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I'm looking at LibreWolf, and the amount of effort needed to reverse some of its more heavyhanded decisions looks like it would be more work than adding protections to my existing Firefox install. I mean, that's basically their selling point, but still. For […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Your daily reminder that Low Traffic Neighbourhoods reduce air pollution across an entire area. Maps are nitrogen dioxide levels Waltham Forest 2007 vs 2017, after installing LTNs and protected cycle lanes. 🌱 lcc.org.uk/campaigns/lo...

A SCSI floppy drive? This feels like a @foone crossover episode! #scsi #retrocomputing

🚲 Financial necessity, a charity challenge, ULEZ, a new job; there are many reasons why people switch from car to bike. 🗣️ We caught up with a few recent converts to find out how life has been since making the switch from four wheels to two: lcc.org.uk/news/the-car...

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗲? 👋 If you’re 18-30 and a regular city cyclist, we want to hear about your experience of cycling in London in a focus groups. 💷 Have your say and get a £25 voucher for your time. The session will take place online on 12/04/2025 at 7.30-8.30pm. Sign up now: buff.ly/4h1N8UL

Just because you follow me, or if you see my posts on your Fediverse feed, doesn't mean you have permission to say rude or cruel things to me. I know some friends do this as a way to express intimacy. I don't usually talk that way with friends, but I understand that some people do it. But […]

RIP 2 HackerMan u cyberd 2 close 2 the sun #GeneHackman

Everything I’ve ever learned about cereal foods in America has been against my will. Cornflakes were invented by Kellogg’s to prevent masturbation. And now I’ve just learned Chex was created by white supremacists to try to give white people mind control powers […]

Richmond Hill #london #richmond #photography

My time traveling in the PNW has taught me that I should bring soy sauce and hot sauce with me everywhere

We're in favor. This may be the first time ZIL has been described as "super simple" though...

Free #OnlineEvent from #LibraryOfAmerica: What is #Totalitarianism? Understanding #HannahArendt Now Registration is required, but there is no fee. What Is Totalitarianism? Understanding Hannah Arendt Now “The rise of totalitarian governments,” Hannah Arendt wrote, “is the central event of […]

I'm still using Google but with tweaks to get it a little closer to pre-enshittification * udm=14 (remove AI slop) * blocklist (filter out over-SEOed crap sites) * clean URLs (remove bounce tracking) https://blog.zgp.org/fix-google-search/ Most people will be best off also adding uBlock […]

#Cybertruck #Wankpanzer #Swasitkars

If only people were willing to take as drastic actions against the people working at the companies that are making the planet uninhabitable for everyone's children as they are willing to take against drag queens reading stories to kids.

[uspol] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoTUBPBJ9G4

[Vegetarian food (pics + description)] I had a blast in London, feasting on laksa (so excited that I forgot to take a pic), hot teh tarik, prata planta with condensed milk, vegan nasi lemak, vegetarian char kway teow, kueh bingka ubi kayu, kueh salat and […] [Original post on mathstodon.xyz]

Your daily dose of cycling style, à la Audrey Hepburn.

"Move fast and break things" only works for the people who've never had to clean up after themselves.

[Fascist insignia on graffiti] It's quite a moment of whiplash to see spray painted swastikas so often put up by antifascists now. Someone was doing dumbass "mAkEs U tHiNk" contrarianism about them several years ago, and tried to pull some freeze-peach BS about it being an important freedom […]

This video does what I've been saying for a while. If fascism plays on fragile masculinity, then it's worth pointing out how fragile these "strong men" really are. The only ones more pathetic than people like Trump and Musk are the people who look to them as role models. Imagine how deeply […]

[uspol, russian history] I feel like everyone bigging this up is missing the fact that THIS WAS NOT A FLATTERING NICKNAME. Pyotr Krasnov was a general of the Russian Empire, fought on the side of the whites during the revolution and civil war, and also fought on the side of THE NAZIS during […]

[uspol] When you think about it, that "awkward arm gesture" by Elon Musk and Steve Bannon and the rest has been a real boon to graffiti artists who'd otherwise have had to write out their sentiments longhand. #USpol

Wow, a possible research contact I'd been neglecting in the hopes that I'd sort out the nefarious UCL paperwork soon just reached out eagerly to me. I feel like it's all kicking off!

The funniest thing about that nauseating AI video on the monitors at HUD this morning was Elon with two left feet #SimpleSabotage

🪧 PROTEST IN STRATFORD 🪧 Join us tonight in Stratford at 6:15pm to call for change after the tragic death of a young man killed while cycling through the junction of Stratford High Street and Carpenters Road. Register here: https://bit.ly/3WQLVIA

if gen AI was the game changer to business that everyone says it is, there wouldn't be so many books and PDFs and white papers and playbooks for business leaders to help them convince *their employees* to use gen AI

You know I love a good Venn Diagram. Been seeing this one around lately. Seems to sum up the times.

WhatsApp “end-to-end encrypted” messages aren’t that private after all https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/whatsapp-end-to-end-encrypted-messages-arent-that-private-after-all/ Millions of WhatsApp messages are reviewed by both AI and human moderators.

French bicycling lane advocate appears to have been murdered, deliberately, by a driver. BBC: He dreamed of a cycling revolution. Then an SUV crushed him "...According to witnesses and CCTV, the driver of the SUV began driving in the bike lane. Prosecutors say the driver ran over Paul's foot […]

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertainment/miriana-conte-malta-eurovision-2025-profile-age-instagram-song-explained/ ← Always sing in such a way that you can also will that the maxim of your song should become a universal law.

Always fun to see really old layouts get refreshed to make it look even worse.

oh-kay phew. some final cleanup, and then it's time to launch the alpha of this torrent tracker designed for rapid-response data rescue where a bunch of people each scrape chunks of a big thing and then recombine it later, where nobody can store the whole thing in one place because it's too big […]

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertainment/miriana-conte-malta-eurovision-2025-profile-age-instagram-song-explained/ ← Always sing in such a way that you can also will that the maxim of your song should become a universal law.

OTD 1978: Kernighan & Ritchie's "The C Programming Language" is published. My most precious artifact is Draft #1 of the same.

Things have been so much better since they started congestion pricing and I can't help but think the attempts to break it are just... petty. Anyways there is a rally @3 in NYC times square. Gotta get my wingtips on and catch the bus down there.