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by palata 3mo ago
Degrowth. Either by choice (degrow as fast as we can to preserve the climate) or not (degrow because we have passed the peak of production of fossil fuels and just don't have enough energy anymore). We will have less energy, therefore
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by palata 3mo ago
I said "people who care about the climate emergency", where did you see "royalists & co"?
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by palata 3mo ago
Agreed. I was just mentioning it because people don't seem to realise that we are on the verge of losing it (and it may actually be that it is too late). Of course we should fight to preserve as much as we can. Nobody wants to live in
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by palata 3mo ago
The theory is that it can reach a point where it won't be able to survive, and therefore it will die. We are around that limit. It may well be that it has already passed it and therefore it will die. I didn't mean "it is not
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by palata 3mo ago
> Even if we had nuclear fusion, solar+batteries could still win on cost and time to deploy! In a world with abundant fossil fuels on which globalisation relies. The question is: what happens when it stops? Can renewables win in a world
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by palata 3mo ago
One problem with renewables is that they rely a lot on electronics, which relies a lot on petrochemicals (just to build them) and on globalisation. In a world without abundant oil, can we keep producing and maintaining as many solar panels
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by palata 3mo ago
> Will it just keep getting warmer or will it level off somewhat? It will get warmer for every kg of CO2 we emit. If we emitted less every day, it would still warm, but slower. Right now we are emitting more every day, so it will warm
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by palata 3mo ago
I'm not into blaming people like this. What we all need to understand is that after oil, we just won't have enough energy to maintain our current way of life. Not just energy by the way: our way of life relies on petrochemical pro
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by palata 3mo ago
First, we have to accept the facts: * CO2 emissions are screwing the climate, and CO2 emissions come from fossil fuels. We need to stop using fossil fuels. * Our way of life depends on fossil fuels. In some cases it's obvious (we trans
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by palata 3mo ago
People could vote for candidates who care. They just don't.
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by palata 3mo ago
> what are you still talking about, it's done It's not. The climate will warm as much as we emit CO2. Sure, the CO2 that we have already emitted won't leave. We've passed 1.5C, that won't come back in our lifetim
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by palata 3mo ago
> Arguably it's rational (though selfish) to think like this. Is it? We are not talking about screwing the climate for the people who will come in 200 years, right? In the last decades we have been saying "if we don't chan
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by palata 3mo ago
This is completely wrong. The climate experts are not surprised by this at all . We've known about it for decades. We just didn't give a shit because it was not impacting us directly. Now it's starting to impact us directly,
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by palata 3mo ago
Agreed that the people in charge do nothing and don't understand the problem. However, the people in charge (e.g. in France) are elected by the people, and therefore represent it. Do you think that the far-right will care more about th
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by palata 3mo ago
There is no "new normal", we are in a slope. As long as we emit CO2, the climate will get worse. Year after year. With effects like fires accelerating it, or the loss of the Amazon (it's pretty much lost already, isn't i
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by palata 3mo ago
AOSP means "Android Open Source Project". You can get the sources of Android, modify them, and build the whole OS. The Android SDK is open source as well. GrapheneOS is based on Android precisely because Android is open source.
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by palata 3mo ago
The number of people who are marginalised is... marginal. By definition it doesn't have a sensible impact on profit. That's precisely why it is a problem to be marginalised.
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by palata 3mo ago
Of course they are. The whole point of ZKP is that whoever gives you the token cannot link it to your identity. So you can get a token with your own identity and sell it to someone else, and nobody will know... ... unless you get thousands
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by palata 3mo ago
Not necessarily, but it would be difficult to justify why you need to access 1000 porn sites every day, I guess? The point is that if you build a service that sells age verification tokens, you are doing something illegal. And if you start
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by palata 3mo ago
If you can only check that the person is above age without checking who they are, then it's not the same, is it?
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by palata 3mo ago
This is not completely true. With ZKP, if you make a business out of reselling tokens you get with your own identity, eventually they will see that you use orders of magnitude more tokens than normal people. So with ZKP it's more dif
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by palata 3mo ago
A big concern around age verification is that some people will be locked out because they can't prove their age. Your solution here has the same flaw, I think. If the algorithm thinks I'm underage, I'm locked out.
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by palata 3mo ago
> I'd put money on the fact its good enough for most people's uses. I don't know anyone (and I mean exactly zero) who ever used the offline feature of Google Maps. Online is good enough for people who almost always have an
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by palata 3mo ago
Yep, that's the beauty of open source: "what do we do if we end up disagreeing with the maintainers?" -> just fork away :-).
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by palata 3mo ago
> you know that's not true for most users, right? I do yes. It's good to have a choice. Many times the reason there is not a proper local export is that it would take more work to implement properly, and it doesn't bring m
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by palata 3mo ago
oh sorry, I understood "running the exact same code everywhere". Sure, sync between devices is a nice feature. But it can totally be implemented with offline-first apps.
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by palata 3mo ago
That makes no sense. How would the OS be an app? By definition, the OS is not an app.
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by palata 3mo ago
> it would be best if developers all over the world boycotted proprietary platforms entirely. Note that Linux and Android, from your list, are open source. > For true cross-platform, you need to develop for 5 platforms I would argue t
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by palata 3mo ago
> No binary or source code available to search for exploits by ai. That's an advantage for the company, not for the user. The best user experience is when the client app is open source, so that I can adapt it to my needs.
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by palata 3mo ago
> This article looks a bit superficial to me. Yes it is, I totally agree. > The cloud has definitely advantages, like having the same data on all devices That's not an advantage for the user at all, is it? > and it provides so

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