A Part of Bee @morix@loci.onl

"Cargo bikes deliver faster and cleaner than vans, study finds"

https://theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/05/cargo-bikes-deliver-faster-and-cleaner-than-vans-study-finds

"Electric cargo bikes deliver about 60% faster than vans in city centres, according to a study. It found that bikes had a higher average speed and dropped off 10 parcels an hour, compared with six for vans.

"The bikes also cut carbon emissions by 90% compared with diesel vans, and by a third compared with electric vans, the report said."

#environment

We're looking for a Go engineer at work. Based in Manchester, UK but open to all UK applicants as you can work fully remotely. Send me a message if you're interested and I'll pass on the details!

In the life of the common or garden USBee, the real tragedy is their constant failure to get into the flower the right way around on the first try.

Apparently Zoom straight up lied about conferences being E2E encrypted, and didn’t tell anyone that they were passing personally identifiable data to Facebook & Google for years.

They have just had their ass handed to them by the FTC, and members of a class action lawsuit will be receiving compensation. Also… maybe don’t use Zoom unless your employer makes you. 😬

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/zoom-to-pay-85m-for-lying-about-encryption-and-sending-data-to-facebook-and-google/

Accurate

Was struck with a bit of a curiosity, so: are you familiar with web forums - online communities where people can post messages in threads and catch up on the messages that were posted since they last checked - and how old are you?

The two genders

#coffee

With the ESP32 being capable of running 80's PC emulation and with the existence of modern miniature TFT / OLED displays it's now possible to build a tiny, functional, self contained miniature PC for mice.

🖥️​ 🐀​

https://hackaday.com/2021/07/28/emulating-the-ibm-pc-on-an-esp32/

this seems like a really cool project

"The Covid Disability Archive is launching, and needs submissions from the public to show the realities of how the Coronavirus Pandemic has uniquely affected the Disabled community."

http://coviddisabilityarchive.com/

Dogs are allowed in the bed.
(Please boost, I want to see if my perception is correct or not)

I've just been emailed by someone who wants to pay me to post sponsored content on mastodon.social

Looks like they're not taking a simple "no" for an answer so since they're likely keeping an eye on me, I'm putting NO on my TL publicly

Also, if I've been approached who else has been? And are they already posting sponsored content? How can I tell without a "sponsored" label? Is that a feature that should even be implemented?