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PrivacyInsight @[email protected] · 2026-08-13 · 22:44 UTC

Planning on keeping your privacy and start data broker removal / opt out by yourself ? We wrote an article on creating your own profile so you can start researching what data brokers might have your information. Data broker removal is effective if you target the data brokers that have your information instead of just sending a mass opt out request that supply your information to brokers that didnt have it. #privacy #databrokers #optout #pii #gdpr #removal https://privacyinsightsolutions.com/blog/data-broker-removal-profile

#privacy #databrokers #optout #pii #gdpr #removal

💧🌏 Greg Cocks @[email protected] · 2026-08-12 · 05:55 UTC

WHEN YOU ‘JUST’ WANT TO COLLECT SOME SPATIAL DATA! 😊
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Australian Researchers Fitted Five Magpies With GPS Trackers To Map Their Movements, But The Birds Began Removing One Another’s Harnesses Within Minutes, Turning A Failed Trial Into An Unexpected Observation Of Cooperation
(When researchers tried to track Australian magpies, the birds turned the tables—systematically removing each other's harnesses and revealing something far more interesting than GPS coordinates.)
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https://youtu.be/mM0j_GybEKw?si=GE3sFw00iXSDMlI0 <-- shared video
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https://spacedaily.com/t-australian-researchers-fitted-five-magpies-with-gps-trackers-to-map-their-movements-but-the-birds-began-removing-one-anothers-harnesses-within-minutes-turning-a-failed-trial-into-an-unexpected-obser/ <-- shared technical article
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http://dx.doi.org/10.20938/afo39007011 <-- shared paper
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-22/magpies-show-cooperative-behaviour-by-removing-tracking-device/100851458 <-- shared media article
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[the Aussie magpies need SWAG on their GPS harness!]
“Researchers in Queensland fitted five Australian magpies with tiny GPS trackers, hoping to map their movements and social relationships. The [mischief] had other plans.
Within about ten minutes, an untagged adult female was using her bill to work at the harness on a juvenile. The tracker came off. Nearby, another magpie was helping a second tagged bird on a powerline. Devices that had been designed to stay attached for weeks disappeared within minutes to days.
[The author] like[s] this story partly because it resists the tidy distinction between a successful experiment and a failed one. The researchers lost the movement data they went looking for, but the birds produced an observation nobody had planned…”
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“Recent advances in tracking technology have enabled devices such as Global Positioning Systems (GPS) loggers to be used on a wide variety of birds. Although there are established ethical considerations to these processes, different species may react differently to particular devices and attachments. Thus, pilot studies are still of utmost importance in this field. Here, [the authors] describe one such study trialling a novel harness design for GPS tracking devices on Australian Magpies Gymnorhina tibicen. Despite previous testing demonstrating the strength and durability of the harness, devices were removed within minutes to hours of initial fitting. Notably, removal was observed to involve one bird snapping another bird’s harness at the only weak point, such that the tracker was released. This behaviour demonstrates both cooperation and a moderate level of problem solving, providing potential further evidence of the cognitive abilities of this species. To our knowledge, this is the first study to report the conspecific removal of GPS trackers, and should be considered when planning future tracking studies especially on highly social species…”
#rescuebehaviour #altruism #WhereTheAnimalsAre #wildlife #tracking #spatialanalysis #bird #magpie #Australia #Queensland #research #GPS #tracker #harness #removal #ecosystems #GIS #logging #monitoring #spatial #mapping #social #species #behaviour #cooperation #problemsolving #cognitiveabilities #conspecific #biology

#rescuebehaviour #altruism #wheretheanimalsare #wildlife #tracking #spatialanalysis

Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar @[email protected] · 2026-07-16 · 12:47 UTC

Stumps hauled off and raked the dirt flat a bit.

Or as they say in Lithuanian: Man rake ya![sorry 😬]

#Homestead #Stump #Removal #Yard #MiniExcavator #Tractor #Rake

#homestead #stump #removal #yard #miniexcavator #tractor

Katharine O'Moore-Klopf, ELS @[email protected] · 2026-07-02 · 18:27 UTC

From Dean Blundell on Substack, the story of an active-duty US major who torched his career by calling for the #impeachment, #conviction, & #removal of #Trump & #Vance immediately. On the Capitol steps. On purpose. Thank you, Major Jason Watson! https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-an-active-duty-us-major

#impeachment #conviction #removal #trump #vance

N-gated Hacker News @[email protected] · 2026-07-01 · 16:01 UTC

🎮 Oh, #Sony, where art thou? 🤔 In a stunning move showcasing their deep appreciation for customer loyalty, they've decided to delete 551 movies that PlayStation owners naively thought they "owned." Silly consumers, didn't you know that #digital purchases are merely expensive rentals in disguise? 😏📽️
https://reclaimthenet.org/sony-deletes-551-studiocanal-movies-playstation-owners-paid-for #Movie #Removal #Ownership #Gaming #News #CustomerLoyalty #HackerNews #ngated

#sony #digital #movie #removal #ownership #gaming

Hacker News @[email protected] · 2026-06-29 · 10:03 UTC

Pollen (CEO Negus-Fancey, CTO Wright) tried to remove article, and Google helped

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/pollen-tried-to-remove-my-article-about-callum-negus-fancey-and-google-is-assisting-to-it/

#HackerNews #Pollen #Google #Article #Removal #Negus-Fancey #TechNews

#hackernews #pollen #google #article #removal #negus

Graham Perrin @[email protected] · 2026-05-19 · 15:17 UTC

Reddit's harassment filter

This feature was enabled long ago for r/freebsd. Filtering was recently increased from moderate, to high.

Its first catch since the increase is pictured below. This case would probably have been caught by the moderate filter.

Moderators see the abuse, the red alert.

Normal users of the subreddit see nothing. Smart.

(It's possible that u/reddit_original saw the comment by u/ArtSuspicious7027 because the offending comment was a reply to u/reddit_original. I'm not certain.)

A Wayback machine capture of the offender's profile, after manual confirmation of the removal: <https://web.archive.org/web/20260519151033/https://old.reddit.com/user/ArtSuspicious7027>.

The abuse that's removed from a subreddit e.g. <https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/n8ugn4/why_isnt_sudo_preinstalled/omobmk6/> remains visible in an offender's profile. This can help the public to form an opinion of the person, even if the person attempts to obscure their comment history.

<https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/23856209638932-Harassment-filter>

#Reddit #abuse #harassment #removal #filter #moderation

#reddit #abuse #harassment #removal #filter #moderation

Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD @[email protected] · 2026-05-17 · 04:24 UTC

The City of Pasadena approved an organization to hire 600 goats to eat vegetation on the steep slopes of the Arroyo Seco and reduce wildfire risk. The pilot project was 100 acres (about 50 hectares). The goats finished their work much faster than expected. See this article in PasadenaNow.

https://pasadenanow.com/main/goats-finish-ahead-of-schedule-in-arroyo-seco

#goats #vegetation #removal