Google payed me a bugbounty for a bug I reported 8 years ago...

Is there anything like a reasonably working local antispam solution for web contact forms? It appears the popular one is akismet, but that essentially means "sent the whole message to someone else", and that feels really inacceptable privacy wise.

Certainly the thought crosses my mind whether anyone will want to read my likely-30k-characters thoughts on green methanol that I'm currently writing down, with obscure, nerdy side quests towards formaldehyde, dimethyl ether, and gasification technology. But then, I know at least a couple of people that will almost certainly read it, so I guess it's okay.

This widely shared infographic uses a trick to make its message appear much stronger than it actually is. It seems to show a strong correlation between energy consumption and wealth of a country. By using a logarithmic scale, the correlation appears much stronger than it actually is. I covered this before in articles, and now have also uploaded a short video ⚡💸🎥 🧵

Followerpower: I'm looking for a specific picture in a not well sorted collection... It is probably geotagged, and I know relatively precisely where it was taken. So... Is there any tool (offline, linux) that can do the following: Search for any picture close to specific geocoordinates?

Do you remember how people were discussing those disgusting food practices in China at the beginning of the Covid pandemic that were blamed for the virus transmission? Why don't we have such a discussion now when US cow farms are breeding dangerous bird flu strains?

Falls sich potentiell jemand für gebrauchte Solarmodule "Schüco MPE 90 AL" interessiert: könnte potentiell vermitteln dass die von einer alten Anlage, die abgebaut werden soll, abgeholt werden können. Wenn sie niemand holt werden sie wohl entsorgt. 120 Stück, Standort nordöstlich von Stuttgart.

Question to cryptographers who are... somewhat older. Was RSA 512 the smallest key size that was ever used widely, or were smaller key sizes ever used in common applications?

Preparing a talk about industrial emissions, & I like to illustrate things with local examples. The place where I'm presenting is close to a cluster of chemical factories, in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. In the pic on the left is a large coal power plant, pretty nasty, + the largest emission source in Saxony-Anhalt. But I want to talk about the factory on the right. That's the Dow steam cracker, a major step in the production of plastics. Pic CC by-sa, Foto Fitti, 🧵