I expect reddit will roll it out slowly and stop if they’re losing too many users. If they actually follow through and impose age “verification” on everyone it’ll be a bigger exodus than anything seen before — so they probably won’t.

Again, I’m not out to save the entire world. If anyone thinks they can do that, good luck to them. I’d prefer to work on solving smaller problems than that. Everyone going vegetarian would help at a global scale but making that happen is not something you can feasibly do. Going vegetarian yourself won’t fix world hunger or anything, but it’s something you can do.

Come to think of it there is something to be said for small-scale, amateurish, and inefficient operations. It’s not practical for a small group of people to replace the industrial machinery of car manufacturing, but we can learn to build, maintain, and repair bicycles — relying on substantially less in the way of manufactured parts from China than would be required for other transportation systems.

Similarly we can’t easily replace the entire system of industrial agriculture that’s playing its part in wrecking the world, but we can get together with some neighbours to plant and maintain an orchard of fruit trees that will keep on producing stuff for people to eat no matter what happens to international trade and global shipping routes. Why shouldn’t we? The idea is not to save the entire world from itself, the idea is to build up the local community, get people more connected to the land and to each other, and with any luck have some nice fruit to eat.

A million such little local experiments, each one seemingly insignificant on the global scale, conducted under whatever hellish conditions the future brings by people desperate to come up with some better way to live — it might add up to something. It is, in any case, something to do.

While there are several points on which I might disagree, I’ll confine myself to pointing out that in response to the phrase “co-operative food production” you unthinkingly assumed that it implies small-scale, amateurish, and inefficient. You may wish to let your imagination get a little more exercise.

I assume that scheme is part of a long-term effort from Google to reinforce the idea that nobody but them should be allowed to have root on their phones, and is therefore working as intended.

If anyone reading this hasn’t yet done so, one thing I recommend to everyone is that to the extent that it’s possible you should give up everything that involves burning fossil fuels.

I’m still indirectly responsible for some diesel use for example when I ride the bus, and when I buy rice that was transported thousands of miles before it got to me. When you’ve eliminated the easy stuff from your personal life such as driving and air travel it’s those difficult problems that remain which are the ones that need will working on in order to help people prepare for the worst of the catastrophe.

So I think local politics and co-operative food production are places to look if you want to do something.

Major nation-states remain amazingly eager to gear up for World War 3, finds every international arms dealer.

My best kitchen thing is a small hand-cranked coffee grinder. I don’t drink coffee any more, but I still use it for grinding things such as flaxseed.

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Scrolling through the list makes me feel like I probably know way too much about video games.

They decided to take a vote on whether or not to “Ban LLM contributions” where the proposed policy wasn’t all that well thought out, and ended up settling on a subsequent proposal which was even worse, enshrining in official policy the standard that LLM contributions are just fine actually and don’t even need to be disclosed. The governance system, in this case, failed spectacularly. The contributors they will lose as a result of this are in my view likely to be more valuable ones than those they’d have lost had the vote gone the opposite way. It’s substantially worse than having done nothing at all. It does not inspire confidence in the future of Debian, and is enough to have many of us looking around to see what alternatives might exist.

They just recently did something bad.

Damn it I was just asking myself the same question. I don’t expect it to be easy to find one that’s anywhere near as good as Debian but without that one problem. I think a lot of them won’t have any firm policies yet.

Well, he was. I think maybe he gave it up to become a professional right-wing grifter before dropping out of public life. Not only did he have a tenured position at a big university, he was also among the ringleaders of what they called the “intellectual dark web”. That brand is pretty much defunct by now, but it was big a few years ago and its function was indeed to bring attention to rabid right-wing lunatics in academia.

Perhaps Jordan Peterson can give you some tips about where to find rabid right-wing lunatics in academia.

What do you mean? Everyone knows that protein comes from salamanders.

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Your first ever download?

That’s a month old. The voting period for Debian ends tonight, so check back tomorrow to see the news.

… I dunno, maybe it just needed a firmware update.

I have shirts that have gone in and out of style three times, according to people who pay attention to such things.