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I am still surfing the wave of “omg #emfcamp was simply an amazing experience”
A friend’s response after hearing a fraction of what we got up to: “that’s incredible. How can you go back to your day to day life now? Isn’t it really boring in comparison?”
This is an excellent question, if a little terrifying to think about. I don’t have an answer. So I must conclude… the status quo is not enough: we need to make it our mission to make the real world more like EMF.
Battery-electric buses overtake diesel in EU cities
1️⃣ Share of new EU city buses: Battery-electric buses reached 36% in 2023
🚩 Leading countries: Slovenia, Denmark, Netherlands, Ireland, Finland
⚡️ Key to successful transition: Set 2027 deadline for 100% zero-emission bus fleets
https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/battery-electric-is-now-the-top-powertrain-type-for-new-city-buses-in-the-eu #electricvehicles #climatechange
But until regulation catches up with the momentum for zero-emission buses, European busmakers risk being blindsided by soaring demand and emerging foreign…Transport & Environment
Once again, I have successfully Bread.
(The temptation to just eat it is really strong.)
The state of search in 2024:
Google: "We threw away decades of search knowledge and Internet indexing and just made an answer up 
"
Bing: "Here's 100 tangentially related pages from 2010 that I only included because your query appears in a tag cloud in the website's footer"
DuckDuckGo: "Here are the Bing results, only with ✨privacy✨"
Reddit: (this user has deleted their entire post history using PowerDeleteMyShit. Fuck /u/Spez)
Yahoo: "Oh thank god, someone's actually using our search engine! No, we're not just Bing!" *frantically trying to cover up the giant Bing sticker* "NO DON'T GO TO GOOGLE!!!!"
Yandex: "Here are all of the Russian-owned resources on this topic. Only Russian sources are trustworthy. Everything else is fake ne—I MEAN, misinformation"
Kagi: "We'll give you what Google used to give you for free, for the low low price of $10/month!"
Ask.com: [hoarse screaming and clawing noises can be heard from the ground beneath a headstone that says "Here lies Jeeves: 1996-2006"]
@KayOhtie I guess it is their right, and I don't want to see these attempts to make the internet worse go unpunished, but yeah, it sucks mostly because we don't have any other place to go right now, and search engine~~s~~ (let's not fool ourselves) are continuing their decline
We need better search engines, but we're not getting them, or at least without a paywall and a creepy owner behind it...
I often say on here there is no way to #NetZero by 2050 unless we #retrofit and #decarbonise our homes…because over 20% of our carbon emissions come from domestic properties in the UK.
Am I naive to expect political parties to acknowledge this and put a real plan in place?
I don’t want the subject ignored (Tory style) or a vague sum of money promised (Labour).
I want a concrete 5 to 10 year plan with milestones covering skills training, funding and procedural rollout. Moon on a stick?
I was doing a talk with a friend today about retrofit and he said just that. He was very comfortable voting with his conscience for the Green Party because he was confident Labour would win enough votes to keep out the Tories.
I remember @dansup@mastodon.social mentioning this last month (original post was deleted), but Threads by Instagram continues to mute the entire Pixelfed community as well as other Fediverse instances (also known as servers) over one simple rule.
Server guidelinesA server may be added to our server blocklist if it doesn't comply with our guidelines for communicating with Threads. [...]
We'll also block a server if it doesn't have a:
- Sufficient privacy policy; or
- Publicly available policy to restrict access to users under the age of 13; or
- Publicly accessible feed (Emphasis mine, via Instagram Help Center)
For those unaware, a publicly accessible feed is merely a stream on a local instance where anyone can view all of the public chatter on the server. Mastodon sums it best with this description:
To allow you to discover potentially interesting content, Mastodon provides a way to browse all public posts. Well, there is no global shared state between all servers, so there is no way to browse all public posts. When you browse the federated timeline, you see all public posts that the server you are on knows about. There are various ways your server may discover posts, but the bulk of them will be from people that other users on your server follow.There is a way to filter the federated timeline to view only public posts created on your server: The local timeline. Mind that “local” here refers to the server, not to a geographical location. (Mastodon Documentation)
Pixelfed has a local timeline, but it is not publicly accessible to Threads, which explains why the site is muting the entire Pixelfed ecosystem and any other Fediverse instances that decline to allow Threads to access the public timeline without permission.
The Pixelfed creator Dan may resolve this issue by allowing instance admins to create a publicly accessible feed to allow their respective users to communicate with the greater Threads community.
However, in hindsight, it might be wise to leave it off by default, especially with numerous tech companies scouring the web to train the synthetic brains of artificial intelligence programs (Meta included, props to @r_alb@mastodon.social for alerting me about this).
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Lukewarm take:
When I see general* "security advice" that mentions "do not use public WiFi" or "use a VPN", I am immediately suspicious about all other advice offered.
Yes, a decade ago that was a consideration, because most sites were not using HTTPS. Credentials were flying cleartext on the wire.
Today, almost all sites use HTTPS. Doesn't mean the risk is zero, but it's way lower.
*) "general" meaning "without a very specific threat model in mind", meant for general public, etc.
generally agreed.
However, I think this is boilerplate. A lot of metadata can still be captured, And that could still have a lot of value. Easier to just obscure that too.
@thegibson sure, but if you're writing a 10-point "security advice" one-pager for, say, banking app users (actual example), there are so, so many more important things to include than "public WiFi bad".
Not to mention that using a VPN can put a person at *more risk*, depending on the VPN provider, exit point, etc, etc.
These two really have no place in general security advice aimed at general public.
I don't remember if I've posted it here before, but this is Tashville the coyote at Horseshoe Bend, Arizona in 2018.
🐺 myself
✂️ Clockwork Creature
📸 @lynard
#fursuit #coyote #ClockworkCreature #fursuit #FursuitFriday #furry #Arizona #HorseshoeBend #ColoradoRiver
If this poster is real it's a campaign killer
Tbf even if not real it's a campaign killer?
#UK #UKPol #UKPolitics #GE2024 #GeneralElection #RishiSunak #GTTO
This is such a good election poster…it’s up there with Saatchi and Saatchi’s work for the Tories, like there 1978 campaign gem ‘Labour isn’t working’
It’s not about necessarily agreeing with their work from a personal perspective, it’s recognising the simplistic power of their advertising message.
Whenever I see chuds saying things like "your bloodline will die with you" as a retort against political support for LGBTQ+ people or abortion rights, all I can think is:
Cool? Ideas are carried via social interaction, not reproduction — and we can, and will, just earn the support of *your* children by being better than you. 🤷
I suppose you haven't seen the discourse about how the folks telling us that are missing the point and being useful fools...
The point/the claim isn't that they made a special exception in Recall not to screenshot locked-down media. The point is the extent they went to to enforce the interests of movie industry when that was engineered, vs the complete lack of attention to anyone standing up for users and how to protect their interests against Recall.
As a software engineer, I am pretty aware that they probably didn't have to do anything special to not screencap DRMed videos.
Nevertheless, I still find it worthwhile to point out, that Recall works in a way that protects the interest of certain people while creating huge privacy issues. And while the Recall team probably could not do much about the first point, they decided to not care about the second one.
Happy #FursuitFriday! Galaxy bandanas are back in stock today. 🌠 https://pantherapalm.etsy.com
#FurryMerch #furry #FurryFandom #embroidery #FursuitBandana #DogBandana #Fursuit #Etsy
Reminder that “transwomen” as one word is technically incorrect.
Trans, or transgender, or transsexual, is an adjective. We are women. We are tall women, short women, serious women, silly women, and trans women.
Language is messy and complicated so I don't want to attack anyone using "transwoman." Especially not another trans woman. But using the word correctly helps get the point across that we're just women. It helps encourage people to see us as women, and it shows your support.
Thank you.
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