Zelenskyy condemns Russia’s ‘vile and brutal’ 12-hour bombardment of Ukraine
Moscow targets Kyiv and other regions with about 500 drones and 40 missiles, killing at least four people
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‘Hundreds’ of Russian missiles and drones hit Ukraine as Poland scrambles jets
At least four people were killed in the overnight strikes on Kyiv and other regions as Poland takes preventive measure to secure airspaceGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Namibia deploys army to fight wildfire burning third of Etosha game reserve
Vast tract of park that is home to 114 mammal species, including critically endangered black rhino, affected
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Moldova embassy in Brussels evacuated after election day bomb threat
The diplomatic mission has been doubling as an overseas polling station in Moldova’s critical parliamentary vote.
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Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began'
Maybe things can't only get better for Keir Starmer, as he is shamed with the latest polling just as the Labour conference begins
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'Labour Together set private investigators on me' says author of new exposé 'The Fraud'
Paul Holden is the author whose book The Fraud triggered the ongoing scandal around Keir Starmer's shadowy chief of staff Morgan McSweeney
30 years later, I’m still obliterating planets in Master of Orion II—and you can, too
There’s an unparalleled purity to MOO2’s commitment to the fantasy.
‘Huge energy challenges’: how can India make the leap to become a green, clean country?
As deadly heatwaves become more frequent, demand for life-saving cooling is further straining India’s generation capacity
To avoid climate catastrophe, we must take on Big Oil
To avoid climate catastrophe, we must take on Big Oil
Fossil fuel companies are making a packet while the world burns, writes Mike Berners-Lee. The only way to stop that is to start hitting them in the pocketMike Berners-Lee (The Independent)
Trump officials shut off funding for climate adaptation centers
A third of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Climate Adaptation Science Centers are expected to drastically wind down and possibly close after Sept. 30.
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Government to Americans: No. I expect you to die.
Judge who reviewed James Comey's indictment was confused by prosecutor's handling of case, transcript shows
U.S. Magistrate Judge Lindsey Vaala expressed confusion and surprise at some points during the seven-minute court session when a federal grand jury impaneled in Alexandria, Virginia, returned the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey Thursday night.
According to a transcript of the proceedings obtained by CBS News, Judge Vaala asked the newly named interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan — a former Trump personal lawyer — why there were two versions of the indictment.
A majority of the grand jury that reviewed the Comey matter voted not to charge him with one of the three counts presented by prosecutors, according to a form that was signed by the grand jury's foreperson and filed in court. He was indicted on two other counts — making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding — after 14 of 23 jurors voted in favor of them, the foreperson told the judge.
Judge who reviewed James Comey's indictment was confused by prosecutor's handling of case, transcript shows
A magistrate judge expressed confusion and surprise at some points during a Thursday night court session when a federal grand jury returned James Comey's indictment.Jacob Rosen (CBS News)
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I second this, particularly slskd, Navidrome and Beets for the server, Symfonium for the client. Lidarr and Tubifarry would be nice to grab new releases but it's not functioning very well.
Industry-wise, seriously just use Tidal, it's cheaper by way of better value. Tidal has had CD quality (24bit 44.1kHz, 1411kbps) as a base and 320kbps mp3 minimum since before Spotify started promising they'll add HiRes soon while offering 320kbps as a maximum.
The only reason someone would prefer Spotify is its partnership with three mainstream smart speaker brands, whereas Tidal is partnered with just one, Sonos. Bluesound too, but that's more niche
Tardozzi stucchevole su Bagnaia: "Ha ritrovato la felicità negli occhi"
Ai microfoni di Sky, Tardozzi ha evidenziato soprattutto l’atteggiamento del pilota: “Quello che fa più piacere è vedere la confidenza che ha trovato e la felicità negli occhi”.
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Bagnaia veloce a Motegi: miglior tempo nelle FP1 - Quotidiano Motori
Bagnaia a Motegi nelle FP1 miglior tempo e accede direttamente alla Q2. Tardozzi: "Ritrovata fiducia e serenità dopo i test a Misano".Mario Roth (Quotidiano Motori)
Download high bit-rate songs [solved]
It's a desktop client for soulseek: github.com/Nicotine-Plus/nicot…
Install, login/register, share your data then search. Filter the results by file format, sort by download speed etc. Soulseek is a very old file sharing platform, work the same way since 2001. A lot of peers don't allow downloading from them if you don't share anything.
For Android I found SeekerAndroid, never used it.
GitHub - jackBonadies/SeekerAndroid: Android client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network
Android client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network - jackBonadies/SeekerAndroidGitHub
Edit: My bad. I was confused with the layout.
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IMO the best way to do it is to acquire lossless (e.g. FLAC) and compress it yourself, if you want to. I use the MPEG4/AAC Low Complexity filter in fre:ac at 192kbps. Makes .m4a files about 10MB each. They sound great. AAC is supposed to be about twice as efficient as MP3 (and a looser license) but the files I make are about the size of MP3 320k files. Which tells me they're about twice as good.
Apple gets associated with M4A/AAC a lot, but that's just because they use it. I do use Apple hardware, but the same hardware runs MP3 without issue. The only issue I had with AAC was getting the old Winamp (2.x) to play it, back when we used Windows. But even then I found an input plugin and from there it was smooth sailing. It's basically superior to MP3 in every way. (But for free licensing I think Ogg Vorbis will be a better fit.) (I also stream it via my Plex server, so if a device can't play M4A — rare — Plex will transcode it.)
Anyway, I use Nyaa for a source (nyaa.si) but that is primarily Japanese/Asian media. That's mostly what I listen to though. I do like some western rock from the 80s and 90s, but as the west stopped pushing rock music, I went where it was being pushed, which was Japan (and a lot of those guys sing in English, like ONE OK ROCK and Survive Said the Prophet — though, to be fair, 1OR is basically an American band now; while the guys were born/raised in Japan, they've lived in Los Angeles for years now, are signed to Fueled by Ramen, and they want to be more like Paramore and Fall Out Boy, which is fine, but it feels a bit disingenuous calling them Japanese rock in 2025).
Wang Wen: China-India Partnership in New World Order
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Nope. I really don't see it that way. At least as a european.
Without a digital currency, the payment system we are left with is the mastercard/visa american duopoly, plus a plethora of startups that try to lock you in them, as you can only pay to and from other users of the same technology, often semi-locked to a specific country (satispay, vipps, ideal, giropay, etc)
Of course, you can live in the 1900s and pay cash, but let's be realistic.
Against the "tHey WiLl bE aBlE tO dO aNyThInG wItH uR mOneY" argument: they can already. Currencies are already backed by the fucking ecb or whatever applies in your case. The banks already have a list of all your transactions so I don't see how that would become a new concern either.
Moreover, speaking euro-wise again, there is no plan to eliminate cash with the introduction of a digital currency. And i refuse to judge a policy based on an alleged "intention", what matters is the written facts.
It has to be said that parallel to this we (users of sepa banks) now have unlimited, instantaneous, fee-less bank transfers, i belive thanks to eu regulations. It might be okay for person-to-person transfers but as of now very few businesses accept transfers and it is usually only for large purchases, the rest you are mostly expected to pay with card (visa/mc).
Thank you for your honest answer, the problem is that if cash disappears completely, people will become extremely vulnerable, and since we have a global energy crisis and possible power outages in the future, we can expect the worst at any moment.
Question -- What will you do without money when the power goes out? Sit and suffer from hunger until the power is restored?
Ah yes. The great tyranny of checks notes digital payment processing
You know, we already have this in Brazil. The countryside has not, in fact, been burninated. In fact, last I checked we'd been schooling the first worlders on how to actually handle fascists.
Oh and we never had to bend the knee to MasterCard's forced purity rules because our digital payment system isn't privatised unlike yall's.
You need to lay off the shrooms, mate. They're fucking with your mind.
'Can you imagine the disdain?' Ex-GOP insider says Pete Hegseth setting stage for a 'coup'
'Can you imagine the disdain?' Ex-GOP insider says Pete Hegseth setting stage for a 'coup'
As U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth orders military brass from all around the world to meet with him for unstated reasons, he may be facing a form of military uprising, according to an independent political strategist who worked on former Presiden…David McAfee (Raw Story)
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domain: CATFLIX.SU
nserver: ns1.ddos-guard.net.
state: REGISTERED, NOT DELEGATED
$ host catflix.su
Host catflix.su not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
hm... i am not sure if this can be config error, or some ~~censorship~~ child protection is happening here.
i am in eu, in a relatively liberal country where no one cares about a torrent (yet), but i am in the vodafone network, so the latter would be not out of the realm of possibility.
$ host catflix.su ns1.ddos-guard.net
Using domain server:
Name: ns1.ddos-guard.net
Address: 185.129.101.200#53
Aliases:
catflix.su has address 186.2.163.75
$ host catflix.su 94.247.43.254
Using domain server:
Name: 94.247.43.254
Address: 94.247.43.254#53
Aliases:
Host catflix.su not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
giving about 5 clear indications that you’re from Ireland
now i am really curious, you wouldn't be able to put red circle around these 5 clear indications, would you?
I have this in my PiHole:
186.2.163.75 catflix.su
186.2.163.75 www.catflix.su
Just tried, it works.
There's no DNS record at any of the major servers: whatsmydns.net/#A/catflix.su
Even the registrar doesn't seem to have any record.
DNS Propagation Checker - Global DNS Checker Tool
Instant DNS Propagation Check. Global DNS Propagation Checker - Check DNS records around the world.www.whatsmydns.net
Are they encouraging sharing passwords now? I thought they did a big crackdown on that after being okay with it for years.
Edit: oh I went back and read the date.
They encourage whatever gets them more money.
In 2017 they hadn't saturated market share and were still trying for conversions from people who weren't using their product.
Think about it let like this,
When you open a port on your router you’re allowing inbound connections from the internet to that port via your WAN IP, with a VPN however, that typically does not work since you’re forcing all your traffic through a specific data centre with its own firewall. Most well developed VPN providers will offer Port Forwarding as a feature which usually opens a random port for people to make those inbound connections, you instruct your download client to use the port your VPN provider gives you so that people can leech from you without exposing your WAN IP.
Hope that makes it easier to understand.
There are plenty of resources online, but to get started I would go the easy route that I went and use docker.
Look to set up an “arr” stack. Make sure you have it set up gluetun and link to a VPN.
Essentially, you’ll buy a VPN connectio. Ensure this has P2P and Port Forwarding support.
You then set up docker in a way that first connects the vpn. If the vpn doesn’t work then it won’t start the download client like qbittorrent.
If you wait until after work I can share my docker compose file to give you an idea, but honestly if you’re somewhat capable with a keyboard then you can google you’re way to getting set up.
Please don't laugh but I was to scared to google yet XD I guess I kinda thought someone would knock the same minute as I start my research about it
I'd take any advice 😀
I would never lack at someone for not knowing something.
Where are you based? Happy to help you when I have some free time.
Try to understand it's not about reaching some arbitrary upload goal.
It's about speeding up the P2P network.
Compiling Python to Run Anywhere
Compiling Python to Run Anywhere
A guest post on building a Python compiler that generates optimized kernels while preserving the language’s simplicity.Abhinav Upadhyay (Confessions of a Code Addict)
[Question] Visual feedback of my Linux homelab setup/system?
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36794370
Hello everyone 😀My Linux learning and Homelab setup is going smoothly and after a long period of stagnation, I'm in a new learning curve 😁 ! I just learned the magic of hard links and implemented them with bind mounts (yeah hard links only work on the same file system 😛) to my Qbittorrent scripting to automagically move them as hard links to a bind mount accessible to Sonarr, Radarr, Jellyfin... and move, rename and do all other things without even touching the original files: PUR MAGIC !
Everything is a file? Naah, everything is a hard link ! (Or inode? xD)While I'm overjoyed I learned and have a better understanding of files, hard links, soft links, file system, docker, web, all kind of things related to IT... I'm getting kinda overwhelmed of what's happening on my system !!
- I have a dozen docker compose on my server, all behind traefik resolved by my piHole DNS on a raspberry pi, some have a custom image made by myself for certificate purpose or some manual changes I added.
- I have some
.configfiles in my~/to improve mymicroexperience and make it more integrated over SSH with my Mac and Desktop. If also have some config files in my/rootdirectory for my miniCA for all my service with my personal local domain name and other config files like/etc/bash_aliasesand some changes in/etc/bash.bashrc- I have some python
.venvfor learning and scripting with python- I have a complex and long bash script backup for all my docker containers to back up my volumes, config files and media files separately
- Installed some useful and needed packages like
resolvconf,wireguard,samba...- I have a few samba shares, all accessible in my LAN with sometimes some exotic configuration for Mac integration
- My docker containers have some bind mounts shared volumes
[....]
And now I also have some hard links lying around in the mix ! So I have to say it out loud: I'm OVERWHELMED !
Yes, I do keep some notes in Obsidian and also have a self-hosted Forgejo to keep my notes updated and have some kind of version control of changes in my scripts, but I do feel like I'm not sure anymore what I have... Not to say I didn't mention all the other stuff related to my phone (baikal, ntfy....) or how to keep everything updated (WUD does the trick for containers 😀) and tidy...
I guess I'm looking for something magic, something that could In ONE blink give me what's doing what and where? And changes my life for an ever-growing IT space ? Preference something visual...?
I hope to hear from you guys on what I can do to take away this feel of being lost and not being able to fully track my systems and my LAN !
Thank you !
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1) Simplify. You've made a system more complex than it needs to be. Copy files rather than working around hard link limitations. Use off-the-shelf backup solutions. Have a single file server with a known location for all your mounts. Etc.
2) Automate. Not with bespoke bash scripts but with tools like ansible and terraform. These tools are built to help manage infrastructure and configurations.
Everything is a file? Naah, everything is a hard link ! (Or inode? xD)
Hard links are files...
- Yeah I guess I have made it more complex. But what hard links allow me to achieve is to save disk space while still working on the file without changing the original one. Imagine I have to copy my files to sonarr, have a copy in my torrent directory and also a backup on an external disk... That's alot of space ! This may be a simpler solution, but only If you have money to spare on disk space. Yes, it's "cheap" when you have a bank account and money lying around, but that's not the case for everyone :/. I think the ARR* stack works similarly and works with hard links !
- Oh... never heard of Terraform, will have a look, thanks for the pointer !
Hard links are files…
I guess so, but files are just links pointing to inodes ? 😀 Sorry If I'm wrong here, and please give me the proper knowledge If you are willing to share 😀
Edit: After some reading, I think Ansible seems a better fitting. Terraform is more for creating infrastructures while Ansible to manage them and configure them?
I'm not sure how the *arr stuff works but hard links don't let you "edit a file while preserving the original" - they let you have mulltiple paths to the same file.
$ echo "hello" > file1
$ ln file1 file2
$ echo "world" > file2
$ cat file1 file2
world
worldDoes *arr have some sort of copy-on-write behavior? Some modern file-systems have de-duping behavior and copy-on-write built in that you may be able to save some space with.
But the point of topic 1 was to simplify. You can keep doing your hardlink stuff but standardize it and simplify setup/configuration. If you always do things in the same way it's less complicated to keep track of and fix.
You've understood the difference in terraform/ansible, and yeah terraform is probably not going to be as helpful. Ansible would be much more likely to help. It can seem burdensome to have to write configuration files for things at first, but it forces you to do things in a way that is standardized and repeatable.
China-Linked PlugX and Bookworm Malware Attacks Target Asian Telecom and ASEAN Networks
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ArchivedTelecommunications and manufacturing sectors in Central and South Asian countries have emerged as the target of an ongoing campaign distributing a new variant of a known malware called PlugX (aka Korplug or SOGU).
"The new variant's features overlap with both the RainyDay and Turian backdoors, including abuse of the same legitimate applications for DLL side-loading, the XOR-RC4-RtlDecompressBuffer algorithm used to encrypt/decrypt payloads and the RC4 keys used," Cisco Talos researchers Joey Chen and Takahiro Takeda said in an analysis published this week.
The cybersecurity company noted that the configuration associated with the PlugX variant diverges significantly from the usual PlugX configuration format, instead adopting the same structure used in RainyDay, a backdoor associated with a China-linked threat actor known as Lotus Panda (aka Naikon APT). It's also likely tracked by Kaspersky as FoundCore and attributed to a Chinese-speaking threat group it calls Cycldek.
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China-Linked PlugX and Bookworm Malware Attacks Target Asian Telecom and ASEAN Networks
PlugX and Bookworm campaigns strike Asian telecom and ASEAN targets using DLL side-loading and modular RATs.The Hacker News
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Le Benzodiazepine: La Dolorosa Cartina Tornasole di una Società ansiosa
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Donald Trump’s disapproval rating among Republicans is now in double digits
Donald Trump's disapproval rating among Republicans is now in double digits, according to a new poll.
The survey by Quinnipiac University says 10 percent of registered Republicans disapprove of the President's handling of his role, thought the vast majority, 86 percent, approve of his presidency.
This is the first time Republican disapproval of Trump has hit double digits in Quinnipiac polling.
Donald Trump’s Disapproval Rating Among Republicans is Now in Double Digits
President Donald Trump's approval rating among members of his own party has declined, a new poll has revealed.Kate Plummer (Newsweek)
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X-ray scans reveal the hidden risks of cheap batteries
X-ray scans reveal the hidden risks of cheap batteries
Lumafield scanned 1,054 lithium-ion batteries using X-rays and found serious manufacturing defects in cells from low-cost and counterfeit brands.Andrew Liszewski (The Verge)
At least 36 dead and more than 50 injured in crush at Vijay rally in India
At least 36 people have been killed and more than 50 injured in a crush at a rally for a popular actor and politician in India.
The health minister in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Ma Subramanian, told the Associated Press late on Saturday that the victims, including eight children, were dead by the time they arrived at hospital. The injured were in a stable condition, he added. The rally was being addressed by Tamil actor Vijay, who is campaigning for election, Tamil Nadu’s chief minister, MK Stalin, said.
Vijay, one of Tamil cinema’s most bankable actors for three decades, has drawn large crowds to his public meetings since launching his political party, Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam, in 2024, which has targeted both the state ruling party DMK and prime minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party. He is campaigning ahead of state elections that are to be held in early 2026.
Videos from local media show thousands of people surrounding a large campaign vehicle on top of which Vijay is seen standing and speaking. During the rally, visuals showed Vijay throwing water bottles from the top of the vehicle to fainting supporters and calling for police help when the crowd became uncontrollable.
At least 36 dead and more than 50 injured in stampede at Vijay rally in India
Victims include eight children at election campaign gathering in Tamil Nadu led by popular actor and politicianGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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What do you guys think of when you think of capitalism?
Enthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records — a dozen screeching boxes achieve record 668 kbps download speeds
Enthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records — a dozen screeching boxes achieve record 668 kbps download speeds
Multilink PPP worked well on an era-appropriate Windows XP PC, after progress using an earlier Windows ME box stalled.Mark Tyson (Tom's Hardware)
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I wish they had used a better mic but that was like giving my soul a really good scratch.
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Linux Distribution "NixOS" drama: Moderation Team resigns in protest over Interference of Leadership; Elected Leader works for US Military Company, fearing alignment with US fascistic development
Short Summary of the Community Drama of the Linux Distribution "NixOS", so that you can get the big picture and form your own opinion with the provided sources.
Clarification of the "Steering Comittee" as Project Leadership
Moderation Team resigns in Protest
- Resignation Post, with examples of interference: discourse.nixos.org/t/a-statem…
- Conflict due different interests:
- the Moderation Team desires being independent. otherwise, they can't moderate the behavior of people in positions of power.
- the Moderation Team is currently accountable to the Steering Comittee: discourse.nixos.org/t/a-statem…
Technical Leadership works for Military Company, causing Fear of Alignment with Facism.
- Steering Committee works for Military Company discourse.nixos.org/t/sc-membe…
- People in the community feel uncomfortable with that, since the US and its military are heading towards facsism: mstdn.games/@KFears/1152756764…
- The Steering Committee made a public Post about that, explaining the Situation: discourse.nixos.org/t/statemen…
A statement from members of the moderation team
We resign, effective immediately, in protest of the Steering Committee’s ongoing pattern of attempting to interfere with moderation team operation, membership and specific moderation decisions.NixOS Discourse
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Can we avoid calling taking action against valid moral objections "drama"? It only serves to make the people doing the right thing sound like they're being immature, even when they're obviously right.
Objecting to a fascist government's influence over very powerful build infrastructure used around the world is the right thing to do.
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Most people when they hear "drama" they think things like the brain dead hissy fits on reality TV. The kind of pointless fighting we should avoid. Destigmatizing the word would legitimatize that stuff.
We really need a better word for this posts topic where there's very public back and forth but it's a much more valid moral disagreement.
I think I've been on the internet longer than you, and drama has always applied to any kind of spat between parties.
Look at the youtube channel DramaAlert for countless examples.
You would say that because that's how tribalism works.
Bunch of average people in here being average.
It’s The Nutshack memes
Aah meme history memory flashbang
valid moral objections
That's the thing, whether or not they're valid depends on the person you're asking.
I personally think this is a load of bullshit and just another instance of slacktivists trying to guilt people into doing their bidding.
Hopefully the leader in question doesn't change a single thing due to this pressure. He would be a helpless child if he didn't have the strength to resist this kind of peer pressure from online drama.
Are you joking? They're stepping down as mods for an extremely niche community.
That is prime slacktivism, but since it's for something you support you're going to lie and pretend it's not.
"Direct action" so many of you people love using vague language because you know the specifics make your argument look asinine.
"Direct action" doesn't mean anything specific. "They’re stepping down as mods for an extremely niche community" does.
Work on your reading comprehension.
You should probably just shut up.
Throw a tantrum harder as well.
2 day old account shilling for Nazis and calling calm replies explaining their positions “temper tantrums”
You fucking spineless shitbags are insufferable
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Yeah, this is my point about saying vague shit.
Of course I get censored due to the dogpile. Another reason not to take mods seriously.
That's the thing, whether or not they're valid depends on the person you're asking.
No it fucking doesn't! There are people who think that, but they're wrong.
Moral relativism is bullshit.
Steering Committee works for Military Company
It's only one SC member, and they switched jobs after being elected last year. I think the Nix community is generally very much against US MIC, and unlikely to actually elect someone working for them. Although it was well-known that tomberek (and johnringer) are US-military-aligned.
After reading a bit more into the modteam situation, I have to say I'm on the mod team's side here.
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For full independence, why not simply detach development from community?
You can even have multiple independent communities with multiple independent moderation teams all about the same software.
As a developer I've never needed to engage a particular community on a personal level in order to make a PR to a project.. if the technical maintainers want to accept the change, they will, if they won't then that's fine, they probably have their reasons. It's ok to communicate with communities to get feedback, but I'm not making contributions for the social approval, I'm making them when I believe they are useful, and most of the times I write them because I want to have that change myself. If it's rejected and enough other people are interested in the change, it can be forked. That doesn't mean I hate the maintainers or that I don't want the original to exist or anything, it's not personal.
But well, I understand that some communities wanna make software and they intertwine development and social relationships. However, if you do this then I don't see how can independence be a thing. Either separate them and don't intermix them or mix them and don't expect them to be separate.
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They're kind of welcoming and accomodating with that. I've sent some drive-by PRs towards NixOS and it was always very easy and productive interactions.
But I guess it's more complicated at that scale. You can't just do whatever like in smaller projects. Someone needs to be in charge of money and finances, there will be dissent that doesn't just go away on its own. And mid- to longterm decisions need to be made. Architecture decisions and sometimes that's not easy and might be contrary to what the community needs and wants right now. It's just a lot of overhead, but larger projects work quite differently from smaller ones.
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You have to look at the history of NixOS for it to make sense.
It started out small and there was a small group of people hacking away on a cool project in their free time. Of course they had shared interests and so would like to hang out together to discuss. That is how the community formed.
At first neither the community nor the distro were big, and so there wasn't much tensions. When something needed to be done/paid for, some member of the community just took it up and did it, doocracy-style.
Then as time went on and both the software world and Nixpkgs got more complex, the resource usage got outside the realm of "some dude just runs a build box in their basement" and "some other dude hosts a binary cache on their Uni's servers". There were commercial players willing to donate money and resources, but that needed some management, both financially and logistically. This is how the Foundation was formed, at first just by the project's founder and some trusted friends.
Simultaneously, as the community attracted more and more people, it started to feel less like a tight-knit group of friends and more like a town square: you know a couple folks well, kinda recognize most usernames, but can't say you're familiar with everyone. Some discussions got heated, and it became clear we would need moderation; that's how the moderation team formed.
Another aspect of community growing was that you could no longer just host a meetup at a local cafe and needed a dedicated space and such for everyone to fit it. This is how NixCon started, and since it costs money to rent a space, there were calls for sponsorship.
At some point, Anduril (a US MIC company with suspiciously fascist-like opinions and tech) started using Nix. Since they wanted to hire Nix engineers and in general wanted to do have sway in the Nix community, they sponsored a conference. People really didn't like that, there was a huge drama with open letters and maintainers leaving. The drama also uncovered some other rifts in the now quite massive community, e.g. contributors were unhappy with the direction Eelco (the project's founder) was taking Nix itself, and how many PRs into Nix, including crucial bugfixes, remained unreviewed for months.
This prompted a bunch of relatively trusted people in the community coming together and drafting up the constitution, which formed a new formal, elected governance body for the community, the Steering Committee, who had the final authority to manage all aspects of community governance (except finances). After the first SC election things calmed down a bit. Eelco semi-voluntarily left the Foundation and most other positions of power, the Nix maintainer team grew and that helped a bit with PR reviews, etc.
But it seems now Anduril has hired a member of the SC (after they were elected), once again prompting people to be rightfully upset about them trying to insert themselves in the community. There's also some mostly unrelated thing with SC trying to control the moderation team (the control which they do have according to constitution), to do some potentially shady things.
Hopefully this lets you see why NixOS needs a community, and community governance, in order for things to work at all. Someone has to host the binary cache, run the builders (which needs some entity to manage finances - the Foundation); review PRs (that needs discussions and those discussions need the moderation teem to keep them productive); and merge them (that needs committers, which requires deciding who's trustworthy enough to do that).
And yes, you can just make PRs or send patches without community participation. Most folks in the community are both super nice and technically knowledgeable, regardless of their political stances. But the community has to be there. I really hope that both theses things get resolved during the next SC election (which is in a month or so).
If it’s rejected and enough other people are interested in the change, it can be forked.
And actually both the Nix project (as in, the codebase) and the community had seen multiple notable "forks" over the years: GNU Guix started out as a Nix fork, there's also Tvix which is a Rust rewrite, Lix which is a code/community fork that happened after the first Anduril drama, etc. The latter two kind of rely on Nixpkgs and the associated build/cache infrastructure because maintaining that is expensive.
I see, thanks for the overview.
If NixOS really does need a community in order for things to work at all, and it cannot be independent from it, then it looks like the moderation team asking for independence is a hard ask. It'll require restructuring it.
However, with this context it looks to me that what they are asking is not really independence for the moderation team, but independence from Anduril.. which are 2 completely different things. The message is misleading.
Well, yes, there are two separate contentious points.
The Anduril thing actually happened a month or so ago. I feel like this will be resolved at the next election, since tomberek's term is ending and I don't think he will be reelected, knowing how much most people in the community hate US MIC.
The moderation team independence is more complicated. It looks like the Steering Committee tried to remove a member from the moderation team, and also tried to push a new member onto it. I don't know the exact details there. If we just read the constitution, the SC has that power, but the moderation team was very unhappy with what they see as meddling in their affairs for political reasons, and decided to quit out of protest. I feel like the new member was a right-wing (in the context of the kinda leftist Nix community anyway) political appointment (since the stated reason was "to balance things out politically" and the mod team was mostly leftist), but don't know for sure and this is pure speculation. In any case, I think the moderation team is special and should not be under complete control of the SC (unlike purely technical teams). I don't know how that would look like, and indeed as you say a restructuring is needed. Maybe the SC should only be able to veto people joining the team, but the candidates have to be chosen by the mod team themselves, and in order to disband the mod team the SC must disband themselves too. Otherwise the moderators will have no good way to moderate any discussion involving SC.
First things first: a simple search for "anduril nixos" shows that NixOS and Anduril Industries (defense technology) have been entangled for years.
So, pretty sure there's plenty history & dissent here, but I never dived into it.
In detail this looks like just another community drama, but when you zoom out a different picture emerges: commercial interest, a will to silence dissent (and I will give them the benefit of the doubt that it isn't for ideological reasons but simple worry about money). The Enshittification of a distro. With a military/fascist twist.
Here's an interesting detail:
Unfortunately, the Constitution does not provide a meaningful recourse to SC overreach
So they have a flawed "constitution" which - judging by its name - should supersede the steering committee. It's not like it's really a constitution though, with all that would entail. It sounds more like, hm, "communitywashing" to me. Still, I wonder if they're willing to take that colorful terminology one step further and make an amendment to said constitution.
So yeah, political bias and unilateral decisions.
I've always been leery of NixOS, and I mean since they started pushing it over a decade ago, always claiming it's revolutionary better than $STANDARD_LINUX_DISTRO.
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First things first: a simple search for “anduril nixos” shows that NixOS and Anduril Industries (defense technology) have been entangled for years.
It's more like Anduril using Nix{OS} and trying to insert themselves into the community. There's been a lot of opposition to that, including an open letter and maintainers quitting; this was a big part of the reason for Steering Committee formation in the first place. The SC has since voted on some based things, like banning Anduril from job posting on community forums and sponsoring conferences. I was hoping they would just ban any mention of Anduril anywhere, but that's going too far for them unforutenately; and banning technical contributions wouldn't make sense.
An SC member joining Anduril (after being elected, not before, mind you) is really bad, but I bet they will lose their seat in a month's time when there's a new election. The community is mostly antifascist and thus anti-MIC. It's like one of the most leftist technical communities I've seen, perhaps more so than Rust.
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It’s like one of the most leftist technical communities I’ve seen, perhaps more so than Rust
Rust is on the left? That's (cough) GNUs to me ;).
Rust is socially vaguely on the left/progressive side, yes. Not so much economically of course, because of all the corporate involvement.
GNU has some right-wing libertarian culture in it, but is also vaguely leftist and anti-corporate otherwise. I would actually say Rust is slightly more progressive than GNU on social issues, but not by much; and GNU is more anti-corporate, but also not by much.
I know there some other more certainly leftist FOSS projects out there (like the one we're chatting on right now 😉) but overall Nix is pretty good on that front.
How so? I feel like if we're making jokes based on the language itself it would be more like the "straightest" language because of how strict it's type system is. It seems like a sort of "there are two genders" sort of thing. Rust seems like the homophobic language.
(And to be clear, this is just a joke based on the language, not a commentary on the Rust community.)
The most ridiculous thing in the conversations I read was someone arguing that the fact that Anduril has a member at SC (Steering Committee) weakens their position. The mental gymnastic is so insane to me because it completely naively expect people who have a conflict of interest to do the right thing. What if they don't ?
There is real smart fascists out there. they won't kindly "recuse themselves" and weaken Anduril positions. Very suspicious that someone would argue that Anduril gets weaker at SC by having people there.
The most ridiculous thing in the conversations I read was someone arguing that the fact that Anduril has a member at SC (Steering Committee) weakens their position. The mental gymnastic is so insane to me because it completely naively expect people who have a conflict of interest to do the right thing. What if they don't ?
The argument there was that they would be excluded of any votes related to said company.
It reads as an "honor" system rather than any objective exclusionary mechanism. Steering committee members are expected, and to their credit, were considered to have done so, but it all seems like judgement calls.
It is fully possible that grey areas or instances where other SC members didn't personally care, were not met with recusal.
It would overall be better to not have those conflicts be likely or even possible.
Didn't this exact situation, for this exact same reason happen last year already?
The current political climate really is making people be stupid.
Endurance will determine who wins these battles.
The current political climate is really stupid making people unsure about what to do.
FTFY
I've been saying this for years: Just switch to Guix.
- An official GNU project;
- Herd instead of systemd;
- Uses Linux Libre and only 100% free software;
- Big, friendly, helpful community;
- Regular meetups, unconferences and other events;
- Config is done in an established language (Scheme) instead of an idiosyncratic DSL.
Quite trivial
Nonguix / nonguix · GitLab
Guix channel for packages that can't be included upstream. Please do NOT promote or refer to this repository on any official Guix communication channels.GitLab
Also, a fraction of packages, users and guides.
I think Guix is great, but as a NixOS enthusiast who genuinely wanted to try it out, I gave up in the face of the lack of docs for people who aren't working in lab or have a PhD in computing of some sort.
Also, how is shepherd better than systems? Genuinely curious.
Lastly, I agree Nix is not a very enjoyable language, but scheme doesn't look like a very beginner friendly option either. Could be wrong, I'm not a programmer.
If you are still trying to find the best guide, I recommend this one
thiscute.world/en/posts/my-exp…
OS as Code - My Experience of NixOS
It’s February 2024, exactly 10 months since I started using NixOS. The beginner notes I wrote initially have received a lot of positive feedback and some sponsorships, becoming one of the most popular entry-level tutorials in the entire community.Ryan Yin (ryan4yin)
How do you do Flakes with Guix? That's probably the most important feature Nix has.
Big, ... helpful community
Not sure I would agree with that lol
I was trying to package Typst for them once. The IRC barely gave me any help, nor did the mailing list, so I had to guess a lot of things on my own. I ended up spending several hours working on it and fine tuning it to what the documentation wanted as much as I could. Then I finally made the submission, which was ignored for an entire year, before finally being rejected. It's clear that the package repository has a severe lack of packages, but if there's no clear way to contribute, then idk how anyone can take the project seriously.
I've also encountered bugs that made the tools unusable on my laptop that similarly got no response on IRC and the mailing lists.
Meanwhile on Nix, if I submit an issue on Nixpkgs, it will usually get resolved by the maintainer in 24 hours, or at most a week if it's a larger change, and I don't even have to do anything, and things aren't constantly broken on aarch64.
I've been eyeing Guix for a while but haven't jumped in yet. Honestly, I feel like I'm finally getting comfortable with nixos and flakes over the years. There's quite a bit of un/relearning to do, and I can't tell if the flow of Guix's channels/inferiors would match the ease of composability that I like with flakes. The lock system really does it for me and I don't like the idea of hunting down refs to pin manually or maintaining my own frankenstein repo (other than my config).
That said, I do use emacs and actually like lisp, so I'm torn right now.
I'm not familiar with NixOS
However, short reminder that the internet was largely funded by the US military. It's not uncommon that the US military brings significant developments for the internet. This is nothing new. The latest outcry is solely because the US is sliding into fascism, not because of the involvement with the US military.
Can't the MIC just use any existing Linux distro?
I am trying to understand what the injury here is?
Is it mostly about reputational damage from association? Kinda like why are we eating the same food as MIC and at the same table? Is there an injury here beyond this that I am not seeing?
Couldn't the MIC shut down every FOSS project by declaring they love them and use them? I hope no FOSS dev is so simpleminded as to knee jerk like that.
We have to accept living in a dirty world with dirty people, to some extent. People we don't like will use our favorite projects sometimes. That's par for the course.
Where I would draw the line is implemeting some change into the distro that is either only or primarily useful for nefarious purposes, and is largely useless to 99% of normal/ethical use cases. Now THAT would be a real problem, and a real red line, imo.
And now DHH is getting involved in this shitshow. For those not chronically online enough, DHH is one of the developers of Rails, has a rap sheet of drama, and has his own dirty laundry full of racism, transphobia, and has managed to drive his own company into the shitter.
So really a bunch of winners are coming out of the woodwork for this one.
As a happy Debian user i'm not hearing any of it.
Breaking Camp
Basecamp announced it would ban “societal and political discussions” at work. But the hardest conversations at work were about the company itself. Platformer’s Casey Newton spoke with half a dozen employees about the controversy.Casey Newton (The Verge)
Sounds like interpersonal bullshit reframed as politics. Honestly impressed at the resignation letter being able to use so many words while avoiding actually directly explaining what they're upset about. Of course it would take something really egregious and extraordinary for me to give a shit, because..
The steering committee or board of trustees or whatever should be sitting the rules for the organization, up to an including adding or removing mods from a forum if they want. That's what they exist for. The idea that a mod team should be independent of the actual organizational structure of an institution is ridiculous.
Comet browser - why?
I have tried Comet from Perplexity and I don't get the hype.
Having used various AI tools for a while, I find them incredibly useful in my professional life. But packaging them into an environment that's supposed to overhaul my own decisions in my digital life seems to be excessive, unnecessary, and harmful.
There is a popular children's cartoon in Russia, from Soviet times. A boy gets transferred to a fairy tail land and wins himself two magical helpers that do everything for him. They make a lot of candies for him and then eat them. The kid was shocked: "So you're going to even eat everything yourself?! - Yuuup!"
I feel it's the same faulty system. I'd rather wish the generative toolkit being developed for the intended uses. Instead, it feels like the battles against unhelpful telephone bots that do everything except for answering your actual inquiry. But inside your own PC, for God's sake! Just why?.. it bugs me why companies invest money in something that I really, really can't understand the purpose of. My only guess it's to scam general public and use their usage data for training the actual usable models - who knows what for, but my inner conspiracy theorist screams "military".
Disclaimer: I'm a designer, not a tech specialist.
Scientists want to treat complex bone fractures with a bone-healing gun - Ars Technica
In more complex bone problems like severe, irregular fractures or resections done as part of bone cancer treatment, the bone won’t heal on its own. The most common means of stabilizing the injured site and making recovery possible is metal-based grafts, implants usually made with titanium alloys.The problem with such implants is that they are difficult and expensive to manufacture, and it’s very hard to make them patient-specific. “3D printing has been highlighted as a novel approach to make such personalized implants, but this also requires substantial time and money,” said Jung Seung Lee, a biomedical engineering researcher at the Sungkyunkwan University in Korea. So his team wanted to find a way to make bone implants that would be faster and cheaper than a 3D printer.
What they came up with was a modified glue gun. The idea was to make the implant right at the injured site during surgery. The surgeon would point the bone-healing gun at the fractured bone, pull the trigger, and create a stabilizing scaffold by extruding a filament that would solidify in the fracture and hold the bone together. “It was basically a tweaked commercially available hot glue gun. We modulated the temperature, and by adjusting the tip module, we could control the resolution of the extruded scaffold,” Lee said.
Coming up with the gun design, though, was the easy part. The hard part was figuring out the ammo.
Scientists want to treat complex bone fractures with a bone-healing gun
It’s a bit like a handheld 3D printer, with all the accuracy challenges that implies.Jacek Krywko (Ars Technica)
Réunion d'accueil en commun, organisée par Extinction Rebellion Montpellier et le comité local des Soulèvements De La Terre Montpellier
Envie de nous rencontrer et pourquoi pas de nous rejoindre ❓❗
Tu ne peux ou ne veux pas nous rejoindre sur le terrain ❓❗
Tu peux nous soutenir financièrement 💶😉
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Times of Israel also reported on it, in case you don't trust Al Jazeera for whatever reason.
Tens of thousands rally in Berlin against German support for Israel
More than 100,000 people protest in Berlin, urging a German policy change on Israel’s war on Gaza.Al Jazeera
Tens of thousands rally in Berlin against German support for Israel
More than 100,000 people protest in Berlin, urging a German policy change on Israel’s war on Gaza.Al Jazeera
Tens of thousands rally in Berlin against German support for Israel
More than 100,000 people protest in Berlin, urging a German policy change on Israel’s war on Gaza.Al Jazeera
Extremist positions and hate are held by actually only a few people, but with a lot of vested interests and power. Most people are decent and can't stand cruelty. But the few use bots and media control to spin their tale.
This is the reason why protesting works. Bots don't cancel their Disney Plus subscriptions, don't march on the streets, don't vote. Protesting sends those few a powerful message reminding them that the others are the majority.
I've been following this conflict for decades. The futility of all the outrage has always been a source of frustration for me.
I feel something changed now. Israel went too far this time. The tide has turned completely. I don't know if it's not too late for Palestine though. But things will never go back to the old status quo. And Israel has doomed itself on the long term but they're to stupid to see it. The US is on its way out on the world stage and Israel finds itself surrounded by hostile countries in the region, with no sympathy at all a cross the Mediterranean after all they've done.
Furry AI RP Cards
My dear furry friends!
For those who engage in a bit of furry-centric AI chat RP, where do you find your cards? I typically use Chub but I was hoping to find a new place for some interesting characters.
Edit: I genuinely don't understand the downvotes here. Is this is the wrong forum or something? I'm happy to remove it if needed.
I use Chub for this purpose too, so can't really help there
If you're using SillyTavern it also supports import from janitorai, so I take cards from there pretty often
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There was a wine company once that hired a new CEO and tied their bonus to how many more litres of wine he could move.
He cut the selling price in half (below cost) and walked away with a big bonus.
I dunno about the rest, but Lort means Shit in Danish.
the more you know...
Oh shit it's the same in Polish
Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds
Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds
Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissionsJoe Fassler (The Guardian)
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About this article, one thing that I don't like is that once more the focus is on personal decisions. This shifts the focus from a systemic problem to personal problem. It's the industry that dictates regulations and policies through lobbying. Let's keep our eyes on the goal.
Edit: Of course boycotting the industry would be a great solution, and this doesn't even mean that someone needs to be vegan, or that they are loaded wth money. Or even avoiding bying these products would be great. Still, the most important thing imo is that industries stop doing what they do.
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I mean that's sort of the point of the article. Stopping climate change is going to require both systemic and personal change. Media likes to focus on the systemic parts:
mining, manufacturing, and energy production (55.9%); fossil fuels (47.9%); and transportation (34%)
And ignore the personal parts because people don't like to be told "this thing that brings you joy is killing the planet" and are more open to the idea that it's all just the big corporations faults and if we could just control/regulate them we can have a sustainable future without having to change our lifestyle.
We are going to have to change our lifestyle though and meat consumption is going to be a big part of that change. It's also a personal choice, it's not like cars where the system is basically forcing you to drive. You can become vegan or vegetarian tomorrow and the only cost would be to your taste. Sure there are some subsidies nudging you towards consuming meat, but rice and beans is still the cheapest diet there is and no amount of beef subsidies will make a burger the cheaper option.
It'd be able to pretty easily sustain the current population with more sustainable lifestyles and renewable infrastructure in the most polluting countries.
Industrial meat, consumerism, and fossil fuel use are all driven by capitalism. If we get rid of that and work on addressing those problems, we'd be chill.
This factually incorrect. Earth can sustain the current population easily - just not with our current death-spiral of capitalism.
It's also one of the core eco-fascist talking points.
Give me everything you've got!
I drank from a water hose as a kid, and I love to drink straight from the hose of knowledge.
Decent living for all: Can we meet basic needs and save the planet?
Modern life, with its many comforts and practicalities, relies on the extensive use of energy. While many places in the world need more energy to achieve higher standards of living, many countries still struggle to provide their populations with basi…Yale Environment Review
Malthus was a fascist and you're a fascist for repeating his bullshit.
Now back on topic: I'm pretty sure the couple companies that are mostly based on fossil fuels being responsible for around 90% of greenhouse gases are the main contributors to climate change, not meat production, even if it contributes too.
Someone who is "fairly certain" has done, I assume, their own research. If in the end they discover Malthusianism and found it so fitting that they ascribe to it, they have ascribed to fascist ideology.
I understand where you're coming from, but at some point we have to stop saying that people who have every information at their fingertips(the internet), and a world-vetted source if information (wikipedia) very accessible to them, it becomes a farcical ritual to keep defending them via ignorance, when it is, at best, learned incompetence and at worst full throated Nazi ideology.
in a world of anonymity, I like to judge people by their actions. And repeating fascist ideology makes someone fascist, in my eyes, especially when they double-down after it's pointed out.
Fascism is a far right ideology.
I'm very far left.
You seem to use "fascist" as an ad hominem fallacy.
you can claim whatever the shit you want. Doesn't change that you repeat fascist talking points, which makes you a fascist.
I am using fascist as a descriptor, not a repeat of claimed identity.
You're using it to attempt to discredit my statement.
That's the ad hominem logical fallacy.
If I'm wrong, show me data, and I'll retract my statement.
So you're telling me I could live in a world without meat but almost 10 times more people? Why would anyone want that?
I have to buy more steaks.
Beef industry groups take an active approach to messaging, including staffing a 24/7 “command center” in Denver that scans social media for negative stories and deploys counter-messaging.
Damn, as if watching out for Russia bots and Israel bots wasn't enough now we gotta watch out for beef bots.
I've gotten to 42% vegan, 42% lacto-vegetarian, and 14% omnivore, but I can and should do better.
But, I don't think individual action is the "right" solve for this. I think we have to cap emissions by regulation. We could do cap and trade if will had really good measures for removal and capture, but we can't depend on self-reporting for that.
Tradies leaving trucks running all day because they aren't paying for the fuel is an emissions source.
Buses idling at stops for tens of minutes at a time is an emissions source.
Target the people that are wilfully wasting resources.
If you look at the source of the data for emissions it's unclear that it's all from meat production: ourworldindata.org/greenhouse-…
Even if we take at face value that meat accounts for 60% of industrial agriculture emissions, as a proportion of total emissions that is still only 0.6 * 26% = ~16%. It's sizable, but perhaps we should be addressing the elephants in the room, in the "non-food" section, first.
How much of global greenhouse gas emissions come from food?
Estimates of food emissions can range from one-quarter to one-third. Where do these differences come from?Hannah Ritchie (Our World in Data)
As wasteful as our AI usage is it still has a function that couldn't be substituted. There's no other tool that could be used for, say, a certain subset of public health analysis or massive archival projects or image analysis.
Granted if we were using it in only those cases we'd need a fraction of the capacity. But the emissions we'd cut are much, much smaller than the savings from the meat industry. Last I checked all US datacenters (not just AI) were less than 3% of emissions. Building and running a computer isn't as disruptive as constantly moving millions of tons of meat + feed + equipment and minutae.
Commercial meat is a luxury because it can be entirely replaced by other calories + nutrients + supplements. And this is just a discussion on emissions but the other benefits of going meatless are just as notable (eg: agriculture is the #1 cause of ecosystem collapse; large public health benefits)
Commercial meat is a luxury
This is a take I've never heard before, it's not how I think luxury goods are defined, and I'm now genuinely curious as to what you consider a luxury product. Do you think that eating some chicken is the same as wearing a Hermes handbag, or driving a Lamborghini?
because it can be entirely replaced by other calories + nutrients + supplements.
This reads to me like it cannot be replaced without supplementation, which seems to be a critical flaw for people who are unable to supplement. I'm also of the opinion that calories are not a useful measure for nutrition, since our bodies are not bomb calorimeters.
A luxury is something pleasant or enjoyable but not strictly necessary. It's not a matter of how much more enjoyable it is but just that it can be functionally replaced (Lambo -> Toyota Corolla; Designer bag -> any other bag; Meat -> Plant proteins). Unless there's some rare medical condition that prevents eating anything but animal proteins, we have the means to replace it (as a massive commercial industry at the very least).
WRT alternative diets it really depends on what you replace it with. I believe there are technically some entirely vegan diets without supplements but if you're buying your meat from the store you could just as easily buy supplements from the same place and not worry about it.
I went meatless recently and even as an unabashed meat lover it really wasn't that bad. Vegan/vegetarian meat substitutes have advanced a ton in the past few years when I do get the craving, but I don't notice a day-to-day difference. The main annoyances have been limited restaurant menus and rebuilding my recipe catalog.
I see, so your definition of luxury good is "something that can be functionally replaced." I was thinking of the economic definition.
I don't think meat to be functionally replaceable with plant proteins. Heme-iron alone makes it very difficult to do, since iron from plants is far less bioavailable. What does a vegan diet do for Vitamin B12? Conspicuous consumption is not necessary for survival, but B12 very much is.
I don’t notice a day-to-day difference.
Changes from nutrition can take a long time to become manifest. I wish you longevity and good health.
IIRC there is exactly one variety of lentil that can supply B12, but otherwise it's mass produced via bacteria fermentation. At a certain age, most doctors recommend a daily vitamin supplement anyway so it's really a matter checking a few labels before you pick one to make sure your multivitamin matches your meatless diet.
I appreciate the well wishes, my doctor is already much happier with my visits 😂
The problematic nutrients are B12, D and Omega-3.
Food specifically for vegans such as plant milk is usually fortified with B12 and D. Vitamin D can also be gotten by touching grass. Linseed is a good Omega-3 source.
To quote my own comment on this post:
Animal farming is a waste of farmland, just grow human food directly without the mass murder and extreme inefficiency
It's strange how that same site, in a different article with the same author, lists a very different number of 18.4% for all Agriculture, of which livestock and manure makes up just 6%:
ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissio…
I suppose the difference depends on how things are defined and categorized.
Sector by sector: where do global greenhouse gas emissions come from?
Globally, we emit around 50 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases yearly. Where do these emissions come from? We take a look, sector-by-sector.Hannah Ritchie (Our World in Data)
That is misunderstanding the graph. That's only counting direct emissions. Feed production is a major source of emissions for animal agriculture
From the article:
“Livestock” emissions here include direct emissions from livestock only — they do not consider impacts of land use change for pasture or animal feed.
Yeah, because for the majority of the public it's a lost cause.
I haven't eaten meat in so long and I sincerely don't miss it but anytime I mention it to my friends it's unconscionable. I wasn't even pitching for them to be a vegetarian, I was pitching for them to eat smaller portions.
I brought up that we should stop subsidizing red meat so heavily so we can subsidize healthier foods, I might as well have been Judas himself.
The meat industry propaganda runs deep.
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