@bookwar I didn’t complain about Amazon not supporting the Fedora project. I proposed they could add mirrors of their own to take the load of existing mirrors, caused by instances running in their network by their customers. Seems this is being looked at, so that’s a good thing. I’ve updated my toot accordingly.
I have a beautiful analog stereo from the early 1990s in my living room with satellite speakers in my bedroom and a remote control that works everywhere (Bang & Olufsen Beosystem 4500, collected for cheap via eBay over several years). I have a rotary phone that I actually use. I listen to Vinyl but I also have CDs. And all of it ripped as MP3 that I can play via my PLEX server. Or straight from the Audio Out on my NAS. I also ripped my DVDs. I never needed Sonos or Spotify. #JustSayin
Climate denial and legislative obstruction have
forestalled meaningful government action to avert climate change, “the defining crisis of our time.”
In letters to CEOs of oil & gas companies, Rep. Raskin of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability said, "I write to request any information you may have about quid pro quo financial agreements related to U.S. energy policy that were reportedly proposed at a recent campaign fundraising dinner with ex-President Trump."
FPOTUS Trump has promised to end offshore wind in the USA if he's elected and every Republican supports this position because the fossil fuel industry owns the GOP even more than does the NRA!
Do you want to know why the fossil fuel industry is so opposed to offshore wind? There's enough offshore wind capacity to power the U.S. FOUR times over that's why.
The entire goal of the GOP is to protect FF industry profits. So if you are not supporting Democrats you're supporting global warming!
Liebe SZ, wenn du mir suggerierst, ich bekäme den Artikel zu lesen, indem ich auf deinem Cookiebanner mit meinen Daten bezahle, und dann anschließend verarschst indem du außerdem noch Geld willst, dann singe ich jo-ho und 'ne Buddel voll Rum. Weisste Bescheid, ne?
P.S.: Ich glaube übrigens nicht eine Minute lang, dass du nicht auch von zahlenden Kunden die Daten abschnorchelst und weiterverteilst. Was die EU gerade z.B. bei Meta/Facebook/Instagram/etc verbietet. #justsayin
When I joined the #fediverse via my own Mastodon instance back in 2018 (and with an identi.ca, status.net, pump.io history going far back), I never thought of it as a Twitter, Facebook etc alternative. I saw it as a new planet. A fresh approach to build a real social network. I still look at it that way. I want to explore new possibilities. Try new things. Escape the gravity well of the "old", centralised networks. Find a better orbit. That is why I block threads.net on my instance. #justsayin
Maybe you now understand why I don't really care about the growth rate of the Fediverse. Or how it could overtake BigCentralisedThing and what changes MUST be made to achieve that. I don't want the fediverse to be a better Twitter or Facebook etc. I want the fediverse to be a wonderful experience for those that value it and iterate over it to be an internet of people, not an internet of algorithms and monetisation, is all. Let's build from that position, if you agree.
The fediverse makes me feel better about my online presence. I define my experience here. And as I run my own instance, I also make bigger decisions like which instance gets suspended. Which users get an instance-wide block for the (currently) two users on my instance. (just to be clear, my instance is reserved for family only, I don't accept new users. I do hope you all set up many more small instances because decentralisation :)
The #xz backdoor was found without a bug bounty as motivation. #JustSayin
(if you conclude from that that I am not a big fan of bug bounty programs for Open Source projects as it is exclusive and many FOSS projects simply will never have the money for that or the ressources to team up with "Bug Bounty Service Providers" that offer this As a Service, you might be on to something ;)
According to a report by BloombergNEF, it is estimated that by 2030, there will be around 1.2 million tons of retired EV batteries worldwide.
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new technology enabling EV battery reuse: a type of power electronics equipment that can manage a variety of EV batteries as an energy storage system for an electric utility.