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  • There's a conversation going on in that Mastodon thread where one dude is proposing a static site fueled by a fact-checked list, but that's the only thing I've seen other than BDS.

  • I don't know. I posted it here because CicleCI is a popular tool for Open source projects.

  • While I welcome any help my government is willing to offer victims of Israel's genocidal campaign, offering to remove even more people from their homes so Israel can steal the land and kill those left behind is not what I was hoping for.

  • Here's a more recent example. The bias at the BBC is palpable. These are not the actions of a public broadcaster. They do however look like what a state broadcaster would say.

  • I think you're making the classic mistake of "all users are like me". I personally liked pretty much all of her proposed changes and agree with her that Steam's current offering is a mess of disjointed design elements. I find the layout noisy, complicated, and hard to navigate, while her proposals all felt intuitive.

  • He looks less like a girl and more just like a dude in a cool outfit.

  • How the hell did we get to the point that saying "maybe you should stop indiscriminately bombing the hell out of civilians" was at all controversial?

  • Yup. I've had a few versions of both Beyond Meat and Impossible burgers. They're both better than what came before, but critically, I didn't like them. They certainly weren't comparable to actual cow.

    ...and I'm cool with that. Mass farming cows is killing us, so we need to drastically reduce that industry down to boutique level so that a "real" burger costs 5-10× what it does now. I just hope that we can do better than the current candidates. My personal hope is that the lab grown meat will be a fitting replacement.

  • False. Carbon taxes aren't a corporate penalty so much as a market manipulation tool. What you describe is precisely the expected behaviour.

    Carbon prices raise the cost of things that are killing us to reduce their appeal in the market. We can then apply that revenue to less lethal alternatives to drive down their costs as well, doubling the positive effect on the market.

  • It's not just the US. Canada does it too, and i expect many other countries do as well. But yes, this is a great place to start, along with rolling back the trillions of dollars in fossil fuel subsidies.

  • This. The simplest path toward a sustainable economy is doing away with the externalisation of costs on products that're killing us.

    I can't agree with you on those plant-based burgers though. In no way do they taste the same. If you tax the shit out of cow meat though, it's likely that someone will be able to develop a better alternative.

  • I'm totally going to steal this for my networking talk this week.

  • Yeah, the whole "you build it, you own it" thing sounds great until you're neck deep in it.

  • I was both surprised and impressed with Kdenlive.

  • Sure, here's a short list of just some of the terrible shit they did to bias the public toward the Tories:

    This is before we talk about their efforts to paint opposition as communists.

    A lot of this goes back to 2016 when the Conservatives changed the rules around how the BBC's board was appointed. Basically the BBC hasn't been "arms-length" for years and it's glaringly obvious in their journalism.

  • As a Canadian expat, I was actually excited to start paying a license fee when I moved here. I'd grown up on a bunch of BBC dramas and comedies and thought it pretty cool to be able to contribute. I thought the BBC was like our CBC: publicly funded and not controlled by the state.

    Then I started living here, and following the BBC coverage of issues I cared about. I was blown away by the amount of propaganda and straight up Tory shilling the BBC does. I cancelled my license fees after a year and didn't look back.

    I'm well aware of the Tory tactic of corrupting a service until the public calls for privatisation, but from where I'm sitting, there's nothing worth saving anymore. The irresponsible journalism coming out of there is only slightly better than The Sun, but carries more weight due to their hard earned reputation.

    I'd rather see it burn than let that reputation be leveraged to burn the rest of us.

  • I never understand the whole thing around "fast" terminals. How can a terminal be "slow"? Surely the terminal you're using has no effect on the programs you're calling, so what's being measured here?