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“When the lines blur”: Just because it has pedals doesn’t mean it’s a bicycle, Gardaí warn

Overpowered bicycle-shaped objects are actually classed as e-mopeds and must be registered and insured, with the rider required to wear a helmet, Gardaí have warned. A licence is also needed for The warning comes as often these e-mopeds are mistaken for pedal-assisted bicycles, which are called e-bikes for short. Both e-mopeds and e-bikes can have pedals, but there are…

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“When the lines blur”: Just because it has pedals doesn’t mean it’s a bicycle, Gardaí warn

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Kevin O'Riordan 3d ago

Zack Stern 3d ago

It goes in the square hole.

Kevin O'Riordan May 19

Max Leibman Dec 12

Be aware: if anybody contacts you, it is a scam.

Kevin O'Riordan Apr 10

Ronan Apr 10

Further 36 infant remains recovered at Tuam mother and baby home site.

So many talking heads told us for so long there was nothing to be found there. And now no-one will be held responsible.

1975 2 boys found an underground chamber beneath a concrete slab, reportedly “filled to the brim” with children’s skeletons

2012 Catherine Corless told us all.

2017 an excavation found remains. But the Gardaí said "These are historical burials going back to famine times."

2026 more bodies turning up.

Kevin O'Riordan Mar 26

Ninji Mar 25

who called it an AI girlfriend and not “slop! in the name of love”

Kevin O'Riordan Mar 26

Khrys Mar 26

It’s time to stop posting on X

https://disconnect.blog/its-time-to-stop-posting-on-x/

There aren’t any good arguments left to stay on Elon Musk’s platform

Thank you, @parismarx

(for my part, I quit Twitter in 2017 😎)

It’s time to stop posting on X

There aren’t any good arguments left to stay on Elon Musk’s platform

Disconnect

Kevin O'Riordan Mar 24

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Eugene McParland 🇺🇦Mar 24

Trading records show that shipments to russian smelters from Aughinish Alumina, which is located on the Shannon estuary in the west of Ireland and has been owned by the russian aluminium group rusal since 2006, have increased sharply since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Kevin O'Riordan Mar 24

javi Mar 23

Firefox updated their Terms of Use? Let's see!

As you type a search query within Firefox, Firefox offers search suggestions to provide you with faster and more direct access to what you’re looking for. Some of the search suggestions come from your search provider (“Search Suggestions”). Others come from Firefox, and are based on information stored on your local device (including recent search terms, open tabs, and previously visited URLs), or content from Mozilla and Mozilla’s partners, including paid sponsors and internet resources like Wikipedia (“Suggestions from Firefox”).

Here chat. Here. This is where Firefox dies.

"information stored in your local device" and "content from mozilla's parners" and "paid sponsors".

This is a very convoluted way of saying "we use your personal data to segment you into something we can sell to advertisers".

This is EXACTLY what chrome does, this is exactly why a lot of us stopped using Chrome and moved back to Firefox. In some circumstances Mozilla’s partners will receive de-identified search and interaction data, in order to serve relevant suggestions and measure user engagement with suggested content.This is making me really mad. THIS IS JUST CORPO-SPEAK TO DESCRIBE HOW THE ENTIRE INTERNET ADVERTISEMENT INDUSTRY WORKS. This is HOW FACEBOOK WORK. This is how GOOGLE WORK. This is how the entire programmatic advertisement industry work. This is what we call "sell your personal data". No, no one sells your address, no one sells your name. BECAUSE IT'S ILLEGAL IN A SIGNIFICANT PART OF THE WORLD.
We also work with advertising providers to deliver relevant sponsored content using programmatic technologies. To support this, we may share limited, non-identifying information — such as device type, IP-derived location information, and category of content viewed — to help determine which ads to display. We don’t share any information that identifies you. You can turn off sponsored content in your New Tab settings at any time.Oh it's so nice of you Mozilla, to do THE MINIMUM LEGAL REQUIREMENTS when selling our data. You don't share information that identify me? so nice of you! you know how else does that? Meta! Google! Tiktok! Somehow big tech mega corporations are willing to comply with the minimum legal requirements as you do, mozilla!In some cases, we may share or publish aggregated and anonymized data to facilitate research or as part of the lawful business purposes outlined above (such as sharing aggregated insights with advertising partners).This is called "advertisement segmentation" and it's what it paid for Zuckenberg fortress in Hawaii!! Going places, Moz, you are operating exactly as how Facebook used to do in 2016!To provide our services as described above, we may disclose personal data to: Partners, service providers, suppliers and contractors"We never disclose your personal data!!! well, unless it's one of our partners who pays us for it, of course!"

oh wait! they include a table of what kind of data they share with partners!Technical dataLocationLanguage preferenceSettings dataUnique identifiersSystem performance dataInteraction dataSearch dataBrowsing dataThe SHARE FUCKING EVERYTHING. THEY ARE SELLING EVERYTHING. "Unique identifiers" is the closest to personal identifiable data they can sell. That's what advertisers can use to make a profile of you: They may not know your name, but they will know everything else about you.

This is the same information that google collects and sells from you. THE SAME.

Fucking ghouls. This is where Firefox died, folks.

Firefox Privacy Notice

Mozilla

Kevin O'Riordan Mar 20

dansup Mar 20

Folks, please be nice to BlueSky.

You don't want to be labelled as a critic, and kindly remember they are really decentralized and only took $100+ million in venture capital to improve the social web.

Last but not least, don't pay attention to the CEO responding to criticism by responding with "Are you paying us? Where?" followed up with "You could try a posters strike. I hear that works".

They are great. ATProto is the future. They aren't like other girls.

They care ❤️

Kevin O'Riordan Mar 18

Julia

Feb 26

And they call it "reproducible", despite the fact that NixOS users will never reprodu-