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This article has different numbers for the emissions of CO2 equivalents than the one from our world in data article. Numbers in the literature seems to vary widely (from 3.7 to over 110 g(CO2 equiv)/kWh). The “our world in data” article seems to use the lowest value from the literature and rounds off (from 3.7 to 3).

Also the dw article has some other good points that aren’t mentioned often enough (nuclear is more expensive than renewables, has longer construction times and may have to be shut down in hot summers, when the rivers for cooling run low).

KDE framework for building apps that run well on both mobile and desktop devices.

A GNOME shell for smartphones. One of the more commonly used UI shells on postmarketOS.

A library for mobile UIs based on GTK.

Plasma for smartphones. One of the more commonly used UI shells on postmarketOS.

A GNU/Linux distribution for smartphones.

javax.annotation:javax.annotation-api and com.google.code.findbugs:jsr305 merged into a single automatic module. This solves another split-package issue and together with RationalityFrontline /grpc-api is the missing piece of the puzzle for using gRPC in a modular Java application.

This one is necessary to make code generated by protoc pass compilation.

Another Java-modules-friendly gRPC distribution. Similar to Helidon’s repackaging of gRPC, but less tied to Helidon.

The other piece of the puzzle is RationalityFrontline/javax.annotation-api, which makes code generated by protoc pass compilation.

A Rust crate for serialization to and from the D-Bus wire format. Also supports GVariant, which is a variation of the same.

For the latest version, see the ReStructured text rewrite.

Compiles a custom GVariant schema format into C code to access GVariants efficiently and safely.

Comes with a schema for OSTree repositories.

System tray icon provider for JavaFX.

Resources for learning Japanese with Free Software. Based on the All Japanese All The Time paradigm.

Among others: a list of Anime ranked by difficulty.

Combines the grpc-core and grpc-context JARs into one in order to circumvent the split-package issue when building a modular Java application.

A compiler back-end for lazy and strict functional languages with whole program optimization support.

A blog on economic history.

A review of “Scenes from a Marriage”, contrasting the original with the remake.

Calvinist predestination versus Newcomb’s problem.