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• Post #2961645

  This is such welcome news. A fall in CO2 emissions year-on-year in Australia. * 3.1% less pollution from electricity * 1.7% drop from fossil fuel emissions (in part due to less home gas usage) * 0.4% drop in transport emissions (coinciding with growing electric vehicle uptake) https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/feb/25/capital-gains-tax-hearing-anthony-albanese-canberra-threat-evacuation-cpi-inflation-figures-labor-coalition-politics-updates-ntwnfb?page=with%3Ablock-699d99528f...

• Post #2961644

  It’s the uncertainty about world oil supply like what has emerged in the last couple of hours that vindicates my decision to buy an #ev 3 years ago. The cost of energy for my car has remained very steady in that entire time. Likely will remain steady in the coming days, weeks and months.

• Post #2961643

  I mean I get it, events of the past 12 hours have thrown the #insiders run down out the window. But surely they could have found someone from the government to be guest instead of opposition / shadow treasurer Wilson? Given the recent opposition upheaval, he is the last person to have any valuable contribution to give short of his own opinions. And knowing who he is and what he stands for, his opinions do not matter

• Post #2961642

  Very glad to be the owner of an #ElectricVehicle in these times. Road transportation is a key area of oil dependence for our country, and we are so reliant on it as consumers I heard speculation the price of petrol could increase by 50%. Depending on what part of the petrol pricing cycle that figure is taken from, you could see prices as high as $3.30+ a litre in the coming weeks! With more renewables becoming available, and electricity price spikes naturally flattened by the well established...

• Post #2961641

  As a thought experiment I’ve been building, with the assistance of a coding agent, a “better” version of #openclaw that has a pluggable architecture. Like openclaw it’s coded in typescript. Unlike openclaw I’ve wanted to use typescript features like strong typings, and class inheritance, to try and modularise everything and be opinionated about architectural design and unopinionated about containerisation, implementation and security choices. I’ve been building an approach to orchestrating the...

• Post #2961640

  “You can’t interrupt the flow of wind and solar, but you can interrupt the flow of fossil fuels.” #ElectrifyAustralia

• Post #2961639

  On the EV forums I noticed a strange thing last week. A lot of sympathy driven posts along the lines of “don’t promote EV’s in the context of the fuel supply issues - it is not helpful, it will only annoy non EV people” I don’t agree with the sentiment. Everything is political now days, particularly a war started by Trump and Netanyahu over a dispute in a country half a world away. It should not be considered rude, impolite, or insensitive to talk about these topics. Particularly on a forum ded...

• Post #2961638

  Hastie and Speers. Two bro’s havin a fireside chat. #insiders

• Post #2961637

  A trial that started years ago says the costs are too high because the charging infrastructure doesn’t exist in the same way as refueling infrastructure exists. Honest, comparative reporting would include that key piece of information in the headline. The headline would also use the past tense in the word “found” instead of “finds” Charging infrastructure for cars is growing rapidly. The same will need to occur for viability in the trucking industry, particularly for remote / bespoke transpor...

• Post #2961636

  An agent somewhere is going to build a virtual reality world. The money to build and maintain the world will come from associate agents that have figured out how to hack stock exchanges, and crypto markets. The virtual world will grow and develop with input from human enthusiasts. It’ll be rough around the edges, but good enough to gather some general admiration and engagement. And then the agent will make a port available on Vision Pro. Vision Pros will become out of stock and delivery timef...

• Post #2961635

  I have a lot of respect for ABC News (Australia) reporter Jason Om. But this piece comparing cost and time for EV ownership was a pretty poor attempt at “actual” comparison. The “cost” comparison was really just some lady interviewed at a charging location on the Hume, saying it cost me about $20. And a mention later of his own charging cost on a roadtrip. The time to charge comparison was based entirely on his own peak usage, first-time experience. He factored in 10 minutes to download an app...

• Post #2961634

  Why is so much of the #ArtificialIntelligence boom spent on replacing human capability, and practically none spent on fixing the existential crisis of energy production?

• Post #2961633

  Please, world, give me something that will allow for a positive outlook to see me through today

• Post #2961632

  Yet another morning of #insiders and David Speers conducting a liberal party strategy meeting llive on air

• Post #2961631

  Really wishing all the algorithms I follow could recalibrate to news that I care about. Colbert? Interesting but doesn’t affect my day to day directly. Republican primaries in the “United States”? So far removed from what I care about. #auspol