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@dangillmor@mastodon.social Why do you link directly to them?! Do you know what SEO and page rankings are? That they are calculated from the number of links pointing to their content? These people literally brag about the profit they make from garnering "liberal outrage" links and RTs.

@bascule@mas.to Also, on some days batteries becoming largest single source in the pre-dawn/dawn hours: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/02/18/california-batteries-sustain-near-24-hour-solar-run/

@alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com @dangillmor@mastodon.social You can even just say "X reports that...".

@gleick@mas.to This is a project to shift Europe (e.g. white nations) back to imperialism. That's why mine sweepers were sent away from the region and Iran's oil refineries were bombed: Create a surge in energy prices for Europe and force them to go abroad and take what they want.

@dirkhh IIRC ghostery is based on a partnership with the adtech industry and has tried to monetize its use in the past. Their company was founded on the idea that ad tracking can be perfected, which IMO makes them true believers in something that is only capable of exploitation and misery.

@n_dimension @dangoodin This BTW is the entire reason why Google lost its lunch over tracking... Firefox implemented FPI then Safari and others followed suit. Feeling the pressure, Google then rolled out similar "Tracking Protection" in Chrome but with the infamous catch that you had to allow the browser itself to collect browsing data.

@petergleick US inoculation requirements go back to revolutionary times.

@libramoon @aram An insecurity that's produced by the class war being waged against them (and the women, too).

@blogdiva@mastodon.social "For Entertainment" is how Fox News escapes FCC scrutiny and court fines.

@siderea @seachanged I suggest reading the Wikipedia page at the "Surficial deposits" entry. Also, there are maps of soil fertility for various US regions which should largely answer your question.

@seachanged @siderea Another key to understanding this (assuming its true) could be how the region is composed of glacial moraines, regions scoured by glaciers which left behind many rocky deposits. This happened during the last ice age (and probably some prior ones as well). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_New_England#Surficial_deposits

@n_dimension @dangoodin The jscrambler site seems to be saying that the "pixels" are actually programs that felch PII right off the pages where they exist. IDK what to think about that. Clearly the websites including that Tiktok/Meta code are allowing it and are in effect "sharing data with our partners". That points to a general and massive cultural failure in IT, not the least of which is the browser architecture that would allow 3rd party scripts to do this.

@TheViking@newsie.social Signs of intelligent life.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai Makes sense since Frank Herbert was such a right-wing nutcase. Now what about the psychology of an author who rails against homosexuality and writes about a young man riding atop giant worms on his way to orgies? Dune wasn't Herbert's only story with penis-shaped aliens.

@randahl@mastodon.social I know that few people reading this care, because fedi has become a self-selecting demo of IT enthusiasts/experts. But this kind of broken UX matters to most nontechnical users; it drives them away. Note how this doesn't affect Bluesky or other services that use similar https: links. That's because unlike fedi the address that handles the UI and logins is centralized (i.e. 'bsky.app').

@petergleick Is anyone in the "opposition" chomping at the bit to undo all the damage he's done? No? Then my answer to your question is "probably yes".

@Avonan Its not accidental. We should fire our 'intellectuals' – they keep saying Trump is stupid but now he has the power to set energy prices across the globe and is already dictating what EU parliament must do to keep their LNG shipments. These analysts are idiots. Of course, they bear no responsibility for the situation were in; understanding the motivations of fascist dictators is not a job for proper people with very reasonable views. Madmen who want to control the world is a silly idea

@dirkhh I was going to mention uBlock Origin; it claims to block trackers so one would expect it blocks these as well.

@n_dimension @dangoodinhttps://captaincompliance.com/education/meta-pixel-lawsuits-are-out-of-control-learn-how-to-stop-them/ https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260210-tiktok-is-tracking-you-even-if-you-dont-use-the-app-heres-how-to-stop-it

@Sustainable2050 As I've been saying elsewhere, this is really about the US policy of regime change in Europe. Even analysts on the far right agree that Israel was safe and this is a war of choice. Trumpists are confident that far-right parties coming to power in the EU (reaction to energy costs) will draw Russia out of China's orbit... a white supra-nationalist project that controls most of the worlds' fossil fuels and heeds no industrial regulations, Precautionary Principle or Four Freedoms.

@Mastodon For one thing, it doesn't seem to handle dedicated fedi apps. It also doesn't address what happens when other apps simply want to link to fedi content (without immediately sharing); a user clicking from a pdf or epub viewer or an email client, for instance, would be lost. All of this is very ragged and slipshod because IDK why... protocol handlers seem too old fashioned to this clique of devs.

@wesdym@mastodon.social It doesn't matter, he's been planning this with Steven Miller for years and I'm sure Miller and his other close advisors find Trump's degradation a convenient smokescreen. It literally has most people (see: this convo) saying "wait and see...".

@Beggarmidas@mastodon.social "sabotage, extort..." You seem to think its a climatologist's job to deal in more than facts. What do you deal in? (And don't tell me "logic and reason"; your feed is like a textbook example of the Dunning-Kruger effect.)

@randahl@mastodon.social These "Share on Mastodon" sightings always interest me because they're so rare. They're always broken, which I think is why they're rare. Anyone who clicks on that link will end up at the wrong place. The 'ec.socialnetwork.europa.eu' web server won't recognize your fedi login, and if you use a native fedi app, there's no way for that link to take you to it. Fedi is like email, but didn't copy email's 'mailto:' protocol definition, allowing smooth UX across different sites and apps.

@SamsenBdRi@mastodon.social Those 2000 jobs... you know what, fuck them. The rest of the EU is ramping up a large build-out of new energy infra; if they can't find a use for aluminum in that then I have to question whether they're being honest.

@JeffreySmith@mastdn.social The minor observations, quips and chitchat about this are endless. It is an easy subject to "say something" about. So of course AP, WaPo, etc. will see all the social media cache hits for these stories and try to post more such stories for as long as possible. It makes a nice break from posting smiling family photos of mass shooters above the fold for weeks on end.

@pluralistic "But Comrade Trump's ambitious praxis knows no bounds. Now, he's helping to remake the Democratic Party as a muscular opposition with a serious commitment to workers' interests over billionaires. It's not merely that Trump has empowered the primary campaigns of leftist Democrats facing down corporate, AIPAC-backed sellouts:" Wishful thinking, although I'd hope it was true.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai The Re-re-re- making of Dune movies is one of the negative indicators about where our society is heading, IMO. Books 2-onward are dedicated to un-doing a message of hope about downtrodden people. The fact that JFK was so popular and took the side of black liberation scared the sh!t out of him. The Dune series is an anti-JFK, anti-civil rights story – which is why there isn't a drop of democracy in that universe.

@wesdym@mastodon.social Trump has just:

1. Gloated the Iran War is netting a huge windfall from sales of US and Venezuelan oil.
2. Again put off ending the conflict.

As I mentioned, the inarticulate back-and-forth announcements stall for time and create indecision among observers – and it seems to have worked on you, too.

So the liberal democracies of Europe have to bankrupt themselves fighting a proxy war without resources, producing desirable outcomes for MAGA (which was born on the anti-EU Brexit stage).

@pluralistic Trump's dream is the return of overt imperialism of white Europeans over the rest of the world. That's why his criticisms of Europe lately sound like... "if you want access to the oil, you have to come to the M.E. and help us take it by force". If European counties aren't "helping out" in the Strait, Trump will eventually cut off their supply. That's his lever to assist the return of far-right politicians in Europe.

@inthehands@hachyderm.io I see people griping about #Chrome being a necessary evil in their lives and then pretending that Chromium doesn't exist. These are supposed tech experts who I would guess can't claim ignorance.

@davetroy I do think that non-MAGAts are prone to denial about the Trump regime's ability to plan destructive acts from which it gains control and wealth. They misstate his goals constantly. TrumpCo's end game is probably to put most of the world's fossil and nuclear fuels under the control of a white nationalist axis that will eventually include Russia. And that control over resources will be used as a weapon like never before, primarily against liberal democracies and China.

@gunchleoc@mastodon.scot Sincerely doubt that. It doesn't take nine years to fix something like this, and if it took that long to recognize it as a priority then they don't know what they are doing.

@andrewmelder@mastodon.online @tg@indieweb.social httpS ?? PKI? No? Bye.... (Obviously, the referenced hostile environment around the old protocols, and the lack of protection, means they can in a sense be taken away from you.)

@ben@werd.social You should also question the conventional idea of marketing efforts. From my POV, social media networks have largely sold themselves. Compared to other types of large services, I'd bet their marketing budgets are small. There is a trap (or cop-out) where a community of technical users, such as Linux enthusiasts, delude themselves into thinking they've got the stuff that people need, if only there was "marketing" or some other external factor. But it should come as no surprise that the fediverse is a social network of Linux enthusiasts, and they have brought their familiar UX attitudes with them.

@agreenberg@infosec.exchange To all the talking heads who fashionably preface their AI analysis with "Of course, we're not there yet..." And weirder still, don't even mention or imply what "there" is. 🔥 🤦 🔥

@davidho He's waiting for surging fuel prices to have their effect on importing countries. Trump has been telling Europe it has to join the fray and take the energy it needs by force. Few commentators recognize that by smashing something (Strait of Hormuz trade) he is controlling it. What's going down is not random, only the words from Trump/GOP are random. #whitenationalism #imperialism

@randahl@mastodon.social wtaf

@Mastodon What this new "button" seems to do is implement another dangerous band-aid that habituates users to login to M. at the prompting of foreign websites. If you think users are going to closely watch their location bars to ensure they are 'home' before typing their password, I've got news for you... From my limited use so far, it has a number of limitations that make it inferior to the UX for email or centralized sites.

@wesdym@mastodon.social As I watch events develop, I have to think that a civil society that has been permanently locked out of power will eventually take that look in the mirror and realize that their pretty little faces are the bumbling fools. Every thought they have towards Trump & MAGA is based on conceit, and they can't save the republic when they won't acknowledge that its enemies are both monstrous _and_ intelligent.

@ben@werd.social If the Web as a protocol is just a technical detail to people, then what future does it have? Some protocols were meant to be user-facing... they have an actual UX. ActivityPub is also user-facing and its UX is poor. If this were not so, then fedi would not be languishing while another protocol with similar semantics (AT, Bluesky) is flourishing. The thing that stands out most for me is how Eugen claimed fedi is "effective communication", and yet complaints about fedi made ON fedi have been ignored, drowned out by questionable on-fedi boosterism. You need to acquire a vision for smooth operation and the kinds of fedi traps that non-technical users can find themselves in. And you should not be rejecting IETF-honored solutions only because you are millennials who are embarrassed to employ simple measures (like protocol handlers) that date back to the 90s. Some of the Mastodon workarounds for maintaining a users' login state are inexcusably complex and just begging for abuse.

@toerror@mastodon.gamedev.place @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange @fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net @codinghorror@infosec.exchange The rent-seekers usually wait for a major market instability before they pounce. Then it becomes a race to see who can stay in the game with the highest prices and the least number of low-margin renters/consumers.