its_me_xiphos
@its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org
- Comment on Stop Talking To Me, Google Search 6 hours ago:
I forgot to mention. To get Ecosia financials, you can request them from the applicable oversight office in Germany. Aggregates, like Candid, have access to that too. That’s the sort ofndue diligence I’d expect; not a link to their oversight page and suggestion they are hiding something. Many large nonprofits have financial overviews like that, and doesn’t suggest organizational rot or greenwashing in this case.
A quick glance suggests that in Germany, you can request a social benefit corp’s financials. If like nonprofit law in the USA, you can request a 990 from any 501©3 and they are required, by law, to provide one within a certain time frame.
- Comment on Stop Talking To Me, Google Search 6 hours ago:
Hi haverholm.
So I did click through again and re-read, but I stand by my assessment that the sources aren’t good. I wouldn’t consider them reputable and the author doesn’t offer verifiable information to support the sources linked. We’ve got:
- A link to ecosia statements
- A link to ecosia financials
- T3N post
- Glassdoor
If I’m missing other links, let me know. I don’t see any others. Again, I don’t see anything that suggests the claims are more than hyperbole. For their financials, for example. Show me where the problem is, speak to it, back up the claim with expert review or hard numbers. As the article is written, that chain just isn’t there and I’m left to take the authors word for it that a problem exists. Glassoldoor and LinkedIn are not evidence of malfeasance. Hence my conclusion and attempt to inform. Which the poster did not appreciate (full disclosure, I blocked them. I don’t have time for disingenuous insults).
Propublica, ICIJ, 404 media are great examples of what I’m trying to point out. And, though my white whale, helping everyone step back and evaluate what a source is and why its credible is important to me.
I appreciate you chiming in and asking me to reasses, however. Always happy to, especially if I find it helped me reveal a mistake or change my thought.
- Comment on Stop Talking To Me, Google Search 7 hours ago:
Let me double check. I’ve admitted being wrong and missing something before, so happy to reengage.
- Comment on Stop Talking To Me, Google Search 20 hours ago:
Given the response, the link remains appropriate.
- Comment on Stop Talking To Me, Google Search 1 day ago:
Hey I appreciate the insight and perspective. But I’ve got to contest the source. Its not holding any weight as a reputable and verifiable resource. I’m not saying this as a jab or attack on you. Its a world of bad info, misinformation, and where I fear your link lands - hyperbole - so please consider this resource rather than a lengthy post:
- Comment on AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books 1 day ago:
Fuck. Repulsive.
- Comment on Who Will Save the Internet From Disappearing? 3 weeks ago:
I do for everything. Alas…new video games :-(. Going to need to go back to ye olde strategy guides. Which, reminds me. I used to own the TIE Fighter series for PC back in the…gosh…mid 90s? The strategy guide had an entire storyline woven into it from the “main characters” perspective. Super cool.
- Comment on Who Will Save the Internet From Disappearing? 3 weeks ago:
Incredible! I love this so much, and Boston (love that dirty water).
There was the below; the original now only accessible via the Internet archive. Please do not ask my how often I think of the Roman Empire. Sites like your link and mine are what I miss. Neocities has some of that but its not the same.
[web.archive.org/web/…/www.roman-empire.net/](Roman Empire.net)
- Comment on Who Will Save the Internet From Disappearing? 3 weeks ago:
That’s a really great perspective. Google is unusable now, I concur. I tried looking up a guide for Nova Roma (sorta like a classic Sierra Caesar game) water management, and my Buddha it was pages of AI guides, ads, and slop from the same three sources. I give up.
- Comment on Who Will Save the Internet From Disappearing? 3 weeks ago:
Its sad. We’ve lost so much over the last decade. Many of the wonderful and hobbyist passion projects from the early internet are gone too. Think of niche sites by historians, archeologists, train enthusiasts, etc that were a wealth of information. Much of that is gone
- Comment on SpaceX Is Junk. That’s What the Bond Market Says 3 weeks ago:
Its a small club and you ain’t in it.
I often discuss that these aren’t scams. They aren’t rigged. This would denote something anti-lawful or downright deceitful. No. These are perfectly legal and transparent transfers of wealth. Doesn’t make it any less angering, but its important to understand how few economics systems in use in the world are designed to be equitable.
- Comment on LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach 4 weeks ago:
All good with me. Feel free to PM (DM?) Me with reasoning and if there’s research you’re aware of that supports. I admit I know too little.
- Comment on LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach 4 weeks ago:
Ah yes, Lastpass. You’ll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. Come. We must be cautious.
- Comment on LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach 4 weeks ago:
That’s your new password friend! For everything! “My-brain-isnt-made-for-35c”. /s
- Comment on DuckDuckGo’s AI Feature Is Telling Users That Trump Died of Rabies Earlier This Month 4 weeks ago:
I don’t google anymore. Any AI search turns up reddit as a source. It is out of control.
I believe we need to return to curated blog rolls and web link sharing. Like the old days. Before the dark times.
- Comment on AI crash coming closer? South Korea’s Kospi plunges 10%, triggers trading halt 5 weeks ago:
Here are my three best guesses, which are as good as anyone’s on this type. Maybe it’ll garner some discussions because the industries ability to seemingly break all barriers and avoid the cliff thus far are surprising:
- Memory companies will be a sign first.
- AI recruiting companies (Mercor) slow recruiting and don’t post as many jobs or at such high rates.
- Utility usage decreases in areas with major AI data centers. (I really wish ibjad access to data on this).
- Comment on US AI stock sell-off shakes markets from Wall Street to Asia 5 weeks ago:
\o/2_^
- Comment on We are witnessing the slow death of the prestige career 5 weeks ago:
Maybe Wessified? Nah. Doesn’t work.
- Comment on We are witnessing the slow death of the prestige career 5 weeks ago:
Yeah. No love lost. Terrible firms lead by narciastic nepo babies. Who, due to the power of networking, get lucrative contracts to harm in the name of efficiency. I don’t think there’s a good word for that. There should be.
- Comment on There's never been an easier time to boycott Microsoft, the most boring video game publisher in the business 1 month ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on There's never been an easier time to boycott Microsoft, the most boring video game publisher in the business 1 month ago:
Thanks. Its hard to find good video game journalism at all.
- Comment on Your Search Results Are Getting Sloptimized: How companies are gaming the chatbot internet 1 month ago:
I do miss the internet of the early 2000s.
- Comment on Electric cars are starting to take over the world 1 month ago:
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good!
Cars suck. Huge cars suck more. But without the biking infrastructure and culture of, say, the Dutch, it’ll be hard to get people in small cities, suburban, and rural areas off cars.
I went from a bolt EV with a 108 mile commute across Oregon to a bike in the Netherlands. Didn’t touch a car for a year. I could get everywhere by bike, carried my Xmas tree home via bike, and even on rural rides the culture and rules mean cars wait and work around you. Its incredible.
You can not hope to replace cars until bikes are the cultural, social, and urban planning focus of private transportation.
- Comment on AI Data Centers’ Water Consumption Breaks 264 Billion Gallons in 2025 as Devastating Drought Hits Nearly 63% of U.S. 1 month ago:
I thought that myself and honestly I don’t know.
- Comment on AI Data Centers’ Water Consumption Breaks 264 Billion Gallons in 2025 as Devastating Drought Hits Nearly 63% of U.S. 1 month ago:
Love what you did here…but I don’t think the same logic applies to data centers.
- Comment on A new MMO announcement is more exciting than all the other SGF news combined: Thanks, Guild Wars 3. 1 month ago:
Never played GW or GW2. Maybe I’ll hop onto this just for something new.
- Comment on AI Data Centers’ Water Consumption Breaks 264 Billion Gallons in 2025 as Devastating Drought Hits Nearly 63% of U.S. 1 month ago:
Of course! Thanks for asking for clarification.
- Comment on AI Data Centers’ Water Consumption Breaks 264 Billion Gallons in 2025 as Devastating Drought Hits Nearly 63% of U.S. 1 month ago:
Let’s go to the Dalles in lovely Oregon. There is a Google data center there that draws water from the public supplies. It draws so much in a day, that at times the need for water in the whole community outstrips the ability of infrastructure to supply water. So people in the area see their water slow or cease altogether. The water is drawn so fast and in such amounts, wells dry up as the water table drops.
Water does eventually evaporate or get discharged from said data center, but its not like adding it in is an instantaneous event. It also doesn’t reenter the same system. Like picking up flour and trying to drop it back in the bag. Some ends up on your counter.
The data center in the Dalles is one hell of a story, too, for reason beyond that.
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers 1 month ago:
What…what the hell?
On further research, I had no idea CD Projekt Red sold GoG Games. CD Projekt sold GOG to its original co-founder, Michał Kiciński, in December 2025 for approximately $25.2 million. I’m downloading what I bought over the years and closing my account.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO says bot internet traffic has overtaken humans 1 month ago:
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I2P doesn’t seem to fill the void. I think what is missing from that is the “norm” of the old internet. The internet was a playground with tons of hobby projects and experiments in its earlier days. I don’t see TOR, I2P, etc, building the same playground because the novelty and ease of access can’t be replicated.