Chris Adams

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Chris Adams
🛡️ mrchrisadams_at_mastodon.social@momostr.pink
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Science & justice. Also: coffee, cities, UX & code. Aghast at all the typos in my tweets. I'm an organiser at climateAction.tech, and I work at the greenwebfoundation.org. He/Him. mrchrisadams on most of the social networks climateAction.tech (community): https://climateaction.tech Green Web Foundation (work): https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org Personal Site: https://chrisadams.me.uk Testing out Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mrchrisadams.bsky.social
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Mastodon
Kagi HQ (@kagihq@mastodon.social)
How do you use Lenses on Kagi? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6vzQkvdUXU #Kagi #Search #Lenses
 I've been using Kagi for a few months and no joke, it has transformed my experience of using the Internet. Easily worth the 10 USD / month to me. Their Masto feed has loads of these neat little 1 minute demos, and I am continually discovering neat new tricks. If you're on the fence, it's free to try to see it works for you. It totally did for me. View quoted note →
Wow, so Atlassian is a browser company now? I did *not* see that one coming. At 610M USD in cash for the acquisition, that's in the same ballpark as Mozilla's annual revenue in 2023.
Atlassian Acquires The Browser Company, Aims for AI-Powered Browser | Mike Cannon-Brookes posted on the topic | LinkedIn
Big announcement today - Atlassian has entered into an agreement to acquire The Browser Company of New York - the team behind the incredible Dia an...
The price of batteries is coming down so fast, that this paper has basically said it makes more sense to build a solar project, and then 5-10 years later invest in batteries *then*, when the cost of batteries is so much lower than it is today. For context, we've seen the cost of batteries in China drop by 30% in a single year (!) for one of the larger tenders in 2025 .
Bluesky Social
Eric Hittinger (@elephanteating.bsky.social)
Our New Paper that might be interesting to some folks around here: "The Optimal Timing of Storage Additions to Solar Power Plants" 🔌💡 Open a...
I spend more time on Masto than Bluesky, but I find it interesting that this guy is running almost the entire stack required for bluesky, including ingesting the firehose of all the millions of users, on a 200 USD / month server:
in and out, quick appview adventure | futur
it's an appview, michael, how long could it take? tl;dr I'm running what is, to my knowledge, the first instance of the Bluesky AppView containin...
 That's not far off twice the cost of larger "galaxy” size hosted instance from Masto-host, intended for hosting low thousands of users:
Masto.host
Pricing | Masto.host
Pricing for Masto.host fully managed Mastodon hosting plans. Starting at $6/month.
 They're not the same thing obviously, but still, it caught my eye.
Has anyone seen more info about how this switch from Microsoft in Denmark is being implemented? The article here says they’ll essentially be giving half the gov Libreoffice but staying on Office 365 for everything else, while the other half keeps using the whole integrated Office 365 suite for a year. That feels like it’s a very uneven match up and: [@bert_hubert](
EUpolicy.social - A Mastodon server for the EU bubble
bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 (@bert_hubert@eupolicy.social)
3.19K Posts, 1.19K Following, 8.31K Followers · Software developer, entrepreneur, former government regulator, current government advisor, amateur...
 ) has a piece on why
Bert Hubert's writings
What we in the open world are messing up in trying to compete with big tech - Bert Hubert's writings
Our societies and governments now largely run on American proprietary big-tech platforms. Many of us want to decrease this dependency, or even end ...
Mastodon
Randahl Fink (@randahl@mastodon.social)
In Denmark, The Ministry of Digitalization now removes all Microsoft software from ministry computers and switches to open source in a strategy tha...
WOOT! I pay for Youtube, to avoid the ads, and because honestly I easily use it enough to justify the cost, but paying something like couple of months of subscription fees to increase the chances of there being a viable alternative in future was an easy decision to make. Looks like I wasn't alone 💯
Framapiaf
PeerTube (@peertube@framapiaf.org)
We've reached the first goal of our crowdfunding campaign for the #PeerTube app! You're amazing! Thanks a lot! 🥰 Thanks to your support, everyo...
If you're involved in the Mastodon / Fediverse #fediscovery programme, you've worked on the project, or you've been following its progress over the last year or so and you're going to this event, would you leave a comment in this thread? It was funded as part of the EU NGI Search programme, and I think it's an interesting project. I'd like to learn more about it, and I figure others might as well:
Mastodon Community Meetup · Luma
Mastodon Hosts a Gathering for re:publica 25 An evening of casual conversation, connection, and community with the people building the decentralise...
 I’ll add some links in the next post. /1
This is such a good post, and does a really good job of explaining the strategic risks when going all in on what you might refer to as “deeply integrated closed cloud”. [@alberto_cottica](
Mastodon.green
Alberto Cottica (@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green)
4.54K Posts, 385 Following, 1.07K Followers · Post-growth economist, citizen, runner. Network science, complex systems, digital anthropology, coll...
 ) in the context of your recent FOI to the European Commission about their use of suppliers, I think it's worth a read, and if you're not following [@bert_hubert](
Fosstodon
bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 (@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org)
8.05K Posts, 1.12K Following, 941 Followers · Software developer, entrepreneur, former government regulator, current government advisor, amateur s...
 ) already, I think you’d get along.
Fosstodon
bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 (@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org)
“Going to the cloud” can mean renting services/servers that you could get from anywhere. There’s little lock-in. The same four words “going...