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Your first passage about criminalizing art is 100% correct and 100% irrelevant. You cannot call porn art. Porn with adults, children, dogs, pumpkins - all that stuff is made for people to get off, not enjoy the emotions that real art provokes in people. Therefore we cannot compare criminalizing porn with criminalizing art.

There are edge cases, of course, when art might be provocative and considered immoral, and maybe even illegal sometimes. But that would be edge cases, highly debated.

Closest one for lower latency. However, the closest location happens to be in a major metro area and is banned by many financial organizations that I use, so usually I connect to the next closest.

But they have missiles, aren't they? Can't say it lead to nothing.

Absolutely. Government oversight exists for that.

Oh, that's a very different discussion... if that housing institution would be elected, preferably on local level, then maybe it could be more accountable.

Why do you think that "ministry of housing" would not discriminate, not invade privacy and charge fair rent? I'm always fascinated how people believe that some government entity would act as a compassionate and just human being, at the same time bashing rich for being assholes.

Power corrupts. In capitalist society capital brings power, and in socialist state it's bureaucracy. So here you have rich assholes, and when you switch more power to government you'll get paper shifting assholes. Not much will change for people with no power. Probably it will be worse because rich people and their corporations produce valuable goods and services, while paper shifters usually don't need to produce anything apart from more papers.

I heard that geo heat pump installation cost is very high. Did you do the math to see how many summers of $60 energy bills it will take to recuperate initial investment?

Yeah, I see many suggestions to do just that. Might be a good time to go check a local library.

OMG that's the one! Thank you! I need to review the article and discussion though

I don't trust Proton enough to use it exclusively. Personally I use their free email tier as a secondary mailbox.

• They are not fully open source (I found only web client source code)
• Their last independent audit was in 2021 and was done for beta version of their email
• The audit itself was for security, nothing related to privacy
• They advertise their email service as encrypted: encrypted:

End-to-end encryption Proton Mail is a private email service that uses open source, independently audited end-to-end encryption and zero-access encryption to secure your communications. This protects against data breaches and ensures no one (not even Proton) can access your inbox. Only you can read your messages.

Which I see as deceptive: end-to-end encryption is working without user involvement only for emails between Proton mailboxes. In other cases user needs to establish PGP encryption on their own. Inbox may be not accessible by Proton (we actually have no clue because server side code is closed source), but unencrypted incoming messages can be easily intercepted by Proton relays.

I'm not saying that Proton does all this nefarious stuff, but their marketing is questionable.

Most recent Mastodon version allows users to opt-in for their posts be searchable

It's not just a web front end. I would call it a software development lifecycle service. On top of repos for source code management there could be a bunch of services: Issue tracker, CI/CD automation, static pages hosting, flexible permissions system, even pull requests - all this is not Git.

Forge is a nice and easy name, but not sure if many people realize what it means or recognize that meaning.

I honestly can't imagine how you make all this viable in a country like US. Vast suburb towns with low population density are just not made for public transport.

Welcome to !privacy@lemmy.ml - you'll learn not to share your phone number with strangers.

Here you go:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230902014018/https://www.wired.com/story/apple-csam-scanning-heat-initiative-letter/

I'm probably being overprotective. However, teachers have a lot of kids to watch over. My kid would probably not go adventuring on their own, but we cannot rule out a kidnapper or some natural emergency situation.

This looks interesting. But the only pre-built hardware option they have on the list, Nano G1 Explorer, is way too big for a little kid. But I may get it for adult family members for emergency situations.

I've heard good opinions about Garmin before, but that was in context of navigation and fitness tracking. Would it work for my use case, tracking a family member?

I'll check that one out, thanks!

Do I need to have an iPhone to use an AirTag?