I don’t get email notifications, but that number next to the icon changing is annoying. I have a few old responses that I’ve left “unread” on purpose, so I’m reminded to get around to dealing with them (look at some url or whatever). When the number changes, that means there are actual new responses, which after a day or two tend to be useless depending on the topic. So I’d rather shut them off.

Had no idea, but won’t miss them. From Hero to zero? Anyway I’ve been wanting to diy a camera using a Pi Zero or similar. For now I just use my phone.

It might be to stop the damn notifications you keep getting whenever anyone posts to a thread you started. Also it’s reasonable to think discussion forums are in some sense ephemeral. If you want a persistent store of knowledge, try Wikipedia. Lemmy could also host wikis if it’s worthwhile, like reddit does.

$1 per WH or almost that is pretty terrible. You can get battery systems for 1/4 of that $/WH at Home Depot.

I’m happy with Fastmail, no idea about Proton, but the Proton CEO’s antics are a bit too tech-bro for me.

Is this some kind of spam? There are other companies in the same space and they’ll make their own sales pitches. Web search does find some stuff about Gloria shutting down.

he’s a bit homophobic … he sexts men online regularly and watches gay porn regularly.

I think you’ve answered your own question. I knew this probably had a name, and I found it in Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internalized_homophobia

I usually associate it with right-wing politicians but I guess it affects other types of people too.

I meant the pre-computer, monochrome type of 2D printer, the one referenced in “freedom of the press”, heh. Quick web search finds a prototype:

https://chytomo.com/en/accounting-for-typewriters/

Typewriters were relied on to create unauthorized self-published books, brochures, leaflets, and magazines. As a result, Soviet authorities began imposing strict controls on typewriter distribution. Every typewriter had its own registration number, which allowed the KGB and other repressive organizations to determine the source of unauthorized documents. Each typewriter’s unique imprint made it possible to find out who wrote the paper and where it could be printed. In “Diaries: Uncensored,” Les Taniuk mentioned that there were typewriters for checks on which nothing “like that” could be typed, and two more – carefully hidden. Ukrainian writer and translator Halyna Kyrpa had to destroy her typewriter after a reprint of “Internationalism or Russification” by Ukrainian literary critic, social activist, and dissident Ivan Dziuba was typed on it. (In her interview with Chytomo, she said that she smashed the machine with hammers and threw it into a lake.)

2D printers are next.

switch to lichess. spend an hour or so a day on lichess.org/training .

Unless you’re going to really run a lot, this is an area where vast.ai is probably more affordable than mucking with hardware.

Pretty ridiculous and anyway there will be ways around it. But, even if you get an anonymous phone number, once you connect it to something like online banking, it won’t be anonymous any more.

Thanks. I already had the Nimbus settings turned off but got that FIFA thing anyway. I’ll see if it happens again.

I did see that and was wtf about it. And “Nimbus experiments” (per Katy’s post below) means “ads”? Give it a break, Mozilla. Ok I’ll turn off the experiments before they start injecting AI slop into pages.

Added: there appears to be no way to turn off all the experiments permanently. You can only change them one at a time, and sometimes it’s unclear which setting turns the experiment off. In most there is a “control” setting and one or more “treatment” settings, where “control” presumably means off. FIFA is an experiment all by itself. Sheesh.

Lichess.org not .com .

I never thought those leopards would eat MY face.

I haven’t heard a proposal like that before, though of course it might exist and have legal analysis that I don’t know about. IANAL and don’t follow that stuff now. Any discussion of the consequences of a hypothetical amendment like that would of course be speculative. That is, there’s no way to know.

Probably not. In fact if you mean everyone gets smarter starting tomorrow but up til today we’re in the same crappy world as always, that’s probably a disaster. Yeah we have some sociopath criminals in high places, but lots more of them are in prison or doing really dumb things (there’s a tv show about them, “world’s dumbest criminals”). Now imagine they suddenly get a whole lot smarter. Everyone else also becoming smarter won’t help that much.

If you mean human evolution somehow went on a different path making all humans smarter all the way back to prehistoric times, then it’s harder to say, but it doesn’t sound so great either.

Emotional intelligence isn’t the answer either, for the same sorts of reasons. Maybe there’s a separate thing called “wisdom” but there will always be gaps.

You might like HPMOR, a Harry Potter fanfic novel that philosophizes a lot about these types of questions. It’s at hpmor.com. Warning, the main character is insufferable a lot of the time, especially near the beginning. So you might hate it, in which case feel free to quit after a few chapters.

For a more positive take, try the old school science fiction novel “Protector” by Larry Niven.

Yeah I’ve been summoned a bunch of times (California). You get that at most 1x per year and usually you’re not needed (you’re excused over the phone, or you go to the courthouse and wait around most of the day before getting sent home). If you’re sent from the waiting room to an actual courtroom, you’re there with 50 or so other people who get called up and questioned (“voir dire”) one by one til they have selected 12 jurors and 4 alternates. Anyone left over is sent home. Once I made it all the way into the questioning phase but then got excused. I haven’t yet actually been on a jury. Anyway it’s time consuming but not that hard. There’s a small payment for those who need it. It’s nowhere near minimum wage.

How are they going to handle online purchase of phone plans (I’ve bought several that way)? Business VOIP? Robocalls routed through other countries? Answer: it’s not about robocalls.