Avatars just suck and have no purpose.

"US military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries"

" the US military is one of the largest polluters in history, consuming more liquid fuels and emitting more climate-changing gases than most medium-sized countries."

Need to quit this internet addiction. It's all poison.

How many of us are going to have endure co-workers talking about formula 1 after the weekend? I remember when one enthused how the cars will run on 10% ethanol and how KERs is just another example of why climate change won't be a problem.

By 'rapid transformation of society' I would imagine either primitivism or war communism. I only really want to imagine the latter with everybody mobilized away from their current work into a sort of ecological retreat to rail and sea adjacent areas with climates that don't require insane amounts of energy and water to live in. We build co-housing that is designed to use as little energy as possible for heating, cooling, ventilation and de-humidification. Though there are facilities for people to cook, most day to day meals are cooked communally using thermal stoves. As much plant based food is grown nearby as possible with a lot of calories coming from precision fermentation of bacteria and fungus fed on hydrogen and carbon dioxide. Clothes on your back have been owned at least once and what labor credits spent on clothing goes towards the maintenance of them.

I don't know if it is a trope but watching Brendan Gleeson piss for thirty seconds turned me off prestige television for good.

That really can't even be called engineering anymore. It's become a painful artisanal craft of hipsterdom guided mostly by aesthetics and petty political squabbles.

There is something so incredibly irritating about the kind of people who hide behind GITS avatars. Like all the JC Dentons on youtube.

Trust: Edgelord volcel seeks validation in a sexless romance with a grieving pregnant teenager.

Always with that permanent scowl on their face as they dogmatically try the same thing again and again to feel like a kid with his first bikini catalogue.

Always-on internet has been a social and environmental disaster. So many people are wasting their lives on banal crap while being caught in dark design patterns. Offpunk is an nascent attempt at this rehabilitation on gemini sites where people try to only going online for short bursts. Don't know if that is the best place for it because gemini really seems like an attempt to bring back the blogosphere through software blinkers. The vast majority of content on gemini is extremely boring as a result just like with this substack and pretty much all of medium.

Cyberspace needs to die. A democratic internet should be a means to an end designed for climate resilience. Think mailing lists over web forums and social media made more convenient by webmail clients.

“Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.” - Tom Lehrer, 1973

You can say that about alot of online services that are alot easier to find and use even if there is risk. This site is fine as some sort of introduction for the terminally online like myself but beyond that I and others here need to pull ourselves together and work where it matters - revolutionary parties, trade union, housing unions, mutual aid societies and pressure groups.

I used to love this open source libre software but it's not what threatens surveillance capitalism. Lawsuits, regulations and ultimately nationalization will.

It's just entertainment.

It's not scare quotes. More away to get across my exasperation with people losing their shit when somebody casually uses "open source".

Your only privacy from ad companies is in the small enclaves of repos and a dwindling file sharing culture. Anything of significance requires an account on facebook or being willing to run zoom. Hexbear and image boards don't count.

having trouble googling it can you provide a link?

I know you are back peddling in later comments that you misunderstood the posters here but Linux fanboys overall tend to be very pushy seeking nothing less then the global liberation of all computers with "Libre" software.

It's a huge waste of time. If you want privacy then don't do anything electronically. Don't carry a phone with you. It's not like eight billion people with their own devices running "Libre" software will ever happen in a world where we are trying to contain climate/ecological collapse.

Yeah pluggable transports are a cool adaption to tor censorship.

https://gitlab.torproject.org/legacy/trac/-/wikis/doc/PluggableTransports

Seems like that. Embarrassed I still can't understand it after a few re-reads with my long covid addled brain. Would be anxious what some of tor's clientele would be browsing and what would leak out.

Much clearer explanation on the firefox addon page:

"Help people in censored countries bypass censorship by running the Snowflake extension

If you want to help people in censored countries access the Internet without restrictions, consider installing and running the Snowflake extension. Once you install it and enable it, there's nothing else you need to do. Once the snowflake icon turns green, this means a censored user is connecting through your extension to access the Internet!

The only prerequisite to install this extension is that the Internet in your country is not heavily censored already.

There is no need to worry about which websites people are accessing through your Snowflake extension. Their visible browsing IP address will match their Tor exit node, not yours (since you're an entrypoint)."

Nobody should be clocking up tens of thousands of hours of gaming time a year. At that point it's just an a tedious addiction. It pains me to see gamers lose there shit over peach fuzz, when something much deeper is wrong but they are too illiterate to say what.