Nenon @Neon@computerfairi.es

Automakers have been selling data about the driving behavior of millions of people to the insurance industry.

In the case of General Motors, affected drivers weren’t informed, and the tracking led insurance companies to charge some of them more for premiums.

I’m the reporter who broke the story.

I recently discovered that I’m among the drivers who was spied on.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/technology/general-motors-spying-driver-data-consent.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT a turing-complete programming language for writing programs in the style of clickbait news headlines

https://tabloid.vercel.app/

Hallo, ihr Lieben. Eine Freundin von mir möchte gerne von #Twitter zu #Mastodon wechseln, möchte dabei aber gerne ihre dortige Timeline inkl. aller Tweets und deren Timestamps mitnehmen. Ich würde ihr gerne dafür einen Invite geben, hänge aber gerade an der Frage, wie das mit dem import der alten Tweets laufen könnte. Sowas wie https://github.com/KevinPayravi/twitter-archive-to-mastodon geht ja nur serverseitig. Habt ihr eine andere Idee? Download der Tweets als Zip ist vorhanden.

Y'know that #solarpunk trope of floating wind turbines in the sky, tethered to the ground, and feeding power down to denizens below?

This is in China, serving 50KW at 500m, which is power for between 40 to 140 households.

The figure changes depending on which country you use. USA is around ~1KW per house, and in Europe it's closer to 300-400W on average).

I wonder what the economics are like for these. I you have seen numbers, do plz share.

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202410/12/WS6709ce66a310f1265a1c7306.html

Frage an euch: Viele zögern, #GraphenOS zu installieren, obwohl es eigentlich recht einfach ist. Wie wäre es, wenn der Kuketz-Blog eine Dienstleistung anbietet, die die Installation gegen eine Aufwandsentschädigung von etwa 50 € übernimmt? Was denkt ihr – gäbe es dafür Interesse?

#android #datenschutz #privacy #customrom

Das ist eine sehr gute, historisch fundierte Doku über #sexarbeit in Deutschland geworden. Unbedingt gucken. Gut investierte 30 Minuten.
"Past Forward: Sex gegen Geld – eine Frage der Moral?"

https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/past-forward/sex-gegen-geld-eine-frage-der-moral/ard/Y3JpZDovL3JhZGlvYnJlbWVuLmRlLzZhM2I5ZDIyLTkwN2MtNGY0Yy05M2IxLWQyMTg5MzViOGJmYS9lcGlzb2RlL3VybjphcmQ6c2hvdzpiYWE0OTJhNTE2YTRmZDg5

A former Boston Globe & Reuters reporter who is now homeless gives a gutting, beautifully written, and clear-eyed firsthand account of what it's like to be homeless in America right now.

This is the best article you'll read today, easily. The ending is chilling.

#LongReads #Journalism #News #AmWriting #Housing #Homelessness

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a62875397/homelessness-in-america/?src=longreads

X's legal filing in the InfoWars bankruptcy case is both batshit crazy and also what you'd expect. It asserts that X owns every account, can do whatever it wants with them, and can inject itself into legal proceedings that have nothing to do with it.

This is why it's incredibly important that people invest in platforms that they own, and move toward federated/decentralized/portable, noncorporate social media as rapidly as possible

https://www.404media.co/xs-objection-to-the-onion-buying-infowars-is-a-reminder-you-do-not-own-your-social-media-accounts/

Earthship (sustainable architecture style) https://lemmy.world/post/22450187

Politiker*innen wollen nicht, dass sie Genaueres über ihre Nebenjobs (lol) veröffentlichen müssen, so wie Merz, der einfach 11 (!) davon hat. 🤡

A few days ago, Greta Thunberg said this…
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As the COP29 climate meeting reaches its end, it should not come as a surprise that yet another COP is failing. The current draft is a complete disaster. But even if our expectations are close to non-existent, we must never find ourselves reacting to these continuous betrayals with anything but rage.

The people in power are again about to agree to a death sentence to the countless people whose lives have been or will be ruined by the climate crisis. The current text is full of false solutions and empty promises. The money from the Global North countries needed to pay back their climate debt is still nowhere to be seen. The host country, Azerbaijan, is a repressive and authoritarian petrostate that has committed ethnic cleansing and genocidal acts towards Armenians. Civil society present at COP29 are being silenced, yet continue fighting and pushing negotiators towards the bare minimum.

All of this while oppression, inequalities, wars, and genocides all over the world continue to intensify. Those in power are worsening the destabilization and destruction of our life-supporting ecosystems. We are on track to experience the hottest year ever recorded, with global greenhouse gases reaching an all-time high just last year.

It is clear that the current systems are not working in our favor. The COP processes aren’t just failing us, they are part of a larger system built on injustice and designed to sacrifice current and future generations for the opportunity of a few to keep making unimaginable profits and to continue exploiting planet and people.

With every negotiation, with every speech made by a world leader, and with every agreement they sign, it becomes clear that it is up to us as a global collective to take the action we so desperately need, and to show where the leadership truly lies. They are not going to do it for us, as this COP29 yet again proves.
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#Politics #Economics #Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice

It's official! My new name is:
Mikoto Maxine Szillat
You may call me Mik

Looking for Group

Ich möchte fur einige tolle Menschen ab circa Januar 2025 die #DungeonsandDragons Kampagne "Rime of the Frostmaiden" leiten - offline* und am Tisch, so wie es unsere Großeltern taten.

In "Rime of the Frostmaiden" geht es darum in einer Welt des ewigen Winters kleine, im eisigen Wind flackernde Lichter von Gemeinschaft und Zusammenhalt zu bewahren, ohne dabei die gnadenlose Kälte in sein eigenes Herz vordringen zu lassen.

Es wäre gut wenn ihr in #Oerlinghausen #Detmold #Lage #Bielefeld oder Gemarkungen in dieser Gegend wohnt, und auch ohne ÖPNV mobil seid.

Als Spielintervalle würde ich alle vierzehn Tage anpeilen, damit es dann alle vier Wochen klappt, ihr kennt das.

Gespielt wird mit den aktuellen 2024er #DnD Regeln, wobei Hardcore-Regelfüchs*innen bei mir eher nicht glücklich werden, das sei vorausgeschickt.

Allgemein hab ich Bock auf eine gewisse Wholesomeness, bringt euch Hausschuhe mit, ich mache Kamin und Pizzaofen an...so ungefähr das Level.
Dass sich dementsprechend Arschgeigen wie Nazis, TERFS und Männer die #TTRPG nutzen um ihre toxischen Männlichkeitsfantasien auszuleben gar nicht erst melden brauchen sei hiermit dennoch schriftlich festgehalten.

Ob ihr Anfänger*innen oder Veteran*innen seid ist mir Wurst, ich habe alle zum Spielen benötigten Dinge für mich und für euch parat.
Wichtig wäre mir allerdings ein gewisses commitment: Nichts ist frustrierender als sich am Ende nur alle drei Monate zu treffen, und Niemand weiß mehr worum es beim letzten Mal ging.
Ausnahmsweise mal online spielen ist aber ebensowenig problematisch wie mal keine Zeit haben.

Den Rest würde ich gerne in einer obligatorischen Session Zero klären, bei der wir gemeinsam den Rahmen unserer Kampagne abstecken.

Wieso komm ich mir vor als hätte ich gerade das Profil einer Dating-Seite ausgefüllt?
Egal, swipe nach...melde Dich gerne hier per DM wenn Du Lust und Zeit hast.

#pnp #pnpde #lfg

*DnDBeyond may be used.

P.S.: Ich verzichte dankend auf Tipps, auf welchen Onlineplattformen man noch so Spielende finden kann.

Skyrim HD texture pack looks awesome

#skyrim

happy #Bloomscrolling

I have said this before, but it's worth repeating: in times of crisis it is easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer number of outrages that call for your attention. Pick your issue. Pick the corner of the world that you are going to defend and fight for that. If you try to fight everything all the time, you will burn out real fast.

SO GOOD. European alternatives for nearly all Amazon, Google, Microsoft products along with alts to Github, Slack, etc. now we need to create a North American version of this. thank you, @vortex! https://european-alternatives.eu/alternatives-to

Welcome to new people joining from 𝕏!

Remember, posts are called toots here, likes are called florps, retweeting is technically a cross-account posting exploit that they can't fix because we're using it, and our version of Grok is called Garfiald.

There's no algorithm here! Literally none. There is no computer code behind Mastodon. Each http response is typed out by hand by your server admin in real time. Sometimes this means you won't see replies from other servers, but that's ok, other servers are full of losers anyway.

People here make a point of using alt text — if you can't find an image you want to post, just post a picture of your cat and describe the correct image in the alt text. Nobody will notice, or at least nobody will mind.

The first thing you should do is make a pinned toot with your pronouns, political affiliation, and favourite Linux distribution. Cisgender people are welcome on Mastodon but aren't officially supported, so some features may not work properly.

But most importantly, have fun! Users found to be not having fun will be given a written warning in the first instance and banned if the behaviour continues.