LBT¹: fabulous. This graph is the exact opposite of so many of those “we’re committed to reducing carbon emissions by 2005, no 2010, no 2020, whoops no 2050” charts
¹ https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/113075450427229420
Information Is Beautiful (@infobeautiful@vis.social)
Attached: 1 image The world’s solar capacity reached 1,419 gigawatts in 2023, way beyond any predictions. 1 gigawatt = power for a medium sized city ☀️vis.social
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Our DOT won't even bat an eye spending hundreds of millions to shave a few seconds off trips for private vehicles.
So of course that same department doesn't even think about, let alone measure, travel times or delay for modes other than private cars.
Seattle Is Building a Citywide Bike Network That Cannot Handle Its Own Popularity - The Urbanist
# Seattle's climate plan calls for doubling bicycling, but SDOT is not building its bike facilities to handle the load.Ryan Packer (The Urbanist)
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I've been thinking about the word "enshittification" lately.
Using this term without the proper context lets greedy corporations off the hook.
This process of everything going to shit is not some inevitable force of nature. It's an entirely man-made and avoidable situation.
Let's call enshittification what it really is.
Enshittification is Wall Street. It's under-regulated capitalism. It's corporate greed. IT IS THEFT.
#EatTheRich #LateStageCapitalism
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Is it possible to mount sftp into the filesystem as one does with NFS? I'd like to load geotagged photos into JOSM from a different computer.
#Linux #SFTP #JOSM #OpenStreetMap
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Check sshfs
https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs
GitHub - libfuse/sshfs: A network filesystem client to connect to SSH servers
A network filesystem client to connect to SSH servers - libfuse/sshfsGitHub
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Giant viruses as reservoirs of antibiotic resistance genes - Nature Communications
Nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses, or ‘giant viruses’, infect a wide range of eukaryotes and can exchange genetic material not only with their hosts but also with bacteria and phages.Nature
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Content warning: anxious NaNoWriMo-related legal mumbling, hoping it doesn't come true
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There's an infosec influencer who put out an IPv6 hit piece. In the ensuing discussion, I've learned a surprising number of networking and infosec professionals have no idea that:
* v4 firewalls exist
* v4 firewalls have used default deny with established and related allowed for decades
* Those v4 firewalls are also used with NAT
* NAT is only adding an address rewrite _after_ being accepted by the WAN-to-local firewall rules
* v6 firewalls have existed for decades
* stateful firewalls only start keeping state for a session once the initial traffic makes it past the firewall. A port scan from many IPs does not explode the state table.
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I’ve also encountered networking professionals who appear unaware that IPv4 firewalls with default deny exist (“you’re using globally unique IPs internally, that means anyone on the Internet can connect directly to your internal systems” 🤯)
There are entire generations (plural 😬) of network / security professionals who don’t seem to have encountered a World Without NAT. And see NAT as an Important Security Feature, rather than an “OMG so out of addresses” kludge 😢
(You can tell I'm not IPV6 saavy :P. Also a follow up to my earlier q here: https://mastodon.social/@mxshift@treehouse.systems/113070260170044207)
Why _do_ you need "IPv4 firewalls with default deny"? Default deny sounds useful for IPv6 _precisely_ because no IPv6 NAT means addresses are exposed unless a firewall drops connections.
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This is fine:
“…as climate change makes heat waves more frequent, intense and long-lasting, experts say the increasingly severe conditions are testing some iconic desert plants known for their resilience — including saguaro cacti and agave.”
Yet another story of "build a safe cycle lane, and people will use it." It's time to ditch paint-only "bike lanes" and start using real protection for people cycling.
#BikeTooter #SafeStreets #VisionZero
Bicycle use in Cambridge soars following installation of separated bike lanes, according to new study - Cambridge Bicycle Safety
Written by: Ron Johnson, reprinted from Momentum Magazine A recent study shows that a separated bike lane installed in Cambridge, Massachusetts has been a resounding success. The study [...]cambbikesafety (Cambridge Bicycle Safety)
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@enobacon I think it's actually showing how close Cambridge is to having a real network. This short section was a major missing link to the network and opened up a bunch of routes for people at either end.
Also, unlike much of the US, Cambridge just doesn't have crazy wide roads. Our widest roads are 2 lanes in each direction.
@DemonHusky @enobacon I used to live by Porter Sq, and boy what a difference a decade had made.
https://social.ridetrans.it/@Andres4NY/110800521845886066
the neat thing about the classism behind our transportation system, is you can borrow money to try to better protect your family from the ruling class using traffic Engineers to scare you into cars
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Seeing Ian struggle with how the bike so readily stalls under power reminds me why I got rid of it. :( #motorcycle
I don't understand how #Honda can sell it in this state. >:(
I Took a Stock Honda CRF450RL Enduro Riding - It Didn't Go Well (EP.3)
The Honda CRF450RL is a nice dual sport for some highway, fire roads, and desert terrain. It has a fatal flaw - stalling - for enduro type riding or singletrack. Where is my KTM, Husqvarna or Beta when I need one - those bikes are so much better for true enduro riding.
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For every life that the heaviest 1% of SUVs and trucks save, there are more than a dozen lives lost in other vehicles.
Americans’ love affair with big cars is killing them
New analysis shows that the heaviest vehicles kill more people than they save in crashesThe Economist
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I hate the headline though. It's not a love affair, it's a hostage situation. Car dealerships refuse to order and stock anything but SUVs and trucks, so that's all that sells, so that's all the manufacturers will make.
You have to jump through a lot of hoops to buy a sedan at this point.
Meanwhile, I rode for several miles on the shoulder of I-90 with a conglomeration of several unrelated groups of riders to get around one of the worst traffic jams I've seen, and nobody batted an eye. :P #motorcycle
Also, there was a husk of a burned-out car on the freeway near Snoqualmie Pass. :(
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Have seen this article doing the rounds.
This point is absolutely nailed
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/why-ai-isnt-going-to-make-art
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I did it.
I wrote an inspirational post about taking candy from a baby.
Then I posted it on r/Entrepreneur.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/1f6wel2/why_taking_candy_from_a_baby_was_the_best/
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Got my first speeding ticket this morning. 🙃 #motorcycle
I was doing 75 on a 55 MPH freeway and got caught by a speed trap. Gotta love holidays. 😢
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Extreme heat and flooding are accelerating the deterioration of bridges, engineers say, posting a quiet but growing threat. https://arr.as/p #Infrastructure #Bridges #ClimateChange
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It's Labor Day in the USA, a "holiday" in which most people get the day off from work — except, that is, for many of the poorest people who do much of the actual hard work and labor that keeps everything going while being paid the minimum wage or even less. 😡
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One final thought for the USA's Labor Day...
"Stealing food is against the law.
But letting someone starve to death
while you own an entire warehouse
full of food is completely legal."
#USA #Labor #LaborDay #Politics #Capitalism #Inequality
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Wolfenstein 3D - 64x32
DOOM - 96x48
Duke Nukem 3D - 96x54
Rise of the Triad - 80x48
"E-cars don't solve all the issues (image credit: The Lab of Thought)"
submitted by u/GarlicThread
https://redd.it/1f72iru
#fuckcars
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I really like this image, but it technically doesn't show how much space is required to _move_ people, but to _store_ them when "parked".
69 people don't walk in such a packed group. Same for 69 cars, they can't drive while touching bumpers, or for bikes.
The only image that is representative is the bus.
you could have had both of them saying "their lines" in the last panel. It would've been a risqué funny.
Just a thought.
Maybe when you do a "vacation" series of posts, and this gets thrown into that mix.
what I always wanted to know: who’s bringing or placing these random tubs on beaches and docks?
Are they naked in there? Is it just empty in there too? Or did they cork up the tub and somehow fill it with water too?
Is the tub to hide their massive boner you’d see if they were laying back on a chair?
"Why don’t historic bridges accommodate monster trucks?"
submitted by u/Jaded-Revolution_
https://redd.it/1f6uyxn
#fuckcars
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Evolution deadlock: when you grow bigger to avoid to be a prey, but your environment can't sustain you anymore.
Until they fork on a light-and-robust approach, these vehicles will be slowly cornered by crumbling public roads into gated communities, then will die of inbreeding and maintenance costs.
Same old story, remember dinosaurs...
Texan used Apple AirTags to discover plastics in Houston aren't being recycled
Link: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/texas-resident-used-apple-airtags-to-discover-plastics-taken-to-houston-recycling-centers-arent-being-recycled
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41419400
Texas resident used Apple AirTags to discover plastics taken to Houston recycling centers aren't being recycled
Recyclable trash is just being dumped in a private open lot.Jowi Morales (Tom's Hardware)
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Well, #NaNoWriMo is ruined now. Because WTF is this nonsense?
STOP MINIMIZING AND INFANTALIZING THE DISABLED. In case you didn't know it, NaNoWriMo, we kind of hate that.
P.S. On the classism, that is unhinged in its detachment. For real, have they never met poor and working class writers and artists? We're MORE likely to work together.
#Writing #Writers #Disabled #Disability #Prejudice #Ableism #AI #Propaganda
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Meanwhile in America, migrant workers are exposed to dangerous (fatal) working conditions... the violence of America takes many forms; not all deaths are the result of gun ownership - some are due both to the use & exploitation of migrant workers and the lax/non-existent safety regimes for the workplace...
Each time a European politician looks to America as a model for economic development, these are the sorts of stories they should actually be acknowledging!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4nn1w169kno
Migrant farm worker deaths show cost of the 'American Dream'
Jose Arturo Gonzalez Mendoza died in the heat on a farm 2023. His death highlights the dangerous work many migrants do.Brandon Drenon and Bernd Debusmann Jr (BBC News)
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This is new, extremely dangerous territory.
A private company (for whatever reason, right or wrong) is defying the laws of a country in which it operates, by virtue of its control of a service within that country.
Imagine if a foreign national owned your water utility and refused to abide by the water-quality laws of the US.
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I was appalled as to how the NYT article is like PR piece for Musk. There are no Starlink connections in schools. Mostly big AG uses it because there is no internet in rural areas. Also, the army. Not surprising that Bolsonaro made those deals with Elon in 2022. It’s super expensive - comes with a hefty customs fee for regular citizens. The NYT made it seem like Starlink was taking indigenous people out of the dark ages, but here’s their major clients: illegal gold mining in Yanomami territory - a priority under Bolsonaro’s regime:
Elon Musk: Antenas Starlink apreendidas em garimpos em TI Yanomami
Diretor do combate à invasão garimpeira defende que Starlink compartilhe dados para facilitar identificação de garimposRubens Valente (Agência Pública)
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how is deregistering voters even legal?
No wounder #Texas publicly threatened #OSCE #ElectionMonitors.
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