Dogspreading? I assumed that this behavior was unnatural and due to obesity. But… apparently squirrels do it.

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This is the kind of thing that’s gonna get vanilla e-bikes banned everywhere from bike lanes to trains. Very irritating trend.

Yes, this was predictable. Breaking encryption was always a non-starter, it makes no sense even in theory. The real threat has always been client-side spyware. And technical fixes (like FOSS OSs) are band-aids, in the end they won’t be enough, given that computing solutions will always be tailored to the majority, and most people just don’t care much about privacy.

This is going to be an uphill battle given the monoculture of the mobile OS landscape - i.e. it’s a duopoly of corporate giants vulnerable to arm-twisting by governments. It’s winnable IMO but only if people resist cynicism. In the West we still have a measure of individual freedom, this is absolutely not the case in much of the world. Many people, especially younger people, seem to be unaware of this. If we’re gonna save these freedoms while it’s still possible we need to wake up and get more involved in politics. Unfortunately there’s no other choice.

Whatever this is, it’s not even slightly new, I’ve been using separate FF profiles for many years. And TFA literally says “Chrome was first”. No it wasn’t!

Well, we will agree to disagree on the directionality aspect of all this. But that was otherwise an unexpectedly civil exchange, with data cited and no inane downvoting or insults. So others can make up their own minds. Good day to you.

Excellente nouvelle.

I’m mortified :( It’s never been my goal to make others feel bad online. I had a quibble with the wording on a meme and clumsily worded my idea of “Our differences shouldn’t be minimized because they make us special” was seen as transphobia/TERF rhetoric.

Try not to take it personally. You waded into a subject which has become a sort of rationality-free zone. Perhaps more so even than Israel-Palestine, or immigration in Europe. On these topics there is almost nobody left who is interested in nuanced debate, it’s now only a question of identifying which “side” one’s interlocutor is on, and then unloading on them (or downvoting, or deleting, or blocking, or banning) as appropriate. You stumbled into sterile trench warfare, basically.

Soon after I joined Lemmy I was banned from a (somewhat serious) community for making the same mistake you made. I learned my lesson. With certain topics, genuine debate - open-minded, good faith discussion - is just not possible. I see it as a failure of Lemmy, yes, but mainly of the whole medium of text-based social media. It’s certainly not your fault.

Okay for the recent figures, but much of the rest is just projections, as I mentioned.

As for the coal GW figures, they are dwarfed by the equivalents for solar, as you surely know. More than 250 GW for the same recent semester, it would seem.

And despite some improvements of air quality, Chinese cities are among the most polluted worldwide.

This is just not true any more, at least for the southern megacities where electrification of transport is in full swing. The AQI comparison with India in particular is now like night and day. Are you as concerned about India’s lack of progress as you seem to be about China’s imperfect progress?

On this latter front I personally have no need for statistics. I have recently breathed the air myself in central Shenzhen and Shanghai. Forget India, the better comparison these days is with Switzerland.

Whatever China’s failings in politics and civil liberties (or lack thereof), I see no reason to deny the obvious truth here: in terms of both the energy transition and liveable cities - i.e. freed from the internal combustion engine - China is now leading the way globally. In comparison we in the West are hypocrites and failures.

is still increasing its coal consumption

AFAIK this is not correct. Permissions for plants continue to be granted but the new plants themselves are not being built. If only because coal is now becoming substantially more expensive than solar, which China is rolling out on almost unfathomable scale.

It’s easy to carp about all the downsides to this revolution, but the uncomfortable fact is that the rest of us signed up to do all this ourselves too, because ultimately it’s the only way to address the climate crisis.

As for air pollution, again, however bad it might still be, it was much much worse only a few years ago. Southern Chinese cities are now almost unrecognizably cleaner than they were. Yes there are ongoing issues, particularly in the north as you say, but I think we should be able to give credit where credit is due.

Bon. Je viens de perdre encore 20 mins avec cette nouvelle carte.

Despite being a Canadian citizen, Kwok told Nikkei in Tokyo in late October that he has moved to the U.S. with his family because he feels safer there.

Europe and Canada really do need to wake up about this.

You have no more knowledge of an individual’s intention than me or anybody else here. Go on and downvote away, it clearly makes you feel better. I’m done.

What’s most clear to me is that a lot of people want it to be one.

This was roughly my interpretation too. Ignore the mob self-righteously downvoting you, they don’t know any better than you do.

Good, we’ve nipped that misunderstanding in the butt.

Je viens de perdre 20 minutes. Les Renault 4 et DS et boîtes téléphoniques, les déchets et la crasse, les affiches de “non à” ceci et cela (rien ne change) et d’“à bas le capital” (qu’ils étaient mignons !) , et de soutien à Israel (hum)… Excellente ressource.

Years (and years) ago, I used it for a while. I kept getting locked out of my email (GMX) account. The messages DeltaChat creates are obviously full of cyphertext, and to a spam filter they look very spammy.

The DeltaChat concept is an interesting idea, and clearly a sort of progress, but it’s also a bit of a hack. As a stopgap solution, fine, but I say the day we can replace Signal is the day that Matrix becomes usable. I wish that day would come sooner.

I’ve found fingerless gloves indispensable, for a surprising reason: sun protection. If you’re going to ride for several hours in the middle of the day (not something that typical lazy e-bike users do, admittedly) you’re gonna need protection for arms between elbow and the metacarpophalangeal finger joints (you’re welcome), which is all horizontal and primed for roasting. Needless to say, a sleeved jersey will not go all the way, but fingerless gloves do. Also, they look cool and allow you to pose as a serious cyclist.

There’s a sweet spot between CLI and GUI: TUI.