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Massive electricity outage in Spain, Portugal highlight need for Amateur Radio, backup FM radio receivers.

A recent and ongoing outage in Spain, Portugal highlights the need for Amateur radio and backup electricity – as of now, 1pm April 28, the ongoing outage is affecting Spain and Portugal, and several amateur radio groups have been responding to “share situational awareness information”.

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Encouraging News for Mathematically Minded Environmentalists

Last year a report found that isolated indigenous groups have been found to have lives just as happy as many groups in highly developed nations. The lead author stated “I would hope that, by learning more about what makes life satisfying in these diverse communities, it might help many others to lead more satisfying lives while addressing the sustainability crisis.”

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Have you seen the robot floor scrubbers?

Today I noted something I hadn’t seen before in a store I don’t often frequent – a floor scrubbing machine was roving around the aisles among the people, beeping and flashing a light, with no person riding or controlling it. These BrainOS devices apparently integrate in to regular sweepers, with addition of some sensors and a marked off, blocked off seat (saying, don’t hop up here and try to control this 🙂 And they have been doing so since 2018?

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One week until Diasp.org shutdown – have you downloaded your data?

Last year, the well known Diaspora node Diasp.org announced it will be shutting down… April 2025. Reasons stated include liability for anything posted within a server an administrator controls, and maintenance and the disk space growth and general expectation that the service should be more like other social media companies.

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Bluesky vs Twitter – how many are really moving from the X?

In the past months many have moved away from a well know social media company that has been said to be degrading over recent years.

I had never done much on the Twitter other than testing and integrations for coding, and browsing news and accounts. So I thought it interesting that recently an open source alternative of Twitter reached mainstream. Let’s see how popular it is – among some of those accounts that have both an X and Bluesky account:

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