keverets @keverets@librem.one

I sort of love that these two vehicles have the same bed size.

The Kei's is actually a bit more useful because you can fold down the sides.

An electric Kei could be a game changer in cities.

Mozilla is truly an advertisement company now. From the bottom of my heart, fuck you, everybody at Mozilla.

The Internet archive lost its appeal in the HACHETTE case. What a huge, devastating loss for all of us.

#InternetArchive

no no no *you* can't freely scan through the collected works of humanity, that right is reserved for the large language models.

The Android evil-genie promise: You may have an open source phone OS. But if you actually compile it from source yourself, you will be banned from running any software. Or at least, they'll try as hard as they can to ban you from running software. Also, if you decide you want to build or even *download* the source, you're going to need to purchase a dedicated 1 TB SSD to check out the repo, and also download our forked version of git to check it out with

Spotted in #ottawa

❝Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.❞ — Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate)

OH WAIT LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT CECILIA PAYNE

• Cecilia Payne’s mother refused to spend money on her college education, so she won a scholarship to Cambridge.

• Cecilia Payne completed her studies, but Cambridge wouldn’t give her a degree because she was a woman, so she said to heck with that and moved to the United States to work at Harvard.

• Cecilia Payne was the first person ever to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College, with what Otto Strauve called “the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy.”

• Not only did Cecilia Payne discover what the universe is made of, she also discovered what the sun is made of (Henry Norris Russell, a fellow astronomer, is usually given credit for discovering that the sun’s composition is different from the Earth’s, but he came to his conclusions four years later than Payne — after telling her not to publish).

• Cecilia Payne is the reason we know basically anything about variable stars (stars whose brightness as seen from earth fluctuates). Literally every other study on variable stars is based on her work.

• Cecilia Payne was the first woman to be promoted to full professor from within Harvard, and is often credited with breaking the glass ceiling for women in the Harvard science department and in astronomy, as well as inspiring entire generations of women to take up science.

• Cecilia Payne is awesome and everyone should know her.

(OP: Matthew Gardner)

The promised writeup of how I discovered that the Feeld dating app was protecting private data by doing client-side filtering: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/70061.html

On One Wheel, the now defunct quarterly unicycling publication by the Unicycling Society of America, claimed that someone named Ben Dova survived the Hindenburg by fast rope descent for most of the way to the ground before gravity did the rest. Can't be real, right? Well

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Dova

Do not run multiple blockers just use ublock origin
https://infosec.exchange/@AAKL/112989621877545179

The trend of building surveillance into all new smart TVs is "incredibly invasive and little understood,” EFF’s Jacob Hoffman-Andrews told @arstechnica. "Nobody wants a snooping and snitching television, but lately that's all you can buy.” https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/tv-industrys-ads-tracking-obsession-is-turning-your-living-room-into-a-store/

Okay bicycle people: I know of Strava and would like to try something like it. But I would prefer something that is open source, community run, and maybe even something I could self-host. Any ideas?

#Cycling #Strava

Dr Thomas Piggot #Peterborough Public Health MOH, has announced a proposal for local funding for #COVID19 #WasteWaterSurvelliance with #trentuniversity

Here is the proposed replacement cost: $62K/yr.

This is *ridiculously* low cost.

Ignore the attempt at PR mind tricks, there is no plan for replacement. And the replacement proposal clearly shows #DougFord is disingenuous in the "cost savings" story.

You can call the Premier of Ontario's office to register you complaint at 416-325-1941

#Ontario plans to terminate the #WasteWater program in 47 days.

https://www.peterboroughpublichealth.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/240612-BOH-Agenda-comms.pdf

Great resources for finding alternatives to the Big Tech software people often feel trapped using:
https://switching.software/

by @switchingsoftware

It turns out that this does exactly what it says and I don't know what I expected

Premier Ford will pay Molson Coors and Anheuser Busch MILLIONS to break a 10 year contract 16 months early in order to speed up 24/7 alcohol access in #Ontario gas stations & corner stores.

Many people think that the Beer Store is owned by the province of Ontario, but in fact it’s owned by a consortium of brewers.
🙄 #DougFord is paying this consortium $600 million of our tax dollars to cancel the existing contract prematurely so you can buy #beer anywhere.

#priorities #BoozeOverHealthcare