keverets @keverets@librem.one

Dear Canadians in Ontario, Quebec, and B.C.: if you purchased an optical disk drive or any machine containing one between 2005 and 2010 you should go claim your $20 from the price-fixing class action lawsuit we just won.

No proof of purchase required, submission deadline is 2022-11-14.

https://oddclassaction.com

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/optical-drive-class-action-canada-1.6521951

(If you're thinking "jeez, there sure is a lot of price fixing going on in this country", MMM-HMM)

This is one of those cases where it's really best to stick with one or two well-known brands, or wait until you can afford one. It's just a waste of money to get a cheap meter that just measures VOCs as a proxy etc. and it's hard to know if it's real NDIR or not- they just lie.

Ok I have a CO2 meter review video coming up but quick summary:
Every no-name Aliexpress CO2 meter under $100 sucks.
If they say they are NDIR they are probably lying.
The @AranetIoT@twitter.com is expensive but worth it.
The @TheatreCaps@twitter.com Mini CO2 monitor is an acceptable alternative.

This was predictable. Facebook/Meta is now encrypting the QP data so that Firefox and other privacy conscious browsers that strip the tracking data can't. Only way to avoid it is to not use Facebook at all. #DeleteFacebook #SurveillanceCapitalism www.ghacks.net/2022/07/17/face…

Daniel Wroclawski and I wrote about Ring sharing video footage without a warrant or user consent. https://www.consumerreports.org/law-enforcement/amazon-shared-ring-footage-with-police-without-a-warrant-a6093504500/

There's a Canadian company - Allanson International - making UV lights you can bolt into existing home ductwork for sanitizing your air; not a big deal if your windows are open all summer, but come winter when we're all buttoned up this will be important, IMO.

https://swordfishuv.com/

Inspired by a recent set of toots by @SexyCyborg I picked one up and just finished installing it. Dirt simple, took ten minutes.

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. ~ Anne Lamott

I really think #OpenStreetMaps can learn a few tricks from #GoogleMaps, and how they "nudge" contributors, especially the occasional contributor, who are very likely motivated very differently from the typical "active contributor."

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You know that thing where people make fun of a terrible opinion by writing it in a mixture of upper and lower case? It's probably not a good idea.

Screenreader software used by blind or partially-sighted people interprets capital letters as the beginning of a word.

This means that a phrase written as "FiNe PEopLe oN BoTh siDeS" will sound like gibberish.

If accessibility matters to you, try to avoid doing this.

#FediTips #Accessibility #A11y

The Software Wars Map, published by Steven Hilton in 2006

"Already, 5,000 Londoners are on to it: borrowing anything from sound systems to sewing machines from a catalogue of around 50 items. They are the pioneers of the Library of Things (LoT) model, which helps people to save money and reduce waste by affordably renting out household items. They’ve collectively saved around 50 tonnes of waste from landfill since it all began."

https://www.positive.news/society/the-library-of-things-coming-to-a-town-near-you/

#LibraryOfThings #LOT #London #PositiveNews

Stolen from bird site screenshot w/o description:

"The #COVID lockdown has demonstrated 3 things:

* Our economy collapses as soon as it stops selling useless stuff to over-indebted people

* It is perfectly possible to reduce pollution

* The lowest paid people in the country are essential to its functioning"

I enjoyed this article: Is Google Dying? Or did the Web grow up? https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/google-search-algorithm-internet/661325/

I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords

Have you found your Ikigai 生き甲斐?

#StreetComplete's new alpha now has support for a #layers, i.e. map #overlay's that enable only specific quests in a very convenient way!

Read more also about the history of that feature in #westnordost's blog:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/westnordost/diary/399378

Feel free to test it out and report bugs!

@streetcomplete

Do you authenticate to various websites with your Github, Google or Facebook account? Be careful, if you get blocked by these companies, there's virtually no recourse and you might have a serious problem!
https://nextcloud.com/blog/big-tech-accountability/

Imagine if YouTube was shut down.

It would be a literal tragedy for the human race. Billions of hours worth of creativity would disappear in an instant.

"That would never happen!" some believe.

But it already has.

Remember Google+? All of it's gone forever.

Or remember all that media stored on MySpace? It's vanished.

We must stop depending on Big Tech to archive our data. Their mandate is to profit off our data, not preserve it.

Very happy about this.