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  • The big turning point came in 2018 when I signed a legally binding commitment to ensure that Ecosia could never be sold and that 100% of our profits would always go to the planet. Today, your searches enable us to work with partners to plant and protect 1,250 species of trees across 95,000 locations globally.

    Keywords plant and protect. Basically a papermill can plant trees to harvest 20 years later and in the meantime sell carbon offsets for 19 years then harvest and replant.

    Can't say for sure they're doing it, but from what I hear just about every tree is eligible for a "carbon offset" and some companies abuse it by saying "this is our tree" as long as it's not cut down within x months and use it as a carbon offset or a "protected tree."

  • In a way, yes to both. If a society goes into a recession that causes people to be unable to eat (or does a murderous rampage of starvation like under Stalin or Mao) and people steal to eat that's directly caused by society.

    But, if you have free will and the mental capacity to make your own decisions, especially here in a Western society that generally doesn't require you to steal to eat, it's on the individual.

  • Brave may be persona non Grata around here, but props to them for actually crawling the web. Just about every other private search engine uses APIs from Google/Bing or scrapes/proxies results from other search engines.

  • On a similar note to what @lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee I have an instant pot and that's made cooking stuff that's cheap but usually takes time to make really easy, brown rice or a potato based soup are a click away. At of course the cost of an upfront investment.

    Also, some recipes can be really cheap if you have the time. Rossotto, homemade bread (with yeast or baking soda), baked beans (from dry bulk pinto beans), pasta (homemade & store bought) naan bread & homemade wheat tortillas, and baked oatmeal are all things I enjoy that come to mind and might be worth trying. They taste good and can be made for super cheap.

    Wishing you luck internet stranger

  • Fire up a VM to scratch that itch or change up your desktop environment if you feel like it.

    Unless you have a specific need that can't be met on your distro you're probably not missing much other than "ooh shiny" and some fun tinkering with something new.

  • If it's KDE that's causing issues you should just be able to install a second desktop environment and try that out.

    Otherwise, Debian stable is good. Can also testing or unstable if you want newer packages. Debian "just works" if you're not on day 1 hardware, don't have Nvidia graphics, and can troubleshoot the occasional issue that any Linux distro will bring.

  • On Android, Mozilla points out it can't import browser data

    You mean Android was built from the ground up to be a secure platform and not allow apps to meddle with other app's data?

    This is a security and privacy feature that's very useful and applies to all apps.

  • Didn't Mozilla just do a big roadmap talking about what they plan to do in the future and it was basically all AI and Activism with no mention of Firefox?

    I hope to see Firefox grow, but who knows. Especially if antitrust actions or a continued drop in Firefox usage cuts off the Google money and makes Mozilla go poof.

    But of course at least Gecko is Foss so it can't disappear entirely if the community doesn't let it.

  • Not a lawyer, but AFAIK life rights looks like some sort of name they applied to whatever waiver/contract they made.

    As long as you're not making up lies knowingly, you can legally discuss and speculate any details of anybody's life here in the US.

  • I do not mean a fair use claim. To quote the copyright office "Copyright does not protect facts, ideas, systems, or methods of operation, although it may protect the way these things are expressed" source

    Facts and ideas cannot be copy written, so what I was specifically referring to is that if I or an AI read a paper about jellyfish being ocean creatures, then later talk about jellyfish being ocean creatures, there's no restrictions on that whatsoever as long as we don't reproduce the paper word by word.

    Now, most of the time AI summarizes things or collects facts, and since those themselves cannot be protected by copyright it's perfectly legal. On the occasion when AI spits out copy written work then that's a gray area and liability if any will probably decided in the courts.