Agreed. But I must say it’s surprising to see this insight come from a lemmy.world acct. Surely you must know that LW is in Cloudflare’s exclusive walled-garden, no?

I would really prefer if users would just stop being pushovers. If people were wise enough to not solve CAPTCHAs, the problem would vanish. But ppl are too fucking lazy to use analog mechanisms.

But ppl are pushovers.

I tried to buy something online recently. The merchant’s website pushed a CAPTCHA as a precondition to submitting the order. WTF. People have become spineless pushovers to the point of doing work as customers, who never learned that it is the suppliers who must be subservient to the client. And because people have no discipline, the tyranny works. So the CAPTCHA-pushing merchant remains in business.

It does not replace the ambulance, which is still enroute when the aircraft arrives.

Just like the cycling medics in London who can sometimes arrive faster than the ambulance.

When human hybernation emerges, these very-first responders will be able to put someone into hibernation while the ambulance makes its way.

Is there a cliff’s notes? I tried to reach it via invidious:

http://inv.nadekonw7plitnjuawu6ytjsl7jlglk2t6pyq6eftptmiv3dvqndwvyd.onion/watch?__goaway_challenge=js-refresh&__goaway_id=e91ee8c6cb50133d43d857dfec0d1d14&__goaway_referer=http%3A%2F%2Finv.nadekonw7plitnjuawu6ytjsl7jlglk2t6pyq6eftptmiv3dvqndwvyd.onion%2F&local=true&quality=medium&v=czsb3xFHm_c

Could not even get the transcript, and 403 forbidden when just trying to get audio.

pcregrep is not automatically installed with Debian but it’s in the official repos. It seems common to get:

pcregrep: Too many errors - abandoned.
pcregrep: Error -8, -21 or -27 means that a resource limit was exceeded.
pcregrep: Check your regex for nested unlimited loops.

But it will help in many cases. I can see that it works on sufficiently small files. I noticed the built-in grep function for emacs can be modified to use pcregrep w/-M added instead of grep, which I find quite important because emacs makes it very easy to jump around to visit different results. In the end it’s still a hack.

I currently use the find-grep function in emacs, which is basically: find . -type f -exec grep 'my.*search.*pattern' {} +

To do PDFs, I use something like find . -type f -iname \*pdf -exec pdfgrep 'my.*search.*pattern' {} +

My problem is generally when TOKEN1<space>TOKEN2 has a line break between tokens. It’s fucking annoying that grep is line-by-line. I wonder if Hister solves that problem. But from the website, I see no advanced syntax. I would love to search a pattern like word1 w/s word2, which would find cases where word1 and word2 appear in the same sentence. And word1 w/p word2 to match cases where two words are in the same paragraph.

Remember that in capitalism, anything but growth is a tragedy

Can’t say I’m with you. If the top hat shop goes out of business because the demand for top hats dies off, it’s a good thing. It’s one of the few good features of capitalism to have a natural death of that particular variety of waste (the waste of producing beyond demand).

If the consumption of meat is dropping (good!), then it’s even more important for grocers to stock less of it.

Not eating it is much easier than stealing it.

Indeed. But also less effective.

I consider vegans neutral. They neither help nor hinder the industry of animal products. I love this quote by Desmond Tutu:

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”

Or, more controversally, stop paying for meat. I personally have no ethical problem with shoplifting meat. To buy meat is unethical because it supports the meat industry. To shoplift is to punish and deter those causing harm.

The only thing that stops me from shoplifting meat is I cannot be bothered to study the art of it and then take on the risks of getting caught.

Guardian is paywalled for me.

Certainly that’s the case in the US. It would be suicide for US republicans adhere to their conservative values and drop subsidies, which would outrage all the farmers whose vote republicans rely on. (edit) So the survival of the republican party inherently forces them into hypocricy.

But why don’t the dems nix meat subsidies? No farmers vote for dems, so no loss there. But I suppose there would be enough meat-eating dems who would abandon their own party. Just like in California a politician tried to push a fuel tax and got voted out by both parties.

There are 4 interesting attributes (which makes Fediseer quite useful because no other dataset captures this level of detail):

• open_registrations
• approval_required
• email_verify
• has_captcha

When running select open_registrations,approval_required,email_verify,has_captcha from FSnodeTbl where open_registrations = 0 | sort -u`, we get all varieties of combinations:

0|||
0||0|
0|0||
0|0||0
0|0|0|0
0|0|0|1
0|0||1
0|0|1|0
0|0|1|1
0||1|
0|1||
0|1||0
0|1|0|0
0|1|0|1
0|1||1
0|1|1|0
0|1|1|1

AFAICT, the value of open_registrations is not implied by the other variables. It seems to be an independent variable that should mean just what it describes on the face of it.

And if we consider just cases where open_registrations is true, there are fewer combinations, strangely, but still it’s independent of approval_required (2nd column):

1|||
1|0||
1|0||1
1|1||
1|1||1

Sounds like Paypal, who is “not a bank”, but who operates on the basis that you must link a bank or interact with a bank to do transactions. But you say unbanked people can use it? How do you get cash loaded onto it?

I suppose it’s still far from being something I could find useable because apps that reject rooted phones would be closed-source (read: untrustworthy; misplaced control).

Wow, wtf! I would not expect that degree of mass surveillance to be economically viable. And so overtly stark in the face of the GDPR. In principle, we should be able to make a GDPR access request to the central bank to ask them where we shop with cash and which ATMs we used.

I don’t get why “QR” is described as a “payment option”. It’s still a bank account transaction in the end which is exclusively for banked people. And worse, it excludes people without recent smartphones and the Google Playstore account needed to get the closed-source app that violates our software freedom.

I have a hard time giving a shit about the novelty of not carrying a plastic card in the big scheme of things, when forced-banking is being oppressively shoved in our faces and privacy is toast, while also being vulnerable to systemic denial of service in the event of cyberattacks as acts of war. While violating our human rights (banks treat different people differently based on where they come from).

Europeans are fucked as far as privacy goes. The GDPR is unenforced. But even if were enforced, the GDPR’s data minimisation (article 5) rule only obligates data controllers to consider options that are available.

We know from all the cashless bars in Amsterdam how naive and flippant consumers are about privacy. Creating a digital footprint of alcohol consumption is one of the most foolish things consumers can do, particularly in light of that Scandinavian guy who was denied a mortgage on the basis of his drinking habits, which were known to the bank by his purchase history.

Privacy aside, there is a human rights issue because banks treat different demographics of people differently. It’s disturbing how the human rights problem is so overlooked.

In any case, Albania cannot join the EU while being cashless unless Albania keeps their own currency.