On upcoming digital Euro.

Volvo unveils new heavy electric truck that boasts range up to 700km Volvo says new extended range electric truck, and the next generation of its other heavy trucks, means it has "never been easier to replace diesel trucks with electric ones.”

Volvo just dropped a ~700km electric truck into the mix.

~44t GCW
~28t payload
~650hp
~700kWh battery
~A$450k upfront

....but ~$1.7–2M cheaper to run over 10 yrs.

Add Tesla + Windrose + BYD, & fleets now have more choice.

Diesel just lost another lane.⚡🚛 #Bettrification

Sliding scale in a sense that we'll have the golf stream hitting Wales or Portugal, yea. But in each scenario it's a disaster for a whole lot of people.

This is a done deal anyway, no way to reverse it now. It would be smart to prepare for future conditions though.

The homeownership rate in the EU is quite an interesting picture. If Germany is this bad, who owns all the housing then? Black Rock? Old money?

Before those two, there will be Iceland, Norway, Montenegro, and maybe even Albania.

Is that San Marino?

What are reds?

US President Donald Trump says the US Navy would immediately start blockading the Strait of ⁠Hormuz and would also interdict every vessel in international waters that had ⁠paid a toll to Iran. https://aje.news/x545rk

We have entered the “you can’t kill me if I commit suicide” phase of American Decline

What is this new type of solar power plant? Does it have any prospects? YouTube video by Sergiy Yurko

Thermal energy at about 3 cents / kWh.

That money is a carrot 🥕

Life, in general, will be fine. Been through worse.

BTW this exists: www.ishormuzopenyet.com

#iran #hormuz

Might as well send Mickey Mouse

Ru and the USA are natural allies in the world with half a dozen of poles. So you never know

But they outgun the USA?

This is what the "experts" advised the EU to do before the Brexit referendum. Sit back. Don't make waves, the "good ones" are ahead in the polls etc etc etc. We know how that played out. If no one steps up to debunk the lies, the lies win.

GitHub: We going to train on your data after all : As of April 24 you'll be feeding the Octocat unless you opt out

This went under the radar: #github **will** train AI on your code unless you manually opt-out.

www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/g...

tl;dr go to github.com/settings/cop..., scroll to the bottom.

#opensource #software

y'all.

Total cringe, I know. But I did learn over the years that this means "nothing is gonna happen, yo". Short crude.

nah

Firefox Through a Prism I have stated previously (here and here) that the main focus for my attention on my desktop and laptop these days is the browser as I have more and more of my key applications (email, calendar, doc…

www.spokenlikeageek.com/2008/06/30/f...

Remember when Firefox could do this? I miss this.

Why is this horrendous?

Earth and Moon from DSCOVR NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. This view shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth. Ian Regan processed this version of the image to account for the Moon's motion. NASA / NOAA / Ian Regan

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable.

Earth and Moon in one NASA photo.

ht @astrokatie.com

Three FB accounts sent the same message at the same time on the same evening, each personalized with the recipient’s full name to a 🇭🇺🇷🇴 citizen.
This points to a coordinated messaging campaign, likely fueled by a shared database of names and contact information for Hungarian voters living abroad.

lol

Same thing, basically.