I live in Halifax, Nova Scotia. We really don't get natural disasters here.
The closest we get in Halifax is a Cat 3 hurricane once every 3 or 4 years, multiple blizzards each winter, we get light freezing rain once a year and a significant amount about every 10 years.
We lose power for a few hours many times per year because our power company is privately owned and has to answer to shareholders.
I once went without power for 3 days.
Could be a lot worse.
If you can call for help, you location was tracked the entire time by celltowers.
GPS really doesn't make any difference as it's an incoming signal.
If there is a network connection, the GPS info can be transmitted by Google or Apple.
A degoogled phone wouldn't be sending the GPS location out.
You didn't say how much, from lowest to highest income level:
Retire
Help every homeless person in my city, then my county, my province.
Order or build locally, tiny homes for all the homeless in my city. Expand outwards if I had money left.
Buy the local power corp and run it as a nonprofit.
Three days. I just wasn't tired. The extra free time was great but I was getting worried.
Years before that I was awake for 36 hours. This didn't end well, which is why the more recent episode was starting to worry me. I was coasting down a hill on a bicycle and fell asleep. I nodded off just long enough to lose my balance. 3 stitches in my head ( I still have the bump as a reminder ), left knee swollen like a football, lots of roadrash.
I'm very glad I didn't have a drivers' license at the time as this could have been much worse.
First, I check the lower power company's website for an estimate of when the power will come back on. If no one reported the outage, I'll take a few minutes to do so. We usually have the battery powered lights out during a storm, if it's a surpise outage, I go fetch the lights.
If the outage is going to be longer than 6 hours, I go buy some gas for the generator. I pour what isn't used during the outage into the car's fuel tank.
I use an rss reader on my phone with a lot of saved articles. I try to get through some of those.
When it to stops raining or snowing I pull the genny out of the shed, fuel it, get it running. Next, I run a few extension cords for the fridge and freezer.
Thank you. I have to admit when I'm wrong. Doubling down is just cringe.
Yeah, I thought about that at work today. I should have said 'Bluesky is developing a "group think" culture'.
TL/DR Mastodon server admins have a great amount of control on who you can follow. Searches may not find everyone due to defederation. Bluesky puts the control for this in the users' hands with more robust search and moderation tools.
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Bluesky is growing as is Threads. I've read several articles over the past week and not one stated Mastodon is gaining users.
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I've been on Mastodon for a couple of years and, for me, it's so boring. Been on Bluesky for about a week. I currently have more followers and am following more than I ever did on Mastodon.
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Mastodon was setup with the idea of users would use hashtags to find people to follow but I've noticed half the posts have no hashtags. I've also seen a lot of hashtag abuse to reach a wider audience - hashtags being added to a post that has nothing to do with the topic. An example is #privacy being added to a painting of a beach.
There are followlists (called Starter Packs) for different topics and occupations. Lawyers, teachers, privacy enthusiasts (me), AI reachers, anyone really can find a group of people to follow that share your interests. These are created by users, not the company.
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With Mastodon being federated if you block someone and they move to another server, you need to block them again. This isn't good for someone being abused by a stalker.
They don't mess around with blocking trolls "Don't feed the trolls" could be the site motto.
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You could be on a server that gets defederated or have someone blocked from your searches by the owner of your server. This will limit who you can follow.
Bluesky puts this control back in your hands. There are blocklists to make it easier to remove the maga, nazis, rightwingers, cryptobros, etc from your sight. Moderation tools are far easier to use. Muting of hashtags can be done from the Discover timeline.
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Bluesky is very left leaning which I'm not sure I like. An example, the other day there was a thread about using blocklists and a user said they are silly because you have to trust the creator of that list. Another user said talk like that will get you blocked, many people agreed with the second user. That culture worries me. BTW I agree with the first user.
Is it possible to travel to the past without changing the timeline? Even going to a diner for a meal will make a ripple.
I always read the headline and if the headline is interesting I'll read the article.
One thing I don't do is voice my opinion about an article without reading it.
Why follow a particular course of action?
Or why try to stop a dictatorship?
I can't speak to public domain or not but it is available for download. If Wikipedia had a problem with it being downloaded, I'm sure they would be asking Google to remove the Kiwix app from Google Play.
Sure did. It's been reported by many main stream media outlets and Alex himself.
The Onion plans to relaunch Infowars as a satirical site making fun of conspiracy nutters sometime in January.
This article is so full of misinformation (at least the digital stuff) it's shocking. Using Google for email, phone and searches. Seems like an ideal way to end up in prison.
There are three videos by TheHatedOne I'm going to recommend. Two are about protecting yourself at a protest when there are cops with video camera and imsi catchers all around. The third is about being anonymous online.
These should be watched and then read the Markup article for the medical information. I would get a second opinion on the medical in the article considering how bad their digital advice is.
First video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMJH-UJyENs How to be anonymous in a protest - Burner phone tutorial.
Second video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_5y1jIWPjc How to be anonymous in the streets. These techniques would be useful entering and exiting an abortion clinic encase their are anti-abortion busy bodies there with cameras.
A third video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_QsQp7DyjE Become untraceable, how to create an anonymous identity. This video talking about using tor, obtaining an email account not connected to you,