Nobody has mentioned librewolf, which is a fantastic out of the box privacy browser. It's a Firefox fork.

I think that instead, quotes from the article itself should be posted as the text. Leave any further editorializing to a comment.

This will encourage engaging with the actual content of the article, rather than just making some extremely biased, misinformed, or otherwise improper, tldr, and gives a better opportunity for interacting with the editorializing directly via comments.

I'm mostly confused by a lot of the privacy talk, personally. If you post something on a public forum there practically cannot be a guarantee of deletion.

My concerns with privacy are abusive trackers scraping data like whati I'm personally looking at, how long I look at posts, what times of day and background ad tracking that for far beyond even that.

Sure, people can use the things I've consented to posting online to do market research or whatever. But that's not something that can be practically stopped without end to ende encryption and then that's just... A matrix? To me it feels like a lot of the privacy complaints have revolved around wanting a social media to do something entirely removed from what a public facing social media even is at a core level.

I'm interested to hear peoples thoughts on improving the privacy, but I really do think there is a lot going into this expectation of deletion that isn't very practical when there are way more pressing issues about privacy violations.

That kind of lying could easily be seen as slander or libel, but I'm no lawyer. It wouldn't surprise me if legally that was a Bad Move for spez either way, but ultimately it doesn't look like the apollo dev has any intention of suing for that, understandably so.

This is to catch people with modified exhausts to generate unsafe noise levels.

As the article pointed out, people are getting 100 db on their patios. As much as it'd be nice to let and let live, the point is these cars are already not letting live.

Whether the additional surveillance is justified in general is a different question, but it's important not to misrepresent the issue.

The very concept of free software and open contribution is political. That as a thing doesn't necessarily exist within every political framework or culture. But that's the nature of politics, ultimately in some way basically everything can have a political framing, and since politics are essentially "opinions on the way things should be" it's ultimately inescapable.

Fascists with red and gold aesthetic.

Known for their unshakable support of Russia and China.

You kid but one of the main points here is that they are hiding it when prompted and are suffering genuine mental health issues for it. Less about being preachy and more actively hiding a part of their identity to avoid negative social outcomes

Not all the clothing anyone wears in a plant. Clothing special for contamination areas. They also do scans at thresholds and anything you carry with you that gets contaminated is confiscated. Nuclear plants genuinely have a level of safety in the us that is pretty hard to comprehend, it's all done out of an abundance of caution more than a genuine need for it. Not quite security theater, just a very high degree of security.

The problem is nazis know their arguments are unreasonable. They don't believe them either, they are just rhetorical devices, and they know it.

But every argument with a nazi is just another chance for some rando who has no idea what's going on to get sucked into the nazi pipeline.

Yeah it has voice chat, video calls, and screen sharing. I haven't tested any of them yet personally (soon™) but they are stated features. Element in particular is rolling out video rooms right now, still in beta, which operate identically to voice channels in discord from a UX perspective. So all said not too bad.

I'm not sure you've illustrated that it's actually a bad thing for Lemmy to fragment naturally. That's almost a certainty due to the nature of it. If Nazis started a server, which I have no doubt that they will, it will almost instantly be fragmented off, for example.

Lemmy isn't inherently better with bigger user counts, part of the core idea is actually to have numerous smaller communities. The internet was plenty healthy before everyone all used the same platforms.

Linux basedphones os will surely pop up rapidly if that were to happen at least.

"Willful extinction" is not a productive way to end climate change.

You won't convince people, so it's DOA, but it's also philosophically weak in the face of alternative views. Alternatives which also theoretically have humans in them and don't obliterate the environment exist, meaning you are on the back foot here to justify an anthropocentric philosophy.

"Why do you think people should exist?" Can be an interesting discussion, but as an argument it's not a great one.

Beehaw is lovely and everyone is free to do as they please, but I genuinely think everyone on social medias should be striving for something like what Beehaw is. It's a pipe dream, but trying to aggressively foster positivity and counter outrage is just good hygiene. Negativity breeds negativity and it's extremely difficult to keep spaces positive, but I think there's also a path dependence here that has made the internet so much more toxic than it needs to have been, even off of other social medias which have encouraged that exact toxicity for the ease of clicks. It's frustrating seeing all the misrepresentations of what beehaw is, out and about, but oh well. Appreciate the levelheaded view on the defederations.

Gdpr is not that easy, and the right to be forgotten is certainly more complicated than people are making it out to be. Public facing forum posts have even less protection, for fairly obvious reasons. Now if Lemmy instances were sharing your account information and not deleting that, it gets murkier.

Lemmy should probably keep gdpr and ccpa in mind but public facing forum comments are early qualified under the right to be forgotten unless they meet certain criteria.

I would say, if in theory a social media achieved a small community, informative and positive culture which avoided spreading misinformation or cultivating harmful stereotypes of those they disagree with via the mechanisms of that social media, that it should be more standardized and more widely accepted. Largely because that is just more healthy in general. Not that Lemmy will necessarily be that in practice in the long run.

I mean honestly has matrix not caught up? It's been perfectly usable and honestly more responsive than discord so far. The only real pain point was the most baseline effort that goes into e2e encryption but even then that wasn't really.. difficult?

Voip is a voice chat, so your question doesn't make much sense. You can voice chat in voice rooms identically to discord, as I said above.

There is no longer an eight person limit on video or voice calls. There is a limit depending on your server.

Well, you're in luck, that's one of the biggest things the DOE is working on right now. SMRs look great.

The reactors would still be run by the DOE no doubt, or by contractors thereof, but I like the idea of stepping away from contractors for hiring on more DOE employees directly to maintain them.