SamuelJohnson

@s10n@mastodon.social @matt@oslo.town bottle caps are a disproportionate share of what washes up on beaches. Whether it's an issue for you depends on whether you prefer a right to pollute or to have a clean beach and generally an environment freer of non-biodegradable waste.

@agowa338@chaos.social @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu You missed the hysterics of Brexiters? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-rees-mogg-vacuum-cleaners-b2091362.html They milked this and every other nonsense to fool the credulous. If you don't know any credulous voters you're fortunate but my guess would be that the AfD supporters contain many.

@agowa338@chaos.social @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu I visited Germany during the extended Brexit debates in the UK and found my German friends generally well informed about it, even watching British parliamentary debates as a form of after dinner entertainment. Of course, they were fluent in English and well-traveled. Migration and lies and misinformation about it is a hot button for the far right everywhere, from "eating cats and dogs" to allegedly getting preferential treatment.

@agowa338@chaos.social @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu Well, it was hard to keep up with the torrent of lies. The vacuum cleaner guff was a popular example of the "EU's faceless bureacrats' control freakery". The British prefer no regulation where possible. Thus, on the morning of the Grenfell fire in London the Conservative Party had a meeting scheduled to plan a bonfire of building regulations (hurriedly cancelled). They're now making up for it with a massive increase in building regulations, esp for tall buildings. 🙄

@colinpurrington@flipping.rocks @alexhaist@wandering.shop Surely you're on their bucket list.

@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot Lol. 🤦 Reminds me of the time an IT dept I ran was described by someone as a place where people "just looked at screens all day".

@schrotthaufen@mastodon.social @catsalad@infosec.exchange bendy lines in your spectra, of course.

@weatherwest@mastodon.social When Ireland, one of the greenest (wettest) countries, with one of the most temperate climates -- with natural air conditioning -- has had fires and the fields are golden, like California.. you have to wonder what the future holds.

@s10n@mastodon.social @matt@oslo.town @aral@mastodon.ar.al Perhaps before resorting to jibes about #greenwashing it would be an idea to become familiar with the facts? Here's some information for one country https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/1024/1477146-bottle-collection/

@s10n@mastodon.social @matt@oslo.town @aral@mastodon.ar.al Do you ever bother doing any research? There's plenty of information online if you'd care to inform yourself instead of making petty snarks and jibes about greenwashing https://www.packaging-gateway.com/news/deposit-return-schemes-in-focus-as-europe-tightens-rules/ www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921344924005536 You're muted now. Bye.

@bert_hubert@eupolicy.social I didn't assume or imply anything to the contrary. I read your perfectly clear indication that it was a terrible site. I simply pointed out for anyone unfamiliar with it that it's not simply a site hosting "porn". Update: An article on the kind of porn on this site https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jul/22/the-bed-you-thought-was-safe-isnt-safe-how-zoe-watts-survived-drug-facilitated-and-fought-back

@The_Universality@mastodon.novotnykrystof.com @proscience@toot.community @penguinrebellion@tldr.nettime.org @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu I have corresponded with an MEPs. They are technologically illiterate, naive about the collateral effects, subjected to lobbying by both big tech firms and law enforcement that always wants more surveillance and uses horror stories effectively. In addition, some are religious fundamentalists with latent authoritarian instincts. None of that amounts to corruption.

@webjac@mastodon.social @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu You persist in missing the point. Watch the video again. Also, you're wrong. No, the EU isn't overstepping. It's defending the interests of EU consumers from unregulated and unaccountable neoliberal capitalism and doing so on behalf of and with the support of member states, every one of which is a democracy.

@fastmail@mastodon.social 👏 Thanks. I intended to switch away, reluctantly (after decades). I'll stay another year. I prefer no data in the US.

@gregalotl@c.im @alex_p_roe@mastodon.world @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us All accurate and yet he ignored the elephant in the room: the fundamentally undemocratic nature of the UK's electoral system and constitution. Hardly surprising from an Eton-educated son of a former colonial administrator and senior member of British intelligence services who "accidentally" (entirely by chance!) became governor of a province in Iraq. His diagnosis of the UK's lack of seriousness: 🎯.

@jon@social.vivaldi.net Still need to match Brave in suppressing pop-ups.

@fishidwardrobe@social.tchncs.de @s10n@mastodon.social @matt@oslo.town Would you like to be muted for being a jerk? You just were.

@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk Farage was beaten by a dolphin before. A political sanitation engineer might well make parliament smell better.

@jon@gruene.social You lived through Brexit, right? Right? It's usually either conflict of interest or stupidity. Sometimes a power flex arising from former. You'll be the Galileo of rail, eventually. 😉

@The_Universality@mastodon.novotnykrystof.com @proscience@toot.community @penguinrebellion@tldr.nettime.org @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu Thanks for your clarification. The EU has its faults and there have been corrupt and dishonest individuals in parliament and elsewhere, but to dismiss the entire EU as corrupt is simply wrong. It's currently the only organization on earth capable of regulating big tech, in Europe at least.

@totoroot@ibe.social @rysiek@mstdn.social @mullvadnet@mastodon.online I won't be renewing.

@renardboy@mastodon.social @j3rn@fosstodon.org @zhenyi@mastodon.social Claude is named for Claude Shannon, the American father of information science. No American ever pronounced Claude like a Frenchman. Nor, I suspect, did any Roman Claudius.

@fishidwardrobe@social.tchncs.de @s10n@mastodon.social @matt@oslo.town They end up on beaches principally by ending up in rivers. Ever realize you've got the means to answer such questions in your hand?

@Tatjna@moo.nz If someone somewhere profited from the decision I wonder if it could be invalidated and his money refunded. Thankfully he seems not to have had an Irish parent or grandparent. Anyone who does is automatically a citizen. This includes some truly vile people. Several current and former Fox News creeps and "Tommy Ten Names" in the UK.

@etp@indieweb.social

1. https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-static-ip-address/
2. Disable DHCP in router (you can now forget about it)
3. Enable DHCP in Pihole
4. Profit 😎

Gotcha: SD card failure Solution: cloned copy on standby (if you prepare failure won't happen & vv)

@etp@indieweb.social NB important to avoid having no DHCP server! If that happens you might need to reset router to re-enable OR set set a static IP on PC in order to log in to router. It's (a bit) like locking your keys in the car. Fixable but inconvenient. None: bad One: good Two: one too many, also bad Oscar Wilde on bigamy comes to mind. 😉

@solar_chase@mastodon.green 🪿👆

@chrisp@cyberplace.social @ZaneSelvans@social.coop In China he is known as Comrade Nation Builder because of his propensity for actions that weaken the US and strengthen China. They hope he serves a full term.

@BrideOfLinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu Trouble is capitalists prefer unfair competition and monopoly if they can get away with it, and regulatory capture if they just want to look as if they're in favour of free markets. $12.75m is not even a slap on the wrist. 🙄

@The_Universality@mastodon.novotnykrystof.com @proscience@toot.community @penguinrebellion@tldr.nettime.org @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu I am also not optimistic about the EU's *willingness* to regulate big tech. Willingness and ability are not the same thing. Apart from anything else the EU is currently constrained by matters of timing and circumstances may change later this year.

@robang74@ieji.de @ratsnakegames@mastodon.social Oh look. Some advice from the country that murdered people for being homosexual not that long ago. Tell us you've learned nothing without telling us you've learned nothing. Actually, don't.

@stux@mstdn.social 👍

@metacurity@infosec.exchange enviable not envious

@Tatjna@moo.nz Quite a few Youtube channels exist covering those who decide to afford it by selling up (burning their bridges: house, car, furniture, everything). Those tied to caring responsibilities are the ones to feel pity for, the ones with no choice. For the rest Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. H. L. Mencken

@Bibliothecaris@social.edu.nl 👏 A fine example to librarians everywhere. I hope to read a follow-up post later but already it seems you've had some useful engagement.

@johnnyryan@eupolicy.social The indictment is clear and warranted. I don't see Ireland offering to recuse itself unless the rest of EU were to make up the revenue shortfall, which seems unlikely. Ireland refusing to sacrifice itself is not hard to understand after the sovereign bailed out German and other hedge funds and is still dealing with a debt overhang. The bigger picture and long term trajectory of transatlantic relations likely changed yesterday & may be a more fruitful focus? https://youtube.com/watch?v=0aBaTkSAJRM

@solar_chase@mastodon.green ICYMI 👆

@bert_hubert@eupolicy.social AFAIK motherless isn't simply a porn website. I've never seen it but I have read that it has featured videos of torture and people having their throats cut (taken during the conflict in Bosnia, supposedly)*. I have no objection to that kind of content being taken down and feel it probably ought to be illegal everywhere. A better solution than surveilling the communications of entire populations. *Did the principals think the 1st amendment protected their right to this "speech"?

@webjac@mastodon.social @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu You don't, in a democracy with rule of law, get to decide the laws that apply to you alone. Actions, like not wearing masks or not getting vaccinated during a pandemic, and uses of some technologies, have consequences for others, not just you. We have already seen plenty of cases of US abuse of the rights of EU citizens via tech firms and the current US govt would like nothing better than to destroy the EU. Thanks but no thanks.

@Tatjna@moo.nz Of course. Can well understand anyone wanting to move to NZ. Lovely country. One of my favourite places and the friendliest people anywhere. Citizenship for Peter Thiel though... 😱🤦 Much too kind.

@renardboy@mastodon.social @zhenyi@mastodon.social Tomato and tomayto, router and rooter etc. It's bad enough w people divided by a common language. 😉

@etp@indieweb.social Many ISP routers are 🤬. Some have hidden menus. Navigating even non-hidden menus can be annoying, and sometimes Chinese translations are... 🤕 I like being able to switch on Tailscale and run traffic through Pihole when away from home. It's easy and works well if you have a good connection at home. It's an on/off switch on Android/iPhone. https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-tailscale

@stephan@them.cheeky.wales > it was the goose that created the value A goose is just an egg's way of making more eggs. See "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins for details. 😉

@Tatjna@moo.nz Americans are fleeing. 19,000 to Ireland alone since Trump was elected. Hundreds of thousands in all. https://youtu.be/dbqFoqFSOF0

@webjac@mastodon.social @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu It's not different. Unless you use your phone to talk to yourself, it never contains data about other EU citizens, and your actions don't impinge on others. In any case the EU regulates for the single market and if you don't like it your choices are to break the law, lobby for deregulation, or move to a place where corporations don't have to obey the laws, if they even exist.