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What is damaging is the brute ugliness of modern materialism. We don't just use plastic to manufacture surgical tools, we use it to make plastic toy that we ship halfway round the world to give away with an equally repugnant 'happy meal' from McDonalds. Then we throw it away (hopefully into a bin) along with all its plastic wrapping.
That's not to say I don't agree with you - I massively support a ban on throw away plastic too (and more). I just think we need to be careful about demonising plastic as a material.
Podcasts remind me of fanzines. Which is a great thing.
Not only a great podcast app, but it respects your Freedom. It's the only thing I miss about not having a smartphone.
Sorry, I couldn't see your healthy skepticism as it was blocked from view by your statement of fact.
You sum up a fundamental problem of the world so well - you don't know, but you damn well wont let that stop you from formulating a strong opinion about it!
These hits could include a grown adult looking at an adult model's pics on twitter, on their own phone, in their own time.
Correction - there have been isolated, but high-profile, instances of abuse and harassment at Westminster. Same as pretty much every industry.
2) As I mentioned, the figures are suspect. Sure, there probably are some people actively checking out pornhub or whatever. I don't care about that any more than if they were looking at reddit or eBay or Facebook.
An example I read the other day was of a woman who had a new phone account locked down for 'adult content' as per new rules. She was complaining that it was flagging things like mumsnet as adult content.
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My workstation and laptop are both libreboot'd and running Debian XFCE/i3wm. I am also enthusiastic about Trisquel, but prefer to use Debian.
It's says porn in the title, but there is frequent reference to blocking 'adult content'. In this regard 'adult content' can be a very wide net. Sometimes blocking things which are not 'adult content' at all...
The Guardian article contains quotes which[1][2] raise my suspicions about the validity of this issue. I'm not an expert, but surely for such a large amount of users (plus, what I'd imagine is an easily accessed guest WiFi) the amount of block access attempts isn't that high?
Aside from that, why should I care that someone looks at (shock! horror!) 'adult content' on their phone? I'm surprised that this puritan attitude to pornography still persists. I also thought we progressed beyond the whole sex lives of politicians nonsense too.
[1] "A parliamentary spokesman said of the figures: “All pornographic websites are blocked by parliament’s computer network. The vast majority of attempts to access them are not deliberate. The data shows requests to access websites, not visits to them."
[2] “There are 8,500 computers on the parliamentary network, which are used by MPs, peers, their staff and staff of both Houses. This data also covers personal devices used when logged on to parliament’s guest wifi.”
It suggests to me that the intervention is prompting businesses to consider their all round plastic use (i.e. they're making proactive change expecting upcoming legislation) or they're responding to consumer opinion.
Either way, this is a really positive step. Also, more importantly, the public seem supportive. I think the success of the 5p plastic bag charge has made people rethink their opposition to green schemes.
In the UK I've started to notice the emergence of plastic alternatives, e.g. M&S have wooden cutlery for take away food now instead of plastic. It's good to see.
If only we could make some progress on disposable coffee cups...
“Piracy”
Publishers often refer to copying they don't approve of as “piracy.” In this way, they imply that it is ethically equivalent to attacking ships on the high seas, kidnapping and murdering the people on them. Based on such propaganda, they have procured laws in most of the world to forbid copying in most (or sometimes all) circumstances. (They are still pressuring to make these prohibitions more complete.)
If you don't believe that copying not approved by the publisher is just like kidnapping and murder, you might prefer not to use the word “piracy” to describe it. Neutral terms such as “unauthorized copying” (or “prohibited copying” for the situation where it is illegal) are available for use instead. Some of us might even prefer to use a positive term such as “sharing information with your neighbor.”
A US judge, presiding over a trial for copyright infringement, recognized that “piracy” and “theft” are smear words.
The bigger, more popular, and ubiquitous it became the more corporate and political powers were going to seek to rule it. Now were are at an age of internet giants with the GDP of small countries, and political elections being swayed by the bovine herds of Facebook and Twitter users (or useds as Stallman calls them!). The internet has come so far from my happy memories of the late 90s.
My prediction is that we will see multiple 'internets'. Whether for political reasons (e.g. China), or commercial (someone like Facebook or Google providing their version of internet to a 3rd world country).
Then of course we have things like dark web. I think many will stop seeing the darkweb as a place of CP and drug dealing, and more of an internet free from regulation.
It's an interesting point in history. . . . (I'm a bookwork so please share any recommendations on this topic!)
Google, Amazon, McDonalds, Walmart, AirBNB, cheap meat & eggs (you know why it's cheap, right?)... all topped off with some hands-down-the-pants fawning over elements of US culture and their 'best military' (do you have a 'top 10 best wars ever' too?).
I would argue that it is less a quality issue, and more that experienced GNU/Linux users tend not have a strong preference for touchpads. There's no collective desire to improve them.
Away from my desktop (where a touchpad is irrelevant) my X200 doesn't even have a touchpad. I have an X250 thinkpad with touchpad, but it sees minimal use and performs just fine. I tend to use it when the laptop is at arms reach and it's easier to select a file that way than lean over and use the keyboard.
When I'm working I use i3wm (tiling window manager) and most GNU/Linux application make huge use of keyboard bindings. Using a mouse, or worse a trackpad, is massively inefficient.
'OMG, I wish my new MacBook Pro enormous trackpad functioned better when I'm using Ubuntu' is not a phrase I hear often.
I quite like Vivian Maier's work, but I'm at a loss to understand why this is deemed a worthy submission to a news bulletin board for tech news.
BTW, here's an interesting tech article on salad; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salad
I would disagree with this point. I think this is exactly what the Purism marketing would like you to believe, but in reality, it just isn't true.
I would class myself as on the Stallman spectrum - I use a libreboot'd X200 running Trisquel, a dumbphone, no social media etc, email providers using Free Software, and so on.
In my experience of the community, Purism is very much disliked by many, and even seen as harmful to the efforts of the Free Software community. The inclusion of PureOS on the FSF distro list has more to do with technicality rather than recommendation and their hardware is pure marketing BS.
Quick search returns: Cereal Ventures is an experimental product incubator by Ben Adam and Caleb Barclay
Webpage returns: 'Investment Calculator' and 'Day of the Dead'.
OP 'calebbarclay' has only three submissions to HN: Investment Calculator, Day of the Dead, and Dwellito
I think HN is a great place to see people's work, but users need to be upfront about their association to what they submit. This is should clearly be listed using 'Show HN:'