szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

#Wilk w przedwyborczym potrzasku. Dlaczego politycy zajmują się tym drapieżnikiem?

"Nie ma chyba takiego drugiego gatunku zwierząt chronionych w Polsce, który wzbudzałby aż tyle emocji. Jedni wilka chcą chronić, drudzy zabijać. Ta druga grupa aktywizuje się szczególnie przed wyborami. Badacz wilków wyjaśnia, dlaczego"

https://oko.press/wilk-ochrona-politycy-mysliwi

Random Website: You need to set up #2FA with your phone number!

Me: Why?

Website: In case we get hacked!

Me: I don't really care, no one even knows about this account and it doesn't have my personal information.

Website: You misunderstand, it's so that in case we get hacked, we HAVE your information to leak to the hackers. They worked hard and deserve it! Also we sell your account to ad companies but they're not interested unless they can tie it to a real person.

#security #privacy #web

Dawno temu leciałem sobie spoza UE do Warszawy, mając ~300ml mocnego alkoholu ponad dozwolony limit. Wszedłem więc do czerwonego korytarza, pokazuję celnikowi, i pytam, ile się należy.

Celnik na mnie popatrzył jak na wariata. Po czym stwierdził:
- Wie pan, od lat mówimy rządowi, że trzeba umożliwić pobieranie podatku na granicy, ale rozporządzenia jak nie było tak nie ma.
- To co robimy? — pytam.
- Albo pan otwiera i upija trochę, albo wychodzi pan jak pan wszedł, po czym zamiast w czerwony, to w zielony korytarz. 🤷‍♀️

Zaproponowałem, że otworzę i upijemy razem, komisyjnie. Powiedział smutno, że jest na służbie. Wyszedłem i poszedłem zielonym.

“My son spends too much time being fascinated by ants and clouds. He spends a lot of time watching the world go by will this improve?” - Real, if depressing, question from a parenting group.

MY GOD — I hope not!
It’s really strange how some things are seen as needlessly day-dreamy obsessions while other fixations aren’t questioned or encouraged. There is a whole language for understanding the world of ants, in the complexity of clouds— What questions do they raise that are so hard to let go of?

The scale of tayga logging in #Russia Irkutsk oblast'. This process has been going for years, but apart from Russian environmental activists few people even know about it.

Before, the wood — perfectly healthy whole trees — were largely exported to EU where, thanks to the legal classification of "biomass" as zero-emission fuel they were, again, legally reducing CO2 emissions from coal power plants. Now it goes mostly to China.

As significant part of this logging is illegal even by Russian law, the forest that has not been logged is often set on fire to cover up and pretend it was all lost in an accidental forest fire, thus multiplying the harm to environment and climate.

The idea of biomass burning was based on sound scientific observation that when you grow say wheat, it takes CO2 from the air that is then bound in the straws, so when you later burn it, it has a zero net CO2 balance. This was then turned into a requirement for a minimum percentage of biomass in power plant fuel mix, which, together with the EU ETS emissions certificates, created a huge demand for #biomass.

Since EU actual waste biomass (straws, wood chips etc) was able to satisfy only a fraction of this demand, the industry did what it had to do: started importing it. But lifetime of straws is one year, while this forest has been growing for hundreds of years, which is how science was turned into absurd.

This is how just one Polish power plant ended up importing 7000 tons per year of forest from Komi Republic (Russia) over distance of thousands of kilometers, or German power plants importing coconut shells from Pacific area and planting forest in Africa to be cut and then transported on ships to be burned in Germany...

This is precisely why I try to not use any proprietary software at all.

I realise of course that this is not always possible, and depends on what kind of things you need to do on your computer, but at least on my computers, I have no commercial software.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/a3xk3p/adobe-tells-users-they-can-get-sued-for-using-old-versions-of-photoshop

#Software #OpenSource #FOSS

We have this abstract painting and I always saw something in it that nobody else saw and so now - I did this:

Before you install the new #ChatGPT app on iOS, ask yourself: what's the worst thing the maker of the world's greatest bullshit machine could do with this kind of information, and why are they requesting it?

log(😅) =💧log(😄)

Hello friends - are you a scientist who left Twitter in the six months or so? I have a journalist who would like to speak with you.

I once dated a guy who opposed me volunteering on social causes because "what if someone who doesn't need it gets help" and I'll be damned if that isn't the prevailing mindset of this country

Freedom isn't owning 25 rifles. It's being able to send my kids to school safe in the knowledge they won't be killed by one.

I'm having a high school flashback and I don't like it.

Next Disney should announce that they were gonna open an entirely new Star Wars theme park in Florida but because of Ron DeSantis they won't. Imagine having every Star Wars fan on the planet pissed off at you.

Shelter dog field trip. Bellini’s day out. #Mondog