#Mozilla has announced that they are closing their Mastodon instance.

But at least, they are hiring a lot, which is nice.

Like:
- Machine Learning Engineer, Gen AI
- Principal Product Manager, Generative AI
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Gen AI
- …

Wait, are there hiring for something else than AI ?

Of course:

- Senior Staff Software Engineer, Ads
- Client Analytics Manager
- Product Policy Manager, Ads
- …

mozilla.org/en-US/careers/list

@bret

You wrote about the :

> With 3 RISC-V laptop announcements in quick succession, ..

bret.dk/framework-risc-v-mainb

Question: which are those other 2 RISC-V laptops?

@dromografos

Maybe we need tourism/travel per capita budgets like we need CO2 budgets?

Or at least a culture of self reflexion about one's own footprint.

@lupyuen @PINE64

> .. Sophgo SG2000 SoC with dual T-Head C906 64-bit RISC-V cores, an ARM Cortex A53 64-bit RISC CPU core ..

So this is _not_ , right? An ARM Cortex core can't be open source, right?

@AnarchoNinaWrites

> This is not a democracy, so "our democracy" cannot be saved.

Problem is: most people don't even realise this.

In the western countries they'll say, "yeah, things aren't perfect, but look at these countries with authoritarian governments, it's not that bad here", and dismiss your words as propaganda by some foreign enemy.

What do you do to make people recognise reality?

@infozentrale

.. Und wenn die Menschen ebenfalls nicht verstehen, dass ihr politischer Aktivismus (links vs rechts) zu einem guten Teil bewusst als Beschäftigungstherapie kultiviert und stimuliert wird .. durch die Eliten .. zum Zweck der Ablenkung von Problemen wie: Unterwanderung des politischen Betriebs (Parteien,Gremien,..) durch das große Kapital, grassierende Ungleichheit, usw.

@infozentrale

Wenn die Menschen immer noch nicht verstehen, dass die AfD durch derartigen Protest nicht schwächer sondern eher stärker wird.

Wenn man versucht, die Partei an gewöhnlichen legalen Aktivitäten (Parteitag) zu hindern, sorgt man dafür, dass sich sich zurecht als Opfer inkonsequenter Rechtsauslegung darstellen können.

MMn eine einfältige Taktik die nach hinten los gehen muss.

Das wird ihre WählerInnen nicht zweifeln lassen sondern nur bestärken.

@Weinberg

Linke Parteitage/Demos werden doch auch beschützt, oder hab ich was verpasst?

What the ...? "file manager" app "Files" deletes tags when "copying" a jpg photo file.

What kind of file manager modifies a file's content when "copying"?

I mean, sorry, this is just inacceptible. Hey , remove your dirty ass fingers from my data!

I don't care whether oh so privacy friendly Google wants to protect me from accidently exposing some GPS coordinates.

A file manager JUST DOES NOT MODIFY FILES WHILE COPYING, PERIOD!

(com.android.documentsui)

CN food 

@mntmn

And .. even though it's organic I'm pretty sure the taste/quality is not on par with Seeberger.

@strypey

To be clear. The behavior of many of the richest 1 % is intolerably destructive and damaging to the ecosphere. Private jets, yachts, luxurious real estate, cars, fossil business models, ... often part of their lifestyles.

But it's just not true that their share of the carbon footprint is that big and thus important.

According to ourworldindata the richest 16 % of the global population account for 38 % of global CO2.
Let's be pessimistic and assume the richest 1 % account for 15 % of global CO2.
Then let's leave out the poorer 49 % of global population as they only account for 14 % of CO2.
Taking the richer 51 % of population and subtracting the richest 1 % (using the above assumption) leaves us with 50 % of global population (~ 4 billion people) accounting for 86 % - 15 % = 71 % of global CO2.

Even though the richest 1 % do lead dramatically more destructive lifestyles, the claim that only the individual actions of the richest 1 % should be relevant, while the individual actions of 4 billion people accounting for 71 % of global CO2 aren't really relevant for reducing the burden on our ecosphere, appears obviously and clearly wrong to me.

Sure, institutional actions are a very impactful means to lower the footprint of the billions. They are necessary, yes, but they're not sufficient at all.

> The purpose of the "personal responsibility" ideology is to misdirect people's attention, away from institutions and the wealthiest individuals, and onto policing each other.

And the purpose of the "the rich are the biggest emissions problem" ideology is to misdirect people's (meaning the 50 % of the richer half) attention from their own over consumption, so that they can point fingers and continue their 6.4 tCO2 (~ 3 x earth) lifestyles and keep the trickle-up-consumerism-economy running at full speed (*) .. instead of shrinking their consumption to 2.x tCO2, which would (on paper) reduce global emissions by 33 %.

Getting the richest 1 % to lower their emissions by 90 % - something I would totally welcome and even demand - would (on paper) reduce global emissions by just 13,5 %.

When I see how many people all around me (definitely not belonging to the 1 %) ventilate their homes in winter by just leaving a window tilted open most of the time, it's just one of the countless examples of how the 50 % emit a huge amount of CO2 totally needlessly, without any benefit at all (except for oil/gas companies' revenues).

We need to rescue the ecosphere. And not only the richest 1 % or 15 % need to consume/emit less, but also billions of people of the richer half of global population need to as well.
It's not just "those guys up there who we never meet in person" but "this guy over there" and "person xyz right next to you/me".

ourworldindata.org/co2-emissio

(*) Sounds like a legit conspiracy theory to me: the capitalists want the masses to think their emissions are negligible (because the emissions of the rich are many times larger) and to think what they're doing is mostly ok and just the richer people need to change their behaviour .. and to continue to consume, so their trickle-up businesses continue earning them money.

@strypey

Absolutely, yes.

Mechanical cleaning of scraps --> short rinsing --> brush + cold water + detergent --> rinse again --> let water drip off and dry --> put away --> done.

@strypey

Another thought: people too closely watching eachother's consumption and behavior is rightly frowned upon ... but a certain degree of watching and communication and feedback is IMO clearly needed if we want to keep the planet habitable.

@strypey

Definitely know the feeling.

Only one of the different tragedies of co-living.

With all the upsides that co-living and shared houses/appartments/flats or even bigger communities have, they also usually come with several downsides.

With every single resource that's being shared and simply split evenly across the number of people, that means there's yet another weakened element in the mental system.

Let's say you're a really frugal person and very cautious with your consumption .. and you share waste, electricity, heating, hot/cold water with two others .. all your individual efforts to conserve these resources only earn you 33 % of your actual effort. The other 66 % goes to the other two (assuming they're less diligent). And the other way round, one of the other two person's lavish behavior only costs them 33 % more and 66 % get paid by you and the other one.

Not really strong incentives to be mindful about consumption.

I live with a guy who uses so much warm water for showering and dish washing that even though I never use warm water for the dishes and currently I always shower with cold water (nicely refreshing :D ~12 °C), our combined consumption is that of a small family.

I really see this as a big problem of our time: everybody impacts the whole world with their behavior but only feels a fraction of the (mostly negative) feedback.

Talking about it could *maybe* help, but it's surely everything but fun for everyone.

Ideally all appliances should have meters on them right next to the controls, that constantly show consumption and maybe even calculate the energy consumption or the price.

@hehemrin

Just set up my nostr a few days ago.

Unlike @e33io@gnulinux.social my experience was not that Bitcoin’y .. as with Mastodon it 100% depends upon who you follow .. plenty of people there who rarely chat about Bitcoin.

If you're new you might first have to vade through some of the many Bitcoiners who undoubtedly are there .. but given a few days patience, you'll find enough other content, I'm quite sure.

@dameoutlaw@mstdn.social @volkris Maybe hinting at the distributed approaches that might become available.

@Oshaughnessy

Thanks for pointing this out, I should have mentioned it.

@carnage4life

Wow, this:

> Of course, the easiest way to prevent harvested components from entering the parts stream is to destroy as many old devices as possible. That's why 's so-called "" program shreds any devices you turn over to them. When you trade in your old iPhone at an Apple Store, it is converted into immortal e-waste (no other major recycling program does this). The logic is straightforward: no parts, no repairs:

> vice.com/en/article/yp73jw/app

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