I am able to see this reply from you to me – though after a very long delay. I still cannot see your 1st reply from within slrpnk.net though.

@rumschlumpel@feddit.org

Did you do something naughty to slrpnk.net by any chance? I only saw your comment incidentally when viewing my thread directly on the custodial host. I cannot even force your comment to appear by searching the URL on slrpnk.net. I am not blocking feddit.org either.

Anyway, not sure you will see my reply because I cannot use the reply button on your post; but I’ll answer here:

Source? You’re definitely not paying 4x the online price when you pay in cash for a bus ticket where I live.

I’m not sure if this Flixbus problem is published anywhere. I can only speak from experience. A ticket starting at €10 will often get as high as €40—60 at the moment of departure. You can verify this just by looking at buses departing today and comparing to the same route a couple months into the future.

(edit) I imagine you are thinking in terms of public transport. In that case, some bus networks outright refuse cash at all possible sales points including drivers. There are some press shops that sell tickets for cash but only as a 10 pack, not single trips. So a cash payer who needs a simple one-off to go to the airport is fucked.

Remember that in capitalism, anything but growth is a tragedy

Can’t say I’m with you. If the top hat shop goes out of business because the demand for top hats dies off, it’s a good thing. It’s one of the few good features of capitalism to have a natural death of that particular variety of waste (the waste of producing beyond demand).

If the consumption of meat is dropping (good!), then it’s even more important for grocers to stock less of it.

Not eating it is much easier than stealing it.

Indeed. But also less effective.

I consider vegans neutral. They neither help nor hinder the industry of animal products. I love this quote by Desmond Tutu:

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”

Or, more controversally, stop paying for meat. I personally have no ethical problem with shoplifting meat. To buy meat is unethical because it supports the meat industry. To shoplift is to punish and deter those causing harm.

The only thing that stops me from shoplifting meat is I cannot be bothered to study the art of it and then take on the risks of getting caught.

Guardian is paywalled for me.

Certainly that’s the case in the US. It would be suicide for US republicans adhere to their conservative values and drop subsidies, which would outrage all the farmers whose vote republicans rely on. (edit) So the survival of the republican party inherently forces them into hypocricy.

But why don’t the dems nix meat subsidies? No farmers vote for dems, so no loss there. But I suppose there would be enough meat-eating dems who would abandon their own party. Just like in California a politician tried to push a fuel tax and got voted out by both parties.

Set it to make the Wi-Fi an open access point. Set it to rotate through a list of SSIDs like:

• “Find a more ethical shop than Wal·mart”
• “Watch out for Walmartians”
• “It’s ethical to shoplift evil brands (Nestle, Coke, Pepsi, Kraft, Unilever, P&G)”
• “Never show your ID to ICE agents”
• “Learn Spanish. Fuck republicans.”

Then find a way to hide it in a wall at Wal·mart, wired to power. (edit) Maybe clean every hair follicle from the keyboard first, and wipe your fingerprints.

Perhaps have a captive portal but with no uplink. One that just redirects to a web server running on the laptop that shows content supporting whatever ethical cause you want to promote.

For the laptop, you will want to ensure that the bottom of the laptop compartment is not at the bottom of the bag. A good design puts a few cm air gap between the bottom of the bag and bottom of the laptop compartment so that when you set down the bag, no shock reaches the laptop.

Maybe it’s common… not sure.

Good point. Downtime should carry that positive vibe.

Although Cloudflare also seems to go down often enough to muddle this – but nonetheless Cloudflare downtime is something to celebrate just because it gives cause to drive people off CF.

The article doesn’t say /when/ someone must become vegan to benefit. If someone eats meat regularly their whole life then goes vegan at 65, is that too late to make a notable difference?

Also a bit interesting about the gut health. I would have expected meat eaters to be getting bigger doses of gut bacteria.

Of course I will need to be in a disposable income situation to get one of these.

The prices I’ve seen for the simple plug-in PVs are terrible. I can only imagine it making sense on frequent road trips or camping, or perhaps in situations where you live in an apartment and have no rooftop real estate for proper panels.

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If you require something that couldn’t be used over CloudFlare, that cedes a whole lot of power to what they choose to support

Power is excessively unreasonably ceded when Cloudflare is in the loop. To avoid CF is to put power back where it belongs. Cloudflare-incompatible tech ensures CF does not wield inappropriate power.

any networking could, in theory, be run by proxy.

Indeed, and this frustrates sigsec. Connecting to someone requires trusting them not to do something stupid like hand their keys to a giant centralised corporate overlord. At least avoiding Cloudflare is low-hanging fruit. It’s usually easy to detect when CF is in the loop, apart from a few rare shenanigans where CF uses some IPs that are not in CF’s ASN records.

Can’t reach the tor-hostile article, so I’ll just comment on the topic.

JP Morgan is always the biggest offender worldwide on the annual “Banking on Climate Chaos” reports. There’s quite a bit of dirt on them here:

https://git.disroot.org/cyberMonk/liberethos_paradigm/src/branch/master/usa_banks.md

So of course anyone decent boycotts JP Morgan Chase.

I have 25 tabs open on Ungoogled Chromium w/the Sway window manager, without struggle, and a few other workspaces and browsers going. But Sway may be making the difference. I think things like Gnome and KDE can be a bit heavy.

4gb is what I have. That’s plenty for linux.

I actually prefer 2008 chips (no spy chips / management engine). And yet my local charity rejects any laptop older than a Windows 7 sticker. So the hardware I prefer gets trashed before I can get to it because it’s presumed too old for anyone.

If you put it on freecycle.org with a pic of the stuff sitting on the curb, there is no calling dibs. It’s a competition between other takers and the rain which can inspire quick action.

follow the link. See the title. Read the article. It’s about Matrix.