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- Comment on In Bittorent how can I make sure I upload alot more from the stuff I am seeding? 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I somehow thought they were the same.
I recommend qbit, it’s small and stable. NordVPN does not seem to support port forwarding either. I can recommend proton for that.
- Comment on Retail sales in Great Britain fall despite heatwave increasing food and drink demand 2 weeks ago:
I thought we’re not doing the /s here, byt yes just to clarify, big /s
- Comment on Retail sales in Great Britain fall despite heatwave increasing food and drink demand 2 weeks ago:
No way, it’s obviously immigrants
- Comment on In Bittorent how can I make sure I upload alot more from the stuff I am seeding? 2 weeks ago:
This. Check for port forwarding if you use a VPN, you can see of your client is connectable by the colour of the globe in the bottom bar in qbittorrent
- Comment on Good stuff 2 weeks ago:
There will be lots of crime solving. Abortions, disagreeing with some power hungry cop, attending Pride, coming home late to the cop husband, mentioning the Epstein files…
- Comment on Bring it back 2 weeks ago:
Proof it was flat then too!!1
- Comment on A fossil-fuel plant seeing nuclear coming... 2 weeks ago:
Hahaha, just NUKE IT!! QUICK!! It’s all perfectly safe.
- Comment on A fossil-fuel plant seeing nuclear coming... 2 weeks ago:
Reservoir hydro, geothermal and concentrated solar with thermal storage are actually green and could provide base load energy.
You’re free to continue ignoring my points with linked sources in favour of your airplane tangent and theoretical possibilities. As I also said, nuclear sounds all great in theory, but the human factor of cutting corners and prioritising immediate profits are nor giving me the confidence that I’d like to brace nuclear today.
- Comment on A fossil-fuel plant seeing nuclear coming... 2 weeks ago:
Airplanes don’t have a bad rep, they are incredibly safe and if one occasionally crashes the death toll is generally limited to the passengers.
My issue with nuclear being presented as perfectly safe is that this is largely theoretical. In practice the list of nuclear and radiation accidents is quite long. If you dig a little into your deaths per terawatt-hour list you can find that they count 433 deaths from Chernobyl. The real death toll remains unknown, but ranges from the 30 officially reported by the Soviet government, the WHO estimate of 4000+, and the 35000 families receiving compensation for “owing to the loss of a breadwinner whose death was deemed to possibly related to the Chernobyl accident.” (en.wikipedia.org/…/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_di…)
My point is, each of these nuclear accidents has the potential to kill tens of thousands and cause long-term increases in cancers and birth defects. And despite all the safety claims, we see a major incident about once a decade.
Additionally, we still don’t know where to store the nuclear waste and enriched uranium continues to bring cash to Russia, as we haven’t been able to shake dependance there either.
All in all, nuclear is another fossil fuel that has risks we can’t seem to manage properly and the price is much higher than most renewables. I’m not saying to shut all nuclear plants down immediately, especially if we then have to use coal or gas to make up for the loss in production. But let’s stop praising it as this amazing alternative by making safety and sustainability claims that are based on propaganda numbers.
- Comment on A fossil-fuel plant seeing nuclear coming... 2 weeks ago:
Oh no, the sun was too much and Mr Fancy Atom had to go to sleep because there was no water for the thirsty guy. Well, better asleep than leaking or blowing up again. Stupid sun throwing all this energy at the ground, so mean.
- Comment on Watcha gonna do? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation refuses voluntary union recognition, hires union-busting law firm 4 weeks ago:
I like this too
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation refuses voluntary union recognition, hires union-busting law firm 4 weeks ago:
This is great, thanks!
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation refuses voluntary union recognition, hires union-busting law firm 4 weeks ago:
You can still contribute to Wiki Foundations outside the US. I reached out to the German WMF and received the following reply. Generally I believe preserving Wikipedia is crucial and it seems donating to the German foundation will in no way contribute to the bullshit they are trying in the US.
“As your criticism relates to reports of changes at the Wikimedia Foundation, we at Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. would like to comment on this.
For Wikimedia Deutschland e. V., working with and for the community remains central to our work. Our Technical Requests team continues to work alongside the German-speaking community on the further development of MediaWiki, and close collaboration with volunteers is also an essential part of our work on projects such as Wikidata and Wikibase.
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. was not involved in the decisions made by the Wikimedia Foundation and is not involved in the Wikimedia Foundation’s internal staffing or organisational processes. We are therefore unable to influence these developments or make a definitive assessment of them.
According to the Wikimedia Foundation, work on technical requests from the community has not been discontinued, but has been reorganised. The Wikimedia Foundation has also stated that the members of the former team remain employed by the Foundation and are receiving support in applying for internal positions. The Foundation denies any link between this reorganisation and the ongoing trade union organising of its staff.”
Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Then getting the point across should be the focus. All this hysteria clouds the argument and belittles OP, someone exhausted who doesn’t get the help they need from their doctor. Seems most others here managed to do that just fine.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Do you have to communicate like this?!
- Comment on American schools are buying pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters 5 weeks ago:
The company is called Campus Guardian Angel, this obsession with perverting religion in the US is disgusting
- Comment on A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months 5 weeks ago:
Article states they linked the real username to someone named Jay from California
- Comment on Hell yeah. 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Is Buying a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS Pre-Installed Dangerous? 1 month ago:
I moved from an iPhone to Graphene about a year ago. I miss the quality hardware that Apple makes, metal and glass feel nicer than plastic. The pictures the Pixel 8 Pro takes are crap compared to my old iPhone too. However… I bought the Pixel used to test the software primarily and will stick with Graphene for the forseable future. It runs great and instead of buying a better quality Pixel, I am waiting for what Motorola will offer next year.
Some advice regarding the switch. Apple will make it annoying to leave their ecosystem. I recommend to move gradually, get your Graphene set up and keep your iPhone as a daily driver until you’re confident everything works on Graphene. I did this for about a week. I moved my pictures off of iCloud with Proton Drive and for NFC payments I switched to a bank that supports it from their own App. (Although I also switched to using 95% cash, it’s good to have a backup on the phone.) Using a Mac or going to icloud.com will make exporting your contacts and calendar a lot easier than trying it on iOS.
Two profiles is my setup. The main without Google for Threema, Signal, OrganicMaps, Voyager for Lemmy and all the other dailies. The secondary profile has the GooglePlay services running for my two banks. I use OLauncher for a clean home screen and HeliBoard as a keyboard, neither of these two have network access.
Chat me if you have specific questions, I enjoy tinkering with this stuff and chatting about it :)
- Comment on Are there any payment aggregators (Like Paypal for instance) that prioritize user privacy? 1 month ago:
Please stop buying from Amazon
- Comment on Two ICE agents in plain clothes punched and tried to handcuff an Australian man at Las Vegas Airport. When they saw they were being filmed, they quickly left. 1 month ago:
Thanks for your condemnation. Thoughts and prayers it’ll all work out
- Comment on Two ICE agents in plain clothes punched and tried to handcuff an Australian man at Las Vegas Airport. When they saw they were being filmed, they quickly left. 1 month ago:
Do more to stop it.
- Comment on These corpos who feel entitled to Open Source code 1 month ago:
Maybe I just mean stocks in general, not the stock market or exchange. But stocks without public trading and speculating are still around and a good thing that can support creating value.
I own some stock in my bank and a farm.
For the farm, the stocks are intended for the farmer to invest in equipment or whatever they need. I work 4x a year at that farm (either packing cheese or cleaning something) and I pay for my milk, cheese and yogurt. The stocks are a great way for the farmer to get some cash for investments without involving banks. We’re about 100 people who own stock and do the quarterly shifts, but the main value is created by the farmers, their animals and the land.
Regarding my bank, any stock I buy from them enables them to do stuff with 7x the amount of money I gave them. E.g. if I own 10k in stock, they can use it to finance a 70k loan for someone.
For both, I can vote on important topics and future projects. For me this ensures my bank only invests sustainably and the milk and cheese I consume come from a farm that is nearby, organic and treats its animals well.
- Comment on These corpos who feel entitled to Open Source code 1 month ago:
The stock market was once a great idea, provide a business some cash upfront so they can create value, get a cut of result.
Now it’s just about extracting value, capitalists are turning everything to shit.
- Comment on It's always the ones you expect 2 months ago:
The gays hate the gays. A sad old story that will take a few more generations to heal, if we’re not already turning back to a society that favours kids growing up to become adults with internalised homophobia.
This is why visibility and pride matter.
- Comment on Norwegians supporters in New York City 2 months ago:
I prefer the Australian’s chant about Doonie the Sex Offender
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 2 months ago:
It still works for so many places, all you need to do is pick up the phone and ask. Some have order forms on their websites too.
But beware, some of those App companies create URLs for businesses (without their knowledge or consent) to reroute your search back to their App.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 2 months ago:
The Yes Men are nothing compared to the big Yes Machine he keeps pushing
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 2 months ago:
This guy sounds like someone who has been told how smart he is a few too many times in elementary school.