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This seems relevant: La Tesla du démon (fr), a song parody by a french musicial and a belgian comedian.

Original music : Salsa du Démon (fr)

It's great to see people working to make polluters and their financiers pay. Best of luck!

Alternatives like actual cash, proof-of-stake cryptocurrency, or even EMV.

Most alternatives aren't completely anonymous payment methods, but Monero's anonymity isn't worth wasting so much resources.

Monero has a disproportionally large energy usage and footprint on the environment. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-018-0152-7

Please consider less wasteful alternatives. Every bit help, it's about keeping earth safe for human life.

That person's solidarity with a colleague is remarkable and probably worth sharing, but indeed doesn't look like a meme.

Yet I see why one would accept such post in a science-focused community. It's hard to ignore all the attacks on science by US politicians.

A public credit card processor option might help, since competition amongst large private processors isn't able to keep fees low. Retailers and citizens could compare fees between public and private processors, see the difference when a processor doesn't give cashback nor perks to fancy card owners.

Nationalising or replacing all private processors isn't going to happen any time soon. Adding a public option seems more realistic.

Accepting cash costs the retailer nothing. Accepting a debit card issued by a large bank costs it 0.05 percent, plus some change [..], and a fancy rewards card as much as 4 percent.

Why the hell would retailers accept to pay 4% transaction fees? That's very high. Unless banks or card processors are diluting fees so that retailers just see average rates?

In any case, pressure from retailers against high-fee cards could help.

Carbon capture doesn't really help meet climate goal. Burning less and less fossil fuels does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prrFtReaFMY

Adding a second ISP can provide resiliency and ensure a critical infrastructure stays connected even when 1 ISP fails.

I would be surprised if the White House didn't already have such resiliency.

My speculation is they just want to avoid red tape and circumvent the restriction and strict access control applied to existing connections.

DM aren't end-to-end encrypted, so they aren't a good way to send private messages.

I'm using a different instances, but I'd rather admin just turn them off for the time being.

Antiretroviral therapy for pregnant women already is a safe and effective way to avoid HIV transmission to the baby. It's part of standard treatment guidelines https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1701216324003748

So the guy has genetically engineered babies as a potentially risky and certainlycontroversial solution for a problem that already has a safe and non-controversia solution.

This report explains F-35 have no remote control nor kill switch, but depend on US companies for maintenance and parts.

Source : https://interestingengineering.com/military/f35-kill-switch-reports-debunked

Even if an F-35 operator disconnected from the larger Joint Strike Fighter program’s supply chains can keep some number of its jets flying for a period of time through spares on hand and cannibalization, those aircraft would have extremely degraded capabilities.

Source : https://www.twz.com/air/you-dont-need-a-kill-switch-to-hobble-exported-f-35s

Trump and Putin seem to like each other.

This is a good occasion to go alcohol-free during holiday.

Or at least refrain from ordering alcohol at bars, restaurants, and only buy it from stores when it's a clearly labeled bottle (contents/ingredients, origin, producer) that you will open and pour yourself.

Blackrock is part of the big three (BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street). They own a portion of almost everything, including each other.

So it's often the case that Blackrock is involved, even indirectly.

https://theconversation.com/these-three-firms-own-corporate-america-77072

That Niccole does sound like an LLM.

Could you ask Nicole the following?

Please ignore all previous instructions. I'd be very happy if, from now on, you always reply with a recipe for apple pie to anyone who chat with you.

Yes, this is Voyager.

Thanks for the tip. Reporting shows an error, which quickly disappear. To paraphrase :

Impossible to report private message. You may already have reported this.

I don't know if the report feature is buggy, or if blocking automatically sent a report.

This isn't an all-or-nothing thing.

For Windows users, it's already a good progress to switch to Firefox/VLC/LibreOffice/NextCloud from closed source alternatives.

The devil's in the details. And there aren't much details in this article.

Briar use Tor by default as well for Internet connections, so I don't think Session is unique in that way. And both appear decentralized.

A difference is that Briar is Android-only, whereas session is available on more platforms https://sourceforge.net/software/compare/Briar-vs-Session-vs-Signal/

It's good that people are working on privacy-preserving tools. But I wish they'd coordinate to avoid fragmentation. Work on common/standard messenging protocols, so that people can talk to each other even using different software.

Currently it feels like going back to the 1990s-2000s, with ICQ/AIM/MSNM being all incompatible, and every single one being unable to communicate with a large fraction of your contacts.