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I mean, I feel like this year in particular illustrates quite well that there are already very real impacts of climate change in rich countries, with Canada, Greece, Hawaii etc. burning. Which makes it worth to delay climate change as much as possible, even if we can't or don't want to stop it at livable levels.

Yeah, these days, many people become vegan to combat climate change and are opposed to fossil fuels even before that...

I wasn't sure about it either. There's security researchers out there who might genuinely want to get a virus to run in a VM.

But yeah, the cmalw-lib-2.0 gives it away...

I don't know, man, I'm still routing for having a bulldozer drive over random walkways throughout the day.

Bad at parking or got a car that just won't fit into parking lots? → Enjoy a newly shortened car.

Was recently looking for emojis to indicate success/failure in a CLI and for a checkmark, you have these options: ✔️✅☑️

I figured, I'd take the one with green background for best visibility.

Now for an X-emoji, we've got this one: ❌
But isn't there one with a background, too?
Well, yes, there is, but: ❎

(That's displayed with a green background on most systems, in case it's showing differently for anyone.)

Every now and then, you'll see some journalist uncovering the great revelation that Mozilla is doing unthinkable things, but I have never these stories actually being relevant, if you do more research on the topic.

Some examples:

• Mozilla use Google Analytics! → Yes, but they have a special contract with Google to protect user data: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697436#c14
• Mozilla uses Google Safebrowsing! → Yes, but they have technical measures in place to limit user identification (on top of Google stating that they do not use Google Safebrowsing data for tracking): https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/how-safe-browsing-works-in-firefox/
• Mozilla has privacy-invading ads on the new-tab-page! → Again, they have technical measures in place to avoid privacy issues: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sponsor-privacy#w_what-data-is-shared

And telemetry by itself is not evil either. It depends entirely on what data is actually being sent. You can look at what Mozilla sends by typing "about:telemetry" into the URL bar. In my opinion, that is perfectly fine.

Ultimately, though, they enjoy so much trust, because they have no profit motive. The Mozilla Foundation is legally a non-profit and the Mozilla Corporation is a 100% subsidiary of the Foundation, so cannot pay out profits to anyone either.

Any 'evil' shit they do to make money, they do it to pay wages and to invest further into Firefox & their other projects.

You can criticize that the CEO takes a salary she can't possibly spend (yet is below industry-standard, to my knowledge). And you can argue whether they should be taking so much money from Google rather than other sources.

But all in all, that still leaves them far above companies who need to exploit users as much as justifiable, to make the maximum amount of profit.

Yep, always fun to take apart SVG logos. I mean, some of them are just boring paths. But often enough, it's easier to overlay simple shapes to visually merge or clip them in clever ways.

What is funny, this seems to be a German store. In German, "null" means "zero". So, there's probably some extremely funny joke about this product being free.

...alright, I'm starting to agree with the title of this post.

I like to use this one: https://wttr.in/

You can get info for a specific city by appending it like this: https://wttr.in/newyork

Meta's new Threads network is supposed to start federating via ActivityPub at some point.

https://tilvids.com has some reasonable ones, although they're often just as well YouTubers, so you get similar clickbait, unfortunately.

Yeah, this works especially well for currencies (effectively doing all calculations in cents/pennies), as you do need perfect precision throughout the calculations, but the final results gets rounded to two-digit-precision anyways.