gaael @ gaael @beehaw.org

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Come on, you can do better.

On the wikipedia page you linked, there is exactly zero occurrence of the word "pain".
The only part that could remotely be linked to your previous argument does not indicate pain at all.

The GLVs responsible for the smell of freshly cut grass play a role in plant communication and plant defence against herbivory, functioning as a distress signal warning other plants of imminent danger and, in some instances, as a way to attract predators of grass-eating insects.

This paragraph is a less sensational and more serious reformulation of the source material, an opinion piece stating the following without a single scientific reference

Trauma, that’s what. It’s the smell of chemical defenses and first aid. The fresh, “green” scent of a just-mowed lawn is the lawn trying to save itself from the injury you just inflicted.

This piece was posted in May 2012 on mentalfloss.com, so not really a scientific study.

Also, nothing in there speaks of the brocoli, which you first referred to.

Edit: spelling, formatting

OP has provided scientific evidence, feel free to do the same to support your claim - I'd wager this is gonna be hard.

And apologies if there was a /s I missed somewhere, I'm quite sensitive about this topic.

I found this guide by Futo's Louis Rossman pretty beginner friendly and rather complete.
It's really recorded with the idea that you can follow it step by step and at the end have something fonctionnal and useful.
Not overly fond of the guy, but on foss and self hosting at least we share values.
Also, there's sometimes a cat on screen :)

Edits

• it has some software choices that I do not share, but I don't think it matters much - once you've built something that works and gained experience, you can do it again with other choices if you want
• IIRC you need 3 computers to follow the guide
  • 1 to act as router and (among other things like network-wide ad blocking) allow access to your self hosted stuff from the outside world
  • 1 to actually host stuff onto
  • 1 to configure everything from
  • you can use pretty much any small cheap-ish computer as long as its processor is of the x86 type (which most are except raspberry pi and anything labeled Atom)
  • you'll probably have to dance around a bit with screen and keyboard if (like me) you only have one of each, so having the 3rd computer as a laptop (with an RJ45 port) or watchig the video from a tablet is recommanded
• the video is really meant as a complete do-along (even telling you where to find the ISOs to download) which is IMO quite rare and really nice

If you find steps in the video or stuff in my comment that don't make sense to you, please ask and I'll do my best to provide useful and understandable explanations.

Thanks a lot, that solved it!

I have no complete answer, but I'd like to share what happened in my neighborhood.
TLDR we neet to meet them where they are

A group of climate-biodiversity activists tried to get people to come to educational workshops.
They got a few of us, the ones that were already interested in the topic and who are priviledged enough to spend time and energy on other stuff that work, commuting, family care and basic survival/comfort. But after that, the workshops were empty.

So they tried a different approach. For over a year, they organized activities perceived as fun and/or useful by the neighborhood.
Think collective soup cooking and soup parties for which didnt have to pay, kids activites for parents who have trouble paying for child extrascholar stuff, furniture/cosmetics DIY cheap and well made, bike repair afternoons, drinks at one's or the other's place...
Beginnings were not easy, but little by little word got out, they got better at understanding what other people actually need, trust began to emerge, disagreements found a space to be discussed and overcome....
Not everything went well, some people take and never give back, some other are outright jerks (mostly out of racism and misogyny), some (like me) don't like group settings and almost never come, half the original organizers burnt out...

But the result is impressive. Last time a workshop about climate change was organized, they had to schedule 6 sessions over a month to fit everyone. That's still a very tiny part of the inhabitants but it's so much more than at the beginning!
The last vegetarian "cook and eat" gathered a lot of people, we see a lot more bikes in use in the streets, more plants at the windows and people talk to each other much more often...

And I believe the neighborhood is nearing the point where popular education can happen, be it about environment, politics, societal evolution etc.

Were this to happen in multiple neighborhoods across a city, in multiple cities across a country and in rural areas structures (which I don't know a lot about), well maybe you could start getting people interested about socialism, maybe I could get them interested in anarchy ;)

So while I don't think this is going to be enough in and of itself but it looks like a first step that's necessary to go further.

I also believe this is gonna take a long time, face strong backlash and many setbacks, and I don't believe it's gonna happen before I die. But being a part of enabling socialism or anarchy to happen at a later date is a legacy I'd be more than happy with.

Great news, ty for sharing :)

Thanks for sharing this, it's an intersting look at the inner workings of kernel development security-trust model.

I've seen a lot of stuff being about Linus in the kernel-related stuff, so I have one question: are they really as central as they seem - and we're all gonna weep blood when they're not here any more for any reason - or are they a figurehead (due to being the creator and still being very involved) in a sea of equally involved developpers/maintainers/contributors - and should something happen to them, the kernel would continue going in the same direction?

My anarchist ass obviously hopes for the second option 🤞

☝️this

Other options on mobile:

• using a firefow-based browser (like Fennec on F-droid) on which you can install Ublock Origin
• also on the F-droid store, newpipe handles youtube shit gracefully

For anyone not in the know, F-droid is an alternative app store for android where all applications are opensource, verified and don't track you.
You can download it from their website (be warned: android is likely to ask you a half a dozen times if you're sure you want to download, install and give it permissions), install it and explore a great new world :)

I started and finished Stray today. It's a bit short (5.5 hours) and imo not really replayable, but I had a really nice time with it. I found it akin to Outer Wilds in the sense that you get to discover the lore as you progress in the world. I recommend picking it up if you get it on sale (the full price is a bit much for the duration).

So do I. During lockdown a french hosting company set up bbb instances on their infrastructure, and the experience was really good (they even activated the "join with your phone" feature).
Zoom and Gmeet are usable (usually calls are stable and quality is ok) but closed-source shit, and I had a lot of stability issues on public jitsi instances (though I never self-hosted).

I've tried opentalk for the first time a few weeks ago (it's included in my email provider plan) and it worked fine.

Amended title: Rental giant to take a huge step back in climate change fight and generate more GHG to protect their bottom line.

:D

What is supposed to be the difference between capitalism and garbage ? Asking for a commie friend.

In a capitalistic world where your right to stay alive is determined by the money you make, replacing himan jobs by machine ones is a real problem.

If what was happening was "ok so the machines are gonna do that so you're gonna have a lot more free time but you still get your wages", I for one would be happy.

But what's happening is more along the lines of "well I hope you didn't just get a mortgage because here's the door hahaha don't be sad think lf the extra money the shareholders are going to make" and it's a real problem.

Just because it's logical that shitty bosses take shitty decisions which impact negatively other person's lives doesn't mean we can't be upset and vocal about it.

I'm a big fan of women kicking ass, and videogames are usually designed to make my character kick a lot af asses. So female-looking character is great for me !

Yes I agree, I just wanted to point out that IMO Starcraft 2 was not the first pc game with a good matchmaking system.

I remember good matchmaking in Warcraft 3 for srandard matches.

And I also remember having lots of fun on custom servers for CS, Half-Life, D2 etc. and not at all feeling like matchmaking was a required feature.

Indeed I have, why ?

Thanks !

Funny thing: on your screenshot, it looks like the Play Offline button is greyed out. But it's just a visual thing and you can totally click on it, right ?

Looks like a nice ARPG, but it seems to integrate an "always online" bullshit requirement, can someone who actually has it confirm or rectify ?