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   Steve's Place (steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 03:19:40 JST Steve's Place

   The dishwasher does not wish to dispense all of its detergent if anything is between it and the water. This includes plates perpendicular to it, or any Pyrex below it. It must live freeeeeeeeeee.

   This results in tiny bits of detergent on those things, and potentially elsewhere.

   So I'm quick washing a load with the remaining detergent after pulling a plate out, hand-rinsing it, and rearranging what was left.

   Whee. I did hand-wash enough of them to make coffee, lol.

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   rednikki (rednikki@toot.boston)'s status on Monday, 22-Dec-2025 12:36:58 JST rednikki

   in reply to

   @skinnylatte The reason PG&E sucks so bad is because of Enron. Ed Zitron touches on it here: https://www.wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-enron-so-what-is-it/ but to quote:
   How dodgy, you ask? Well, in 2000 and 2001, California suffered a series of electricity blackouts. This shouldn’t have happened, because California’s total energy demand (at the time) was 28GW and its production capacity was 45GW.

   California also shares a transmission grid with other states (and, for what it’s worth, the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Colombia, as well as part of Baja California in Mexico), meaning that in the event of a shortage, it could simply draw capacity from elsewhere.

   So, how did it happen?

   Well, remember, Enron traded electricity like a commodity, and as a result, it was incentivized to get the highest possible price for that commodity. So, it took power plants off line during peak hours, and exported power to other states when there was real domestic demand.

   How does a company like Enron shut down a power station? Well, it just asked.

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   Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Friday, 01-Aug-2025 10:03:49 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

   Do you know what's ironic about this age verification requirement in the UK, and soon the rest of EU? South Korea had something similar in the past.

   Korea used to require all online services in the country for users to verify their identity by submitting their SSN (Social Security Number). Yes, even in online gaming.

   They had it for like 10 to 15 years before it was successfully repealed citing, IIRC, how it was useless to curb the things it was supposed to curb when it was passed as a law.

   CONS:

   1. Massive underground list of stolen SSN IDs, complete with real names, addresses, phone numbers. Non-Koreans use these stolen SSN IDs to register in online games and Korean forums and SNS.

   2. Anything you do online is recorded back to your SSN identification. For example, if your account was banned in an online game or forum or SNS, any other online services have access to it. They know if you have a "record" elsewhere.

   So, if your SSN ID was stolen, well, that's a big thorn for you.

   3. No anonymity for those who truly need it for valid reasons.

   4. It was the pre-cursor or perhaps the inspiration for China's National Social Credit system. While it isn't a "big brother is watching you", it still is a form of citizen surveillance and data gathering.

   Of course it's not fair if we don't list the…

   PROS:

   1. Trolling and scamming are not easy to do unless one can register a lot of valid SSN IDs.

   2. The citizens are generally well-behaved online.

   In one of the Korean MMO I managed during that time, the Korean developers do not believe in the exploits I kept on reporting to them (with video too). They can't even duplicate it. We had to get the CEO of our company involved for them to do something about it.

   Since they can't duplicate it, they flew here in the Philippines just so I can demonstrate it to them.

   The Korean develepors were shocked, and that was just for one exploit. I showed them every report I submitted and they dismissed.

   Eventually, they "surrendered" and explained that Korean gamers are generally well-behaved because their SSN ID is attached to their gaming account. And if they get a record in one, all online services can pull that record for their own review.

   They are not aware of the exploits because no one is doing it in the South Korean servers.

   (Disclosure: It actually inspired us in the Philippines. There were various attempts to do the same but 10 years later, the effort died quietly.)

   3. Legally underage citizens are protected from accessing some websites.

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   When South Koreans finally abolished that law, it only took Korean bad actors a few years to realized they can easily create new accounts under pseudonyms. Today, they can't control the trolls, scammers, and fake accounts.

   Verification became optional. And if you choose to voluetarily verify, they force change your account username or display name to reflect your legal name. (This is the same policy of Facebook for everyone.)

   Meanwhile, the EU is heading to the direction the South Koreans had been. They're going to test the UK-way.

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   Ben Werdmuller (ben@werd.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 06:09:36 JST Ben Werdmuller

   Interesting: I got an email from an advertising rep at X about selling ads to "reach my goals" for my account, which has a relatively modest 7.5K followers and, more importantly, has been regularly posting a reminder that Elon Musk supports white supremacy and that you should follow me elsewhere.

   So, uh, I think they're desperate and spamming pretty much everyone.

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   ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@rap.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 12:22:14 JST ティージェーグレェ

   in reply to

   @mike It seems as if @Gargron missed the time when Micro$oft's Exchange (their "email") server broke IMAP support with pine (y'know, the REFERENCE IMAP client)?

   Heck, even I missed that until Tim Newsham pointed it out to me, because even though I was working somewhere as a Network Security Specialist and was administering (at the time Exchange 2003) I wasn't testing it with other IMAP clients, because I wasn't getting paid to do that and was using elm/mutt/etc. on my UNIX shells elsewhere.

   So, not too sure if email is really a strong counter example for the "embrace extend extinguish" paradigm? I mean, sure SMTP (and even UUCP) server and client implementations exist in abundance, but you don't have to look very far to see how some of the big surveillance capitalism bullies have made it very adversarial.

   e.g.
   https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/12/gmail-sucks-water-is-wet/

   https://www.jwz.org/blog/2014/05/google-has-most-of-my-email-because-it-has-all-of-yours/

   https://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/03/google-seems-to-have-broken-email-forwarding/

   https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/09/today-in-email-hegemony/

   https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/09/the-oligopoly-has-won/

   https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/08/today-in-google-broke-email/

   Last I checked, Micro$oft still *prefers* that Outlook uses MAPI (their own, proprietary BS with Exchange which other companies such as Zimbra have gone to significant lengths to reverse engineer with their ZCO [Zimbra Connector for Outlook]).

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   Yasowo :agender_flag:🏳️‍⚧️ (yassie_j@0w0.is)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 02:44:26 JST Yasowo :agender_flag:🏳️‍⚧️

   I understand why people are surprised by Mozilla pushing for AI, but it’s not really unexpected.

   But but Mozilla are a not-for-profit!!! That’s… Mostly accurate. Mozilla is a not-for-profit corporate organisation. They are not a charity. Mozilla also are still subject to the same market pressures as Google and Zucc, exist in San Francisco, and most crucially still need to pay their staff in accordance with the competition. People can certainly work for Mozilla due to ideals, but nobody would work for significantly less for doing a job that pays more elsewhere.

   So why is it not a surprise to me? Mozilla still needs to make money. The money may be ploughed back into the foundation, but they still need investors, paying customers, etc. A large chunk of Firefox revenue comes from the fact Google pays Mozilla big bucks to be the default search operator.

   Despite it being the less unethical choice than Chrome, Firefox (and Mozilla) is only being kept alive by this bribe from Google. Firefox only exists to be controlled opposition, so that Google can tell regulators that the browser space is full of healthy competition.

   Mozilla’s AI push, IMHO, is predicated on that solely: Mozilla is terrified of what happens if Google pulls the plug and so needs to fill that gap with something marketable.