i assume F150 is an electric vehicle. electricity doesn’t come from nowhere. where does the energy come from?

then where does energy come from?

yes i know. sadly a lot of big scrappers don’t do that, instead they scrap the web interface. which is significantly inefficient so it slows down the service for everyone else.

that checks out

well it feels like one

wtf. why does my browser send such an uniquely identifying token. wtf

(there’s more to the right of it, i cut it to preserve privacy)

WTF

TIL. the way trackers can do stuff

yeah i get your point but that’s not what i meant. i’m using VPNs to do google searches, for example, in incognito browsing tab. so google knows the 10k searches i did, but it cannot connect them to each other, as session cookies between them are deleted each time i close the browser (which is about every few minutes). and i don’t log in to any account in the incognito tab either, so it can’t use account identities as fixed points either. and it cannot associate the queries by IP address either.

edit:

after seeing this website … https://amiunique.org/fingerprint i get what you mean now. i have to think about this.

hmm i’m not entirely sure either but it seems like fediverse content should be easily archivable.

probably this is another engineering challenge to think about once that i have checks notes a few months of free time …

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it helps to clarify one’s mind from time to time :)

a lot of lemmy servers use anubis to hinder bots. it’s quite effective actually. makes the bots do some hard cryptographic riddles before accessing data. insignificant for human users who only read 100 posts but significant for bots who want to read millions of posts.

meanwhile i’m using VPNs in browser’s incognito mode to not be tracked

That’s not what a VPN or incognito modes do.

VPNs prevent the site from attaching an IP address to the site visit, and incognito mode means that browser cookies routinely get scrapped.

actually i think it’s more like 1% full.

i just calculated that 1 MWh is about 300 kg of fuel (that it replaces) a day. so in 2 weeks, that’s maybe 5 t of fuel that it saves? that does not seem so much to me.

very cool! does anyone know what fraction of its energy consumption that it can produce on-site? i.e. the 1 MWh that it produces a day from solar panels, how many % are that of its total energy consumption for propulsion that day?

yeaah the US has a lot of special history. preventing slavery is an important task of the fed. gov.

yet i see the problems that overall fed. gov. interference with own personal life can do.

Living through this has taught me that while I was a strong federalist to try and guarantee rights and build out what I think will help society

the thing i’ve learned is that even if there’s no fascist, and everybody does their best, things can still go horribly wrong because cultural differences aren’t respected. for example, in one country, tattoos are illegal because they’re associated with organized crime. in one small village though, tattoos are an ancient and sacred art and outlawing them does a lot of harm. so even when the politicians try their best to “clean up the place”, cultural differences lead to damage to minorities. that’s why federal politics shouldn’t regulate anything that’s non-commercial. in general, this is a reply to your comment, and has nothing to do with this post specifically.

no way to know but a good way to guess

yeah lots of minerals can contain water. it’s known as water of crystallization

you could still get badly hurt if you swallow faster than you can spit it out