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Vote .org just announced a nearly 700% increase in daily voter registrations — more than 38,500 new registrations — in the 48-hour period following President Biden's announcement.
This figure marks the single largest number of voter registrations over a 48-hour period during the 2024 cycle.
👉🏼👉🏼Younger voters between 18 and 34 accounted for 83% of new registrations.
Fantastic news for those of us who rely on breathing for our daily lives.
Change equivalent to removing 200,000 cars for a year, with capital’s air quality improving at faster rate than rest of EnglandGwyn Topham (The Guardian)
OpenBSD enthusiast cooks up guide for the technically timid
If you want a simple step-by-step, this is the best we've seen French BSD enthusiast Joel Carnat has written a how-to guide on setting up a laptop with OpenBSD for general use. It's worth a go for the Unix-curious.…
#theregister #IT
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/07/25/openbsd_for_the_people/
When Sunday made history as the worldwide hottest day on record, it held the top spot for just one day: Monday is now the warmest day of global average temperature
- and Tuesday is second.
Three global temperature records set in three days.
Climate crisis? What climate crisis?
https://apnews.com/article/climate-global-temperatures-10600ef3b2092dfc4d456f0d593ee0de
Global temperatures have dropped slightly after breaking the all-time heat record the two previous days. The European climate service Copernicus says Tuesday's global temperature was 17.15 Celsius, which is 62.87 Fahrenheit. That's just 0.SIBI ARASU (AP News)
Objective To evaluate the personal protective effects of wearing versus not wearing surgical face masks in public spaces on self-reported respiratory symptoms over a 14 day period. Design Pragmatic randomised superiority trial. Setting Norway.The BMJ
This is pure cartel behavior: Reddit and Google have cut a deal that will freeze out all other search engines from indexing Reddit, where volunteers do essentially all the work.
This should not be legal.
It is VITAL to replace Reddit, and it will take a global village to do it. If we don't, the cartel wins.
And Google should be broken up by Congress, if the antitrust people won't try.
https://www.404media.co/google-is-the-only-search-engine-that-works-on-reddit-now-thanks-to-ai-deal/
DuckDuckGo, Bing, Mojeek, and other search engines are not returning full Reddit results any more.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
It's 2026, McDonald's has partnered with IBM again for verbal order placement in the drive through.
You left your wallet at home, but know tap to pay works with your phone.
You arrive at the takeout window, no one is there. Your food is behind a glass mechanical door. You tap your phone and a voice tells you:
"This payment method is not accepted, please use a trusted device."
You ask what a trust device even means, a voice responds devices without any modification to the Operating System. You don't care what an OS is, you want those chicken nuggets.
You press again and the voice gives an example "Your device may be jail broken." You ask why this gets in the way of paying with your card backed by your connection to BigPhoneOSCorp.
The voice says: "I cannot disclose that information"
You drive away.
The person behind you never gets their food, the voice thinks it is still in a conversation with you until they pay... for your food.
The window won't switch food until the next driver rolls in.
They can't get their food until they pay for the previous persons food.
They never scripted this edge case.
For the next three years this location continues to serve food offset by one customer.
Why are you doing things on my device that require that level of scrutiny?
"Apple/Google pay!"
Then just disable that feature and let me use the card you're storing deets of on your server.
No one cares if a rootkit manages to order 100 mcnuggets on my behalf. They can mcshove it.
If Tesla (the organisation) ceased to exist, how much functionality in a Tesla (the car) would cease to work?
Would it still be driveable, able to charge etc.?
Is the same true of other modern cars?
The exciting news about the R21 malaria vaccine makes me want to point out that malaria is endemic in parts of the world. And it kills about half a million people every year.
You know what's coming.
Say it with me.
All together now:
Endemic does not mean benign.
This one weird trick saved countless hours and stress
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/25/crowdstrike_remediation_with_barcode_scanner/
This one weird trick saved countless hours and stress – no, reallySimon Sharwood (The Register)
Third-party (AKA cross-site) cookies are harmful to the web, and must be removed from the web platform. This finding explains why they must be removed, and examines the challenges in removing them.www.w3.org
Basically, a good way to never trust "it's okay, the data is anonymized" again is simply knowing what the "Hemisphere Program" is.
https://www.eff.org/cases/hemisphere
In short, the US government got access to number from, number to, datetime, length and sometimes location information for every call passing through AT&T's network from 1987 to today.
Then they ran an algorithm to de-anonymize every burner phone based on behavior. They did this because maybe some of those burners were used by drug dealers.
For almost 10 years, federal and local law enforcement agencies across the country have engaged in a massive and secretive telephone surveillance program known as “Hemisphere.Electronic Frontier Foundation
A web extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, etc. requests to alternative privacy-friendly frontendslibredirect.github.io
More fluff. #TummyTuesday
📹 @Prus & me
#furry #fursuit #LupeSuits #FoxFursuit #BellyFur #belly #CuteFursuit #video #FursuitVideo
I've been seeing a lot about how solar power is being installed at record rates, and how cheap it's getting, and also a lot about how many "AI" datacentres are using so much power, and realising that low power prices (or anticipated low prices) are perhaps encouraging those datacentres to mushroom.
So it's still quite true that capitalism is why we can't have good things.
This "AI is ruining the internet" is funny, infuriatingly and depressingly correct.
https://invidious.protokolla.fi/watch?v=UShsgCOzER4
Well, except for one (actually) tiny detail, ALL the "tech" people I follow are strongly and loudly worried about AI's dangers to human society, etc. The people described as "tech" people are just AIdolizers with AIdiotic public stances that may genuinely wreck everything, starting with the poorest and otherwise most vulnerable people.
Also, all the progress that we may have been, or intended to be, doing regarding decreasing energy consumption to save our livable habitat from being eradicated by climate change,
is currently being entirely wiped out by the new AI-farm server halls with VASTLY increased electricity consumption that recently have and will soon be built, to the point that they build entirely new power plants dedicated to just a server hall each because the general power grids can't handle their demands.
So yeah, it's not just the killing of art and trust in any remote human-to-human communication, experiences and education, but there's also pure survival as a species.
Cool, huh?
Google and Microsoft now consume more electricity than >100 countries
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-and-googles-electricity-consumption-surpasses-the-power-usage-of-over-100-countries
So that's about half. There are 193 UN member States.
AI, AI aiii, climate change is accelerating. Not intelligent at all.
Google and Microsoft consume more energy than some countries.Kevin Okemwa (Windows Central)
TIL about the design spec for the Citroen 2CV.
It had to:
- transport two farmers
- have enough headroom for those farmers to wear hats
- have controls laid out so it could be driven while wearing clogs
- carry 100kg of potatoes and a cask of wine
OR
- two adult rams 🐏🐏 or three goats 🐐🐐🐐
AND
- transport a basket of eggs across a ploughed field without breaking any
WHILE
- being capable of travelling at 50kph using 3L of fuel per 100km.
“you’re a replicant and everything you remember about your childhood is fake implanted memories”
normal person: [existential crisis]
trans person: “oh thank fuck. That’s a load off”
There's a whole podcast with some therapists discussing this stuff, and it's awesome:
https://youtube.com/@itsnotjustinyourhead
Two mental health professionals explore how our capitalist economic system impacts our emotional lives. From precarious housing and employment, to unaffordable healthcare, to endless debt — it's not just in your head!YouTube
"The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse." ~Herman E. Daly
Economics without ecology is just stamp collection.
Lazy summer days are the best ❤
An artistic liberty sketch for Argent ^^
#UnasArt #furry #furryart #furryartist #furryartwork #UnaPanthera #commission #illustration #characterillustration
Http needs a status code for grudging acceptance. We have 202 Accepted. We need 222 Tolerated.
For when the client is doing it wrong, but you've decided to be the bigger person and deal with it anyway.
"The repeatedly applause for #Netanyahu from the right as he seeks to justify with lies & distortions the brutality in Gaza is nauseating. It as if they're cheering for genocide -slaughter of children -starvation of 100s of 1000s. It's repugnant, humanity at its worst."
D Rothkopf
"History will judge us poorly for welcoming Netanyahu to Congress with open arms as he commits war crimes in Gaza."
S Lee
"Netanyahu should be standing in front of a criminal tribunal -not Congress."
J Castro
oh man... I've never wanted something so much >.>
Goo as that little bastard penguin <.< Or Grommit.