After mortgages, student debt, here comes hot-dog debt.

> I believe the windshield test
Almost, it's the license plate test. same surface area, not washed during journey etc...

Good god, just read the article...

“But what we see here in the preserved areas – that as far as we can tell, are free of even these destructive insecticides and pesticides – even here, the insect numbers are going down horrifyingly dramatically”

The original idea was to save resources (energy and bandwidth) by having applications stopped, and a connection to a single server serving all notifications.
This reduces the amount of background daemons, and reduces persistent TCP connections to 1, which on mobile actually does make a difference.

Now, piping everything through a single entity, with unencrypted content is a really bad idea privacy wise, and we'll now see the full extent of how bad.

This to say that the original idea for push notifications wasn't necessarily malevolent, the fact that no one listened when privacy issues were highlighted is just humans not imagining a future different from the present.

A) you think that a military at war will look at licensing terms?

B) The point of FLOSS is for the end user to use, study, modify and redistribute without the possibility to place additional restrictions along the way.

Honestly, if I was the original author, I'd really try to legally get my hands on one of the drones, and try applying GPL terms to see their modifications. But point A will apply.

So they had Microsoft Recall before it was a thing?

Most FLOSS projects have set up Anubis: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fanubis.techaro.lol%2F

No, this is actually different.
They siphon up everything, evading any attempt to restrict them. Search engines have to be wary of indexing useless stuff, these don't.
It's a real problem for internet infrastructure.

"If you think these crawlers respect robots.txt then you are several assumptions of good faith removed from reality. These bots crawl everything they can find, robots.txt be damned, including expensive endpoints like git blame, every page of every git log, and every commit in every repo, and they do so using random User-Agents that overlap with end-users and come from tens of thousands of IP addresses – mostly residential, in unrelated subnets, each one making no more than one HTTP request over any time period we tried to measure – actively and maliciously adapting and blending in with end-user traffic and avoiding attempts to characterize their behavior or block their traffic."
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrewdevault.com%2F2025%2F0...

> the human condition is on more of a continuous upswing.

Only in the past 200 years. Otherwise it was pretty constant...

> the temperature of the entire planet

That's not how any of this works...

Probably better suited

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fclimate.copernicus.eu%2F...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fclimate.copernicus.eu%2F...

You can download the datasets, see the size by yourself.
Reading about the datasets will tell you what the definition is.
Digging through the various data sources will give you the answer to how it is measured.

Planet surface temperature, sea is a different dataset, land surface temperature too. Let me google that for you: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcds.climate.copernicus...
And that's just one instance. NOAA has (had?) its own.

> If you really want to make an impact, make the arguments more relatable to your audience.

If you keep living like you do, your grandkids won't have as good a life as you have. Can't be simpler than that.

Now any 80+ IQ person will ask "why?", and that's where this marathon comes in. There's nothing simple about this issue.

> Ever wonder if they actually ARE serious about climate change?

We are absolutely serious about it. Number go up. The current goal is 4. Let's crank it up to 11!