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MichaelBishop

@MichaelBishop@mastodon.world

Climate Activist, vegan, reader, hard headed, wannabe writer, believer in degrowth. Choosing to change before Climate Change makes me change.

Born at a time when CO2 levels were at 322.55 ppm.

#ClimateChange #LightPollution #Degrowth

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lauren, to microsoft
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's new system to record everything a user does on their PC is gonna be loved by domestic abusers.

MichaelBishop,
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@lauren maybe it's time we start following Richard Stallman and stop using tech.

clive, (edited ) to random
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People of Mastodon!

I'm researching the growth of ebikes ...

... in cities around the US

I've talked to many people who love them!

But also want to include the perspective of folks who have concerns ...

... i.e. about the speed and weight of ebikes in accidents with pedestrians or other cyclists, and the like

If anyone has thoughts they wanna share, ping me! I'm all ears: clive@clivethompson.net

Pass this along if you know anyone else with perspective they want to share

MichaelBishop,
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@clive

There's a DIY ebike group on Facebook where a large percentage of the members aim to build bikes bigger and faster than legally permitted.

lauren, to random
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I should probably avoid using references like "Rodney Dangerfield" here, since most readers would probably say, "Rodney WHO"? -- which of course would support his claim that he never got any respect.

MichaelBishop,
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@lauren he's the first one I think of when someone mentions a Rodney.

seachanger, to random
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the wto protests were a turning point for me as a college student, that's when i learned that the news media can lie, and that militarized police are the ones who overwhelmingly initiate fear and perpetrate the violence accredited to protestors on the evening news. i guess a new generation of college students is learning about this now, probably the most important thing they'll learn on their campuses in 4 years tbh

MichaelBishop,
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@seachanger I wonder if the current protesting students will be supporting the universities once they are alumni in the future.

lauren, to random
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What's arguably worse than a governor who brags about puppy killing? People who applaud such sadism.

MichaelBishop,
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@lauren sadly it's common for people to cull their animals in more rural types of places.

rolle, to random
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It's been 30 years online for me next year as my first memories online are from 1995. Since 1998 when I created my first website I have been online daily. It feels like a lifetime, because it is a lifetime.

Despite all the enshittification going on, I still love the Internet.

Thank you for being a part of my journey and have a nice weekend, you. :bunhdheart:

MichaelBishop,
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@rolle I have been online daily since 1996 doing web design/development, database, Wordpress. I miss the old days of not worrying about privacy.

jon, to Vivaldi
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New @Vivaldi release. Plenty of good stuff in here. The Feed Reader got special attention this time.

When you go to a page that provides a feed, you can click the feed reader icon in the address bar to follow it.

You can follow news sites and blogs, but did you know that you can follow Youtube channels as well?

With this update, you can now follow subreddits and users on Reddit, as well as repository releases and commits on GitHub.

Enjoy!

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-6-7/

MichaelBishop,
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@jon @Vivaldi are all blocking and privacy features turned on by default? I would rather turn off blocking than have to go throught settings and turn it all on.

jon, to Vivaldi
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This month it is 30 years since I started working on browsers. April 1994 is when Geir and I started working on the Opera browser. We founded the company a year later.

Initially I made the UI, while Geir did a lot of the core.

Since that time I have dedicated myself to making the Web live up to its potential. First at Opera and now at Vivaldi.

If you ever used Opera and you have not tried Vivaldi, I invite you to give us a try!

If you never used Opera or Vivaldi, you are invited as well!

@Vivaldi

MichaelBishop,
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@jon @Vivaldi

I have used Firefox, DuckDuckGo and Opera for the past 20ish years. How does Vivaldi compare to them?

lauren, to random
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Modal ad that just popped up covering the site I was trying to read:

WELCOME TO A NEW ERA OF SAMSUNG AI TV

AI TV. Uh, NO.

MichaelBishop,
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@lauren I think it's time for me to go back to an analog life.

AskPippa, to space
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Help reclaim our night skies.
Some few jurisdictions have bylaws about how outdoor lighting can be done.

https://darksky.org/resources/guides-and-how-tos/lighting-principles/

MichaelBishop,
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@AskPippa I am hoping to get our local cities to adopt light pollution ordinances here in Boise, Idaho and surrounding area. However our state government has been overturning and prohibiting cities from implementing new laws. I feel this issue will become a battle for me.

researchbuzz, to random
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@StillIRise1963 don't read this if your blood pressure is janky, I'm about to punch a wall

https://capitalbnews.org/black-women-hair-relaxers-us-lawsuits-africa-sales-climbing/

MichaelBishop,
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@researchbuzz @StillIRise1963 my girlfriend in the late 80s would have me straighten her hair with lye. It would leave her scalp burned and scabs.

AAKL, to Instagram
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    MichaelBishop,
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    @AAKL @AP Russian troll farms.

    lauren, to mastodon
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    Matt Blaze, a respected computer scientist whom I've known pretty much forever, just told me to "Fck off" (without the '') and blocked me here on .

    I think you may find the reason why interesting.

    While I have frequently stood up for him when he's the subject of unfair comments of one sort of another, I still call issues as I see them.

    Earlier today, without any prompting, Matt noted here that he just cancelled a bunch of reservations he'd made to help assure he could get a "cloud free" viewing experience of the eclipse.

    In response to my comment that this seemed to be rather obnoxious behavior, given how tightly rooms have been booked, he suggested that people could just use the reservations now. I noted that not everyone can do last minute planning and sometimes it takes weeks for many to plan such trips.

    He "apologized" for not meeting my "personal standards". I noted that I felt they were pretty basic standards and wondered how many reservations he had made.

    At that point, he threw the invective and blocked me.

    What's interesting here is that Matt openly made a point of publicly saying he had made multiple reservations only to cancel all but one. Why he made that post in the first place I can't imagine.

    But I stand by my analysis of that post.

    Just wanted you to know why I apparently won't be interacting with Matt any more here on Mastodon at least.

    I welcome alternative points of view regarding this dialogue.

    Best, -L

    MichaelBishop,
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    @lauren quite selfish and rude of him to book multiple places. I have no respect for people doing something like that.

    rbreich, to random
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    If the Kroger-Albertsons merger goes through, that combined company + Walmart would control 70% of the grocery market in over 160 cities.

    Think grocery prices are bad now?

    Without competition, it would be a price gouging free-for-all.

    This is why the FTC is suing to stop it.

    MichaelBishop,
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    @rbreich Every city needs a Winco Foods which is employee owned and afordable.

    MichaelBishop, to random
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    Curbing climate change requires all of us to make sacrifices. Don't sacrifice others because you are unwilling to make sacrifices of your own.

    aral, to threads
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    Dear @Gargron,

    A fediverse server called Threads is violating mastodon.social’s second server rule:

    “2. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia…
    Transphobic behavior such as intentional misgendering and deadnaming is strictly prohibited.”

    https://glaad.org/smsi/report-meta-fails-to-moderate-extreme-anti-trans-hate-across-facebook-instagram-and-threads/

    Can you please defederate from this server to protect the trans people on mastodon.social?

    Thank you.

    PS. It’s run by these guys: https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/

    MichaelBishop,
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    @aral @Gargron

    I have already blocked Threads and have no interest in any connection with them.

    MichaelBishop, to random
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    Hi @ruud. I sent you some KoFi for your hard work maintaining mastodon.world. Thanks!

    dangillmor, (edited ) to random
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    Well, this is a transcendent level of evil: Facebook bought a VPN company and deployed it, in part, to spy on its competitor's users.

    https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/

    It's a reminder that VPNs have their own risks, beyond technical ones if operated incompetently -- namely, that you have to trust the VPN company itself.

    UPDATED to reflect which users were being spied on.

    MichaelBishop,
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    @housepanther @dangillmor

    I want to delete my acct but use FB for my business and non-profit groups. I need to find a way to market without FB.

    ryanfb, to infosec
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    I don't know who needs to hear this but , which is running a forked version of Mastodon, does not from the source code appear to have appropriate mitigations in place for CVE-2023-36460, which theoretically allows attackers to create and overwrite any file Mastodon has access to, allowing Denial of Service and arbitrary Remote Code Execution https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-36460 (probably other CVE's as well, but some rely on federation which Truth Social doesn't use?)

    MichaelBishop,
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    @ryanfb what is the consequence for not posting changes?

    mergesort, to random
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    My first post from Threads that's federating to the fediverse. Over time I plan to move over to Threads, so if you'd like to keep up to date I'd recommend following me @mergesort.

    https://www.threads.net/@mergesort/post/C4ygOsdOPlL

    MichaelBishop,
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    @mergesort @mergesort

    No thanks.

    TechCrunch, to random
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    Threads opens beta to let users connect their accounts to the fediverse https://tcrn.ch/3INBFsZ

    MichaelBishop,
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    @TechCrunch give it a few years and Threads and Bluesky will takeover the Fediverse and we will be back to square one of a crappy social network. They are only interested in controlling it.

    MichaelBishop,
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    @sn0n @unlofl @TechCrunch yes it is but they will soon use their weight to direct the future of the fediverse towards their favor.

    baldur, to random
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    I’ll let you in on a secret: I love sporadically updated weblogs. I subscribe to over 1200 feeds and most of them are sporadic or even technically “inactive”. Months often pass between updates

    It means that every post published was important to the writer

    Back in the days of snail mail, letters that began with “It’s been a while since I last wrote to you” were the ones people cherished the most

    You don’t need to post every day or even every week to have a blog that matters

    MichaelBishop,
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    @baldur are you using a RSS reader and if so which one?

    lauren, to random
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    Somehow I just feel entirely uninterested in the Academy Awards this year, especially with it now starting so early in the afternoon here (4 PM), while my body still feels like it's even an hour earlier than that.

    MichaelBishop,
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    @lauren

    I am nearly 57 yrs old and have never watched one of those award shows.

    GottaLaff, to NewJersey
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    Oof!

    “ Democratic Sen. Bob was indicted Tuesday on a dozen new criminal charges related to a years-long bribery scheme involving the governments of Egypt and Qatar.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/05/politics/bob-menendez-new-charges?cid=ios_app

    MichaelBishop,
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    @GottaLaff

    Just wondering if they have double standards with who gets indicted.

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