mox @ mox @lemmy.sdf.org

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I would be satisfied with people not making wild, misleading, insulting claims about others in the first place.

I wonder why you're so intent on arguing in support of that behavior.

I don't know if any of what you claim is true, since I haven't followed those discussions. However, even if true, none of it would mean they are anti-LGBT.

I think this would fit better in another community:

!til@lemmy.world

Servo is a web rendering engine, not a browser.

Also, Ladybird is newer, and therefore news to more people. That, along with the fact that it only recently became a stand-alone project, could explain why you see more talk about it lately.

No one is trying to hurt their characters.

Then I suggest not spreading comments referencing "anti lgbt stuff" when (as far as we have seen) there is nothing anti-LGBT about them. Even if you mean no harm, it can do damage, by coloring people's perception of the project and its leadership.

Hey OP, can you edit the link to remove the #comments fragment at the end? The way you submitted it, clicking skips over the article and brings us to the comments section instead.

What about the anti lgbt stuff? Thoughts…?

It is important to remember that turning down a pull request does not make a person (or project) anti-LGBT.

Sadly, I have seen bullying and brigading from people who claim to be supporting inclusiveness, more than a few times. That behavior alone would be enough to sour me on them personally, and on any change they had submitted.

And, of course, there are other perfectly valid reasons to decline a PR as well.

Asking for changes we would like to see is fine. Demanding them is not. Resorting to character assassination when we don't get what we want is absolutely not.

The headline and photo give the expectation that this is about sugary foods degrading our brains, but the story is actually quite different:

In a study with aging mice, Shi discovered significant changes in the sugary coating (glycocalyx) on cells that form the blood-brain barrier. This barrier protects the brain by filtering harmful substances and allowing essential nutrients in.

Shi compares the glycocalyx to a forest: in young, healthy brains, it’s lush and thriving, but in older brains, it becomes sparse and degraded.

These age-related changes weaken the blood-brain barrier, making it leaky. As a result, harmful molecules can enter the brain, potentially causing inflammation, cognitive decline, and neurodegenerative diseases.

Have you ever tried to visit a web site and found a Cloudflare error page instead? It might have looked like this:

https://www.webproeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/error-524-cloudflare-233e5a08ce8c4d92843b7a841fa7c015.png

Do you know how they're able to insert that error page into the response that reaches your browser, even though it's an https connection and your browser assures you that it's "secure"?

Clouldflare is able to do this because they are a middle-man between you and the site. They can eavesdrop and/or alter anything sent or received on that connection.

One of the easiest, perhaps. Not best. Anything that gives a single entity control over so much of the internet, and positions them to snoop on so much of everyone's communications, will never be "best".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-JeSpLVcaY

Water treatment, thermal insulation, textile fabrication, pharmaceuticals, air filtration, construction techniques, signal processing... the list goes on.

I wonder what Nintendo's annual legal budget is, and how much they could expand their market and reduce piracy if they spent half of that on supporting more platforms.

And when Cloudflare is the proxy for a web site, it's Cloudflare that provides the HTTPS connection, meaning that you don't actually have an encrypted channel directly to the site. Cloudflare is the man-in-the-middle eavesdropping on all of your communications with that site. Your bank transactions, your medical records, your personal messages, etc.

https://archive.today/a9lan

I'm tired of people saying "technology" when they mean an application of a narrow subfield of technology. Even worse is when they're not even talking about the tech at all, but instead the practices, leadership, or stock market performance of some corporation that happens to apply some technology in the course of its business.

I do share the sentiment in this article, though. There's way too much stuff that we don't need, often making our lives worse, being pushed at us in order to extract wealth or power.

I think it’d be great to live in a world where this technology required warrants, transparency, and other oversight from the start.

Me too.

It boils down to the fact that this technology is widespread, and will continue to be widespread regardless of my actions

That same reasoning has been used innumerable times throughout history. I suppose each of us must decide whether we think it holds water. It reminds me of an old adage: No single drop believes it is responsible for the flood.

Predator does way more than just ALPR.

I know. I looked it up. I mentioned the name not because I think it represents what it does, but rather to point out that it will affect how people feel about you and your work, even if in subtle, imperceptible ways. It's up to you to decide whether you're comfortable with that.

I don't have a specific suggestion, but here is what comes to mind:

• Violation of human rights and civil liberties in order to gain power over others is always justified with noble-sounding excuses like protecting people and property. The reality does not match the claim.
• Once violated, privacy of information is almost impossible to restore.
• Anything that can be abused to someone's gain will be abused eventually, if not immediately.
• Relying on a benevolent gatekeeper (even yourself) to prevent abuse of your tech will eventually fail.
• The name V0LT Predator evokes the feeling that it's something the world needs less of, not more.

Whenever I find myself on a fine line like the one you're trying to walk, I consider whether I'll look back on my life and be proud of what projects/causes/changes to the world that I advanced with the time and talents that I have.

It's a lot harder to revise history that has been written down.

Sony used to make compact variants of their flagship Xperia phones. Good specs. Good battery life. Good camera. Good display. Good sound. Good reception. Headphone jack. SD card slot. Unlockable bootloader, so they could be de-googled.

Sadly, the "compact" models grew slightly larger with each model year, and even a not-so-compact one hasn't been released in a while.