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@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social If there's ever an occasion that calls for a 12 pack of double chocolate chip muffins and a box of Kirkland champagne, that would be it.

@cmconseils@mastodon.social Works on people too!

@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy That's in Europe where there are actual railroads that could be used. The thing is, that often the plane is cheaper than the train. And except for domestic flights, autos burn more carbon per passenger miles. So if I were to target one thing, it would be autos. https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint

@evacide@hachyderm.io You have to admit, that's excellent service!

@jonathanavt@mastodon.nl @OneInterestingFact@mastodon.ie @cuu508@toot.lv @Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy Although true, why stop there? If it wasn't for autos, nobody would take a job 20 to 50 miles from home. And in turn, no employer would pick a location 30 miles out from the center of a town. World-wide, there's only 100 to 300 thousand air flights a day. But in America alone, there are 1.1 billion auto trips. The impact of autos is more deleterious than that even of airplanes. https://www.earth.com/news/51-percent-of-the-world-relies-on-car-commutes-every-day/ https://www.bts.gov/statistical-products/surveys/national-household-travel-survey-daily-travel-quick-facts

@marcel@waldvogel.family @fesshole@mastodon.social One origin story for the wheel is that the hinge on a door became the prototype for the axle on a wheel. So every (hinged door) is actually also a wheel. Thus there are more wheels in the world than doors. How does my unhinged answer compare to ChatGPT so far?

@ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org It seems like the real underlying problem is the "publish or perish" syndrome, where the value of a researcher is based on how many papers they write, or how often they're reference. So there's a proliferation of papers, many of which are meaningless, and which no one has time to actually read, being referenced in other papers by other researchers who don't have time to read and evaluate all these other papers.

@iwein @eniko Thanks to drones, you *can* have flying skateboards. You just can't fly on them.

@richardh @bobdobberson @LordCaramac @n_dimension @paninid But people aren't always the solution either. Back when real paper shuffling was a thing, I worked at a company where we found that paperwork was being filed in the completely wrong place. It turned out that one of the hires, the spouse of an upper management person, couldn't actually read. The reality is that LLM / AI is might actually be *better* than 70% of actual humans -- at that wage scale.

@OneInterestingFact@mastodon.ie @cuu508@toot.lv @Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy The emitted weight of CO2 is something like 3.7x the weight of fuel. Beef has a very large carbon footprint. In any event, you wouldn't look at the weight of the sandwiches, which have water (60%) and other non-caloric nutrients. Also, even if the cyclist stayed home, they'd be consuming 2000k per day. Per the article, a cyclist produces as little as 16g/km CO2. (maybe just gets the chips) That would be about 10kg of emitted carbon.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Who are all those terrorists out in the water?

@kaaswe@swecyb.com I don't understand the chests. Is it supposed to make a difference what order you tap?

@TOrynski "Here we see the non-articulated frog in its natural surroundings, a virtual conglomeration of plastic assemblages that ... Wait! What are you doing with that frog! Why is it going back in the box?! ..." "Sorry, Sir Attenborough, you know the rules"

@CorioPsicologia@mastodon.social @tobeB@climatejustice.social Venice, Mexico city, Netherlands (anywhere). And before the "Iran War" there was talk that Tehran was going to have to move because of lack of water.

@aboutsignal@mastodon.social For those who didn't read the release, it still requires a *phone*. Just not a smart phone. When will Signal allow you to connect via a web page like What's App does? Or connect a non-phone tablet, like WA ?

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social To be fair, they're only doing that so he lasts longer.

@itsfoss@mastodon.social So it's Linux for the WIN

@benroyce@mastodon.social Don't do it! Don't jump!

@tobestewart@mastodonapp.uk You're reading the KJV. You have to read the NAS.

@GetCarter@mastodonapp.uk "Where do you keep your fresh hay?" -- Man on the Inside, Season 2

@oliver_schafeld NG emits mostly CO2 & Water. Coal emits mercury and sulfur (in addition to CO2 and water).

@zzclaybourne@wandering.shop Shaka. When the walls fell.

@tobeB@climatejustice.social It is highly unlikely that anyone in the U.S. government will sponsor a major relocation. We're now getting to the "inconvenient" part of an "Inconvenient Truth".

@chestas And they said there was too much violence on TV.

@CathyTuttle @BicycleDutch I suppose it's exhilarating if you grew up with it. To me, it seemed like the Dutch version of running with the bulls.

@zzclaybourne@wandering.shop There is no Triceratops. There is only Torosaurus. Or not.

@haveibeenpwned Oh darn. I was taking a class in web security.

@maxpool@mathstodon.xyz Ok, but can we still sign up for the placebo surgery?

@aboutsignal@mastodon.social @mortal_engine@mastodon.social They're saying it's unsafe because the webapp has to be downloaded from the internet ... just like every other web page on the internet? That's why we have SSL. And while we hear many things about WA, we don't hear that it's web app has been hacked.

@plaguepoems@mastodon.social It was a Dutch ship, and the people who came down with it were apparently exposed in Argentina. The current administration has nothing to do with this particular incident. There's enough to blame the admin for without fabricating problems.

@ocean I registered and signed up for a site for a family member as a birthday present. Fortunately I used a unique address. A decade later, I get the worst kind of fraudulent spam on that address. Either GoDaddy sold the address to criminals, or their disgruntled employees did.

@abstractcode @NanoRaptor At last, something that explains it all.

@kirk@social.coop You christen a ship by bashing the anchor? A totally expendable part? If you did the same thing with your bike, you'd have to throw the drink at the kickstand.

@mortal_engine@mastodon.social @aboutsignal@mastodon.social Sounds very hand-wavey. Should not be any less secure than any other communication over the web. And, Whatsapp supports it, so its doable. And tablet is doable, since the 3rd party app Molly can do it. In both cases, the point is to make the experience more enjoyably than squinting at a tiny screen.

@knmi@social.overheid.nl That smoke would blow right past Schiphol. Has that been a problem so far? ---- nAI : Die rook zou waaien terecht dichtbij Schiphol. Veroorzaakt er een probleem?

@TheBreadmonkey You will believe a man-like thing can fly.

@happyborg@fosstodon.org @BenjaminNelan@mastodon.social @t0maz@floss.social If you find a webapp, it will run in a browser ... vetted by Google. So what have you accomplished? But you can consider #TiddlyWiki . Launch it from tiddlystow (https://btheado.github.io/tiddlystow/v2/ ) in your chromium-based browser and you have webapp-like tool. Use syncthing to share it with your other devices.

@somebody I assume that it's priced high enough that it would be only for people who have some type of emergency. It's enough of a niche that it's not going to make a difference one way or the other. It's the "normal" things we do every day that matter -- like driving, flying, meat-based lifestyle, disposable drink bottles.

@happyborg@fosstodon.org @BenjaminNelan@mastodon.social @t0maz@floss.social The browser is an app. The Joplin app is an app. Not sure I see the distinction. But the important point was to look at #TidldlyWiki , if you want something that is app-free, runs anywhere.

@Antimony@don.linxx.net 🎼 "Every time you walk away, you take a piece of me with you" 🎵

@troed@swecyb.com Is "Holly" a reference to Red Dwarf ?

@SURF@social.edu.nl The problem is that everything so far has been based on asymmetric encryption. Dat is voorbij. But imagine a model with one or more central key distributors. You'd go to some place like Albert Heijn and buy yourself a Yubikey-like device. This would let you connect privately to the central service (CS). Then CS would give you a key to AH and forward the same key to AH using its own shared key. You would, of course, have to really trust the central service.

@tito_swineflu Does this happen with chromium and other chrome-based browsers?

@somebody The one they sell on Amazon runs $60 for 10. So $6 a pop. To me, that is not cheap. But in a world in which people spend $8/month to have a checkmark next to their name on Xitter, maybe others see it differently. In any event, the planet isn't being destroyed because a few people use disposable batteries.

@neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org Would the Ublock Origin Lite have been enough to stop this malware? The lite version is all we've had on Chrome-esque devices since Google asserted manifest 3 "for your own good."

@dat@social.g33ky.de @sunny@gotosocial.sny.sh The hacker left off a step. The one on the left will give you a serious sounding warning that what you are about to do could hurt your system. So a sentence about, "If you receive a message saying you might be hurting your system, stop, and contact IT immediately." might help. The one on the right could be malware, but either the Stores have to be compromised, or you will need to side-load an app, which is non-trivial for most users.

@sundogplanets@mastodon.social Just across the border lies Montana, called "The Big Sky State."

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org A story in which someone got back all the money they paid for something would be ... fantasy.

@mahryekuh But not the actual digital ID that the U.S. uses.