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I’m mostly using FOSS software. If there is an alternative to the closed source, ad and tracker loaded piece of shit software out there. By the way, most users cry about new features etc, but don’t even use 20% of all the features a software provides. If the FOSS application I am using is secure and private enough, I’ll use it. Most open source projects are difficult to maintain and they very much rely on our donations or their willingness to help people who want to get away from Big Tech’s hold. I will tolerate a few inconveniences for what I am getting in return.
Yeah, but this is too early and supply could takw years to scale. For now EVs, solar, and electronics will still face cost pressure.
Presumably motivated by the Borges story?
Exactly! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel_(website)
USA can no longer fight a war of any scale as it lacks both the supply chains of essential war materiel, and the collective sense of purpose, determination and unity to do so.
Only if you believe in Chinese propaganda on TikTok and other social media platforms. Your account is also filled with overpraising China. I hate wars myself, but the USA is still a nation worthy of praise because it has not suppressed the independence of its citizens. When I read about the horrors in other countries and how their governments treat people, it gives me shivers. The USA and EU nations are examples of how a civilized society works. Problems exist everywhere, but solving them together and working for the right cause is something I have mostly seen in the West.
In Russia, China, North Korea, Belarus, Iran, Iraq, and even many Middle Eastern countries (I’m probably missing several more), things are very different. Gay people exist everywhere. The West acknowledges this, while many Eastern nations make fun of it. When change is needed, the West says it should be tried and calls it liberalism, while the East mocks it as “woke,” “neoliberalism,” blah blah blah. Just look at Nepal, and see how country after country across Asia is experiencing protests against corrupt, authoritarian governments. Change is needed for the world to function. I see the sudden rise of right wing movements all over the world, and it feels similar to the years before World War II. It’s just so scary
My respect and support go to all people who seek change. How can anyone respect countries like China and Russia when we see that they kill their own citizens just for demanding more transparency? How can we respect a country so large that it spans 11 time zones, yet attacks a country 28 times smaller just because a bald dictator wants it? And sacrifices the lives of its own people, hundreds of thousands of them. I was quite high when I wrote this.
Another reason Boomers have no timeless wisdom to pass down is that they are the generation that first started completely ignoring the timeless wisdom of their elders. That's why they have nothing to offer but out of touch Boomer nonsense.
I can’t stop laughing at this.
On a plane full of Redditors, a man has a heart attack. The flight attendant shouts, "Is anyone on this plane a doctor?" Immediately, five people stand up and say, "I’m not a doctor, but..."
That was so cool. Thanks for posting it!
One interesting thing is the Library of Babel, though I never figured out how to use it.
The Library of Babel is a place for scholars to do research, for artists and writers to seek inspiration, for anyone with curiosity or a sense of humor to reflect on the weirdness of existence - in short, it’s just like any other library. If completed, it would contain every possible combination of 1,312,000 characters, including lower case letters, space, comma, and period. Thus, it would contain every book that ever has been written, and every book that ever could be - including every play, every song, every scientific paper, every legal decision, every constitution, every piece of scripture, and so on. At present it contains all possible pages of 3200 characters, about 104677 books.
@DarthCoin Merry Christmas!
@k00b Merry Christmas! Thanks for making Sacker News!
Merry Christmas @ek!
I would say, use Firefox instead of the Brave browser. Use FF with uBlock and Privacy Badger extensions, and you’ll get zero ads (better than Brave), with trackers and malicious scripts blocked from loading too. And why always be connected to a VPN? Use a secure DNS like Quad9 (you’re already using it), AdGuard DNS, OpenDNS, or Cloudflare’s malware blocking DNS.