Mastodawn

ericarnal Jan 19, 2023

Julian Oliver Jan 18, 2023

A nine-month investigation undertaken by the Guardian, Die Zeit and SourceMaterial found that 90% of rainforest offsets from the world's biggest provider are worthless "phantom credits". Bought by the likes of Disney, Shell, easyJet and Gucci, it seems they may even do more harm to our environment than good.

Videos taken by residents in Peru showed forced evictions, and their homes cut down with chainsaws for an offset project.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/18/revealed-forest-carbon-offsets-biggest-provider-worthless-verra-aoe

Revealed: more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest certifier are worthless, analysis shows

Investigation into Verra carbon standard finds most are ‘phantom credits’ and may worsen global heating

The Guardian

ericarnal Dec 27, 2022

Chris Trottier Dec 27, 2022

On Mastodon, there's two groups of people:

1. Those who want to recreate Twitter
2. Those who want to bury Twitter, then pave over its grave

I'm of the second group.

ericarnal Dec 23, 2022

The next version of Chrome will include #css trigonometric functions ( sin(), cos(), tan(), asin(), acos(), atan(), atan2() ) https://chromestatus.com/feature/5165381072191488

Chrome Platform Status

ericarnal Dec 17, 2022

Roxi Horror 💀🌸Dec 16, 2022

HAVING KIDS
• expensive & boring
• they will live with you for 18 years

BEFRIENDING A CROW
• cheap & exciting
• they will bring you gifts
• there is a good chance they will also be willing to do crimes for you

ericarnal Dec 13, 2022

Learned during my php 7 to 8.1 migration that date_sunrise, date_sunset are deprecated. I've never used these functions and am now obsessed to find a way to put date_sun_info
(replacement) in a project
https://php.watch/versions/8.1/date_sunrise-date_sunset-funcs-deprecated

PHP 8.1: `date_sunrise`, `date_sunset` functions and related INI settings are deprecated

PHP.Watch

ericarnal Dec 13, 2022

After a month lurking here. Threads aren't really adapted to Mastodon. And the platform is way way way less addictive. Which is a good thing. Maybe that what social network are meant to be ...