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E-waste from trashed electric devices is piling up and recycling isn't keeping pace, UN says

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  • Not made to be reused, not made to be repaired and not made to be recycled.

    • Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts

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  • Yep, "Tragedy of the Commons"

    • Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts

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  • It's something you see endless repeated. When there is no rules, you get the loudest, baddest, pieces of work, rise to the top and then set rules that favour them. Look over the world and history, where law and order has broke down, war/drug lords take over.

    I lived in Holland for a bit, my Dutch colleagues told a story of the bus system. Holland tried a honor payment system, trusting people to pay what they needed to for their trip. It failed hard and was replaced with fair collectors my colleagues called "the bus Nazis".

    The same thing happens with free speech absolutism. You hit "Paradox of tolerance".

    Anarchy just doesn't work. You need rules for everyone to play nice by.

    • Brexit’s Lasting Damage Is Looking Inescapable

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  • 2008 crash then austerity. Austerity was politically motivated. Most economists I've read/heard follow Maynard Keynes. That who country's credit card nonsense has got to go. Educate the electorate, don't pander to ignorance.

    • Who was your first?

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  • CorelLinux

    • US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones

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    • UK secretly softens policy on Chinese firms accused of human rights abuse

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  • The Tory don't want to be limited by human right. They want the UK out of human right rules. So this doesn't surprise.

    • Lemmy.ml is acting as a proxy instance for Hexbear and should be defederated by any instances that defederate from Hexbear

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  • It only taking one asshole is why it doesn't work. You just never going to have no assholes. So you need a justice system, and a way of policing the policing of it.

    • Lemmy.ml is acting as a proxy instance for Hexbear and should be defederated by any instances that defederate from Hexbear

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  • Exactly. Without rules and enforcement, you just get a cesspit. Anarchy just doesn't work.

    • Lemmy.ml is acting as a proxy instance for Hexbear and should be defederated by any instances that defederate from Hexbear

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  • Yes! That's the one!

    • Lemmy.ml is acting as a proxy instance for Hexbear and should be defederated by any instances that defederate from Hexbear

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  • Ah! That makes sense. I was on world news of Lemmy.ml and the comments where full of nutters and/or troll farms. It was like gote/gout (or whatever it was called), another Reddit alternative I've tried that seamed to fill Nazis kicked off Reddit. I unsubscribed and blocked.

    Edit: Voat! That was it.

    • tesco and sainsburys hit with technical issues

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  • If you go the open source route, you can just pick a project that does something you are interested in, and get involved. 😃

    • Stop using floats

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  • On the PS3 cell processor vector units, any NaN meant zero. Makes life easier if there is errors in the data.

    • tesco and sainsburys hit with technical issues

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  • I've not touched Windows Embedded much, but I did once know Windows guts well. For 11 years it was my work development platform . Last thing I did was a virtual filesystem of an internal version control system for game artwork and I put a TortoiseSVN like interface for it into Explorer. Doing those destroyed what respect I had for Windows. I've been in embedded Linux for 12 years now.

    Edit: 24 years of developing stuff. I'm getting old!

    • tesco and sainsburys hit with technical issues

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  • I'm sure these brands/sector will end up Linux too at some point. I'm half expecting MS to move to the Linux kernel themselves in the not too distant future, so no matter how trailing edge they are, they could get dragged in.

    • Ukraine war: G7 threatens sanctions if Iran sends Russia ballistic missiles

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  • Reddit wasn't my first or last news forum platform. (Newsgroups were my first)

    Unfortunately this bit of Lemmy reminds me of gote/goat (whatever it was called), that turned into pit of Nazis kicked out of Reddit. Or Twitter as rules are removed.

    Seams to be, were there is no decent code of conduct, you get Nazis. Be interesting to see how it plays out on a federated platform.

    • Ukraine war: G7 threatens sanctions if Iran sends Russia ballistic missiles

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    • Ukraine war: G7 threatens sanctions if Iran sends Russia ballistic missiles

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  • Putin is too paranoid to ensure succession is in place. If he goes, and it will be bloody infighting until a new strong man arises.

    But just insisting nations bend over when he decides he wants them is no mechanism for peace.

    • Ukraine war: G7 threatens sanctions if Iran sends Russia ballistic missiles

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  • Giving up liberty doesn't buy you security. You just end up with neither. Putin won't stop with Ukraine.

    • tesco and sainsburys hit with technical issues

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  • I've not worked directly with any of these payment systems, but I can't believe the only solution is go all 90s style Windows based system. There will be embedded ways that comply to regs.

    I can see they are Windows based when there is issues. I'm sure of Tesco and Morrisons but Sainsburys I don't go to often enough to have see an issue that bring up Windows. I was being flippant, but I don't hold using Windows to build stuff in high regard. In my experience the software engineers who doing that don't know anything else.