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All that means is that the library has Rust bindings and the bindings don't require the use of the unsafe keyword.

It's okay you can just say FFmpeg

Also Linux

Also CoreJS

Also

But this is not a huge factor in the real world when it comes to the meat industry. Cat food is not nearly its main driver.

So it's just a matter of degree? Meat could be a delicacy for humans as long as we weren't overconsuming?

I think it would be ethical on the part of the aliens to strive towards a solution for their diet that doesn’t involve killing or harming sentient beings

If they're obligate carnivores, what could they eat instead, if killing any living creature for food is morally equivalent?

It's linked on that page. https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02-14-so-whats-next.md

Still mad about what happened to that guy.

If everything is art, AI art is art, and that's obviously a disgusting communist lie. Where's the line?

Unequivocally, yes.

Developers tend to like to get paid. In the absence of an organization that isn't giving them money to do something as complex as work on a browser engine they tend not to do so out of the goodness of their hearts. They tend to look for jobs at actual companies.

All that knowledge is trivia, dumbass. It's just that to people like you and me, it's worth having anyway. We're scientists. We're nerds. Trivia is our stock in trade. People don't do research on how smart corvids are or whether there was life on Mars millions of years ago because humanity needs to know, they do it because they personally thought it would be cool. If you think climate scientists are any different just because global warming is an existential threat, you should get out more.

I want more people interested in science as much as you do, but we should absolutely NOT do that by distancing ourselves from the idea that science is trivia, or that things that are trivia are not worth learning about. Nothing about deep-sea creatures and ecosystems are relevant to humanity's survival, but they sure are cool. People might not like learning about it, just like the lady in this post might not like learning about oxygen tanks, and that's their loss. Some areas of science are more important to the everyman than others, climate change being one of the biggies, and teaching people the basics they need to know to defend themselves against shitheads like Ben Shapiro is IMO something that ought to be done in schools. But people don't become scientists because they serve a higher calling to the knowledge of humanity. They become scientists because trivia interests them. It's interesting to a lot of people, and the sooner we stop shaming people for being into nerd shit, thr more scientists we'll get.

our wholly deserved extinction

Speak for yourself, asshole. Call for corporate regulation, don't blame all of humanity equally.

How predictable that someone who decries the intellectual decay of the human race defaulted to an ad hominem attack.

You’ll eventually go back to Reddit and see it with new eyes, realising just how quickly it’s dying.

I don't want to ruin the vibe for our newcomers, but... is it? Every subreddit I've subscribed to is an order of magnitude more active than all of the equivalent Lemmy communities spread across various instances put together, and from what I've read most Redditors remember the API blackouts as "that one time the moderators collectively had a tantrum" and they're glad it's over now, if indeed they remember it at all, and mentally group Lemmy in with Linux as that thing enthusiasts won't shut up about, and yeah, maybe it's better, for them. For goodness sake, half the content on Lemmy is reposts from Reddit. Don't get me wrong, I hate spez with the fire of a thousand suns and I can't wait to see more Redditors make the jump, I can't help but think that the whole "Reddit is dying" narrative is just copium.

Welcome to the Fediverse! I think you'll like it here.

Suppose my child asks when she's going to get fur. If I don't know what she's been reading, my first thought might be that she saw one of her friends or a rich old lady wearing a fur coat and wants one for herself, not that she doesn't know that humans don't need fur to stay warm like dogs do. If I then begin explaining that raising or (worse) hunting wild animals for their fur is unethical, but I'm happy to buy her a nice synthetic jacket if she wants it, that doesn't mean I'm an idiot who doesn't even know humans don't grow fur and Everything That's Wrong With Society Today, it means I misunderstood her question.

My first thought, when I heard that question, would be "do we have a backup in case the naturally produced oxygen for some reason goes away?" like some families have an emergency supply of food or water, not that the child did not know that Earth's atmosphere naturally contains oxygen thanks to plants.

All that is irrelevant to what I just said, and what you originally said, but for the record, I'm not mad about it. Firefox is implementing ads in a privacy-friendly way and, now that they're basically the only browser engine in the world that isn't Chromium and their Google money is drying up, they're going to have to earn revenue somehow. No way in hell they're going to live off donations, and if they start charging for the browser, their entire userbase -- and with it their ability to influence W3C standards -- will disappear faster than you can blink. If they do that by selling privacy respecting ads, I'm all for it.

Per Mozilla's blog post about adopting Manifest V3, they are, unlike Chrome, not removing the API that lets uBlock Origin work:

One of the most controversial changes of Chrome’s MV3 approach is the removal of blocking WebRequest, which provides a level of power and flexibility that is critical to enabling advanced privacy and content blocking features. Unfortunately, that power has also been used to harm users in a variety of ways. Chrome’s solution in MV3 was to define a more narrowly scoped API (declarativeNetRequest) as a replacement. However, this will limit the capabilities of certain types of privacy extensions without adequate replacement.

Mozilla will maintain support for blocking WebRequest in MV3. To maximize compatibility with other browsers, we will also ship support for declarativeNetRequest. We will continue to work with content blockers and other key consumers of this API to identify current and future alternatives where appropriate. Content blocking is one of the most important use cases for extensions, and we are committed to ensuring that Firefox users have access to the best privacy tools available.

Let's not spread half truths please.

I mean... I know perfectly well that plants produce oxygen, but it never would've occurred to me that that was waht a child asking about oxygen tanks wanted to know.

Not quite

There are two versions of this meme drawn in almost the same artstyle. Here's the one this meme is based on, which says "quit having fun":

This is in fact a redraw of an XKCD cartoon which is one panel and thus harder to make memes out of which says "stop having fun":

It's not just you.

are you seriously so devoted to a programming language that you heard someone say java was shit and assumed they must be talking about javascript