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https://rknight.me/blog/please-rate-your-experience/

https://www.roughtype.com/?p=8935

Facebook, it’s now widely accepted, has been a calamity for the world. The obvious solution, most people would agree, is to get rid of Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg has a different idea: Get rid of the world.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66993647

The US government has issued its first ever fine to a company for leaving space junk orbiting the Earth.

The Federal Communications Commission fined Dish Network $150,000 (£125,000) for failing to move an old satellite far enough away from others in use.

https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/04/21/parrots-talking-video-calls/

Parrots learn to make video calls to chat with other parrots, then develop friendships, Northeastern University researchers say

https://coryd.dev/posts/2023/i-block-ads/

https://www.theverge.com/23648726/hp-officejet-printer-region-how-to-change-why

I moved across the ocean and took my printer with me. Then I discovered it was region-locked. A wiser man would have bought a new one.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/01/27/the-enshittification-of-all-things/

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/21/22989339/protestware-attacks-russia-sberbank-open-source

The move comes after an anti-war developer sabotaged a popular open-source code library

https://www.economist.com/1843/2021/08/10/the-perfectionism-trap

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/24/technology/computer-energy-use-study.html

The giant tech companies with their power-hungry, football-field-size data centers are not the environmental villains they are sometimes portrayed to be on social media and elsewhere.

Shutting off your Zoom camera or throttling your Netflix service to lower-definition viewing does not yield a big saving in energy use, contrary to what some people have claimed.

Even the predicted environmental impact of Bitcoin, which does require lots of computing firepower, has been considerably exaggerated by some researchers.

Those are the conclusions of a new analysis by Jonathan Koomey and Eric Masanet, two leading scientists in the field of technology, energy use and the environment.