It would come with a different set of problems, but they don't seem any more difficult than those we already have. Not that it matters today, it's perhaps more of a concern for some future society that has the courage to devote itself to democracy.
Oh right. I just meant it's a pretty far-out idea and not really relevant to practical politics right now, interesting though it may be. Thanks for the explanation.
I probably wouldn't ban someone for it, but it's not difficult to see why that comment is a distasteful and callous oversimplification of the reality of what's happening, and it has nothing to do with the f word. If we're going to pick one word to single out I'd say it should be "normal." This situation is not normal by any standard.
Yes but what did Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, and Ben Shapiro have to say about it? What about David Duke? Was he unavailable for comment? You can't just go to Elon all the time, let's get some diversity of opinion in there.
Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, who said their study was the largest of its kind, said they found no evidence to support “popular ideas that certain groups are more at risk” from the technology....
On the other hand, I have seen strong anecdotal evidence suggestive of a link between poor mental health and the habit of regularly posting angry obscentiy-filled rants to social media.
Parliament firmly rejected rules which would force companies to scan huge volumes of people’s private messages – instead now requiring there to be reasonable suspicion
One of the main concerns was that end-to-end encryption would be effectively prohibited, not just "undermined." With respect to that, there is no difference between mass scanning of people's private messages and selective scanning of people's private messages based on suspicion. If you have strong end-to-end encryption both are equally impossible.
That this is so often misunderstood or neglected in statements like this one is worrying. According to Patrick Breyer's comments though, "End-to-end encrypted messengers are exempted."
Proposed text: "All countries that are financially and culturally able shall in the near-term work to develop plans to phase through fossil fuel use in order to enhancify the prospects of reducing unabated emissions moving forward and thereby limit warming to 1.5°"
There has been a lot of criticism in the mainstream media of Tiktok, mostly because young people use it to share news and information. TikTok has allowed young people, well-educated and informed young people to share their knowledge with each other. It's making the establishment very nervous, and that's a good thing.
Most of the complaints about tiktok are well-founded. It's a dangerously powerful tool that can be used by its corporate masters, advertisers, foreign governments, and sometimes unknowable algorithms with unpredictable motives to exert subtle influence over its users that can perpetuate selective ignorance and harmful misconceptions of reality on a massive scale.
It's just that the same complaints apply equally well to instagram, twitter, youtube, and the TV news.
"Flavour" was always just a fragment of hacker slang which might just as well be applied to different editions of Microsoft Windows, different trim levels of Honda Civic, or whatever. It was more common in reference to linux distros when it was mostly only hackers who ran linux. There's an entry for "flavor" in the jargon file.
Repeatedly click 'show more episodes' until all are shown
Select all, view selection source, save as html
Extract the episode page urls with grep and sed
yt-dlp to download the mp3s
figure out how to identify beginning and end of ad breaks
write some python code to load up the audio and strip the ads
shell script to call the python and then re-encode as mp3
copy to local web server
listen and enjoy
Even if the podcast doesn't turn out to be any good, it already kept me entertained for a couple of hours. If there existed a convenient, safe, and anonymous way to pay $5 for the ad-free version, and if I had $5, then I'd have saved some time and the creators would've made more money out of it.
What's a piece of classical music that everyone knows but most people don't know they know?
Air: Where did that bring you? Back to me. (lemmy.world)
The Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What? (yewtu.be)
Frustrated lawmakers run for the exits: ‘DC is broken’ (thehill.com)
The public has increasingly soured on Congress — and now, some House lawmakers are starting to agree....
TIL that Hitler approved the construction of a supertank weighing 1,000 tons, over 100 feet long, with a main gun repurposed from the deck gun of a battleship. (en.wikipedia.org)
Threads Is Coming to the EU in December (www.macrumors.com)
'What's the point?' — EU lawmakers sink teeth into digital euro (www.euronews.com)
Lemmy.ml mods remove "two-sideism" comments on Israel-Palestine conflict on AskLemmy, causing drama
A user posted the question What opened your eyes to what’s happening in Palestine? on !asklemmy....
Elon Musk says Ireland's Leo Varadkar 'hates Irish people' (www.euronews.com)
Israeli forces reported to be pushing into southern Gaza (www.bbc.com)
The BBC has also verified pictures on social media which shows an Israeli tank operating near the city....
Study finds no “smoking gun” for mental health issues due to Internet usage (arstechnica.com)
Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, who said their study was the largest of its kind, said they found no evidence to support “popular ideas that certain groups are more at risk” from the technology....
27% Of New Cars In France Now Plugin Electric Cars (cleantechnica.com)
This Blahaj account is spamming other instances like crazy (kbin.social)
It’s not just electricity — Bitcoin mines burn through a lot of water, too (www.theverge.com)
European Parliament rejects mass scanning of private messages (edri.org)
How a single word could hold up global talks to save the planet | The COP28 climate talks in Dubai feature a big fight over whether to phase ‘out’ or phase ‘down’ fossil fuels (wapo.st)
New maps show where snowfall is disappearing (www.cnn.com)
Most sponsors of Cop28 have not signed up to UN-backed net zero targets (www.theguardian.com)