Google talk a lot about future renewables and nuclear energy projects, but they’re increasing energy consumption before those projects start producing energy.

So Google rely on burning lots of fossil fuel to power its fast AI developments, meaning their AI plans are increasing pollution and aggravating climate change.

Any Brave alternative that works on iOS?

I’ve installed brave on some familly iOS device because that’s the best I could find at the time. But hope to find a good replacement.

Cromite use a third party repo, rather than being in the main one. And I’m hesitant to add repos for my system’s security.

Do anyone has some informations or sources on Cromite’s maintainer, whether cromite.org is safe to add to repos?

This could further accelerate the arms race between malicious srappers and websites.

My fear is this would create collateral damage, block legitimate scrappers and visitors, hassle people with an increasing number of captcha.

Please make an effort to avoid X.

If you’re looking for someone’s or an organization’s feed, look for alternatives such as:

• Look for that person’s Mastodon account,
• Look for a blog or website. It may have a RSS feed, if not try https://fetchrss.com/generator/generate
• Look for a bluesky account, and get its RSS feed with a tool like https://fetchrss.com/generator/generate

the company also said AI could have a “net positive potential” on climate

It’s going to get us Net Fucked by 2030

Lab grown meat may increase emissions:

Lab-Grown Meat’s Carbon Footprint Potentially Worse Than Retail Beef

It shouldn’t be produced on mass scale unless we’re confident it would decrease emissions.

Meanwhile it’s better to promote vegarian or flexitarian diets as less carbon-intensive and more ethical options.

What makes you think this would only affect YouTube?

Interesting question. Altough trying this with HIV first is a good first choice in term of priority.

That’s promising but the cure is years aways, if possible at all.

Until then, keep using condoms and/or PreP.

Further research will be needed to determine whether revealing the virus is enough to allow the body’s immune system to deal with it, or whether the technology will need to be combined with other therapies to eliminate HIV from the body.

The study is laboratory based and was carried out in cells donated by HIV patients. The path to using the technology as part of a cure for patients is long, and would require successful tests in animals followed by safety trials in humans, likely to take years, before efficacy trials could even begin.

I would settle for 100x slower but uncensored Internet.

It’s less creepy than asking “This is your home address, isn’t it?”

Recall the time when Windows came on a DVD, had no Microsoft account option on install, no ads in settings nor in the startup menu, no AI slop.

It was still shit, but it feels shittier now, and harder to setup and configure in a way that’s bearable.

Thanks for the information.

The app is distributed in a third party repo, not the main F-Droid repo, so before installating I’m trying to check if it’s open-source, had some independent review, and is safe to install.

The source is available but the license isn’t recognised as OSS according to the OSI website. https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay https://opensource.org/licenses

This may explain why it’s not in the main F-Droid repo. It’s better than closed source anyway.

Alternatives like actual cash, proof-of-stake cryptocurrency, or even EMV.

Most alternatives aren’t completely anonymous payment methods, but Monero’s anonymity isn’t worth wasting so much resources.

Monero has a disproportionally large energy usage and footprint on the environment. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-018-0152-7

Please consider less wasteful alternatives. Every bit help, it’s about keeping earth safe for human life.

Briar use Tor by default as well for Internet connections, so I don’t think Session is unique in that way. And both appear decentralized.

A difference is that Briar is Android-only, whereas session is available on more platforms https://sourceforge.net/software/compare/Briar-vs-Session-vs-Signal/

It’s good that people are working on privacy-preserving tools. But I wish they’d coordinate to avoid fragmentation. Work on common/standard messenging protocols, so that people can talk to each other even using different software.

Currently it feels like going back to the 1990s-2000s, with ICQ/AIM/MSNM being all incompatible, and every single one being unable to communicate with a large fraction of your contacts.

First impression: why another messaging system?

It may be fine, but what does it bring that Signal/Briar/Matrix/XMPP+Omemo doesn’t have? Does it use existing standard protocol or encryption that’s compatible with other messengers, to avoid fragmentation?

Our only options were to remove the extension or manage it.

The best option is of course to install another browser and remove chrome.