szescstopni @szescstopni@qoto.org

Friends, today is a good day to stop using chrome :)

Download Firefox, reimport your bookmarks, set as default browser, replace chrome in all the places you launch it from muscle memory... I guarantee you wont miss anything from chrome, and in one step you take one step away from Google owning the web.

20 minutes, tops.

https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/111522208836443681

was reminded of this old banger of a tweet so i'm reposting it here on mastodon after *checks watch* 9 years

A visual representation of how high 2:1 isometric blocks should be

#PixelArt #GameDev

How QR codes are made:

AWS feels like a landlord. Actually all compute, storage, hosting services kind of feel as if they are digital landlords.

Like to exist anywhere on the net you gotta pay them "rent"

Psst: I feel this way too (about trying to write political satire about the post-Brexit UK):

Podobno jakiś piękny zimowy krajobraz jest, ale przez mgłę nie było go widać xD

#rower #RideWithGPS @rower

Escaped kangaroo punches police officer in face before Oshawa capture | CBC News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/oshawa-kangaroo-zoo-1.7048082?cmp=rss

> A missing marsupial that was on the loose east of Toronto since last week was found and captured early Monday and is temporarily being hosted at the Oshawa Zoo as it recovers.

Vogel des Jahres 2024: Der stark gefährdete Kiebitz.

Der Kiebitz ist ein Verlierer der #Klimakrise: Die neuerdings regenarmen Frühjahre machen ihm zu schaffen. Bei Trockenheit findet er weniger Nahrung. Zudem kommen die Bauern bei zeitiger Trockenheit früher auf die Flächen und stören dann die Brut.

Wer ihn also sieht, sollte sich glücklich schätzen - es ist ein Anblick, der künftig vermutlich noch seltener werden wird.

#natur #vogel #birds #vogeldesjahres2024 #vogelfotografie

Russia and "family values": the international lgbtq+ community is designated "extremist organisation", and any and all lgbtq+-person can be convicted for destroying family values, extremism, vulgarity, whatever.

Meanwhile, divorce rates are high in Russia: each year, 3.9 per 1,000 marriages end in divorce. Belarus 3.7. Ukraine 2.9.

The Netherlands, bastion of vulgar extremist lgbtq+-ism, has a divorce rate of 1.5 per 1,000.

Family values, my ass.
https://wisevoter.com/country-rankings/divorce-rate-by-country/

The Internet is sad because you’ll say something like “I could fight a chimp” and people will reply “no the chimp would kill you” and you realize they are directionless lost people who don’t believe in their own power and would absolutely surrender to stuff in a zoo. Keep your failure mindset to yourself.

🇬🇧#Pirates decide even before the #EuropeanElections2024 which rules and values our MEPs will work by. Whis other party is as transparent as this?
https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/cps-2024-final-version-full-text/519

Give whoever wrote this headline a medal

@rysiek I’ve noticed how the Norwegians are spending more time retiring to their caves and becoming more troll-like due to the vast amounts of renewable electricity and electric cars in the country.

Good job, UN, having COP28 in the UAE was a stroke of genius. Perfection. No notes.

> Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels

> Exclusive: UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber says phase-out of coal, oil and gas would take world ‘back into caves’

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/03/back-into-caves-cop28-president-dismisses-phase-out-of-fossil-fuels

For fuck's sake. 🤦‍♀️

Leaving the USA at SFO, I tested out "Opting out of facial recognition scans before boarding" procedure to see if it indeed exists and will be followed.

It didn't go very well.

The gate agent argued saying I couldn't opt out. I insisted that I'm allowed to, and they pointed to a sign on the wall explaining the "Biometric verification privacy policy". The sign says "Customers wishing to opt out may speak to a gate agent or CBP officer for a manual verification" clearly at the bottom.

The agent then told me I have to opt-out *in advance with CBP*. I pointed out that the sign says "or gate agent" and asked if she was a gate agent. She insisted again that I can't opt-out but by that point another agent heard the discussion, came over, and showed the first agent how to place my passport on the scanner and sent me through. I overheard her telling the first agent as I walked away, "If it's a US passport, it's OK."

A flight of probably 300 people, I'm definitely the only one who opted-out today and by the gate agent's confusion, I suspect I'm the only one who has opted out in a long time.

I'm in every system there is (and China already has my entire SF-86) so it's not that I'm some off-the-grid paranoid who doesn't want to be in "the system" - but for privacy rights to exist at all, it's important to use them when you don't need to and keep them available for people who DO need privacy.

Still ticked that my grocery chain got rid of their unsweetened iced tea and replaced it with decaffeinated unsweetened iced tea. Decaffeinated unsweetened iced tea is just dirty water.