Translation: We’re extremely short staffed, so we are shaming our employees into sacrificing their vacation

That sounds promising for anyone with a weak immune system, who is unable to benefit much from vaccines.

This hasn’t gone through clinical trial yet, according to this article, so it’s going to take more time, money, and luck.

NOYB has the right to send a complaint if it think a company infringe upon right to privacy. Mozilla isn’t entitled to special treatment or special notice before filling a complaint.

Mozilla should have expected this. They claim to defend users privacy so they should understand why consent for data collection is important. Also there was public outcry and criticism of opt-out, and yet they haven’t backed down.

If Mozilla resolve these issues, NOYB could ask for the complaint to be dropped. I hope they do resolve this, and do drop the complaint.

Link to other sources are welcome.

I searched for sources and picked this article as it’s both relatively exhaustive, and one of the firsts ones published on this topic.

Better late than never.

Scientists don’t have to explain why they’re leaving twitter. The reasons should be obvious to anyone familiar with Twitter.

Journalists need to explain why they’re still on Twitter, given that platform has so much bots, trolls, hate and lack moderation.

Once the war in Ukraine is over, weaponized drones won’t just vanish. They’re already made by companies with different level of ethics and any country able to pay is or will be able to buy them. Sooner or later, like many weapons, organised crime will get their hands on them, and use them outside of battlefield.

There’s no way to completely prevent it, but we could at least limit damage by regulating the shit out of drones.

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Nice.

Does Forgejo support Git? I’m not familiar with Forgejo, and it’s not obvious in this announcement or their homepage.

Forgejo does support Git, I didn’t read carefully enough.

There miners robot don’t exist yet, but they would probably require high tech components and manufacturing capabilities for all these different components (motors, electronics, batteries, sensors, …).

Self replicating robots is still science fiction. If we wanted to build such robots in space, we’d need to build and launch manufacturing facilities in space before we can actually build robots in space.

Hypothetically, it would only make sense to mine rare materials in space, and it would only have environmental benefits if we return significant amount compared to the mass of rockets we send into space.

There is no coal/gas/oil in space, and even if extracting these resources were cleaner, burning that stuff would still be disastrous.

Space mining would be at best viable for very niche uses for a few material. It won’t bring us infinite clean resources, overall we still need to reduce extraction of resources.

I was about to say people can walk and chew gum. But this kind of miss the point.

This is not space exploration, this is not for science’s sake. This is about extracting resources, and making a profit. I heard one of these companies perpetuate the idea that there’s virtually infinite resource, which imply we can continue with humanity’s exponential growth without negative consequences. That mindset landed us in the inextricable mess we’re in.

GIMP 2.99.99.1.5-final-reallyfinal-rc64-proper

These integrations have big limitations which I would consider deal breakers. To quote this blog post :

❌ Files are not stored on the local disk like a proper Cloud service app

❌ Cannot be used without internet

That’s better than nothing, but definitely not a good option.

It sounds like Google Drive isn’t a very good option for Linux users. Better look for another provider which support Linux, or to do it yourself with syncthing.

If all you need is 15 Go, it’s something which can easily be stored on another device and synced with syncting. If you need more you’d have to pay anyway, go pick anything but Google.

That’s unfortunate.

Technically this hasn’t been approved by the General Assembly yet, and then individual countries would need to ratify it. But press coverage suggest it’s a done deal.

For the treaty to go into force, 40 nations have to ratify it.

UN approves its first treaty targeting cybercrime

In many places, ratifying a treaty requires parliament approval, so it’s not going to be quick. Talk to your representative once this treaty comes up in your parliement’s agenda.

Bitcoin is not practical for small purshases, because transaction takes several minutes, and have around 50USD per-transaction fee. Note the cost of fees and value of bitcoin vary wildly, so the same amount of bitcoin may be enough to pay rent in August, but not in September.

On a more ethical level, it’s also quite bad because of the insane energy cost of bitcoin transactions.

This is an opinion piece… It’s clearly marked as being an opinion. Even though it has solid arguments, and probably hold some truth, it’s not an actual news article written by NYT staff, it’s not pretending to be a factual reporting by a journalist nor an objective truth.

Everyone is free to agree or disagree with it. To buy, sell, or hold.

It would be wise however to consider the argument themselves, and not decide go to in one direction just because the author/publisher is someone you like or dislike.

Bitcoin finds a new use! Helping Russia finance its war of agression against Ukraine.

Why not both?

zero usefuless x 2 = zero usefulness