Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

For everyone who asked, here’s the full section from the syllabus.

Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible:
it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables
—at half the cost of fossil fuels.
The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere
—if governments have the courage to change the rules.
For Ramon Méndez Galain,
the energy transition isn’t just about climate
—it’s about economics.
Uruguay’s shift to renewables, he argues,
demonstrated that clean energy can be cheaper, more stable, and create more jobs than fossil fuels.
Once the country adjusted the playing field that had long favored oil and gas,
renewables outperformed on every front:
halving costs,
creating 50,000 jobs,
and protecting the economy from price shocks.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2025/10/19/uruguays-renewable-charge-a-small-nation-a-big-lesson-for-the-world/

Zig is Migrating from GitHub to @Codeberg

Putting aside GitHub’s relationship with ICE, it’s abundantly clear that the talented folks who used to work on the product have moved on to bigger and better things, with the remaining rookies eager to inflict some kind of bloated, buggy JavaScript framework on us in the name of progress. Stuff that used to be snappy is now sluggish and often entirely broken.

https://ziglang.org/news/migrating-from-github-to-codeberg/

#GiveupGitHub

I have a talented, hardworking, totally blind student who wants to program.

I want to give her a chance to do research.

Any advice from the programmers out there?

P.S. one of the best vision scientists of the later half of the 20th century was blind. (Gordon Legge)

Sauron was 54,000 years old when he forged the One Ring. It's never too late to follow your dreams.

Poll only for #Blind/LowVision users who rely on #AltText. Is AltText generated with an LLM actually “better than nothing” as some argue? Please comment if you’re Blind or Low Vision, and please boost to get a good sample.