"Microsoft and Google keep the energy consumption of their Dutch data centers secret, despite European reporting obligations. The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland, RVO) received blank forms or no data at all. The Dutch newspaper NRC reports that the government has no legal means to request the actual figures."
I don't do new years resolutions because years ago I made a new years resolution not to make new years resolutions π BUT if I did make new years resolutions I'd want to be more weird and quiet π
President Donald Trump escalated his fundraising rhetoric this week by warning his own supporters that they would be punished if they failed to send him
President Donald Trump escalated his fundraising rhetoric this week by warning his own supporters that they would be punished if they failed to send him
Apparently some people who do not understand the point of swearing an oath on something sacred to the oath taker are unhappy Mamdani swore on a Koran rather than a Bible. John Quincy Adams swore on a law book. What book would you swear on if you were being inaugurated?
If it means more to my constituents, Iβd swear in on a bible, but thatβs not meant to disrespect Mamdaniβs choice. Itβs that, to me, the choice is insignificant. I do not need to make that choice.
I haven't thought about the historical origin/development of the practice before. Is it truly just "something sacred to the oath-taker"? Or might it have started as a religious thing and become (relatively) secularized under freedom of religion principles?
I'd probably pick a book for the context. For president, Library of America's Debates on the Constitution, as "sacred" to me in context. Though LoA's collection of James Baldwin essays might be even more sacred and better.
Jake Tapper is a jagoff, but this clip is for the ages. He's interviewing a spokesman for the paedo Roy Moore, about swearing-in props. It's the only time I've ever seen actual visual proof of a human brain cease functioning in real time.
For real though why is seemingly everyone doing password-less login all of a sudden? Feels like it spread like wildfire in the last year. Did I miss a memo on that?
In some ways its good as its one less element compromised when there's a data breach on the web service's side. And bad in that if everything relies on your email for auth, taking over it becomes a lot more valuable.
I think services are going that way to shift the liability away from them in part. "It's not us! It's your email that must've been compromised."
We have seen a recent wave of impersonation accounts which claim to be another fediverse user, often with a similar username and boosting some posts from the original account, before reaching out to followers over private mentions and claiming to have issues with their original account.
I had an account through med-mastodon. The server looks like it is under maintenance since 12/28. I found out that it may be history, so I am using my other mastodon account with the same handle which I created when I first was trying out Mastodon. I kept my same handle/username. I am not boosting posts from old account or doing private mentions. Just saying that you may see new accounts now under the same username bc a server went down.
Koschei, I learned the other day, is a Russian folklore character who hides his death and misfortune inside objects like eggs. They may be nested and hidden again inside other objects, and then secreted away to hidden places. The story goes that the original Koschei was a Kahn who, according to custom and ritual, placed arrowheads inside little eggs, or bells, or something like that. Neat microfiction, I can nest it what I learned and it is even richer. Anyhow, I'll leave now. Bye.
I never say this, but you want to watch this commercial, and I suggest you be somewhere that you can cry a bit without anybody caring. (Damn ninjas cutting onions somewhere in the houseβ¦)
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@Bellarome I'll believe it when I see it, considering how long some of our Congresscritters have been serving: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_β¦ I think 51 years is too much.
I would totally watch a #muppets version of beauty and the beast! I have never seen the Disney animated movie but read/reread a picture book of the story as a kid in the 70s. #muppetsRock
Me, today: Why can't I find a single power cable anywhere? I have dozens! How can they all be missing? What's going on here?
Me, a few weeks ago: This box will be perfect for storing all my mixed power cables! I will put them all in here and I'll never have trouble finding the one I need ever again! I am the god of organisation!
The image is a single-panel cartoon. At a border crossing, a Canadian Mountie, with snow on his hat and the shoulders of his uniform, is on the phone, saying, "We've got a desperate woman seeking asylum who is fleeing intolerable conditions." The woman, standing on the other side of the crossing gate, covers her face in despair. It is the Statue of Liberty, her extinguished torch still smoking. #Alt4You Please include #AltText for the benefit of Blind and low-vision users.
I doubt it'll hit this frequently, but I gotta admit to being impressed, I still don't think electric semi's are really going to work, at least for long haul work, but this is impressive and a step towards it.
@diana π³οΈββ§οΈπ¦ Wouldn't surprise me, I wouldn't consider buying a Tesla even before Musk revealed the truth about himself because I hate what I've heard about the controls.
@diana π³οΈββ§οΈπ¦ I hear there is some good about it, but yeah, usual Tesla BS, but its not like they're the only show out there, Freightliner has been electrifying, and I don't think they're the only one.
Old Solar Panels Built in the Early 1990s Are Still Going Strong After 30 Years at 80% Original Power β And Thatβs a Big Deal for Our Energy Future zmescience.com/ecology/renewabβ¦
Is peertube a practical alternative to youtube for short instructional videos? Or is anything else an alternative? I know zero about this but would like to know more. Thanks.
@B Kahn What are you needing? Really the only two problems with PeerTube is that monetizing doesn't really work, and of course storage costs can add up, so most PeerTube channels just keep the latest few videos up and either archive elsewhere, or just post them any where else.
@vextaur Mostly I am recording short-format videos that enable English learners to watch 60-90 seconds of English (often quotations) as a loop so they can practice their listening and pronunciation skills. On YouTube the option to play the video as a loop is built-in when it's in the short format. I find repetition very helpful in language learning and teaching.
I could record these for all eternity and they will never generate income, so I don't care about monetization.
@B Kahn Have you looked at #Loops ? Its a Federated answer to TikTok, and while I'm not sure how long the videos can be, I think it'll handle it fine, what do you think @dansup ?
I just looked at #Loops. Appears to be in beta but evolving quickly? I get at most 1,000+ views for a given short video and the viewers are from many countries. They will want and need a simple click-and-watch format. Anything that looks too odd or requires them to join a new platform is not going to fly...
@B Kahn Ok, poking at my account over there, videos can be up to about three minutes, I don't think you need an account to view (we'll test that in a sec), there's clients for IOS and Android, and you can share them via the Fediverse like this...
@vextaur That worked perfectly, thanks. I clicked the link, learned about narrow roads, and it immediately looped when it reached the end. Do you know if there's a client for Mac? If not I can send one from my Mac to my phone, I guess. Any tips on how to upload and test would be welcomed, thanks very much!
@B Kahn I don't think there is, @dansup is the developer, so he could answer that one, but I think its only mobile clients as that's the typical model for a product like this, but you could always upload through the web site:
That's what it looks like for me using FireFox on Linux. Far as I know loops.video is doing sign up and I think there are other instances, or you could spin your own up if'n you're inclined.
Hmm. I signed up, downloaded a Mac app, and tried and failed to upload two different short videos. Timeout errors. I'll have to explore more when I have time, I guess. Thanks for your help!
@B Kahn @dansup Huh, didn't know there was a Mac app, I did see some software when I searched, but considering how common the name is, not sure they're associated, hence suggesting the web option. I will say I'm having upload issues on the Android app, but thanks to a recent update, you can now record your video in the app, and that works, so I'm not that bothered by it.
@vextaur @dansup Videos also appear optimized for mastodon federation: After an account is interacted with and has been federated, their account and future videos will also appear here
I've shared videos straight from my loops account with federation so you don't have to leave mastodon to watch them, click on my profile to check it, you'll see me reposting videos from a loops account of the same name, as another example you can also find dansup's loops account on mastodon
I just had a discussion with a friend, that the last years each felt exhausting like a complete decade.
Then I remembered this quote:
βHis age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.β β Terry Pratchett
And we both felt as Terry has been looking at us when he wrote it.
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