kabe

kabe, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

To be fair, it’s not completely made-up. There is a body of evidence that suggests that even non-ionizing EM radiation may have so-called “biological effects” in humans.

Organizations like the Environmental Health Trust have been banging the “cellphones cause infertility and cancer” drum for years, and cites numerous studies on their website.

Of course, much of this research is of questionable relevance to real-world use cases involving actual phones and actual humans as opposed to, say, a bunch of rats being exposed to low-power microwaves in a lab for hours on end, but it exists nonetheless.

kabe, 8 months ago

Certainly, but the existence of this research is why countries like France are taking this precautionary approach.

kabe, 8 months ago

I get that you’re trying to be funny, but no they’re not exactly “equally valid”.

The WHO lists RF waves (including those from cellphones) under category Group 2B of possible carcinogens, along with a bunch of other stuff.

Are they being overly cautious? Almost certainly, yes. However, the idea is not inherently ridiculous.

kabe, 8 months ago

Disclaimer: the study this discussion was based on does not appear to literally show that increased belief in DYOR sentiment correlates with less actual research done.

The findings were:

• Finding 1: Positive perceptions of “doing your own research” were associated with less trust in science institutions.
• Finding 2: Positive perceptions of “doing your own research” were associated with holding more COVID-19 misperceptions.
• Finding 3: Positive perceptions of “doing your own research” were not associated with concern about COVID-19.

kabe, 9 months ago

There are three main types of “liberalism” that generally exist in Western democracies, and each of them is quite distinct.

1. Classical liberalism - emphasizes individual freedom, limited government intervention in the economy, and the protection of natural rights, such as life, liberty, and property.
2. Neoliberalism - emphasizes free markets, deregulation, privatization, and reduced government intervention in the economy.
3. Social Liberalism - combines the values of individual freedom with a belief in the role of government in addressing social and economic inequalities through healthcare, education, and welfare programs.

Typically these days, especially in the US, most people think of #3 when they hear the word “liberal” in a political sense, I’d say.

kabe, 9 months ago

conserve all the things!

kabe, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

According to a recent announcement by one of the devs:

We also want to spend time on studying the pros and cons of Wayland and to assess the work needed in its potential adoption.

In other words, they haven’t even started yet.

kabe, 9 months ago

Agreed. I actually think Pop OS and Nobara are the best beginner distros right now. Mint is falling a bit behind the times.

kabe, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

This might not be the most popular take, but IMO the fuss about Fedora’s (proposed) telemetry is way overblown. By all accounts, it seems intended to help the dev team improve OS performance and will still preserve user privacy.

People tend to lump all telemetry together but Fedora’s implementation would be significantly less concerning than that which users of Android, Windows and Apple OSs currently put up with on a daily basis.

kabe, 9 months ago

I’m not familiar with your last point - what analytics does it skew and how?

kabe, 9 months ago

I don’t think the “some apps don’t work with Wayland” argument is particularly valid any more. The vast majority do, and most of those that don’t are outdated anyway. Gnome ships with it by default and KDE is really close to that point as well.

There really shouldn’t need to be any debate whether to implement it or not at this point- clinging on to X11 is just delaying the inevitable.

kabe, 9 months ago

There is vast ocean of difference between collecting non-personalized, aggregate data internally to inform UI design decisions or improve system performance on the one hand and secretly logging personal information in order to pass on or sell to third parties on the other.

kabe, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Tbh I thought the admins of Lemmy.World were being overzealous when they preemptively defederated from HexBear before we even had a chance to see what federating with them would be like, but from where it stands now I think they made the right call. It doesn’t seem like anything of value was lost.

Despite apparent assurances from the HB admin team that their users are to be on their best behavior outside of their echo chamber, it seems they just can’t help themselves.

kabe, 9 months ago

Thunars split view. I get tired by the Gnome developers, who removed this feature from Nautilus, explain that two Nautilus windows side by side are equivalent to a split view. It is not

I think the intended usage in Nautilus is to use tabs, not to have two windows side-by-side.

Personally, I find tabs preferable to a split-view.

kabe, 9 months ago

It is definitely better since Bookworm, but it’s still not great.

The default installation .iso is a netinstall that uses Debian’s creaky old installer that looks like a text-based RPG from the 1980s when compared to a modern GUI Linux installer.

The live images, which are the best for new users because they do use a modern and user-friendly installer (Calamares) and allow pre-selection of the desktop environment, are still hidden away by needing to click through two more web pages to get to the list of isos, without any explanation of the different DEs or recommendations for new users.

It’s like they thought to themselves “we need to make it easier for new users, but we don’t want to make it too easy”.

kabe, 9 months ago

Proton mail doesn’t support email clients unless you pay for and install their Proton Bridge app, FYI.

kabe, 9 months ago

I’ve been dual booting Windows/Linux for 4 years on the same drive - no issues whatsoever.

I think as long as you use two separate boot EFI partitions, you’re fine.

kabe, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

FYI that’s not a spectrogram, that’s a waveform analyzer. It might help you in your search to know that.

Unfortunately, I don’t know of any FOSS apps for Android that offer this feature.

kabe, 9 months ago

The term is open to interpretation, but it certainly doesn’t simply refer to non-christians.

Some interpretations view the antichrist as a specific individual or figure who opposes Christ in some hypothetical, end of days type situation, while others see it as a broader symbolic representation of a certain figure or person that represents the complete opposite of Christ’s teachings or the spirit of Christianity.

“Anti” can mean “opposite” just as much as it can mean “against”.

kabe, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

American are just as bad. A similar thing happened to my wife last month.

She and a bunch of other passengers missed their connecting flights due to the airline’s incompetence. She stood in line for four hours, without food or water, to wait her turn for American to get her on another flight but as she neared the end of the line the staff closed up their desks and said “sorry folks, come back tomorrow” and walked off, leaving her and about 50 other people to basically sleep on the floor and wait for them to re-open five hours later.

No mention of finding them a place to stay, nor providing even a bite to eat. Zip. Nada.

While it’s not quite as bad as what these poor people went through, it’s the same “not my problem; sucks to be you” energy from the airline.

kabe, 9 months ago

It’s true for me.

The entire build-up to the Trinity test, the explosion and then the shockwave was awesome on a 50 foot tall IMAX screen. It wouldn’t have been the same just watching it at home.

kabe, 9 months ago

I know, lol. You know everyone is going to be fine, but the suspense is still excruciating.

kabe, 9 months ago

The scrolling lag is still an issue though. Go from Summit, Voyager, or Sync to Jerboa and it’s definitely noticeably worse.

kabe, 9 months ago

Have you read the admin’s explanation post? They cited posts from HexBear admins which suggested they were intending to stir things up on other instances after federation.

Again, I don’t necessarily agree with the decision, but either way it seems to not be about political ideology as much as keeping out unpleasant behavior.