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"Boston Metal completed its first run of an industrial reactor that uses electricity to make steel." The process itself releases oxygen and *not* CO2, so the only carbon emissions are from the electricity...and there are a lot of ways to get electricity.

Reviews of IceCat, LibreWolf, Floorp and Zen at LWN.
(I've also been evaluating various forks over the last few weeks, with reviews so far of LibreWolf, Waterfox and IceCat. Zen's up now, with Floorp and PaleMoon on my list.)

"LLM scrapers are taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure, and it's getting worse."

"Have Bluesky's "scaling towards decentralization" issues been fixed?
Not fundamentally. There have been advancements in self-hosting efforts, and they're good, but my fundamental analysis of Bluesky and ATProto scaling quadratically have not changed, despite recent efforts being good."

"smolweb.org promotes simple unbloated web. It provides resources to actors who want to participate."

"Examples of how to do common event, element, ajax and utility operations with plain javascript."

"A lion told her to walk away, and she did. He forbade her magic, he forbade her her own kingdom, so she made her own.
Susan Pevensie did not lose faith. She found it. "