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  • You can’t have this both ways.

    When a magat in the Senate brings in a snowball and says that global warming isn’t happening because it’s snowing…

    “That’s weather not climate!”

    When there’s a wildfire somewhere…

    “That’s global warming!”

    We can definitively say that this year is the hottest year on record, but we can’t attribute individual forest fires or tornadoes or hurricanes to climate change.



  • MrFagtron9000@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlEnjoy it while it lasts.
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    Spoiler alert: The civilization disrupting aspects of climate change are still decades out and the rich countries will probably be fine.

    They’ll be fine because they can afford the infrastructure projects and increased costs of energy and food.

    Now Africa, South America, the poorer Asian countries, tiny Pacific Island nations… Oh boy. I would not want to be a citizen there in 20 or 30 years.

    Eventually sea level rise will become a really big fucking problem, like for every single coastal city in the world, even the rich ones. Luckily none of us will be around to see that unless some sort of miraculous life extension technology becomes available.

    On the one hand I don’t like mentioning this because it gives the right wing ammunition to ignore climate change. But on the other hand some people have such existential dread about it that it’s damaging their mental health, they are really overestimating how damaging it will be in their lifetime in their rich country they live in.







  • MrFagtron9000@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlFirefox is the only way.
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    The harder and more complicated something is the bigger barrier to entry there is to competing against it.

    When video games were simple and fit on a single floppy disk or tape - a single person could develop an entire commercially released game. John Romero could make Dangerous Dave in a week or two, by himself.

    Now that games are like Grand Theft Auto V they require hundreds of millions of dollars to create with teams of hundreds of people over nearly a decade. The voice acting in motion capture alone cost many many times more than a game would cost to make in the '80s.

    The same goes with web browsers. Chromium is open source and free, it works well, so why spend tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to make your own new thing?

    What benefit did Microsoft get from spending all that money on EdgeHTML versus just using Chromium? None. That’s why they switched to Chromium.

    Oh… so to answer your question no one is “allowing” a few tech companies to denominate, just the complexity and cost of creating new products leads to these natural monopolies sort of forming. You’re free to spend the tens of millions of dollars to make your own browser if you want to and break up this domination. I doubt you’ll do it you’ll probably just use Chromium.




  • Why do Linux nerds that care about this sort of stuff hate snaps so much?

    Is it the concept of snaps / flatpaks that is the issue or snaps specifically because Canonical is behind them?

    I know literally nothing about how they work except I installed the VLC snap and it’s fine.

    I couldn’t install Parsec (a remote desktop game streaming app) because of a missing dependency (an old version of lib-something codec that wasn’t in my newer version of Ubuntu). I spent like an hour trying to figure out how to take the 18.04 version and add it to 22.10. I don’t know Linux at all so I wasn’t making much progress. Someone, not the developers of Parsec, made a flatpak and it magically worked.

    I was afraid that because the flatpak was made by some random guy I couldn’t really trust it. I looked inside the flatpak and it’s seems to be nothing except for the Parsec deb coming straight from the official Parsec URL and that libcodec thing that was causing a problem.

    So from my perspective, not knowing the technical details or politics, what’s the problem?


  • You’re delusional.

    The fediverse stuff is just a bullet point on a sales sheet, Facebook doesn’t give a shit about federating with Lemmy or Mastodon or whatever.

    The reason they don’t give a shit is they already have a user base that is multiple times larger than Lemmy and Mastodon combined. Also normal people don’t even know what those things are. My mom doesn’t know what Mastodon is, she does know what Twitter and threads is.