Of course I will need to be in a disposable income situation to get one of these.
The prices I’ve seen for the simple plug-in PVs are terrible. I can only imagine it making sense on frequent road trips or camping, or perhaps in situations where you live in an apartment and have no rooftop real estate for proper panels.
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Can’t reach the tor-hostile article, so I’ll just comment on the topic.
JP Morgan is always the biggest offender worldwide on the annual “Banking on Climate Chaos” reports. There’s quite a bit of dirt on them here:
https://git.disroot.org/cyberMonk/liberethos_paradigm/src/branch/master/usa_banks.md
So of course anyone decent boycotts JP Morgan Chase.
I have 25 tabs open on Ungoogled Chromium w/the Sway window manager, without struggle, and a few other workspaces and browsers going. But Sway may be making the difference. I think things like Gnome and KDE can be a bit heavy.
4gb is what I have. That’s plenty for linux.
I actually prefer 2008 chips (no spy chips / management engine). And yet my local charity rejects any laptop older than a Windows 7 sticker. So the hardware I prefer gets trashed before I can get to it because it’s presumed too old for anyone.
If you put it on freecycle.org with a pic of the stuff sitting on the curb, there is no calling dibs. It’s a competition between other takers and the rain which can inspire quick action.
Thanks for the tip! I’m not in poverty or at the edge of starving. I just try to eat cheaply and simultaneously try to fight food waste. I tend to kill 2 birds with 1 stone by buying food marked down 50% on the day it expires. But the pizza and bakery ideas are in line with that.
Thanks for the link.
“Small-volume braille printers cost between $1,800 and $5,000 and large-volume ones may cost between $10,000 and $80,000.”
Well, I guess that settles that option. Perhaps a print shop would have one, but I suppose it would not be cheap to use if they have to recover their investement. I would have to know that my recipient were blind to take that option.
OTOH, I also thought: I could record my voice (either reading my letter or giving a summary), then post on the web with a password, and put a QR code in the letter to an URL that includes the pw as an argument. But a blind person wouldn’t see the QR code. So that kills that idea. In principle, such a practice could theoretically be standardised with the QR code in an expected position.
Trust the BBC to take a widely observed economic downturn during the biggest corporate price hike almost anyone would call “once in a lifetime” if they hadn’t lived through the 80s, 90s, '08… And spin it as just a factors of organised crime, self service checkouts and a lack of door greeters.
To be clear, I cherry picked points I thought were interesting. I think inflation was covered but IMO boring and expected.
Sounds like dumpster diving would be an easier approach
Not in any city I have lived in, AFAICT. Where I am now, the dumpsters are kept out of sight. When dumpsters are in sight, they tend to be in cages, as they worry about liability of unsafe consumption. Maybe i’m not scoping it out well enough but it looks like shoplifting would be easier.
(edit) though I should mention there is some kind of program where students can cheaply subscribe to receive food that is either expired or nearly so. I don’t know the details but that would be the easiest option (for students).
Also in many places its legal to sell expired food, its just not common practice.
I think I recall asking a cashier to lower the price on something that expired (they will usually do that on the last valid day), and they said /no/ we cannot sell that, and took it from me. So apparently it’s illegal where i am.
Aww, sweety, don’t you know written statutes, compliance, and enforcement are all different things?
When this disappears, you can tell all your friends at school that there is “no law any more[sic]” (just like your parent told you), and become popular at your school. Until then, please run along and play with your friends. This conversation is for grown ups.
Whether it’s a good idea to present the DL to ICE depends on whether there is a legal obligation to do so – hence the question about jurisdiction.
If you legally must present a state DL on-demand to feds, then it’s a question of consequences. Refusing to present your DL to a local cop who pulls you over could probably lead to legit confiscation (effectively, loss of driving privs). If the feds take your DL and it’s unlawful, then the confiscation has no legal effect because you are still licensed to drive. You would just have the inconvenience of reporting a stolen ID to the DMV and waiting for a replacement.
One legal theory I would like answered is if you can refuse the DL to feds, then would they have to call a local cop to demand your DL by proxy in the scenario of following a legal procedure? This could be interesting because local cops may not be happy to respond to such calls.
The article doesn’t seem to answer the “why” question too comprehensively… just mentions some performance differences.
I saw a Tesla in Europe with a bumper sticker like this: “I bought this car before Elon went crazy”. So I would not neglect the cultural factor.
PM’s apps perform the encryption on your own device because it’s your device that runs the apps. That is e2ee, but still only in the two scenarios I mention and even then it’s also vulnerable to targeted attack. PM could ship malcious j/s if it wanted (the likely case being to comply with a court order). It’s better if your own non-j/s FOSS MUA handles the crypto, which is actually easier if you don’t use PM.
If mailbox.org works the way anonaddy works, then that’s not e2ee. The msg payload is seen by the server that does the encryption, in the very least. The sender’s ESP would have already seen the msg.
Indeed, which is more reason to not blindly block dynamic IPs.
This page covers CF as a walled garden generally:
W.r.t the fedi, Cloudflare blocks Tor and VPNs by default. So if you wanted to run your own Lemmy node, it would be unable to federate to Cloudflare nodes over Tor or VPNs. Lemmy end users are also oppressed by CF because images come from the source and are not cached. So if someone posts an image on a CF node and I use Tor to connect to slrpnk.net, I can only see the text and not the pics.
Users of CF nodes tend to be ignorant about the exclusivity of many clearnet sites, so they often unwittingly post links to tor-hostile sites.
Are you talking about a pure matter of size?
That too. The fedi is designed to make decentralisation /possible/. But obvisouly if network effect causes a majority of people to pile onto a single host, that’s not decentralised. Lemmy was not designed to be smart about this.
There are several node operators who do not give a shit about decentralisation or the balance that that requires. They just want to have a disproportionate amount of power over users so they can control the narrative through selective censorship. So they grow nodes that are obscenely large. Lemmy World goes to the extreme of using Cloudflare to circumvent the natural control of resource limitations, to grow out of control.
Some non-CF nodes also don’t know when to quit new registrations. I track them by calculating the average node size. If a node has more than 2 standard deviations above the avg number of users, I consider them centralised and avoid posting in their communities, just as I avoid posting in Cloudflare’s walled garden.
Consider self-hosting HALF the service. Something like this:
local Postfix on dynamic IP → relay (optional and configurable) → recipient
You can configure Postfix to use a relay depending on the recipient. E.g. if you need to reach alice@outlook.com, MS will reject your dynamic IP. But if you have bob@outlook.com, you can tell Postfix to relay via MS servers using your bob@outlook.com account for all *@outlook.com recipients. And yes, you can still use a different vanity address in the FROM: field, like Gobbel2000@nerds.org, if that’s what you want to be known as. You can freetype whatever your want as the FROM: address if you use a good MUA like mutt.
You can even hack postfix to send over Tor. And you can make it possible to support *.onion email addresses, which is something that no non-self-hosted service offers.
When I email someone for the 1st time, say it’s alice@someunknownneverseensvc.xyz, I first configure my mail server to relay to @someunknownneverseensvc.xyz over Tor. If that fails (and it often does), I configure Postfix to directly send to that server from my dynamic IP (or VPN if I have that running). That’s the default, in fact. If that fails, then I can cave-in and compromise my privacy by relaying through a 3rd party, if I choose. Most importantly, I am in control. If I really want to send the msg but I really do not want an additional MitM, I may be able to create an acct on @someunknownneverseensvc.xyz and then use that as a relay to recipients on that host.
Rise-up has an onion SMTP server. So if you have a riseup acct you could use their onion as a relay.
(your acct @ rise-up or disroot.org or danwin1210.de or autistici) → POP3 onion using fetchmail → local Postfix → dovecote or procmail → local files read by your MUA of choice
You avoid a lot of complexity and labor by not maintaining a WAN-listening server. Though you still have a fair amount of effort in configuring your junk, you need not do all the configuration up front. You can do it on a piecemeal per-outbound msg basis to spread your config effort out over time. Of course you need to use a forwarding service or do some DNS arrangements if you want an address that does not tie you to an ESP.
This approach relieves you of the reliability problem… you need not maintain a server always online, up, and listening. But of course you lose some privacy because all your inbound traffic is seen by your ESP. At least you can potentially circumvent your ESP on outbound mail.
BTW, you might want to crosspost to !email@lemmy.sdf.org
Postfix needs some hacking to get it to work over Tor. As old as Postfix and Tor both are, they should work together out of the box.
side note: downside is, your data there is more snoopable, less so with something like proton.
Can you elaborate? AFAIK, Protonmail only gives e2ee in 2 rare situations:
In all other scenarios (no e2ee), PM traffic and data-at-rest is just as exposed as conventional non-PM.
The article doesn’t say /when/ someone must become vegan to benefit. If someone eats meat regularly their whole life then goes vegan at 65, is that too late to make a notable difference?
Also a bit interesting about the gut health. I would have expected meat eaters to be getting bigger doses of gut bacteria.