kbal @ kbal @fedia.io

I'd appreciate it if everyone could just stop burning fossil fuels, please.

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No word yet on whether he'll launch a land invasion of Greenland this week?

Today's top news story: Imminent Death of Fediverse Predicted

I am guessing that if you want to endure a long video to get an idea what Chrystia Freeland is like last October's talk with the Council on Foreign Relations is a better bet.

My impression: All the intellectual depth of Justin Trudeau, but double the patronizing tone.

If you accept the claim that they're Nazis then no, they do not have the right to protest in Germany.

Has anyone checked for correlation between having a taste for capsaicin and not chewing your food thoroughly?

And sheer pigheaded stubbornness.

Well, it's one problem. It does seem clear that the privacy and security of users are not really the problems the people who want to ban TikTok care about.

Quick, somebody give that man $350000

Oh yea I was meaning to watch that Daily Show episode. I don't really care what questions they ask him, just want to see what he has to say for himself.

Proton has the better encrypted email service. It follows the standard and is interoperable with others.

Proton has the better VPN service if you care about port forwarding, which Mullvad discontinued.

But nothing beats Mullvad for looking trustworthy, and it was reliable enough when I was on it.

It's centralized, it doesn't officially allow 3rd-party clients, it requires a phone number, and the desktop app kinda sucks. I use it anyway, but it could be better.

I haven't seen any polls yet but I have a feeling that the Bloc might win my riding, even though they don't usually do all that well. I'll probably stick with personal tradition and unenthusiastically cast a vote for the NDP assuming that whoever their candidate is seems not too bad.

Personally I'd put a higher priority on stamping out that use of "porn".

I am retaliating by redirecting all links to meta to /dev/null

Hmm, I wonder if Jean Charest is still available. How you voting in the election, lemmy? Conservative (liberal establishment) or Conservative (zany populist)?

For one thing the "AppView" as I believe it's called. When I looked at the whole system a month or two ago the documentation wasn't great at giving a clear high-level overview and the details are hazy in my memory. It's at least as hard to figure out as the constellation of protocols used in conjuction with ActivityPub. Among other potential problems the protocol layer that would allow it to be fully decentralized is just missing. If it was there, I think it might look something like ActivityPub added on top of what already exists.

From my browser history here's one attempt to sum it up: https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

I'm sure someone will come up with a link, but if anyone wants a more general solution: https://github.com/bpc-clone/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

The more I learn about it, the more I start to suspect that even if the bluesky protocol somehow outlives Bluesky Incorporated it will remain a trap created by a billionaire which by design will never fail to be mostly centralised in its operation. Will this new organization see the danger and make their version federate properly? I'll believe it when I see it.

Akkoma and probably others like Misskey I assume do have follower-only posts and they do get used by some people who like to communicate with a small group and otherwise keep things private.