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kent_eh ,

I think we learned our lesson with Bill Nye vs Ken Hamm

“what would it take for you to change your mind?”

Nye: “evidence”

Hamm: “nothing can change my mind”

How do you move forward from that point?

I think we learned our lesson with Bill Nye vs Ken Hamm

kent_eh ,

Just so nobody else feels the need to give Ken Hamm their money, here are some photos from someone who already visited:

imgur.com/gallery/aGFFF

imgur.com/a/qxxJH

kent_eh ,

That’s one of the many lies they tell to try and appear like reasonable people.

kent_eh , (edited )

On general note, Afganistan is a prime example of what a fundamentalist leadership and religion can lead to. Can happen in other countries and outside of Islam too. We should be aware of this.

Thank you for adding that paragraph.

Nobody should be complacent thinking “it can’t happen here”.

It can. Religious zealots will always try to chip away at secular freedoms, arrogantly confident that they’re doing their God’s work.

Kuwait to distribute 100,000 copies of Quran in Sweden after Muslim holy book desecrated at one-man protest (www.cbsnews.com)

Kuwait announced this week that it will print thousands of copies of the Quran in Swedish to be distributed in the Nordic country, calling it an effort to educate the Swedish people on Islamic “values of coexistence.” The plan was announced after the desecration of a Quran during a one-man anti-Islam protest that Swedish...

kent_eh ,

Free speech is a fundamental right

My saying your religion is stupid is just as protected as someone else talking about their imaginary friend.

kent_eh ,

Which I guess means leftists are generally either more capable of spotting misinformation or less inclined to act on it.

Or are less likely to be on Facebook in general.

kent_eh ,

The biggest issue for day to day use for me is how slow it is. Because your traffic is being routed through 3-5 nodes before getting to its destination overall speed and latency suffer a lot

That’s why I never continued to use it after the times I experimented with Tor.

kent_eh ,

Any time I’ve tried to use Tor in the past I gave up because it was frustratingly slow.

kent_eh ,

Meanwhile Putin is trying very hard to cut them off from access to Ukrain’s grain.

kent_eh ,

The problem with these new idiots is that they won’t get to experience their idiocy because they live in a place that’s not affected yet.

Or a place that is getting affected, but not in a way that looks like what they think global warming means.

More intense storms and more extreme weather of all types are still symptoms of the same problem, even if a local area isn’t hotter today than last summer.

kent_eh ,

I have a Tile Tag and it’s not bad.

But afaik, that doesn’t have the same functionality as the air tag?

Air tags can ping any iPhone and report their location back through the cloud.

Most android devices won’t have a location reporting function active, unless the person happens to have also installed the Tile app in their phone, which is a pretty small percentage of phone users.

That’s not going to help me locate my suitcase that Air Canada sent to the other side of the world.

kent_eh ,

And the reasons behind it.

kent_eh ,

it’s “fanatics exist”, and religions just give them a cover

It isn’t much of a leap to understanding that religions have always served the purpose of controlling people.

When a leader has a tool that allows the people to think his pronouncements have the endorsement of a God, that leader is going to use that tool.

kent_eh ,

If they determine it’s just random animals, the conspiracy nutters will claim it’s the cows that the UFOs beamed up .

Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed (httptoolkit.com)

Apple has deployed a system called Private Access Tokens that allows web servers to verify if a device is legitimate before granting access. This works by having the browser request a signed token from Apple proving the device is approved. While this currently has limited impact due to Safari’s market share, there are concerns...

kent_eh ,

If a website doesn’t want me to see their shit, then I guess i won’t see their shit

That’s how I react to Twitter and Facebook requiring login to even view most things.

Whatever you’re showing isn’t important enough to be worth me making an account.

kent_eh ,

We’re used to that at this point.

Often I think we are no more than an afterthought to most companies.

kent_eh ,

It’s more powerful than you are giving it credit for.

Plus, it’s a bit disingenuous to compare a single program to an entire suite of software.

Kdenlive isn’t trying to be After Effects. But neither is is Adobe Premiere.

kent_eh ,

It’s been several versions since I experienced that sort of issue.

People sticking with audio jack phones, why is USB-C earphones not a solution?

Don’t get me wrong. Apple removing audio jack was the biggest facepalm in smartphone history. And you can thank it for not being able to make an upgrade without sacrificing audio jack (and SD card too :/). But USB-C is getting standardized everywhere now (laptops, smartphones, etc.). What makes USB-C earphones not worth the...

kent_eh ,

The fact that there is more than one “standard” for USB-C audio is enough to hate it.

Analog 3.5mm just works with everything. No dongles, no drivers, no “unsupported device”, no batteries.

It. Just. Works.

kent_eh ,

Where’s the “none of the above” choice?

I agree with that preference

kent_eh , (edited )

If “unix-like” is part of the criteria, why not look at OpenBSD?

Stability and security are 2 of their main objectives.

kent_eh ,

It is still possible to fix any of these problems.

But not if we collectively throw up our hands and give up.

kent_eh , (edited )

Just let it go and enjoy the rest of your life.

Nope. Not when my kids will have to try and survive in the shitshow they are being handed.

It’s my responsibility to do as much as I am able to try and mitigate as much of the the damage as possible.

For their sake, if not for the collective good.

kent_eh ,

My dad switched from saying it isn’t real to saying he’ll be dead soon so he won’t have to experience it.

Ask him if he cares about the world that his kids and grand-kids will have to live in, or is he just a selfish asshole.

kent_eh ,

Trump says special counsel told him he’s a target in Jan. 6 probe

As well he should be.

kent_eh ,

To me, threads is inconsequential. It’s just another twitter clone

Exactly.

I never liked Twitter, so why should I want to use a clone (and, FWIW, that includes Mastadon).

I prefer platforms that are designed for discussion, not for publishing opinions with arbitrarily small character limits.

kent_eh ,

cryptocurrency provides just that.

It provides the promise of that.

The reality, not so much

kent_eh ,

Except we’re also setting high temperature records in Canada.

Even with that, it still pisses me off when I hear my fellow Canadians (mostly from a certain province that exports fossil fuel) saying “why should Canada do anything when these other countries are worse”.

Big oil quietly walks back on climate pledges as global heat records tumble (www.theguardian.com)

Leading energy companies are intent on pushing the world in the opposite direction, expanding fossil fuel production and insisting that there is no alternative. It is evidence that they are motivated not by record warming, but by record profits, experts say.

kent_eh ,

Snarky, but accurate.

kent_eh ,

Why are these greener companies selling to them?

Often because they don’t have the capital to roll out their technology and need to go to the market for investment.

But then the investment market fucks them.

kent_eh ,

And apparently they don’t give a fuck about the world their kids and grandchildren will ave to live in.

Bunch of psychopaths.

kent_eh ,

Humans and most other creatures

kent_eh ,

And did the original owner consent to their finger being used in such a way?

kent_eh ,

Alternate title: cruise ship interrupts traditional food hunt in culture they don’t understand.

Elon Musk’s new xAI company launches to “understand the true nature of the universe” (www.theverge.com)

Elon Musk has launched a new AI company called xAI with the goal of understanding the true nature of the universe. The team at xAI includes AI researchers who have worked at companies like OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and DeepMind. Little is known about xAI currently except that Musk seeks funding from SpaceX and Tesla to start it....

kent_eh ,

any insights an AI could come up with about the true nature of the universe would likely be like one of those sayings that initially sounds deep and meaningful, but is in fact completely inane and meaningless.

There’s a term for that:

Deepity

kent_eh ,

Are you sure you don’t?

kent_eh ,

Prime day is a pretty big scam all on its own.

kent_eh ,

However, since most retail hardware is built to target Windows compatibility, it could mean fewer options for hardware that will be easy to install Linux (or any other OS) on.

In fact, I would count on Microsift making their hardware spec intentionally be difficult to load anything “unapproved” on.

kent_eh ,

Too bad the article didn’t actually define what “BDS” is, nor even expand the acronym…

kent_eh ,

Feel free to destroy each other.

A Move to a More Ethical Phone (Later)

So my roommate has informed me that Android and Motorola donate to Republicans more than Democrats whereas Apple does not, claiming this as a reason that the iPhone is better than an Android phone. While I could find statistics confirming the fact about Motorola, I don’t even know what they were referring to when they...

kent_eh ,

Unfortunately the Fairphone isn’t available for sale in a lot of countries yet.

kent_eh ,

I used to think the more apparent and devastating outcomes of climate change were bound to hit long after I passed away, but now I’m not so sure.

Too many people thinking like that is exactly why we are where we are today. And why it will continue to get worse.

Those of us who actually care about the world our children and grandchildren will have to live in have been trying to get some large scale action for decades, and we’re tired of beating our heads against a brick wall.

kent_eh ,

On geological time scales, this is very much like your car crash analogy.

Unfortunately, most people don’t seem to be capable of understanding time at that scale.

kent_eh ,

Privatization and the ensuing lack of investment in the infrastructure are (and always have been) a large contributing factor.

When you add an additional stressor to the system (like the increasing impacts of climate change), the lack of resilience will show itself.

kent_eh ,

Have thwy said if they plan to warn specific people in advance, or will they just kill it and surprise you when you decide to go to youtube one day?

kent_eh ,

Regenerative braking has more influence on battery charge in stop-and-go traffic than it does on thw highway

‘A dangerous step backwards’: outrage at supreme court’s LGBTQ+ rights ruling (www.theguardian.com)

Civil rights groups and Democrats reacted angrily to the US supreme court decision in favor of the Colorado web designer Lorie Smith, who argued she had a first amendment right to refuse to provide services for same-sex marriages. Critics of the court’s decision say it ushers in a new era of prejudice in America....

kent_eh ,

Way ahead of you…

kent_eh ,

Way ahead of you…

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