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  • German lawmakers support plans to protect Ukrainian airspace from NATO territory by means of Western air defense

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  • The word "robust" is working overtime in this article, that's for sure.

    Besides that, I'd argue this article is a nothingburger: Both the minister of defense and the chancellor are SPD (who view more military involvement as bringing more risk). Meanwhile, the FDP-led ministry of finance wants almost every ministry to save money, and are already asking the ministry of exterior and the ministry of developmental aid to cut spending next year. Lindner won't outright force military spending cuts but he certainly won't allow increases either. Budget hawkishness trumps military hawkishness in FDP.

    The Greens have almost no say in all of this, they hold the ministry of the exterior, which is not really a position of power.

    Overall, Germany is going to be as uninvolved and fiscally "prudent" as NATO partners will allow, no matter the thoughts of representatives without real influence (i.e. everyone interviewed for this article).

  • The world’s largest direct carbon capture plant just went online

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  • I mean just looking at the amount of concrete in that picture, I get pessimistic. When will this particular site have dug itself out of the carbon "hole" created by its construction?

    As for trees: That is really, really hard to measure and even harder to know in advance. Some factors appear to be:

    • different tree species store different amounts of carbon
    • tree plantation or actual forest?
    • prior use of the site (e.g. meadows do store carbon too)
    • development over time (most trees need to grow a couple years before they start storing significant amounts of carbon)
    • failure of sites due to being planted in a bad way (e.g. a lot of Chinese Green Wall sites and quick-buck billion tree projects seem to be affected by this)

  • Debian maintainer unilaterally strips KeepassXC package of a lot of features

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  • You have a point to some degree, yet I still think it is defensible to make this post. He majorly altered software

    • downstream
    • against user expectations
    • for somewhat spurious reasons
    • seemingly quite ad-hoc

    He then went on to defend that decision in a less-than-graceful way before announcing there will be a second, new package.

    But, to make it clear: I certainly don't approve of hate directed toward him and I don't have a personal issue with him.

  • Why Japan is struggling to kick its coal dependency

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  • The article doesn't really do a great job of answering the titular question. So ... Is the answer "mostly because of policy failure"? Because that is what opening two coal plants in 2024 sounds like to me.

    I'm also a little confused how they managed to jump from "renewables are making power cheaper in Japan" in one paragraph to "this is hampered by G7 liking fossil gas" in the next paragraph. (I do share their worry about G7 nations investing in fossil gas too much. My home country Germany has just introduced a gas peaker plant strategy and appears to be over-investing in LNG terminals.)

  • Debian maintainer unilaterally strips KeepassXC package of a lot of features

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  • Yes, these are off-by-default features.

  • Debian maintainer unilaterally strips KeepassXC package of a lot of features

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  • Afaiu it, he added a second package with (quote) "all the crap" later, after the storm.

    And no, it wasn't just the favicons feature that was removed (which like ... is that really such a big privacy issue that you need to remove it from the binary?). Support for Yubikey was removed as well — which is not a privacy issue. The reasoning mentioned by the Debian maintainer is that all of these features might turn out to be security issues in the long run. Thus, in his view, a password manager application must do nothing but provide access to the database within the app.

    I find it an interesting example of diverging upstream, maintainer, and user interests in any case.

  • Report: Trump promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses donated $1 billion

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  • Why bother with bribes if he'd do it for free anyway?

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    Is my bookshop legal?

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  • I hear that Amazon sells a locked-down e-reader, they're the market leader as well.

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    Is my bookshop legal?

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  • Portrait of a Haratin (freed slave) from Morocco - José Tapiro y Baro (c.1876-1913) watercolour and pencil

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  • The contrast, the flowing scarf, the photorealism! Amazing.

  • More and faster: Electricity from clean sources reaches 30% of global total

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  • So you've got basically all the figures to plot exponential growth but you assume linearity?

  • With so many conspiracy theories, why isn't there one where Jeffrey Epstein lives?

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  • GIMP 2.10.38 Released with Much-Requested Backports of GTK3 Features

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  • GIMP has had a GTK 3 port in development for years. They just lack the developer bandwidth to finish it. And in general, using EOLed libraries for your very popular application is not great, not for security, not for usability, and not for compatibility with modern systems.

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    Will Facebook ever let users know who views their page?

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  • I don't know, you may need to ask someone at Facebook.

    However, most people who want this kind of feature hope to use it to violate the privacy of others, I think. Which is imo a good reason against such a feature. Another reason against it is that a significant portion of people are not logged in, so the data would be wrong anyway.

  • GIMP 2.10.38 Released with Much-Requested Backports of GTK3 Features

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  • Porting Wayland compatibility to GTK 2 would be incredibly out of scope for GIMP developers. :)

  • GIMP 2.10.38 Released with Much-Requested Backports of GTK3 Features

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  • GTK is a UI toolkit, i.e. a piece of software that draws uniform-looking buttons and scrollbars and the like.

    GTK used to stand for "GIMP toolkit" but GTK and GIMP development are now entirely separate, so much so, in fact, that 13 years after the release of GTK 3 and 3 years after the release of GTK 4, GIMP still hasn't upgraded to either.

  • Will Shoppers Ever Care About the Destruction of the Planet? Tactics to convince people to buy less aren’t working. A quirky new documentary by Patagonia takes a different approach.

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  • What does this have to do with the thread you're responding to (besides both comments being shit takes)?

    Also, for the "average shopper" in the West (as in, someone who is not actually poor), it is untrue. Buying Patagonia is simply a matter of priorities. E.g. a Patagonia vest costs between 119 and 199 USD. At that price, it's much less expensive than the most expensive thing in that "average shopper's" household.

    But to a lot of people that vest will be less important than, say, a dishwasher or a car. Or maybe they actually want a vest but they prioritize buying 5 super-cheap vests to have more choice.

    Nb: There are luxury items that those people literally can't afford. And there are also people below the poverty line who indeed never have 120 USD on hand at once. Neither is relevant here.

    [Edit: Quite honestly, I would be interested in why I get downvotes on the observation that, above a certain wealth threshold, which items people spend money on depends on their priorities.]

  • No Kevin

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  • Actually, part of the reason that American cheese cannot be called "cheese" even in the US is that it's not just cheese + sodium citrate anymore. For cost reasons, it's now cheese + butter + skim milk powder + sodium citrate.

  • 2024 European farmers’ protests: Europe’s climate agenda appears dead on arrival | Vox

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  • If I may: The point is that the current generation of farmers is expendable to humanity. The ability to continue to generate food is not (as you alluded to in your own fallacy above).

    If farmers are rapidly destroying their and our ability to generate food the way we have in the past millenia (by depleting soil, overusing water reserves, accelerating loss of critical biodiversity, and encouraging climate conditions not conducive to farming), we should maybe not be listening to their whining.