actually, it’s sparking human rights offences” news

Palestinians will not be allowed to return to homes in northern Gaza, says IDF https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/06/palestinians-will-not-be-allowed-to-return-to-homes-in-northern-gaza-says-idf

@aral and it’s not like the “west” doesn’t do that either. A few months ago it was revealed the CIA was behind an anti Chinese vaccine campaign in Asia.

@futurebird @amsomniac I live in London, UK. Roughly every 15 minutes an electric bus that can carry up to 60-ish people (not a double decker) drives past my house. It’s made by a Chinese company. It would blow Musk’s mind away.

Boris Johnson has inserted himself into the working from home discourse. Amazing https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/sep/23/boris-johnson-has-inserted-himself-into-the-working-from-home-discourse-amazing

@TimWardCam @GeofCox @Roadwarrior29 @CloudyMrs @ChrisMayLA6 this is absolutely what it does: people on low income are not eligible because the payments can take them below minimum wage and they end up having to pay more for their bike or buy a cheaper one. Whereas people like me can pick a very nice bike at 25% discount (or 42% if you’re higher rate). Horse before the cart.

@goatsarah LOL beginners mistake you need to make yoghurt with it

@goatsarah and then realise that if it has tits, you can milk it and put it in your cereal

@goatsarah now if only we could get the Covid boosters

@LMac1970 @babe @wurzelmann @ianturton no surprise here, @babe is an experienced Linux sysadmin and lawyer.

@cstross amazing that in this article they manage not to name the people who were in charge of the Home Office during that period, specifically: Priti Patel, Suella Braverman and (briefly) Grant Shapps. They knowingly blocked people in extremely precarious situations from exercising their rights. As far as I’m concerned they belong in The Hague.

It looks like 'CORNICES CENTRE®' are about to discover what the Streisand effect is. That’s 'CORNICES CENTRE®', whose driver apparently can’t overtake a cyclist in a safe fashion.

Cyclist threatened with legal action for posting video of close pass by driver in company-branded van https://road.cc/content/news/cyclist-threatened-with-legal-action-over-close-pass-clip-305935

@kim_harding as a kids I was given a copy of the universal declaration of human rights, and I challenge anyone to read it and find a right they’d be happy to relinquish.

“But tradespeople can't carry their stuff around by bike” – oh yes they can! How cargo bikes are changing the way people work https://road.cc/content/news/how-cargo-bikes-are-changing-way-people-work-305177

@goatsarah @cstross @danjac also electric motors are much more efficient than diesel, so you might not need the full 70MW either.