Hirom @ Hirom @beehaw.org

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Renewables absolutely crush all types of fossil fuels when taking the whole life cycle into account. That mean accounting for manufacturing, use, disassembly and recycling.

See https://www.worldenergy.org/publications/entry/comparison-of-energy-systems-using-life-cycle-assessment

It sounds like this is completely clickbait article, bordering on misinformation.

Visa Gives People a New Reason to Not Use Visa

Pretty slick

Do it

That's the solution I picked at work. Refused to install that Microsoft software on my personal phone, but instead provided a phone number.

If you have a VoIP provider you could even try to the VoIP number for MFA instead of providing your real mobile number.

If IT make a comment about you not having the app, ask if they intend to provide a company device for that.

If the company cared, they would provide MFA hardware like Yubikeys to their employees.

124 countries isn't nothing. The list include countries from all continents, many Europeans and African countries, Australia, Canada, Mexico, ... . Being under an arrest warrant which applies in all 124 countries would be a major pain, even if USA & China & Russia are missing from that list.

Ahah, I just told myself: cannot wait for Adam Something to debunk this

Ghostery, Disconnect, Privacy Badger, etc

• Redundant with Total Cookie Protection (dFPI)

Privacy Badger does more than dFPI. dFPI just isolate cookies. Privacy Badger blocks cookies. And completely block connection to some hosts that are dedicated to tracking, which prevent other forms of tracking that aren't cookie-based.

In that blog post, google does not commit to open sourcing these play services features, to integrate in future system upgrade.

I would love to be proven wrong.

Many of these are Google Play Services features, so it won't be available to users open-source Android flavors that are google-free.

There are 42 RIPE Atlas probes online in Hong Kong.

Someone part of the Atlas network could check this against various probes.

https://atlas.ripe.net/probes/public?sort=-id&toggle=all&page_size=100&page=1&status=1&country_code__in=HK

They had a choice between complying to censorship, or refusing to play along and if necessary stop doing business in Hong Kong.

In the past, Google Search got out of China for the same reason.

I wonder if that'd work, or if the Great Firewall of China already blocks it in Hong Kong

.. hackers are invited to find new ways to break into widely used software, like Safari, Adobe Flash

Flash? What year is this !?

Cars are resources intensive in general, although EVs clearly pollute less, even when taking batteries into account (lifecycle analysis), and even if electricity used to charge them isn't renewable.

All cars company deserve some push back, but producing EVs isn't a good reason to single out Tesla.

In this case it seems there's another factor, which are fear for water resources due to putting too much/large factories in one place, and Elon being an asshole.

Okay, I misinterpreted your comment.

That's consistent with past reports of secret unauthorized PRC police stations in the USA/UK/Netherlands/Germany/Canada/....

Their ostensible purpose is to help Chinese citizens overseas with administrative issues [..]

However, there are also reports of the stations being involved in “persuade to return” operations.