℉ⅈℕℹℸℽ @finity@qoto.org

"but art has always been about ownership and claims of authenticity" - The Economist this morning on their NFT sale. I hope they see art as being about more than that. The artists do.

Tom Scott video - "The highway where trucks work like electric trains" - https://youtu.be/_3P_S7pL7Yg

Overhead wires for electric/hybrid truck trial in Germany. Very cool.

I've looked up to Colin Powell since very early in life - maybe because of Boy Scouts. Thank you for your leadership.

@trinsec yup. I was getting in the shower and it's just dark enough in there that my instinct was to turn the light on. I turned them right back off again when I noticed 😁

It makes me want to keep the lights off.

I love catching the electric meter running backwards because the solar panels are putting in work.

@prehensile here's a totally different Zevon song that I love

https://youtu.be/RMTKb-pgxGI

@prehensile Zevon baby.

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/571722-fusion-breakthrough-dawns-a-new-era-for-us-energy-and-industry

Getting a lot closer to fusion... I'm not going to bet on 4 years like this person, but this magnet, the advances in containment in other places, and the advances in ignition, are all recent very positive announcements.

It was time to nuke the old CS:GO server and start again... This time I took the time to write the Terraform and Ansible code to do the setup for me.

https://github.com/kc0bfv/counter_strike_server_deploy

Uh oh, it's simultaneously pumpkin and Oktoberfest beer season. We're gonna run out of cabinet space.

Pfizer vaccine got full approval. Get your shots if you haven't already. 💉💉💉💉💉

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/17/1028495560/cat-saves-elderly-woman-fallen-ravine-cornfield-cornwall-england

Good #cat #😺

https://simonandrews.ca/articles/how-to-set-up-spf-dkim-dmarc

Pretty great explainer on email complexity today.

@kino my wife shares photos like that with family, fortunately my caution has generally gotten through to her and she's somewhat careful with what's in the photo. Most of the time.

@1iceloops123 @kino and don't use an iphone or Android, which can take these actions regardless of where you upload.

That's a bunch tougher.