RE: https://mas.to/@deepmud/117061209083509892

Probably still not enough to make US manufacturers price-competitive but will raise the price for a 400W panel by over $100. Nice shot in the arm for his fossil fuel investments.

Meanwhile the rest of the world says "thank you" for bringing us still cheaper solar panels (currently €70 for 400W and falling) due to Chinese overcapacity.

Guardian headline in the morning: "Trump rejects Iranian press release, says Strait of Hormuz is open without fees."

Guardian headline in the evening: "Trump claims US will reinstate Iranian blockade and charge fee for ships crossing Strait of Hormuz."

🤔😳

Does eating 5 Big Macs daily make you dumb?

So, uh, I guess my feeling that Gitlab is evolving into less and less of a fit for us just got confirmed in a big way.

Wondering what a good move would be. Forgejo almost seems like the default option at this point.

But I've been keeping an eye on Radicle + Ambient - love the concept of distributed CI. We don't do a ton of builds (yet) so it's less about the queue times and more about autonomous work wherever you are.

Hmm... 🤔
#enshittification

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/

This happens when you're sleepwalked into an "easy" war, being so far up your own ass as to be ignoring experienced military leaders who all say "don't do this". And your secdef is an idiot.

All tabletop exercises had clearly shown that closing the Strait was what Iran would do and it would be nigh on impossible to crack.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/09/tensions-emerge-bejamin-netanyahu-donald-trump-alliance

Yes! Finally. Well done Hungary! 👍
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/12/hungary-election-latest-results-viktor-orban-peter-magyar-fidesz-tisza-russia-europe-live-news-updates

Our Japanese cherry is starting her spring performance. The soft pink against a blue sky in the setting sun is just superbly beautiful.

#SilentSunday

Pretty damning expertise for the German Department of the Interior on US access to data stored by cloud providers in Europe.

TL;DR: the study confirms the widely held suspicion that US law gives pretty much full access to all data.

https://www.heise.de/news/Gutachten-US-Behoerden-haben-weitreichenden-Zugriff-auf-europaeische-Cloud-Daten-11111043.html

@khm paging @mntmn

Mhhh, galettes bretonnes. 👍😋
#roadtrip2025 #brittany

LLMs are basically just text extruders.

@kaia Ubuntu 25.04 does.

@beta The Stars, Like Dust?

Gotta say the tit-for-that going in right now between the mango man and the militant breeder is actually funny. Plus gives me hope there's a bigger rift developing within the different fascist streams.

@hadret @stefano same experience. Toshiba drives are unreliable at best.

I have about 600 HGST drives, mostly 4TB, in the 4-8 year age bracket and they have been quite reliable.

@jerry "if you have some free time"?

She clearly is the queen of passive aggressive. 😂😂

@dalias am frequently thinking back to how quality and long-lasting products were made 100+ years ago. Let's say a cast-iron range, or a trolley car.

A worker was probably at least somewhat proud of their product. But even then capitalism alienated them from this feeling through hardships of labor and existential dread.
@jhankins

@dalias yeah that would be nice. And in itself a much bigger change than "just" leftshoring manufacturing jobs again.

I don't think the phone sanitizers currently at the helm grasp this though, and it won't be in their interest anyway Seeing as they wrongshored everything for their own profit in the first place.
@jhankins

@dalias I still don't think there's going to be very many powerpoint artists looking for a job in a jeans factory at jeans factory wages though.
@jhankins

@jack_daniel I wonder if anyone got around to adding ai to their products. Surely that would be quite the technological step.

@sotolf same, same. 😀

I love these early spring forest walks, the atmosphere is so light and airy before the foliage comes out.