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Submission + - Tired of being held captive by BigTech? (codeberg.page)

Submitted by mixmasta
mixmasta writes: The Ethical Computing Initiative

A (hopeful) new movement dedicated to a simple proposition—that our technology products should respect us! That is, support our wishes and uphold the principles of freedom, privacy, and informed consent.

Tired of being held captive by BigTech? So are we. Join and help us pull together a complete computing platform.

Comment Infoteinment in car are pure shit. (Score 5, Insightful) 218

by denisbergeron (#65752328) Attached to: GM Plans to Drop Apple CarPlay and Android Auto From All Its Cars

I just pass from a subscription base on a Ford Mach-E 12 inch screen to a non subscrption base Outlander PHEV with a 9 inch screen and buttons for sound, HVAC and everything else. Man never again I will get a car without physical button for sound, screen, HVAC, and so on. And never subscrption.

Submission + - Beavers are undermining dykes in the Netherlands (theguardian.com) 1

Submitted by Bruce66423
Bruce66423 writes: 'Reintroduced for environmental reasons, the beaver has made an amazing comeback in the Netherlands. Extinct in the early 19th century, it was reintroduced in 1988, and now there are an estimated 7,000 beavers roaming around.now in danger of causing serious flooding.

'But there’s a significant downside to the booming Dutch beaver population. Beavers are increasingly digging burrows and tunnels under roads, railways and – even more worryingly – in dykes. For a country where a quarter of the land sits below sea level, this is not a minor problem – especially as beavers are not exactly holding back when digging.

“We’ve found tunnels stretching up to 17 metres into a dyke. Wide enough for a grown man to fit in. That’s alarming,” says Jelmer Krom of the Rivierenland water board. Rivierenland is a region in the middle of the Netherlands, crisscrossed by big rivers, where dykes are crucial for keeping high water at bay. If a major dyke gives way, it would cause a serious flood affecting thousands of people.'

Submission + - Smelling This One Specific Scent Can Boost The Brain's Gray Matter (sciencealert.com)

Submitted by alternative_right
alternative_right writes: According to a new study, wearing the right kind of perfume or cologne can enlarge your brain's gray matter.

Researchers from Kyoto University and the University of Tsukuba in Japan asked 28 women to wear a specific rose scent oil on their clothing for a month, with another 22 volunteers enlisted as controls who put on plain water instead.

Magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI) scans showed boosts in the gray matter volume of the rose scent participants.

Submission + - Microsoft's cut access to accouts related to the International Criminal Court (techzine.eu)

Submitted by denisbergeron
denisbergeron writes: In February, the United States imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. As a result, Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan has no access to the emails on his Microsoft account. The incident once again demonstrates the risks of dependence on US IT services.

To make matters worse, Khan’s bank accounts have also been frozen, according to the Associated Press. If he takes a flight to the US, he will likely be arrested upon arrival. According to the Associated Press, the ICC has been paralyzed by the forced Microsoft blockade. The conflict between the ICC and the US arose in November, when the former issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Submission + - Nestle's pays €2m for breach of regulations at Perrier (theguardian.com)

Submitted by Bruce66423
Bruce66423 writes: 'In 2024, Nestlé Waters admitted using banned filters and ultraviolet treatment on mineral waters. It said it had always defended the safety of its products and had been transparent to authorities. It denied having put pressure on government.

'The company paid a €2m fine to avoid legal action over the use of illegal water sources and filtering. It said at the time that that the replacement filters were approved by the government and that its water was “pure”.'

The fun bit is that the French government appears to have covered up the details.

Submission + - Firefox TOS change has an over reaching data grab license term (mozilla.org) 3

Submitted by agristin
agristin writes: Recent update to the Firefox license ( https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/... ) has this disturbing little TOS addition:

"When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox."

Seems like an over reach.

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