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Comment Re:Since when has ANY "carbon offset" been real? (Score 1) 78

The scientific theory of carbon offsets is sound. The problem isn't in the idea of them, it's in the execution, which is either backed up (or not) by governments. The governments are in the pockets of Big Oil, so they don't enforce these agreements. Every time a corporation claims it's going to offset its carbon and doesn't, that's obviously fraud, and an executive should go to prison for it. And equally, the corporation should be fined more than it made through sales which would not have occurred without the fraud. Anything less is not a deterrent. The government creates the corporations (it grants them a charter, without which they do not exist) and then it fails to enforce their behavior.

It is still better to have carbon taxes instead and spend the proceeds on bioremediation including carbon fixing. But they would just have loopholes for the taxes, because the root problem is crony capitalism.

Comment Re:Oil companies are scum (Score 1) 78

While what you said is true, the same people who are shouting this are still, driving to work, and other fossil fuel related demands. They're not going to give it up, they're waiting for someone else to fix the problem

I don't have the ability to put in rail, and I still have to get to work. Fuck you for blaming this on me when I need to survive, and I have spent hours and hours in advocacy of superior solutions even though the typical response is mockery.

Comment Re:Marketing (Score 1) 36

1. Some apps work offline, but that doesn't work if they are webpages. I use my compass app when I am far from any cell tower.

https://developer.ibm.com/tuto...

2. Many apps use on-device databases, credentials, or other local storage.

https://developer.mozilla.org/...
Space is limited, to be fair, but if more storage were commonly needed that could no doubt be arranged.

3. Many apps use the camera, microphone, tilt sensor, or neural engine.

The browser supports 3/4 of those devices.

4. Users feel secure seeing a dedicated icon on their screen and less secure about searching for a website and then remembering their login and password.

The browser manages logins and passwords.

Comment Re: Rules for thee but not for me (Score 1, Insightful) 48

"This is the taboo question that no none is allowed to ask, because everyone already knows the answer, and the answer is not the evil racist white man."

In fact that often IS the answer. Nations were destroyed with colonialism, and racism was literally invented to excuse it. Many have also been deliberately suppressed since through various foul means including sanctions, backing coups, and outright assassination. That answer is the real taboo, especially if you ask the governments responsible.

Comment Re:The solution no one will implement (Score 0) 41

Here's the obvious solution that none of these companies will implement. Don't create an AI that purports to know anything. They don't. Instead, make one that can explain it's answers or reasoning and doesn't pretend to understand anything.

Nobody knows how to do that, at least not for a model of useful size. It would have to be reasoning in order to explain, but they aren't doing that.

Comment Re:I prefer to be in charge of my vehicle's brakin (Score 1) 283

The speed sensitive cruise control systems should not permit you to choose a following distance which is so excessively close.

They don't. That is one of the chief complaints about adaptive cruise control systems by people

The systems do in fact allow you to choose less than 3 seconds' following distance. People are literally complaining that the system won't let them drive unsafely.

The more space you have between cars the faster you can safely move on the road in question which also means the higher the road capacity.

The faster you go, the more space you need between cars to maintain safe following distance. If I have a safe following distance between me and the car ahead, if someone merges into that space then I no longer have safe following distance, so now we need even more space. At commute times there is not enough road available for all the cars to have safe following distance at speed. This is what happens on any overutilized road. If you wait for that much distance to appear then traffic backs up at the point of entry.

Comment Re:You're using crypto wrong (Score 1) 16

This has the added benefit of using something a bit more stable than the US dollar, which doesn't have a fixed supply because they keep printing more of it.

They also destroy it, but they should be printing more of it (and not destroying the same amount) when GDP expands.

Comment Re:Tracking (Score 2) 39

Tracking is the root problem. Remove tracking and you remove the imbalance and drive behind collecting all that meta data in the first place.

Tracking is only the way the data is gathered.

Make it illegal to sell the data and then you make it possible for the authorities to do something about it, which reduces much of the drive behind etc etc.

Comment Re:Just use Debian (Score 1) 117

I used the root on ZFS instructions for Debian and they worked pretty well for Devuan. You have to change some commands and package names a little bit for sysvinit instead of systemd, but everything you need is in the repos.

I did my install with Devuan 4, but I upgraded and am now running Devuan 5 with kernel 6.6.13, and pipewire/wireplumber. The only vestige of PoetteringOS on my system is pulseaudio, which is not running. It's there for the client libraries, and for the package dependency for volume controls for X desktops.

Comment Re:I hate modern Linux distros (Score 1) 117

It's not a big deal to just have more libraries installed in most cases. It would be nice if it were a little easier, though. You can have as many versions of whatever library around as you want, that's not a problem, but then there's those libraries' associated resource files in /usr/share or whatever.

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