Posts by brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net
(DIR) Post #AzmgCv3VIJ2X1hW4o4 by brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net
2025-10-31T13:17:00Z
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The Human Only Public License https://vanderessen.com/posts/hopl/ "while nobody cares about robots.txt, people care about licenses. There are automated tools to find and check software licenses and raise alarms if 'bad' ones are used. And I can guarantee that HOPL will brightly flash red."
(DIR) Post #AzuKZK5cFsq7JPSgDY by brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net
2025-11-04T16:10:26Z
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75 years ago today, European nations signed this Convention, so the Holocaust could not be repeated. Beware those who want this to end.
(DIR) Post #B0BVeAEF6Xch6tu5DM by brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net
2025-11-12T10:19:22Z
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Breaking news (to me): "If wheel running is indeed caused by captive housing, wild mice are not expected to use a running wheel in nature. This however, to our knowledge, has never been tested. Here, we show that when running wheels are placed in nature, they are frequently used by wild mice, also when no extrinsic reward is provided. … Wheel movement not caused by mice was caused by shrews, rats, snails, slugs or frogs" https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2014.0210
(DIR) Post #B0bj82dfx9kSmFN2mW by brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net
2025-11-07T21:11:05Z
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Thank goodness that Trump is making USA the envy of the world. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c20ez8y0dv1t
(DIR) Post #B0bj8Y9IncSyVJPEsi by brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net
2025-11-08T14:09:55Z
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Someone put this "blue plaque" on a London Tesla showroom to mark his becoming the world's first trillionaire. “World’s first trillionaire Elon Musk. Could have solved world hunger but funded fascists instead. Bellend.” https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/everyone-hates-elon-protest-tesla-dealership-london-400042/
(DIR) Post #B0bjEwM5iJzbJeR2nI by brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net
2025-10-20T09:00:58Z
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Happy US-EAST-1 Goes South Day, to all those who entrust their businesses to Big Tech.
(DIR) Post #B1B5cUk31ww09EsJVY by brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net
2025-12-12T09:07:59Z
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Huge congrats to Apple, ACT/ The App Association (mostly funded by Apple), AWS, Google, Meta, and Microsoft, who are named in The Hill's "Top lobbyists of 2025", along with other loved and trusted brands like Philip Morris, ExxonMobil, Boeing, Occidental Petroleum, Lockheed Martin, and McDonalds. https://thehill.com/homenews/5632709-top-lobbyists-2025/
(DIR) Post #B1BBLjwJs4cW5N0byK by brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net
2025-12-12T17:34:02Z
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@tomjennings I'm not sure that's exactly how I'd describe them .. but it's still preferable to the junta in Trumpistan.
(DIR) Post #B1HKL1Kpm6n8Haxzsm by brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net
2025-12-15T15:09:18Z
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US Embassy in UK: “Effective immediately, all individuals applying for an F, M, or J nonimmigrant visa are requested to adjust the privacy settings on all of their social media accounts to ‘public’ to facilitate vetting necessary to establish their identity and admissibility to the United States under U.S. law.” https://uk.usembassy.gov/visas/
(DIR) Post #B1HROPHbtPFn6W1KmO by brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net
2025-12-15T18:02:05Z
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@zeldman I won't; I felt queasy enough going for 3 days a couple of months ago - and that was NYC (but I still worried about immigration cops noticing my passport shows I was born in what is now Yemen)
(DIR) Post #B1WAXQGL6UP7MnIEqm by brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net
2025-12-22T09:06:55Z
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Google sues SerpApi for scraping the Google search results. "Google called SerpApi's "business model is parasitic," adding "SerpApi uses automated means to scrape these other services." This generates "billions of artificial requests and then copying and selling the responses. SerpApi does not compensate the services it scrapes for the output or for the costs of responding to the massive burdens their automated processes impose on the services’ computer infrastructures." https://www.seroundtable.com/google-sues-serpapi-40631.html
(DIR) Post #B1WEHK9OSa0JasciBs by brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net
2025-12-22T11:56:09Z
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The EU's public consultation on the proposed Digital Fairness Act showed 86% of respondents support consumers having more control over personalised advertising. 77% said personalised pricing based on surveillance/ profiling should be restricted. You'll be startled to learn that business associations and large companies "show low support". https://cdn.table.media/assets/europe/public_consultation_on_the_digital_fairness_act_factual_summary_report.pdf
(DIR) Post #B1WEHP3CF31An6lKj2 by brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net
2025-12-22T12:12:20Z
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75% of consumers said "coshing people over the head and running off with their money should be illegal". The European Society of Coshers, the International Mugging Association, large Cosh manufacturers and the Federation of Utter Bastards showed low support.
(DIR) Post #B299cbi87feoaHxBEu by brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net
2026-01-10T11:01:26Z
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@jeffcliff https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.02671v1
(DIR) Post #B29leloPKlj2kZLeVM by brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net
2026-01-10T11:32:10Z
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I'm watching a felonious squirrel in my garden commit a daring daylight raid on the bird feeder
(DIR) Post #B2JJh0PTAzaXT3YoYy by brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net
2026-01-15T11:36:20Z
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According to Tech Radar, a reason to avoid using Vivaldi web browser is "No AI-powered assistant". Yup - and we're proud of it! If you don't want slop while you shop, or scurf while you surf, give the European browser a try. https://vivaldi.com/blog/a-i-browsers-the-price-of-admission-is-too-high/
(DIR) Post #B2RWH9bWwbTwrMR1bU by brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net
2026-01-19T10:43:47Z
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I tried to change my password to "BeefStew" but the system told me that it's not stroganoff.
(DIR) Post #B2Ti2g6rOa4V5ysBNI by brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net
2026-01-20T10:44:41Z
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European Union companies' annual purchases of cloud software services that benefit the US economy amount to €264 billion … If the EU were able to produce 15% of the cloud software services it currently purchases from the United States in 2035, this would result in 463,000 additional jobs in the EU. https://www.cigref.fr/technological-dependence-on-american-software-and-cloud-services-an-assessment-of-the-economic-consequences-in-europe
(DIR) Post #B2Ti2mDSgwuw2C0XUu by brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net
2026-01-20T10:53:40Z
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Related: EU wants to know if it should give preference to European products in public procurement. Tell them what you think (before next Monday, 26 Jan): https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/15492-EU-public-procurement-rules-revision_en
(DIR) Post #B3NTXaUBSA4DUHMfhI by brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net
2026-02-16T10:14:07Z
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TIL "vlog" is the technical term for a really good fibrous poo that you get after a few days eating vegan food.