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I'd appreciate it if everyone could just stop burning fossil fuels, please. Thank you for your cooperation.

  • Carney Floor Crossing Raises Counterintelligence Questions aimed at China, Former Senior Mountie Argues

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  • Can't say I have a whole lot of faith in the accuracy and diligence of the Todayville espionage section, but for a moment it did have me wondering if whoever controls China's foreign influence operations shares my view that a Liberal majority would be bad news for Canada. But no, they probably don't care. More likely they perceive the Liberals as more of an annoyance to the USA than the current opposition would be.

  • TIL: The Median Age for FOX, CNN & MSNBC Viewers is Around 70 Years Old

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  • I wonder what's the average age of cable TV subscribers overall.

  • Why Is It Harder To Move People To Open Source - Decentralized Options?

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  • I was watching a livestream the other day by someone who appears intelligent and knowledgeable enough to know that she should probably give up Windows and use Linux instead. So far as I could tell there isn't really any reason why she shouldn't. It was the kind of stream where she had plenty of time to just talk freely about whatever was on her mind, and usually that's nothing to do with computers or their operating systems. But she was thinking of doing it. She worries about this and that. She wonders if OBS will work as well, she imagines it would be a lot of work, she seems unsure that her tech skills would be good enough, she worries that it might go wrong, that it might not be worth it, that she might pick the wrong distro, that her webcam wouldn't work, that it might be a colossal waste of time for very little benefit.

    People unaccustomed to software freedom find it hard to understand how it would benefit them. People are afraid of change.

  • EVs Just Outsold Gas Cars In Europe For The First Time

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  • The typical hybrid is still 100% powered by fossil fuels. The main thing they've done for us is demonstrate the Jevons Paradox.

  • EVs Just Outsold Gas Cars In Europe For The First Time

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  • There's really no need to recycle this misleading headline forever, they're not in short supply.

  • In chess, are pawns female?

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  • Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.

  • Is the role of a government to do the will of the people, or to do whats right for the country?

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  • The role of a government is to do what's best for the government. That usually involves keeping the people from getting too unhappy with them.

  • The recent Star Trek series are often criticized for "not being woke enough", but I've come to feel the envelope they are pushing is much more radical, bolder, and important to our specific time...

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  • I don't know. It just seems like one plausible explanation for what's been produced. To me it has that feel to it.

  • YSK: starting Feb. 1, passengers arriving at US airports nationwide without a REAL ID or another acceptable form of identification, such as a passport, will face a $45 fee

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  • People old enough to remember when you didn't need any ID at all for domestic flights?

  • what is some good life advice for common problems?

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  • Maybe what's needed is a "this is what I'd write on my blog if I had one" community to redirect people to when they try to wedge things in here by forcing their thought into the form of a question.

  • The recent Star Trek series are often criticized for "not being woke enough", but I've come to feel the envelope they are pushing is much more radical, bolder, and important to our specific time...

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  • Sure they were subject to all the constraints of commercial prime-time TV, but as that video discusses in some detail with respect to DS9, the writers still had freedom within that corporate framework to tell woke anticolonialist stories beyond the classic sci-fi adventure fare of TOS which itself often explored what was new ground for commercial television at the time. Under some other corporate masters it might've been possible for the new crew to find similar freedom today, if things had worked out differently — and if any of them have the ability to do it and the willingness to try. But Larry Ellison and the forces he's standing in for seem far more alert to the subtleties of it than they used to be. There's bigger money involved now and they're keeping it on a tighter leash.

  • The recent Star Trek series are often criticized for "not being woke enough", but I've come to feel the envelope they are pushing is much more radical, bolder, and important to our specific time...

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  • The people like AI because they treat it like a search engine.

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  • Some people like AI because they treat it as if it's the voice of God speaking directly to them.

  • Why is Pixelfed an extra network and not just a Mastodon client?

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  • It is not, so far as I know, an "extra network." It's one of many types of instance on the fediverse. Many of them have features that do not perfectly interoperate with others. The more popular ones eventually get to be widely supported as things evolve. Mastodon is not the standard, it's just one among many.

    Also, you're a lemmy user. It's one of the worst when it comes to interoperating smoothly with the rest of the network.

  • Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details)

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  • Where's the "4chan" one?

  • How do I peel a hard boiled egg?

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  • Somebody once told me that it's easier if you bring the water to a boil first before you put the eggs in to cook, as well as putting them in cold water afterwards. It seems to work for me.

  • Universal basic income needed to cushion blow from AI job losses, says UK minister

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  • Yeah — I was just trying to guess at what prompted your initial reaction. I still don't get it. Now it seems like you're saying approximately the same thing my initial comment did.

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    Microsoft says it's going to focus on the things that matter for Windows 11, such as improving performance

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  • Shouldn't the focus be on Windows 12? I thought it was supposed to be released in 2025.

  • Universal basic income needed to cushion blow from AI job losses, says UK minister

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  • The madness we collectively suffer from with respect to AI comes from vastly exaggerated estimates of its powers, mainly by those who covet the power they think it will give them. That's all my original comment was intending to say.

    Those who are credulous enough to shun AI because they fear that it will soon enslave humanity by the sheer force of its magnificently irresistible intellectual superpowers are also around, but although the pervasive criti-hype is exhausting, it's obviously not the cause of our current troubles. If that's what you thought I was talking about, perhaps you are among them?

    Anyway I can't believe the mania hasn't burnt itself out yet. Maybe next year.

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Canada-U.S. Cross-Border Surveillance Negotiations Raise Constitutional and Human Rights Whirlwind under U.S. CLOUD Act

    citizenlab.ca /2025/02/canada-us-cross-border-surveillance-cloud-act/
  • Loops @lemmy.world
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    What is going on with loops.video? Once in a while I follow a link to there and it plays the video no problem, on a nice minimalist web page with no distractions... and then I wonder what other videos

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    As expected, the long-awaited ntsync has made its way into kernel 6.14.

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.ml
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    Steam Client Blank Window in Offline Mode after September 11 Update

    github.com /ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/11254
  • Anarchism @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Today is the 97th anniversary of the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti.

  • Climate @slrpnk.net
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    Preliminary data suggests that daily sea surface temperatures did not set a new record high in the past few days.

    climatereanalyzer.org /clim/sst_daily/
  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise. Through a shady collaboration between the US and the EU.

    mullvad.net /fr/why-privacy-matters/going-dark
  • cybersecurity @infosec.pub
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    oss-security - backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise

    openwall.com /lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4
  • United Kingdom @feddit.uk
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    Help @CountBinface@mastodon.world become Mayor of London.

    gofundme.com /f/countbinface2024