glans [it/its]

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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • Do you have any specific info to share or just an opinion? Based on what?

    I understand sea mays is different than the development of other grains because the original plant was not food. Corn is a totally different organizism, not just a more suitable variety. Specific traits that were not previously present were introduced.

    https://bio.libretexts.org/Courses/Hartnell_College/Environmental_Biology_(Fisher_and_Dorsner_Custom)/08%3A_Food_and_Hunger/8.02%3A_Biotechnology_and_Genetic_Engineering

    An interesting example is maize (corn). Biologists have discovered that maize was developed from a wild plant called teosinte. Through traditional breeding practices, humans living thousands of years ago in what is now Southern Mexico began selecting for desirable traits until they were able to transform the plant into what is now known as maize. In doing so, they permanently (and unknowingly) altered its genetic instructions, allowing for new traits to emerge. Considering this history, we might ask the question: is there really such a thing as “non-GMO” maize?




  • glans [it/its]tolibrePSA: DivestOS is dead
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    1 day ago

    I use obtainium for a couple of things; I'm glad it's there. I don't really understand the link though? All the stuff about configurations etc. I can see that there are lots of non-FLOSS packages mixed up in there.

    One reason I like the ffupdater is that they are a bit more aggressive in their curation. Things gets removed if they are not good so I don't need to keep up on all the browser gossip. e.g. #35 #555




  • glans [it/its]tolibrePSA: DivestOS is dead
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    1 day ago

    That sucks, I liked Mull.

    I'd rather use stock firefox than Brave. Why would anyone use brave? How many times have they been caught doing sketchy things like crypto mining or inserting trackers?

    A good way to get browsers on android is through FFUpdater (repo, F-Droid) it includes various forks etc. Not all are directly available via F-Droid.