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anonymity is important because the internet is a wild west and any verification scheme that connects an account to a real person and their location sounds like a prime target for hackers. we have already proven this with k-id and the like.

yes, they keep pushing the date back when it becomes clear that we aren’t gonna make it.

sure, but at that point you can just use any arbitrary unit if all you need to do is keep it in a rough ratio. the SI system is useful because it’s standardized, allows for precision, and you can easily convert units. A liter is a decimeter cubed, try doing that with feet and gallons.

but yeah, i agree people would benefit from more straightedge and compass construction skills instead of trying to read the milimeters of a measuring tape that’s not even guaranteed to be straight

Sure, if you want to tinker, Firefox is great; Brave has way better defaults however, it’s convenience. And dear god is convenience important for normies, when even simply installing another browser and importing their data is sometimes too much for them, much less moving from chromium to gecko.

yep, great for brown stock

is there something that makes this different to 17 other proposals for a new internet or is it just a case of

they’re great for caramellizing whole onions, but you could also buy a blowtorch

True, true

i am of course, talking in general, but many products can be made more sustainably without sacrificing quality, the method of looking for the most cost-effective way; while good for corporations, it is pretty wasteful.

preferably both policy, and consumer consciousness. starting with anything that’s single use for no reason, society forgot that recycling is third in the hierarchy, below reducing and reusing. wouldn’t it be nice if i could just buy ice cream and put it into a tub that i brought from home instead of having 10 identical, perfectly good plastic tubs that are to be thrown into trash? generally there’s too much plastic wrapping for products.

point being that one, or even 100000 people going full eco conscious would barely make a dent; while placing some barriers over corporations would hopefully reduce emissions substantially without sacrificing consumer convenience.

agreed, a tool that you have to actively fight to do something well is a garbage tool. it’s like trying to cut some chicken meat with a knife that’s magnetically drawn to living beings. You can make some nice diced chicken with it, but it is way more likely that you’ll slip up and cut off your finger than with an actual knife.

regardless of the original intention, the purpose of generative “AI” is to become a manager that’s out of touch with the actual creation process, so at best no one will know how something works, at worst no one will be able to fix it if it breaks.

it’s one of the “official” ones being supported by lemmy developers, otherwise i don’t really feel the difference. anything is better over the shithole that was reddit.

i guess there’s more marxists on .ml, but i don’t read the instance the comment is from on purpose; that’s irrelevant to me.

unfortunately. I suspect quitting EU would make it even worse, we have our own problems with far right, borderline authoritarian movements on the national level. UK started this garbage after brexit.

just the basic lemmy.ml website.

i personally don’t care about posting opinions on an admin account, but they seem to be right. suspect it’s to do with living on the same instance.

the button is there, but clicking it does not do anything, can’t do it via the profile or searchbar either

i wouldn’t feel bad about your carbon footprint when your local corporation exceeds that trillion fold. regulation is by far the best way, not consumer choice. go harass inform your local and national representatives about how climate change is bad and you care about it, and kindly ask them to regulate their #1 polluters.

we hope that this is temporary and fascist von leyen and her party will be gone soon. unfortunately, the EU is the only thing that prevents superpowers from steamrolling the entire continent. yes, if push comes to shove it will probably yield but apparently they don’t want to risk it, at least for now.

use end to end encryption if you don’t want to be spied on.

new information is created all the time, there’s no reason to not limit the amount that goes into profiling you. something as simple as not having your real name on social media already splits real and online life in two, with no obvious way to connect them.

it’s not the best but basically anything is an upgrade over chrome