Did you know that Microsoft applied for a permit for a warehouse in southern Sweden - and once they had built the "warehouse" they declared they were going to host a datacenter there with diesel backup generators?

I mean, we hear this happening all the time and so let's hate on data centers, right?

The difference is that this is Sweden, and we don't accept that shit. They were not allowed to run their diesel generators, had to purchase battery power instead and in the end they closed the data center down since they couldn't win this fight.

That's how you deal with it.

(They are now using other datacenters in other locations in Sweden, fully compliant with the laws, with renewable energy and not using water for cooling as far as I can see)

Anybody read any good news, recently?

Friends, if you are in a heat wave, one of the best survival tips I know that I rarely see people talk about is getting a pet cooling mat, the kind filled with gel.

- pressure activated
- sucks heat out of your body
- last 3-4 hours
- reset in 15-20 minutes.

You can cool them in the fridge but you don't have to.

They don't need electricity. They work when the power goes out.

Great for heat emergencies & everyday hot weather use.

#HeatWave #EmergencyPrep

I had my top surgery consult a couple of days ago, and now have just under 6 months to raise AT LEAST $4,330 of the $16,330 total! This Pride Month, I am asking that you boost this, at the very least :blobfoxheartcute:

Goal (will be updated along the way): $515/$4,330 min. by December 2026

When people say Gender Affirming Care saves lives, that is a genuine statement. Please help me find peace with my body.

https://fundrazr.com/42gga9

*If you would like to get art or engage with anything I create, I have my Ko-Fi and Patreon pages linked on my profile (photo attached is my original photography)

Thank you all so much!

@mutualaid
#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #PrideMonth #MutualAidSavesLives #lgbtqia #queerCrowdfund #TransCrowdfund #crowdfunding #fundraising #trans #transgender #nonbinary #TransMutualAid #QueerMutualAid

After a carefully planned and beautifully executed hothouse shift on Thursday, I think everyone feels like they've done a week's work already BUT we have a whole 'nother session tomorrow (Sun 28th) and we have gaps on all the rotas. 😬

Now is an excellent time to do a first shift! No regular commitment needed – all the rotas work entirely ad hoc. You can volunteer as often or as unoften as you like.

As always, ping is a message here or just sign up via the website. Let us know you came from Mastodon!
#CambridgeUK #MutualAid

are you a user of tuta? email them to make a clear stance against generative models! especially if you are a paying customer

also, link them github.com/tutao/tutanota/discussions/10759

@hbons Also:

Accessibilty: "stuff for weirdos"

Like, it took me *years* to find the overamplification setting I needed because I kept looking for it in Sound rather than in Accessibilty - Audio, and once toggled it enables the feature… in the Sound panel. 🙃

If you don't want your Mullvad fees going to fund neo-Nazis - or @mozilla VPN fees, which is rebranded Mullvad - cancel and get a refund immediately

that's whose "free speech" the official account is talking about here, and that's where your fees go to

EDIT: Mullvad has a 14 day refund policy. But the message below is a direct call to ask for a refund if you don't want to give money to Nazis.

If Mullvad refuse a refund, call your consumer protection agency. And reverse credit card charges on the basis of deceptive refund policy representations. It's not like you ever want to be a Mullvad customer again.

archive copy of Mullvad statement: https://web.archive.org/web/20260627172939/https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116822244689326681

Heads up.

Have you seen that new chat feature on YouTube? I just discovered if you hit "Share Link" and send someone a YouTube video, it will now be considered an invite to chat as well. Meaning the tracker link attached to the video now links to you directly. To turn this off when hitting share, go to the "sending as person" drop down and click "change in settings". That will take you to the privacy settings where you can toggle it off.

I had thought my brother had initiated this to try the feature. Turns out it's an on-by-default setting that links directly back to your username (or real name depending on your Google account settings) when you share a link outside YouTube.

It's now more important than ever to remove the tracking markers from links if you haven't been doing it before.

@chrisoliver @pluralistic Did they seriously put "PLAY HAS NO LIMITS" right under the announcement that you can no longer play your purchased movies due to the limits of a licensing arrangement?

Just like a monarchy is ruled by a monarch, an anarchy is usually ruled by an anarch, a fiercely competent individual who keeps insisting they are not the leader, just want to do their thing, and should not be looked up to and has everything made their responsibility against their will.

old enough to remember when components in a living room entertainment center were best when they stayed out of the way of the entertaining as much as they could. you knew you had a great user interface for a component when the interface itself disappeared from the user’s standpoint; the user is interacting directly with the media, not the device(s).

now, of course, no interface is ever done, nothing cannot have a few more bells and whistles and toggles and fields to fill and suggestions to distract a user from the very thing they wanted to accomplish.

if anyone needs me, I’ll be in the yard, shaking my fist at the sky.

Oi @mullvadnet, you don't get to do that shit with money that I gave you, money my friends gave you, money I recommended my customers give you, no more money for you, there are a thousand other VPNs and I can find a new one in a couple of minutes, and thank fuck the other random bloke who I just chewed out for having the same name as you was an inactive account

Ya know, if you *try* to see the horrific sexism in the geek trades, I guarantee that you will see it.

Honest to God, these women are not making this shit up. They're not exaggerating. They're not lying. They're not overly sensitive.

It's fucking real, and it's fucking endemic, and if you're a guy in the geek trades, you need to open your fucking eyes and see it for what it is.

One more “Peoples of the North, hear my plea” for the Netherlands and friends today:

If you leave your child or dog in the car today while you run into the grocery store, they will seriously actually literally be dead by the time you get back.

When I lived in Virginia, they put signs up in grocery store parking lots with dog icons to remind you of this. It only takes a few minutes of a windows-closed car parked in direct heatwave sunlight to kill a toddler or a dog.

Since such heat rarely happens here, I expect a lot of people don’t realize just how serious this is.

#netherlands #heatwave #amsterdam

daniel berntsson, one of mullvad's two founders and owners, has donated millions to a local fascist/populist party. (swedish link to flamman, a socialist news site)

the örebro party are mainly known for using unusually aggressive rhetorics and racism.

in the article, berntsson specifically mentions supporting the örebro party's politics of forced repatriation of swedish citizens born abroad.

EDIT: …and should you decide that you're not renewing your subscription, then may i suggest telling them about it? i mean it's arguably a good thing if they're made aware that they're losing customers because of the owners financing this crap. and they can't get away with it since anonymous donations to political parties are prohibited in sweden.

you could even tell them here on fedi. it's mullvadnet(at)mastodon.online

Oof, just remembered that SP servers close on July 1st.

We didn't save everything yet, so posting this reminder just in case you forgot too.

The replacement we knew about closed, so we'll just get a backup for ourselves.

#Plurality