Yo peeps, I’m currently looking into TCF Vendors, Ad partners and their whole corporate greed hellhole of tracking. I am writing a paper on this, and would like for everything to be factually correct. However, I am struggling to understand one particular part of this “transparency framework” and hope someone can help me...
I can’t visit them directly (they are on 5 different DNS block lists). Looking at Internet Archive I would say it’s cookies set by Google, probably through Firebase Analytics, maybe AdMob.
I’m always surprised when it happens. 99% of the time I’m just tolerated, but every once in a while someone asks. Happened last night. I was sooooooooo happy.
Because narrow gauge is always the odd man out. If you used narrow gauge (and there are many, the term encompasses quite a few different sizes) there was a reason. Could be something like tight turn radii, or as simple as bigger costs more.
In the department of Cher Napoleon established a vast forest of Oak. The purpose was to have materiel ready to built ships for his navy. This was a strategic resource, the same way steel, tungsten, etc. are today.
With the changes in shipbuilding, at least for naval vessels, the need was diminished for timber masts and planking.
The city of Montluçon had been a producer of cast iron for a long time. Canals are an ideal way to transport that long distances.
The oak forests shifted to being a source of charcoal both for the charcoal itself and for the production of cast iron. The ‘pigs’, ingots of cast iron, could later be wrought or further refined into steel.
Pretty much the tl;dr is that demand dropped off, because Oak was no longer needed for war and higher quality iron could be sourced more cheaply from the north and east, with better connections. It was thought that upgrading the canal was not cost effective, so it slowly died.
The canal itself had issues, it often suffered from insufficient (water) influx, and leaks. It was not terribly well waterproofed as the area is low in clay soil. It’s quite lovely through many parts, though there are some dry areas. The Locks still exist, and many of the Lock Keepers houses are there. They were all built to the same plan from Oak and stone, with lovely Tomette (hexagonal terra cotta tile) floors in the kitchen.
There is of course more, where it links (it doesn’t exist in a vacuum), the general depopulation of what the French call the ‘Diagonal Void’, and probably other important things that i will remember next week and think ’ that’s important, why didn’t I write that down? Now they think I’m an idiot’.
Medicaid expansion efforts fizzled and died Thursday in Republican-led Mississippi because top lawmakers could not agree on a final proposal to send to the House and Senate....
As always the welfare states rail against welfare to keep people poor, uneducated, and in ill health.
For FY2023, Mississippi adopted a budget of $26.3 billion. But of that state budget, some 45 percent of it was met with federal dollars.
Federal payments to Mississippi average about $6,880 per capita – ranking the state as one of the most dependent states on federal taxpayer largesse.
And to give a complete perspective, Mississippi puts far, far less into the federal coffers than it takes out as a state. Mississippi taxpayers receive $2.73 back in federal spending for every dollar in federal taxes paid.
From an independent news source in Mississippi last year.
I don’t know about new fridges, but some old ones had a heater in the Butter Drawer (usually a shelf with a door). It made the butter easier to spread. People weren’t concerned about energy usage back in the day.
The last one I measured drew a steady 10 watts.
Butter drawer top center (on the door), egg shelf below that.
You are correct. Eta: that was in fact constant draw, unlike the compressor which is only on when needed. Like I said, no one cared about consumption when electricity was cheap.
This was an old refrigerator I was renovating for a friend. It was it very good condition, it had been regularly cleaned but no longer worked. It needed a new contactor.
I plugged it in with everything disconnected (I thought) so I could check for wiring faults. After some head scratching I took the door apart and found the butter warmer.
The original plan was get it working and replace the ancient door gaskets. In the end it was that, and disconnecting the butter warmer, and putting modern insulation in it. Once all that was done the energy consumption was just slightly more than a modern fridge the same size. I was quite surprised because I thought it would be terrible. Her rationale was that she has way more solar than she uses and she loved the fridge. I’m not sure I agree with that but the embodied energy costs are certainly much lower. Made in the 1950’s still working today.
Oh, and because I did it as a favor, total cost was less than $100. Craigslist free (haul it away), labor free, parts about $80 something.
p.s. ask me about my Craigslist O’Keefe and Merritt range.
I’ve started to realize that every social media platform, including Facebook, Telegram, Twitter, etc., has issues with bot spam and fake follower accounts. These platforms typically combat this problem by implementing various measures such as ban waves, behavior detection, and more....
That’s a kbin thing. I have never seen ‘buy cheap Viagra, Oxycontin, etc.’ on Lemmy. It probably exists, but whenever I block and report a user they’re from kbin.
Trying to understand Consent Forms, Cookies and Third-Party Vendors (slrpnk.net)
Yo peeps, I’m currently looking into TCF Vendors, Ad partners and their whole corporate greed hellhole of tracking. I am writing a paper on this, and would like for everything to be factually correct. However, I am struggling to understand one particular part of this “transparency framework” and hope someone can help me...
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someone actually asked for an info dump (lemm.ee)
I’m always surprised when it happens. 99% of the time I’m just tolerated, but every once in a while someone asks. Happened last night. I was sooooooooo happy.
Kagi silently removed all references to Google's index from their website
Hi!...
Aldi Just Announced a Major Change to Grocery Prices, Lowering Prices (finance.yahoo.com)
Which of the among is the best exif remover app?
Scrambled Exif vs Metadata Remover
Dual headphone jack smartphone scores high in new reparability video (www.notebookcheck.net)
Rabbit was once an NFT company that it wants you to forget about (www.xda-developers.com)
Afghan diplomat caught at Mumbai airport with 25kg gold smuggled from Dubai (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
Google is (still) losing the spam wars to zombie news-brands (pluralistic.net)
Am I the only one who thinks the community is being to hard on the Rabbit R1?
Sure, it runs Android. What did people expect? They aren’t going to build a custom system from scratch....
Old reddit has removed the login fields
It now redirects you to the new site login page. There’s no way to sign up with out an email anymore(?) It was only possible on the old site.
Medicaid expansion effort collapses in Republican-led Mississippi Legislature (apnews.com)
Medicaid expansion efforts fizzled and died Thursday in Republican-led Mississippi because top lawmakers could not agree on a final proposal to send to the House and Senate....
My 30 pack in the bottom drawer is ready to party (lemmy.world)
Biden calls Japan and India xenophobic: ‘They don’t want immigrants’ (www.theguardian.com)
US president says ‘immigrants are what makes us strong’ and criticizes countries, plus China and Russia, over migration policy...
A3 receipts is wild AF (lazysoci.al)
How does Lemmy deal with bots?
I’ve started to realize that every social media platform, including Facebook, Telegram, Twitter, etc., has issues with bot spam and fake follower accounts. These platforms typically combat this problem by implementing various measures such as ban waves, behavior detection, and more....