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I'd appreciate it if everyone could just stop burning fossil fuels, please. Thank you for your cooperation.

  • You say "smart move that helps manage risk while having no real impact on anything", I say "foolishly craven gesture that demonstrates incompetent leadership while having no real impact on anything."

  • What does "?wprov=sfti1#" mean?

    (Oh, it wasn't hard to find out. According to hacker news it's not giving away your wikipedia account id or anything, just the fact that you're an iOS user.)

  • On my fediverse accounts:

    • I don't have autoplaying media (and I do have noscript)
    • I don't have infinite scroll (although it's an option)
    • There is no "for you" feed based on tracking my behaviour
    • I view things sorted chronologically
    • I usually see only things posted or boosted by people (or groups) I chose to follow
    • I don't get notifications when someone "likes" things or whatever

    And yet somehow it is addictive enough, whereas Facebook and Reddit made me angry enough to quit them forever.

  • Tier list:

    • having good principles
    • being a regretful fuckup who didn't live up to good principles
    • having no principles
    • having bad principles
    • being a regretful fuckup who didn't live up to bad principles
  • AI did not do it. People did it, and used "AI" as a convenient excuse.

  • I would guess that they know either much less, or much more than I do about Machiavelli, or they're speaking ironically. I'd be curious to engage them in conversation to find out which might be the case.

  • It's a better way to pay for stuff on the Internet, but it's not widely available yet.

  • It is super annoying, slow, and expensive to use as a payment method. I had some ETH from when they were giving it away in fairly substantial amounts to anyone with a GPU back in 2021. I managed to spend it, but it's hard to imagine any big number of normal people going through that much hassle more than once. And that was before the software ecosystem got to be full of malware.

    We really really urgently need a better way to pay for stuff on the Internet. Somebody please make GNU Taler happen.

  • Can you remind me, am I high right now as well?

  • Do you mean that the fingerprints are unique among your computers, or that they're unique among users of "fingerprint.com"? Just wondering. More analysis than you've done so far would be needed before you're ready to start giving anti-fingerprinting tips to the makers of Tor Browser.

  • According to legend, the problems all started when the landlord found out that Adam and Eve had a pet snake, and they got evicted.

  • Quodlibet is the one with all the features.

  • At last it's the xkcd creation myth revealed.

  • Just think of all the other things that could benefit from a "protective waiting period" to enhance your safety.

    Turning off location tracking, using a web browser other than Chrome, using a mail server other than Gmail, visiting duckduckgo.com — if Google really cared about your privacy and security they'd add a 24-hour delay to all these dangerous activities.

  • How to get age verification into linux? Easy, just tell Poettering that if he doesn't hurry up and do it first, some non-systemd approach might become the standard.

  • Judas, Trismagistus, Skrillex, Hideo, Jamboree, Moonbeam, Barry, Ganon, Hadjar, Boromir, Grendel, Jesus, Annana, Jone, Bess, Roger, Sugarloaf, Ponder, Basil, and Ernest. Those are the best ones, but there are many others.

  • Sometimes I see posts from some kind of anonymous confessions bot, I think it's on mastodon. They are often amusing.

  • With a title like that you know it's going to be 100% FUD. Not that Canonical doesn't deserve some of it.