New Zealand’s largest solar farm comes online. In addition to solar energy output, Harmony said the majority of the site will remain in productive farming, switching from dairy to sheep farming. The panels will provide shelter and shade for the sheep... www.pv-magazine.com/2026/07/15/n...

New Zealand’s largest solar farm comes online - pv magazine Global

United Kingdom-headquartered renewables developer Harmony Energy, and joint venture partner, Australian investment company Igneo Infrastructure Partners, have announced New Zealand's biggest yet grid-...

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Quake III Arena (1999)

Klaymen Klaymen: The Mystery of the Neverhood (1998) #PS1 #PlayStation

Just had a little rant about false equivalence. And electric diggers, And trucks, And trains, That go downhill, and generate electricity.

A Lovely Lump of False Equivalence

Everything we use is dug up or grown

llewellyn.substack.com

God, I love her so much. Just banger after bager. She's in it purely for the love of the game and I respect that.

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...

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right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

the whole ntsync story is /bonkers/ but mostly in a "they did WHAT? for HOW LONG?" sense www.xda-developers.com/wine-11-rewr...

Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive

Wine 11 is the biggest jump for Linux gaming in years.

xda-developers.com

Tuesday was our busiest day on public transport since 2019 (pre covid), 7000 trips higher than the previous busiest day which was two weeks ago. This Tuesday (18 March) patronage was 7% higher than it was last Tuesday. It’s great to see more people choosing public transport and trying it out.

Every year, several previously harmless plant species go rogue, escaping from homes and gardens and multiplying unstoppably – but we could stop them before they destroy local ecosystems.

Invasion of the house plants

newsroom.co.nz

New Zealand has lost 29% of its glaciers since 2000 That means in only 25 years, we've lost almost 1/3 of our glaciers, that had been existent for millions of years prior. Oceans continue to warm Meanwhile this govt are pushing through bills to disband the Ministry of Environment #NZ #nzpol

Totally not of this government's making... #nzpol

Have you read Part One of @ketanjoshi.co's two-part series unpacking the collapsing core case for gas? Don’t miss it – read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4tMX4sE

The second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by myself and @chris.blue, is finished and sent off to the printers! Ebooks should be available in the next week, and print books in 3–4 weeks. Sigh of relief. 😅 (BTW, this is a good opportunity to support your favourite local bookshop!)

Post a banger not in english m.youtube.com/watch?v=Glu9...

Laibach - Tanz mit Laibach (Official video)

YouTube video by Laibach

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Dr Bex@drbex.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Post a banger not in English From my younger years, back when we used to watch the top ten hits on the telly and english was the only language we knew 😳 youtu.be/Fpu5a0Bl8eY?...

i think whats actually holding linux adoption back is people recommending super out of date distros like ubuntu

Finally worked up the guts to skin a possum.

KardashianMFDM

elviralor13@elviralor13.bsky.social · 6mo ago

gagged im gagged

Just managed to get into my EVE Online account after not touching it since 2014. All my stuff is still there! Now to remember how to play.

The City Reporter@thecityreporter.nyc · 7mo ago

An ambitious experiment to give young people money and trust them to spend it well shows promising early signs, participants say. www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/20/c...

But why is there record ocean heat? It's a mystery.

NZ is again being soaked this summer – record ocean heat helps explain it

Analysis: For many people this summer - especially those across Northland Auckland and Coromandel - showery days and bursts of heavy rain have become all too familiar.

rnz.co.nz

Took a break from KCD2 to do duolingo before midnight, and another loading/tip screen appeared

But this time memory (RAM) fits a function that can't be easily replaced by creating something different. I do expect these AI businesses to crash since they clearly lack a viable business model but this bubble is unlikely to change the trajectory of RAM as quickly as GPUs. 2/3

Not sure what bug to vote for in Bug of the Year? Use our handy guide 🙂‍↕️  Vote here: https://bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/

on a totally different topic: www.wsj.com/business/aut...

The Genius Whose Simple Invention Saved Us From Shame at the Gas Station

On a rainy day in Detroit, a Ford engineer got confused, then soaked—and inspired. It took decades before he got any credit.

wsj.com

Quake 🏢 id Software 📅 1996 🖥 Amiga, DOS, Game Boy Advance, Linux, Mac, Nintendo 64, Saturn, Windows, Zeebo

Uh… check out what ChatGPT allegedly told a man before he killed his mother and then himself. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

General non-tertiary education costs way too much in NZ. CAA 101 for drone flight, growsafe for herbicide use, even business management/team leadership stuff should all be as as accessible as coastguard day skipper (which is great!)