The most upsetting thing about all of this is that it lays bare the truth that the reason we don’t fight climate change is that there’s not enough profit in it.

Capitalism needs to die, or it’s going to kill us all.

That is… nuts. Is your home listed or something or is this must the council being crazy?

Yes and no. So long as the air temp outside is higher than the inside, you should close and shutter all windows regardless of the direct sunlight.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but surely both are necessary parts of the solution given the trajectory we’re on?

Absolutely, but critically these don’t address heat. More importantly, swapping a gas boiler for a heat pump in a poorly insulated home will just result in wasted energy and cold/damp people.

In order to counter that we need an efficient way of moving heat from inside back out again without letting any more in, which is not something many houses in the UK can do today.

In 2025, most people in developed hot countries are using air conditioning in addition to everything else

While I can’t speak for the whole of warm countries, my wife’s family is Greek and we visit often, where air conditioning is surprisingly limited given the temperatures they endure. Instead you see shutters on windows, tile floors (with rugs they pull out for the winter), and tree cover that shields the home from the outside. That’s not to say that AC isn’t common, it is, and rolling out solar everywhere is a great way to deal with that. My only objection is to the common refrain of “more heat pumps” without acknowledging that most homes in this country are so poorly insulated that any temperature regulation is lost unless it’s constant.

Neither of those things address the problem of heat, and they don’t even address the cold due to the sorry state of most homes in the country.

The problem is insulation. It keeps the heat in in the winter (making a heat pump viable) and the heat out in the summer. British homes are largely horrendous on this front, so much so that we used to have a whole protest group called Insulate Britain devoted to the issue. In keeping with the British pattern of arresting and ignoring protestors however, they were widely demonised by media and politicians.

But they were right.

Another problem is just design. People in hot countries use shutters on the outside of the house to block out the sun. Pretty much every house here only has curtains, so the sun comes through the window and heats up the air between the window and curtains, which then circulates around the room.

Finally, the last problem is education. Too many people in this country have no idea how to deal with heat. Our neighbours were actually complaining about how well insulated our homes are because they hadn’t figured out that you’re supposed to keep the blinds and windows closed during the day and open them only at night.

I love the idea of Kagi, but those prices are objectively insane. $100/year is downright exploitative when you consider the actual cost to them of performing a search.

So a Cursor config file made it into the repo and was later removed and they just declare that this must be a case of trying to obfuscate their vibe coding policy? “They must have moved it to a private repo!” That seems like a logical jump made out of personal bias.

A far more likely case, (and one I’ve seen in dozens of projects myself) is that someone was using Cursor locally and committed the file by mistake. Then when they realised this, they removed it.

People (especially juniors) commit their .idea or .vscode files all the time. Normally, I catch this at review time, but sometimes it slips by. It’s still not great that anyone was using Cursor in the first place, but this alone is hardly evidence of policy or conspiracy.

I think the real take away here is that in 2024, more people named their kid “Awesome” than “Cuthbert”.

The high seas have you covered!

Angel did it first!

I just don’t think he’s capable of picking the right side though.

Under the Terrorism Act the friends face a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison. Sorrell said: “I just feel if I’m put in prison for this, and even if I die in prison for this, I can’t think of a better thing to die for really than for the justice of the people who’ve been persecuted now for almost my lifetime.”

Godsdamn this woman is a hero.

This is the sort of propaganda these companies leak as if it’s a problem when what they really want is to perpetuate this idea that their autocomplete machines are magical and mysterious.

Just fine them £100bn, and declare them forfeit when they refuse to pay.

This all appears to be based on the user agent, so wouldn’t that mean that bad-faith scrapers could just declare themselves to be typical search engine user agent?

I’ve been thinking about setting up Anubis to protect my blog from AI scrapers, but I’m not clear on whether this would also block search engines. It would, wouldn’t it?

Was it “social media” or was it specific tech companies trading rage for clicks? I find it hard to believe that Mastodon & Lemmy would be comparable to X & Facebook in this area.

Yes. It would.

I should hope that they’re right. We should return what was stolen.

You do not need to pave green space to build homes. There’s plenty of paved, ugly, low-density areas in desperate need of upgrades. The problem is the British public’s obsession with that idea that everyone needs their own patch of grass and two cars.