szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

If you have been following us for a while, you know that we like to speak up against unethical practices.

Let's be frank: spying on people's behavior is wrong, and browsers should not #track or #profile its users. Period.

If you agree with us, know that there are alternatives. Our mission is to stay true to our users and respect their privacy, and that's why we have disabled #Google #Topics API and made sure it doesn't work in Vivaldi. 🔥

Read more👇
https://vivaldi.com/blog/news/alert-no-google-topics-in-vivaldi/

If, hypothetically, you were trying to build a small run IoT device and wanted it to be as independent as possible of the cloud - how would you handle 5 years of firmware updates?

Pegasus jest w Polsce nielegalny, wybory w 2019 r. powinny były być unieważnione, a służby – jak najszybciej poddane ścisłej, niezależnej kontroli – tak najkrócej można podsumować raport nadzwyczajnej komisji senackiej badającej wykorzystanie w Polsce oprogramowania Pegasus.

Nasz komentarz do raportu senackiej komisji nadzwyczajnej, która zajmowała się badaniem afery z wykorzystaniem Pegasusa: https://panoptykon.org/pegasus-komisja-senacka-przyjela-raport

Wybaczcie poślizg.

@didleth@mastodon.social @Arti @didleth@szmer.info

#Andalucian #Donkeys and friends!

There are only a few hundred of this ancient species remaining - they're thought to be descended from Egyptian donkeys brought to #Spain 3,000 years ago, and they're the oldest donkey species in #Europe. They're unique here for the pale coat they acquire as adults.

Sancho Panza of Don Quixote fame had a donkey that was probably Andalucian (judging from Cervantes' choice of the word "rucio" for the color of the donkey's coat).

They're sweet and smart, their coats are soft, and they fully deserve to be put back to work where they will prosper. Mechanization of farm labor put them out of a job and the species, used to human care, has declined greatly in numbers.

For now, this reserve outside #Granada is a safe and loving place for them, and they occasionally offer therapy to autistic folks and people with eating disorders.

Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems ("Janssen") has informed its CarePath customers that their sensitive information has been compromised in a third-party data breach involving IBM.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/johnson-and-johnson-discloses-ibm-data-breach-impacting-patients/

If people can get full face tattoos and botox injections and drink themselves stupid and take horse medicine and get colonics, I should be able to get a Covid booster shot every six months even if it's just my kink to get vaccinations

Feel free to spread this around like manure on a spring pasture. Contact me at my name at hasameli dot com for my actual resume.

Less glibly - yes, I need FFS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_feminization_surgery

It's critically important for me to be able to function correctly to have this handled, and I am highly motivated to make this happen as soon as humanly possible.

It takes a hell of a lot of resources, tho, and my current insurance regards this as 'cosmetic' and refuses to cover it.

Anyone interested in paying for me to revoke my biometrics[face]? I will do security stuff in exchange.

Given the current hoopla surrounding "AI" #LLM capabilities and impact on society, this is one of the most timely, and useful, contributions to the study of bullshit since the late Harry Frankfurt's 2005 book. Thanks, @pluralistic !
#AI #LLM #ChatGPT #bullshit
https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/07/govern-yourself-accordingly/#robolawyers

I’ve noticed many people lately who have died surrounded by their family. That’s why I avoid mine.

"Share" buttons clicked on the @dnalounge calendar pages:

Oct 2019: facebook 54%, twitter 46%
Jul 2022: facebook 62%, twitter 38%
Aug 2023: facebook 38%, twitter 32%, mastodon 29%

@paulknightly Almost all the satellites you can see with your eyes now are Starlinks. Nicely demonstrated in this awful/beautiful photo: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220614.html

Today I learned that MILF does not mean”Mastodonian I’d Like to Follow” and excuse me while I go back and edit several dozen posts.

#naturephotography #birds #biesbosch #natuurfotografie #nature #natuur #vogels
 #birdphotography #Mastodonnaturecommunity


Ekster en Torenvalk /v
Eurasian Magpie v.s. Common Kestrel /f

"Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billionaire titled “Elon Musk.”As Ukrainian submarine drones strapped with explosives approached the Russian fleet, they “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly,”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/elon-musk-biography-walter-isaacson-ukraine-starlink/index.html
#Musk #Starlink

A bitcoin mining company made more money from being paid by the Texas government not to waste electricity ($31.7M) than it did from mining bitcoin ($8.9M) in August.

This is basically another ransomware business model enabled by Bitcoin 🤣

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/06/texas-paid-bitcoin-miner-riot-31point7-million-to-shut-down-in-august.html

@agturcz @mason @Zenek73 @icd @to3k

Nie jest prawdą jakoby. PPP to skrót od pipipipipi, które wydawał modem w trakcie łączenia się. Każde dziecko wie.

Fajny, ale ciut straszny. 2 w skali, którą właśnie wymyśliłem.

Skala to:
0 - niestraszne mosty (czyli głównie dostatecznie szerokie, żeby nie przechodziło się blisko przepaści)
1 - zwykłe mosty (z balustradkami)
2 - "przejdę, ale będę robił w gacie przy każdym kroku (w przenośni)"
3 - "jak muszę, to przejdę, ale więcej tu nogi nie postawię"
4 - "nie ma opcji, do wiedzenia!"

#most #wędrówki

To disable Google Chrome's "advanced" ad tracking, why not give Firefox a try?