DEI to be replaced by MIE: Monotony, Injustice, Exclusion

Oh no my shameful secret is discovered: I never got around to visiting the zoo when I lived in Toronto.

Looking at the Firefox Librewolf “print preview” it does actually look quite easy to read.

I wonder how many of my stupid comments on lemmy have been converted to PDF, printed on paper, and stored in a filing cabinet.

I’ve been using it for five minutes and can confirm, so far nothing strange stands out.

The only way to win the game of “Bot, or troll?” is not to play and hit the block button instead. Which I will go ahead and do now.

How can they be undocumented if they’re registered?

Pointing people to reddit, as if that’s an alternative. When a VPN provider makes such bad choices it’s tempting to imagine that the decision was influenced by somebody who wants to secretly get the message out that the company is no longer to be trusted, because it’s hard to see any other logic in it.

Not at all. They could just take the bus down to Sausalito once in a while.

The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land

The centralized social media have demonstrated again and again that content moderation at scale can never work well the way they do it. They are a menace to society. The problem isn’t that Elon Musk is the wrong person to decide how a billion people should be allowed to talk to each other and which of their voices should be amplified, it’s that nobody should ever have that power.

A diverse network of smaller instances where each is free to take its own approach is the future of social media, if it has a future.

I assume you mean things that you’d never guess were linux or unix-like just by looking at the UI as it’s visible to normal users. Car infotainment systems and “smart” TVs (e.g. Roku) come to mind.

I don’t think that’s just “collateral damage.” Destroying the universities along with the rest of the education system in order to stop people from becoming too well educated seems to be part of the plan.

I still have the grant because I changed the title

Fortunately for the research team, their paper titled “Reanalysis‐driven regional big weather trend models over New Zealand: Earthotology and extreme events” was not affected.

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Perhaps this will motivate makers of web browsers to finally get serious about making fingerprinting less easy. Looking at you, Mozilla.

Firefox (with good settings, or Librewolf) + uBlock Origin + Decentraleyes + NoScript (with default permissions removed) is probably > 80%.

Okay Google, if you can guess my age accurately to within a decade based on my youtube viewing history and whatever other data you can get, I will give you a cookie.

I like blobcats

Oh look it’s the United States Congress version of shitposting.

It’s CVE-2024-36904 from May 2024. Last year’s news.