The article doesn’t say /when/ someone must become vegan to benefit. If someone eats meat regularly their whole life then goes vegan at 65, is that too late to make a notable difference?

Also a bit interesting about the gut health. I would have expected meat eaters to be getting bigger doses of gut bacteria.

Of course I will need to be in a disposable income situation to get one of these.

The prices I’ve seen for the simple plug-in PVs are terrible. I can only imagine it making sense on frequent road trips or camping, or perhaps in situations where you live in an apartment and have no rooftop real estate for proper panels.

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Can’t reach the tor-hostile article, so I’ll just comment on the topic.

JP Morgan is always the biggest offender worldwide on the annual “Banking on Climate Chaos” reports. There’s quite a bit of dirt on them here:

https://git.disroot.org/cyberMonk/liberethos_paradigm/src/branch/master/usa_banks.md

So of course anyone decent boycotts JP Morgan Chase.

I have 25 tabs open on Ungoogled Chromium w/the Sway window manager, without struggle, and a few other workspaces and browsers going. But Sway may be making the difference. I think things like Gnome and KDE can be a bit heavy.

4gb is what I have. That’s plenty for linux.

I actually prefer 2008 chips (no spy chips / management engine). And yet my local charity rejects any laptop older than a Windows 7 sticker. So the hardware I prefer gets trashed before I can get to it because it’s presumed too old for anyone.

If you put it on freecycle.org with a pic of the stuff sitting on the curb, there is no calling dibs. It’s a competition between other takers and the rain which can inspire quick action.

I did not know that drying ensures a final death. I would have thought that the spores could reproduce as soon as conditions are right.

Looks like an interesting video… wish I could see it. Youtube (and various frontend variants) treat me with hostility the past year or two.

It’s an ongoing fight in my area to keep fungus off the walls. I’m not sure what stops this mattress-supported fungus from attacking the sheetrock the way mold does.

Next question is how do rats like it? Rats love insulation for nesting. For this reason, I cannot even insulate my roof. If the insulation doubles as protein-rich food for rats, it’s obviously a problem. But if the fungus they are using could also serve as an accumulator for a substance that would poison rats (arsenic?), then they might be on to something.

IIRC, Minnesota was largely settled by Scandinavians… hence the Minnesota accent.

The article goes down a deep rabbit hole on the idea of returning land to the original indigenous owners. It’s interesting, but then what? Eilish’s point was apparently missed as the article drifts. When the land is not returned (for whatever reason), there is a problem with bullying immigrants on the stolen land. Particularly when some of the “immigrants” are descendants of the original indigenous owners, which is the most perverse case the article neglects.

My history knowledge on this is a bit spotty and sparse but IIRC California (or part of it) was originally part of Mexico. Perhaps Texas as well.

I’m with you. Works great for those living alone.

But when there is a household w/3+ people, there is always someone who cannot resist playing the spineless pushover. Granny and gramps are living out their last decade; they will be damned if they give up convenient entertainment in their last stretch.

So when one person in the household insists on these shitty overpriced subscriptions, then what? You can probably rightfully get the boot licker to pay the whole bill, but then do they have to watch alone? Or do others in the household freeload? It must be awkward in a lot of situations.

However, if you do think an upvote-based community is good as long as you’re the gatekeeper, you’re being lazy.

Good tools enable us to be lazy. Whether I am am personally “lazy” is irrelevent. I tend to be motivated when the tools, protocols, and infra are well designed. OTOH, I become lazy when tools are lousy. I try to avoid poorly designed tools as much as possible.

The solution is what you dismiss in the last paragraph as “too much effort”.

Machines should work for humans. Not the other way around. If I were highly motivated to labor over blunt unsophisticated tools, every single invitee still has the extra labor of registration. To understand how that is a recipe for disaster, just look at MS Github. A vast majority of FOSS projects are jailed in Microsoft’s walled garden because all the users are too lazy to register more than one account.

I do not have access to an unlimited WAN uplink. I am often offline for long stretches of time. So it’s not just a matter of investing time but money as well. A good infra doesn’t limit community builders to those with deep pockets.

Your complaint that it’s overly isolated is entitlement to an audience’s attention.

It’s not entitlement. It’s opportunity. Shutting off visibility is a missed opportunity for exposure. It’s another recipe for disaster.

The point of federation is to share a community that you respect. You do not respect the community of this federation so you should not want to be connected with them.

That’s another very blunt lever. Every community has adults and children; philosophical deep thinkers, and clowns; civil people and hotheads and trolls.

Concur w/most of what you said.

Though I recall being shadow banned on Reddit and never getting transparency on Reddit. They have robots banning humans while humans are deceived into thinking their content is posted. Has that changed?

On Lemmy, it’s despicable that removals are silent. But I think when viewing your own profile removed posts will have a red padlock or something subtle next to them. The Lemmy proponents would say “what client are you using? It’s your fault you’re using a client that does not signal you… Write your own client.” This is how they fend off criticism of the stock Lemmy client. It’s almost kind of somewhat fair enough because we probably want the Lemmy devs to focus on the server anyway. We have to think of that shitty javascript web client as a demo tool for testing. I actually use the garbage but that’s out of lack of existence of a decent non-JavaScript desktop client with local storage.

The worst scenario: using kbin to post to a Lemmy community. When the post is removed, all traces of the content is silently destroyed and irrecoverable. You go to your own profile and it’s as if the post never existed. You suffer data loss of your own work.

I have yet to seriously try piefed. But certainly kbin/mbin and Lemmy are a shitshow with no decent apps.

Not sure why you bring up FB and Twitter. Those are not fedi platforms. Those are corp centralised. There is FB threads, but I don’t give a shit what they do. The meaning of “blocking” is already inconsistent across the fedi. It’s not the same on piefed as it is on lemmy, which also differs from mastodon.

“Blocking” has so many different meanings across all the different fedi platforms, the word is almost meaningless. See what @[email protected] said about what it means on Lemmy, which is not at all what it means on Mastodon.

Just had a look at the Cloudflare article. CF dependency would be an absolute mission-defeating show-stopper for anyone who doesn’t lick corporate boots and values digital sovereignty.

I’m glad they kicked the CF dependency. But we need more progress than that. We need a platform that is Cloudflare-incompatible. That is paramount to decentralisation.

Coffee houses and bars are indeed also great examples of strides above what Lemmy can do. The US Declaration of Independence started in a bar. Comparable to living rooms, patrons of those establishments also tend not to take a shit in the doorway.

Thanks for the info! Piefed seemed to be resource intensive for the /user/, at least in the early days. I should have another look at it… esp. if users are more empowered. The /only subscribers can vote/ sounds more sensible for sure.