sabreW4K3

Born and raised in London. Just a normal guy with a moral compass.

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2026-04-22 14:14:16 UTC

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I don't editorialise titles. I don't think anyone should. If people aren't able to get past the title and actually check what's posted, that's on them. They're unlikely to offer anything valuable to the conversation anyway. Personally, I weren't a fan of the title, hence I made the personal effort to provide the summary in the post body. I was actually looking forward to the comments about the actual subject matter, alas… 🫠

2026-04-22 06:02:10 UTC

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It's not my title 🤷🏾‍♂️

2026-04-21 19:01:42 UTC

A great quick summary just dropped from Heat Geek on YouTube breaking down today's latest announcements from the UK Government (via Ed Miliband) regarding energy prices and green infrastructure. It looks like some serious systemic changes are finally in motion:
* **Delinking Renewables from Gas Prices:** They are introducing new legislation and tax changes to finally decouple the price of renewable electricity from wholesale gas prices. This is a massive systemic fix that should allow consumers to actually benefit from cheap green energy.
* **10+ Gigawatts of New Generation:** Heavy investments are being made to fill public brownfield sites with new wind and solar generation. This could add over 10GW to the grid (for context, the UK's peak requirement is around 60-70GW, so this is roughly a 15% boost).
* **£9,000 Heat Pump Grants:** For homeowners looking to decarbonize, the Boiler Upgrade Scheme (BUS) grant is being bumped from £7,500 to £9,000 for anyone replacing an old oil or LPG boiler.
* **Ending the Crisis Cycle:** As the host points out, we are in our second major fossil fuel crisis in 5 years. Redesigning the system around renewables breaks the cycle of international conflicts dictating local heating bills.

2025-11-21 17:40:59 UTC

cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/37935331

2025-04-28 14:06:27 UTC

cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/25446027

2025-04-07 09:01:41 UTC

I know Nicole has kinda become a meme but for me it's just annoying. Is there a way we can get some type of plugin one inboxes so that we can set up a regex to look out for, "hi, I'm Nicole, the Fediverse chick" and all variations of and automatically bounce them?

2025-04-03 20:11:53 UTC

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> we no longer feel assured that Firefox aligns with our commitment to protect your privacy
So they went with Brave? 😂

2025-03-21 14:43:01 UTC

On one hand I think people shouldn't use Discord anyway, but also, we need to figure out how to make the services we use sustainable.

2025-02-25 20:47:46 UTC

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It's interesting that Evan Prodromou mentions groups, but doesn't mention Lemmy, Friendica or even the Guppe group implementation.
He's also weirdly overly warm to both Threads and BlueSky.
> * Evan predicts a big 100M+ user network joining the Fediverse, and it’s *not* Threads
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2025-01-07 00:40:26 UTC

> Imagine walking into your living room and your TV automatically telling you the weather and your calendar for the day. If this is a future you can imagine, you'll be pleased to hear that Google is working on a new mode for Google TV that does just that.