I also discovered Lemmy by following communities from Mastodon.
The former is topic-focused, the latter people-focused, we need both, and better interaction between.
One issue for discoverability: Mastodon now has full-text search (used to be only hashtags), but only if a user opts in to this (settings). So can a Lemmy community or user opt in to be searchable from Mastodon ?
benjhm
joined 2 years ago
The problem is that whatever careful process EU implements to restrict spread of fake news etc., authoritarian states will copy its facade and terminology, to justify their own censorship of real news ( in Russia people go to prison for calling a war a war).
Don't worry, understanding how life survives millenia in-ice may eventually help us, when we need spaceships to transfer to another planet...
Much of Mumbai will eventually be drowned by rising sea-level. More big roads (with 'No public transport' options') help make that happen sooner. . 'Conceptualised 60yrs ago....' - a lot changed since then - can't they learn from other cities mistakes?
Maybe in some cases, the party changed since they joined, and it’s a bipolar electoral system that effectively kills splits.
At least he (and those who assisted) tried, helps to show there was potential opposition, makes it more obvious to denounce the sham elections.
There is no climate panacea, only baskets of solutions. Bamboo has remarkable properties from an engineering pov - strong light hollow tubes, and so could be used more to substitute for plastics and metals, in relatively short-lived products (which most are). You are right that it's not so durable as wood from trees, and it’s more suited to wet climates. I have several kinds in my garden, green in winter, grape vines dangle along it in summer, a shallow root barrier (old tiles) contain it.
My boys have chromebooks, it’s almost mandatory for school now, and I get why teachers need the whole class to have a similar locally-networked tool. Problem is we as parents can't set anything, as we don't have 'developer' access, and the school controls their accounts. So at home, they do stupid stuff. The hardware is ok, I wish it was just linux. About what google gets - I doubt the current data is so valuable, they play a long game hoping to lock young people into their ecosystem, to profit from people with cash/energy in their 20s.
Does 'foreign funding' include from within EU? If so, doesn't that break the concept of the Single European Market for services (as well as democracy and human rights etc.)?
One reason people stick on Lemmy and other fediverse communities, is the choice of quality over quantity (in this case - wrt comments). So quality over quantity could also apply to platforms like Codeberg. Github has so many abandoned student projects or forks going nowhere - maybe making the effort to look beyond the obvious is an indicator of serious (new) projects and contributors ?
It’s not easy insulating old houses, getting into all the neuks and crannies. The people who know those best are the inhabitants, so there should be more incentives for DIY solutions. Also, such houses were built to be heated one room at a time, not for 'modern comfort' with thermostats and open doors, so expectations could adapt - really cold-blasts in western europe only last a couple of weeks. Alternatively 'heritage' expectations have to give, to cover exterior walls. Traveling further east in europe, you rarely see bare brick walls, they are always painted (with insulation below).