Don Thompson @guardeddon@qoto.org

Nestlé works overtime to make sure it's one of the most evil corporations in the world

https://stories.publiceye.ch/nestle-babies/

#Nestle #Sugar #Babies #Evil #JFC

Virgin Media O2 Use Starlink for UK Mobile Backhaul in Rural Areas https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2024/04/virgin-media-o2-use-starlink-for-uk-mobile-backhaul-in-rural-areas.html

We have just released @geopandas 1.0.0-alpha1, the first of the pre-releases of the upcoming major version of the package 🚀. It comes with some changes you may notice in your workflows.

Here’s a short blog post highlighting the most critical bits - https://martinfleischmann.net/geopandas-1.0-is-coming.-what-will-change/

Please, help us test the pre-release and let us know if something doesn't look right!

```
pip install geopandas --pre -U
```
🐍

For anyone who still thinks that biofuels are going to be better than electrification, here's a couple of statistics from the World Resources Institute:

- Producing just 2% of the world's energy needs from liquid biofuel would require agricultural production to increase by another 30% by 2050.
- Even on the best lands, a hectare of modern solar voltaics can generate 40-100 times more usable energy than biomass

Here's how we use our land already.There just isn't room for that.

#climate #energy

Shell History Is Your Best Productivity Tool | Martin Heinz | Personal Website & Blog

https://martinheinz.dev/blog/110

If you work in shell/terminal often enough, then over time the history will become your personal knowledge vault, documentation and command reference.

Email from Aviva: help us make things better for everyone

Another email: Reminder: Help us make things better for everyone.

Sorry, you’re not just asking me to complete a survey, but repeatedly pestering me to complete some survey I imagine that doesn’t benefit me at all, won’t reduce the insurance price etc

Companies really are taking the piss with the amount of correspondence they send and how little they think your time is worth.

Perhaps this is where a technology like Tim Berners-Lee's Solid project would help; where you have a single identity and agree to 'share' that with fediverse apps like Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc. I don't know if that's the answer, but I feel like more work on making it possible to fully own your identity on the fediverse would be good.

My favorite projections of a 360° capture of the #eclipse2024 moon shadow running over us at lake Erie's south shore. 40x speed up.

Alan Bates is already the folk hero of the Horizon IT debacle, but his inquiry evidence confirms that in Bates the Govt & Post Office picked the wrong adversary; his steely determination already depicted on TV to devastating effect, is one of a key reason successive Govt.s & PO management teams have been unable to bury this injustice.

While nothing about the actions of the PO & Govt. in this case now surprise me, this a picture of what is wrong with Britain.

#politics
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/09/alan-bates-tells-inquiry-post-office-spent-decades-lying-and-trying-to-discredit-me

For as long has he could remember old McDonald was haunted by the vowels in Celine Dion's name.

I can’t help feeling that giving some of my grandkids a BBC micro, and cassette player, and the BASIC manual would help them learn so much. Sadly I’d have to lock them in a sealed room for a year as well, they would get so bored these days I bet. They just don’t appreciate quite how much happens behind the scenes on their gadgets. The layers and layers of code and hardware. Shame…

Wow so many views on my latest story!

Did you know you can share photo or video stories to your @pixelfed account that automatically disappear after 24 hours.

Your followers on other Pixelfed servers can see your story, and comment/react as well!

#pixelfed #stories

“Al-Shifa Hospital no longer functions in 'any way, shape or form': WHO” https://thecradle.co/articles-id/24207

Mythic Beasts is now certified by the Green Web Foundation. We've been this green for many years now - just finally done the work to get the certificate. https://www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2024/03/25/green-hosting/

Want to book a Interrail seat reservation for a TGV, TGV Lyria or Eurostar?

Don't bother using anything other than Rail Europe any more. Don't mess with ticket machines. Avoid extra booking fees. Just use Rail Europe. That's it.

Explained in my updated Interrail Tips & Tricks post:
https://jonworth.eu/interrail-tips-and-tricks/

"Burning all my books."

Why I got rid of all my paper books and fully embraced the future.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/03/burning-all-my-books/

I had missed the part where it was a UK judge: Trump is losing court cases on Both sides of the Atlantic.

UK judge orders Trump to pay $380K to man who penned infamous 'Steele Dossier'

Trump must cover Christopher Steele's legal fees after unsuccessfully suing him.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/uk-judge-orders-trump-pay-380k-man-penned/story?id=107902444
via ABC News App