Chris Adams

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.
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climateAction.tech (community): https://climateaction.tech
Green Web Foundation (work): https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org
Personal Site: https://chrisadams.me.uk
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2025-10-18 20:11:40 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kagihq/115346778094079369
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.
#note1hnk…g2rg

2025-09-22 13:58:47 UTC

Wow, what a headline.
"Deutsche Bahn is currently aiming for 70 percent punctuality as early as next year, but Schnieder said this target was unrealistic” 😬
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/making-germanys-trains-run-time-will-take-years-despite-eu100-billion-upgrade

2025-09-04 16:00:57 UTC

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.
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7369342979485954051/

2025-07-22 08:01:11 UTC

This post raised a full-on belly laugh for me at the end, but it speaks to a serious issue - I'm amazed by the lengths poor Dave Barry has had to go to, to convince Google to stop telling everyone he's dead in AI Overview answers.
https://davebarry.substack.com/p/death-by-ai
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/895/832/318/619/714/original/c9270915bf20d050.jpeg

2025-07-11 08:01:00 UTC

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
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https://bsky.app/profile/elephanteating.bsky.social/post/3ltmdaeckwk22

2025-06-24 17:37:52 UTC

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here's another post from someone else noticing it and providing some more numbers
https://infosec.exchange/@thenexusofprivacy/114735239445665862

2025-06-24 17:30:45 UTC

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:
https://whtwnd.com/futur.blue/3ls7sbvpsqc2w
That's not far off twice the cost of larger "galaxy” size hosted instance from Masto-host, intended for hosting low thousands of users:
https://masto.host/pricing/
They're not the same thing obviously, but still, it caught my eye.

2025-06-10 04:34:03 UTC

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](https://eupolicy.social/@bert_hubert ) has a piece on why
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/what-the-open-world-must-do-better/
https://mastodon.social/@randahl/114655674138180496

2025-06-02 10:55:52 UTC

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 💯
https://framapiaf.org/@peertube/114613219893538727

2025-05-26 12:00:28 UTC

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:
https://lu.ma/7h454kcp
I’ll add some links in the next post.
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2025-04-29 20:42:13 UTC

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I’m really glad you raised this as I work in this field and the framings I see used are often really problematic, because they shift responsibility to all the wrong places.
If you’d be up for chatting about this on the Environment Variables podcast this year I think it’d be a good convo for people who continually wrestle with the environmental implications of AI.
Here’s a sample episode
https://podcasts.castplus.fm/e/1820rl98-ai-energy-measurement-for-beginners
👍?

2025-04-28 12:36:45 UTC

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](https://mastodon.green/@alberto_cottica ) 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](https://fosstodon.org/@bert_hubert ) already, I think you’d get along.
https://fosstodon.org/@bert_hubert/114408677868318751

2025-04-13 14:08:39 UTC

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I think I know what you're getting at specifically now, and I've put a post together with some thoughts.
TLDR: I think you'd need to coin a term that communicates this idea of building with cloud primitives in a way that emphasises the bits you're referring to, because it's not in the interests of the biggest cloud providers to do so.
https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2025/04/what-is-the-easier-to-understand-way-to-say-building-with-cloud-primitives/

2025-03-31 12:58:02 UTC

This looks cool - and I had no idea it existed before reading a post by @npub1945…2lkl.
It's useful to have a thing like this to point when you're arguing for public money to spent on stuff other than Palantir or AI factories, because if you are talking about digital skills, then stuff like this is arguably much more directly helpful.
https://mdls.org.uk/
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/257/158/401/114/668/original/dba6a47a1e9dac1a.png

2025-03-16 14:20:41 UTC

WOW - The French government announced a project simple called Docs:
“A collaborative note taking, wiki and documentationZendisorm that scales. Built with Django and React. Opensource alternative to Notion or Outline."
It’s even offline-first, using the CRDTs under the hood (Y.js).
LOL, does this mean I get to roll out the
"Liberté, Egalitité CRDTé”
Dad joke?
I think it does. Link below
https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr/
V interesting joint project between DINUM (🇫🇷) and Zendis (🇩🇪)

2025-02-24 09:56:39 UTC

hi folks, can I get your help?
Where I work, at the Green Web Foundation, we're looking for a #Django developer to join our small but ambitious team working towards a fossil free internet.
We're looking for someone to help me with maintaining and developing our platform.
Almost everything we do is open source, you'd be working with grown-ups.
Job link below:
https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/jobs/mid-senior-django-developer/
If you know someone who might enjoy working with us, would you let them know, or share this in your networks?

2025-01-31 07:51:24 UTC

Dear Brussels fediverse peeps. If you have a fave quiet cafe near Bruxelles MIDI/Zuid that you like and *have personal experience with*, and is within walking distance, would you share a recommendation.
I can Google, but I’m looking for recommendations based on personal experience if possible.
I thought I would arrive in time to make it to the hotel
I’m staying at, and I’ve learned the train was delayed overnight (I’m on a sleeper train from Berlin to Brussels for #FOSDEM)

2025-01-14 12:27:50 UTC

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Can I check? Are you profiling the serving of a HTTP request using Rust there, but using the Firefox Profiler to make the output easier to read and navigate?
We've mainly been using it for tracking CO2 client side, and I hadn't seen examples of using it server side like that - tres neat!
https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/news/carbon-emissions-in-browser-devtools-firefox-profiler-and-co2-js/

2025-01-13 08:17:47 UTC

I want to take this article and replace every mention of the term word “AI”, with “Expensive External Consultants and Systems Integrators”, because it's strategically about as smart.
Sure, there are some places where AI and machine learning can be helpful and very valuable, but this blind faith in a piece of tech, when you see something like an 80% failure rate for internal AI projects (see the rand corp report in next post) should be ringing SO many alarm bells.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/12/mainlined-into-uks-veins-labour-announces-huge-public-rollout-of-ai
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2024-12-30 23:14:40 UTC

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me too - it’s not an easy one. I’m deliberately not trying to prescribe any interventions beyond gathering some data because I’d like to ask some people who have more expertise than me.
I guess the one silver lining is that this at least it gives us chance to think who gets excluded from events during the earlier pre-covid formats - I found them super useful professionally , but I’m also aware that they were kinda designed to suit people like me more than other ppl too tho.

2024-12-30 11:04:26 UTC

I posted yesterday about air quality in packed rooms at #FOSDEM, and this came up in my feed here.
I think it's serious, and if I'm gonna go through the faff of learning about some of the HVAC and HEPA jargon, I figure it might be worth repurposing what I'm learning along the way into an article for the conf if nothing else, right?
https://social.cryptography.dog/@fluconf/113736089021529360

2024-12-29 07:12:18 UTC

This is such a good piece by [@bert_hubert](https://fosstodon.org/@bert_hubert ) - it really clearly lays out why so many projects to adopt open source alternatives to big tech products fail, and why we see so many large organisations adopting abysmal products like Microsoft teams and so on in the face of cheaper, less terrible software - it's about so much more than the software.
It also lays out a set of sensible things you need before even starting a project to adopt OSS alternatives in orgs:
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/open-source-by-itself-is-no-alternative-for-big-tech/

2024-12-15 05:04:31 UTC

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OMG THANK YOU. THIS IS OBVIOUSLY THE CORRECT WAY.

2024-12-11 19:34:09 UTC

I must be missing something obvious. Is there a nice way to do threads in one go with Mastodon?
There isn't an obvious UI element see in Ivory, nor the official Mastodon client, and yet I see people like [@molly0xfff](https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff ) doing absolutely epic long ones.
I think this is because very post has to be a reply to the previous one, so there's no ID to link to, but surely this has been solved already, right?
If there's a good published how to, I’d really welcome a link to it.
👍 ?

2024-11-08 13:32:35 UTC

Dear fellow #django and #python nerds,
Somewhat related to that my earlier toot about that PR being merged into uv, I'm looking for examples of django projects that are packaged up as "proper” Python packages, to learn from.
If you know of any popular ones, would you share a link, or add one to this forum post?
https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/looking-for-examples-of-oss-django-projects-as-pypi-packages/36224/2

2024-11-08 09:47:32 UTC

Aww yiss! Got my PR merged into #uv's docs for their neat support of running commands from a #python package hosted directly on github.
This is really nice for trying out CLI commands stuff before they're published to PyPi proper:
https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/8841#pullrequestreview-2422047768
The examples in the screenshot show how to do one-off runs of the “httpie” command from a git branch, tag and git commit.
Give it a go! It was a pretty neat discovery for me, so I figured it might be for others too 👍
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/446/698/943/763/046/original/e664352cfa477a6a.png

2024-10-17 16:15:26 UTC

Oh neat. Dries, founder of Drupal, @npub1lge…jzpz, is doing the the solar powered website thing.
The link below points to the write up, with loads of pics and glorious nerdy detail:
https://solar.dri.es/
And here's the output from the data:
https://dri.es/sensors/solar

2024-10-14 15:22:04 UTC

Wow, this @npub1yng…nhrk fellowship looks great - if you live in Germany and are a maintainer of a widely used yet poorly funded open source project, they basically pay you to maintain it for a whole year at something pretty close to market rates, with the perks of being an employee like paid holidays and all the rest.
More info below.
Please look there before asking questions Here. I don’t work for them, but I like what they do.
https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/news/apply-to-the-fellowship-for-maintainers

2024-10-13 18:53:08 UTC

I'm suuuper late to the party, I know, but I was pleasantly surprised by how good the 3B Llama3.2 model is to use on my 16GB 2020 macbook M1, via Ollama and @npub1gv2…tlwl's stellar “llm” package.
I'm referring to this here:
https://ollama.com/blog/llama3.2
And this llm package:
https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/index.html
It feels comparable to the speed of using the lightweight models on Perplexity.ai, and it feels fast enough to me just run queries locally.
Really nice piece of CLI design - it's a real pleasure to use.

2024-10-08 18:46:31 UTC

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just on the off chance you could, and say… RIPE or ARIN actually did this as a collaboration with the government of your country… can you elaborate how you might find this useful?
I can see the appeal of stable IPs to use for life, but don’t quite follow how the routing for the rest of the net might work.

2024-10-04 10:04:20 UTC

Dear fediverse nerds: If you're interested in a more open, diverse market like me, then you might find the 6th International Open Search Symposium 2024, (also known as #ossym24 to its friends) interesting.
I'm going for next week, and I'll be in Munich from Wednesday to Friday. I've written a bit more about why I'm going:
https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/news/meet-us-at-the-6th-international-open-search-symposium-in-munich-in-october/
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2024-09-30 09:44:38 UTC

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where is this quote from?
The closest I have seen in interviews is when he has spoken about managing risk, and choosing to take risks where they are able to control their exposure.
That doesn’t sound the same as chasing a monopoly /oligopoly directly, surely? Link to transcript below:
https://www.cleaningup.live/the-kraken-wakes-creating-the-utility-of-the-future-ep175-greg-jackson/

2024-09-18 08:16:43 UTC

From the original blog post in May 2023 by the Mozilla CPO, who previously worked at Microsoft, FB and Twitter in that order:
> Last year, we announced we’re dipping our toes into the world of Mastodon ... We’re making a long-term investment because we think we can contribute to making Mastodon, and social media generally, better.
So, long term would be about 18 months, and fedi comments suggest it was hosting less than 300 users in the end.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-social-mastodon-private-beta-announcement/
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https://mozilla.social/@mozilla/113153943609185249

2024-08-26 19:29:00 UTC

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I mean, as soon as I pick up a phone and ring a call center, I want something to be sending a SAR so we *both* have access to the same recordings so I can refer to them, and the law is pretty clear that I should be able to request this.
I've been too lazy to request these before but I'd totally pay a fee a year to have this automated, based on number my phone knows I am making.
I mean... if I'm gonna accept being on hold, and losing all this time, I should at least have this shared with me.

2024-08-26 19:18:18 UTC

Dear GDPR nerds. I know my calls are being recorded for training purposes when I call various utilities. I want to argue that they have not done a thing I know I asked for on a recorded call.
Are the tools to help ppl make Subject Access Requests of these recordings in 2024?
I figure these would exist, as the GDPR has been around for ages now.
I can’t be alone in wanting this, right?