Posts by waldoj@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AkNNXBDv3zeahIH7JI by waldoj@mastodon.social
2024-07-28T02:53:35Z
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The Trump campaign can apparently say literally anything in response to a media inquiry and the outlet will dutifully report that the reporter was instructed to fuck themselves or whatever. It’s really bizarre. https://wapo.st/46m0GX8
(DIR) Post #AkYiaGZHsrcXv08rLs by waldoj@mastodon.social
2024-08-02T13:12:31Z
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Based on all available evidence, Egypt gave Trump $10 million in cash a few days before his 2017 inauguration (that’s 200 pounds of $100 bills). The FBI and DOJ started investigating this in 2019, but attorney general Bill Barr shut that down. Trump then changed US policy in Egypt’s favor.Note that Sen. Bob Menendez was just convicted of likewise taking bribes from Egypt. This is their MO. https://wapo.st/3SxAkvO
(DIR) Post #AkYiaHKR3ZKoHECVqC by waldoj@mastodon.social
2024-08-02T13:15:38Z
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Surely this, et cetera
(DIR) Post #Al05i6g855YlmCy45Q by waldoj@mastodon.social
2024-08-15T18:02:03Z
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Starting today, Cloudflare has enabled Brotli compression for all sites, with no way for turn it off except on enterprise accounts. The version of cURL that updown.io uses doesn't support Brotli. Now updown.io is useless for monitoring Cloudflare sites, because it constantly complains about an unrecognized content encoding type ("br”). 😫If you, too, are being told that your Cloudflare-fronted sites are down, this is why.
(DIR) Post #Am0e0RxT95ZJEFVoFU by waldoj@mastodon.social
2024-09-14T23:31:50Z
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@vriska The CDC doesn’t provide data for American Samoa or CNMI. There’s nothing my bot can do about that.
(DIR) Post #Am0gI3slb6jHgCq1tA by waldoj@mastodon.social
2024-09-14T23:57:25Z
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@vriska I don’t want to say there’s no data, because that would be wrong. The CDC reports no data, but that doesn’t mean there’s no data. The CHC dashboard hasn’t been updated in a long while, but it’s possible they’re reporting it in some other place that I don’t know about. The Saipan Tribune used to report numbers, but I haven’t read that regularly for a couple of years.
(DIR) Post #AmPmGuUmT8l0xDS2j2 by waldoj@mastodon.social
2024-09-26T20:11:23Z
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Every 3.5" USB floppy drive I can find looks like sketchy garbage. I buy a new one every 5 years, and it works for, like, 10 disks, and then it does. Can anybody recommend one that isn't trash?
(DIR) Post #AmQ95IXJYdpszD4INM by waldoj@mastodon.social
2024-09-27T00:46:28Z
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A climate scientist wanted to test if wood, buried in the right soil, could avoid decomposition, thus sequestering the carbon. They found the right soil, dug the hole to dump the wood in, and found a chunk of an eastern red cedar 6½ feet underground. Carbon dating found it to be 3,775 years old, with 95% of its original carbon content. So...yes,, you *can* bury wood to sequester carbon. https://wapo.st/3zpkWLL
(DIR) Post #Aol7895qqc8joSAdWq by waldoj@mastodon.social
2024-12-06T04:12:25Z
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Do people even remember that MSNBC started out as a Microsoft/NBC joint venture?
(DIR) Post #AqLW4PdfUNLfZdyXMu by waldoj@mastodon.social
2024-09-01T23:06:09Z
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Plastic recycling is a myth created and propped up by the petroleum industry. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/texas-resident-used-apple-airtags-to-discover-plastics-taken-to-houston-recycling-centers-arent-being-recycled
(DIR) Post #AqLW4QlVIjD74EeJDk by waldoj@mastodon.social
2024-09-01T23:13:14Z
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Before anybody gets all up in my mentions: yes, it is hypothetically possible to recycle some types of plastic and yes, there is a small-scale PET recycling industry, but recycling plastics at scale is infeasible and has no path to feasibility.
(DIR) Post #AqLW4RJXGCQslmZUGW by waldoj@mastodon.social
2024-09-02T16:50:07Z
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I’m muting this thread because it has achieved escape velocity, resulting in a bunch of replies like “here in Kerblekistan we have achieved a 16% PET recycling rate through exploiting the Malaysian immigrant underclass so therefore plastic recycling works great.” 🙄I leave you with this video on the topic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fiu9GSOmt8E
(DIR) Post #AqLW4VjYpNcwTemKO0 by waldoj@mastodon.social
2024-09-30T19:15:46Z
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The Biden administration is cracking down on the petroleum industry’s bullshit claims of plastic recycling. The EPA now requires that “made from X% recycled plastic” claims be calculated based on mass, instead of vibes. Expect those percentages to drop precipitously, to something closer to 0%. https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-rejects-mass-balance-plastics-recycling-safer-choice
(DIR) Post #AqLW4a3Yky07sqAM76 by waldoj@mastodon.social
2024-09-30T19:22:58Z
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Kudos to ProPublica who exposed the nonsense of this Potemkin plastic recycling process back in June. It’s green-washing by ExxonMobil, which says they turn plastic back into oil, which can be used to make plastic again. But the process actually works terribly, with a 2–5% yield. Worse, the industry uses mathematical trickery known as “lying” to label that as e.g. 30% recycled, or even 100%.Plastic recycling: it’s as good as clean coal! https://www.propublica.org/article/delusion-advanced-chemical-plastic-recycling-pyrolysis
(DIR) Post #AqLW4evEfLJUyTJHKi by waldoj@mastodon.social
2024-10-26T18:18:02Z
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One area where post-consumer plastic recycling is actually happening is black plastic, such as for kitchen utensils and takeout containers. They're made from recycled electronics products, flame-retardants and all. A supermajority of tested spatulas and sushi trays children's toys contained cancer-causing levels of flame retardants that are banned in the U.S.Plastic recycling: On the rare occasion where it’s not a myth, it is bad! https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/01/health/flame-retardant-black-plastic-wellness/index.html
(DIR) Post #AqaFSEOYA289nn4h5E by waldoj@mastodon.social
2025-01-25T16:45:41Z
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I got a letter from a company I’ve never heard of informing me of a “privacy event,” a new and stupid euphemism for “we collected your data and allowed it to be stolen.” The letter never says that the company is, in fact, United Healthcare.
(DIR) Post #ArlDvAy4NusQ5PTh7Q by waldoj@mastodon.social
2025-03-05T18:58:22Z
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The last non-evil printer company has turned evil. Brother has rolled out firmware update that prevent third-party toner cartridges from working. https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/printers/brother-accused-of-locking-down-third-party-printer-ink-cartridges-via-firmware-updates-removing-older-firmware-versions-from-support-portals
(DIR) Post #Aw4ooGAOMcQzmNiCdE by waldoj@mastodon.social
2025-07-12T20:05:56Z
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Well here’s an interesting new scam.
(DIR) Post #Aw4ooL9rnzz9GCVM0W by waldoj@mastodon.social
2025-07-12T20:16:18Z
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It turns out to be a pathetic scam. The URL leads you to a form that demands your credit card info, without any explanation as to what you’d be paying for or how much.
(DIR) Post #Aw4pG4eokT8uBzCqPI by waldoj@mastodon.social
2025-07-13T02:37:44Z
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@futurebird This Mastodon scam was particularly ham-fisted, but the phone call you got is a good reminder that absolutely none of us are un-scammable. The U.S. is a scam culture—we are subjected to constant scams. We can't dodge them all. Eventually I'm gonna get got, and I hope I'll have the nerve to call it up publicly.