Yeah, the EPI is a source that I trust to carry its bias and a regard for factual accuracy at the same time. I think it’s going to be a good read; thanks!

I would blanket not trust anything from “HR News” and just go somewhere else to find that information. One of their blogs posted here about a month ago was titled something like “Study finds 15% of Reddit content is generated by bots” or whatever.

The catch is that they only say the year and the journal. No hyperlink, no identifier, no author names, no volume + issue, no name of the artcle. After exhausting every article from that journal that year and keyword searching the fuck out of it just in case they were stupid and got the year or journal wrong, the inevitable conclusion is either that HR News is LLM slop with zero fact-checking or that it’s written by a human author who will uncritically regurgitate made-up shit they read elsewhere. I’d link you to the discussion, but the post was removed – almost certainly because it was proved to be misinformation.

I know you mean it and aren’t coming at this from the usual angle of clickbait, but

I can confirm that Alec does not disappoint in this video, although I find “please watch until the end” universally annoying.

Light brown legumes suspended in a crystaline structure? Basically the same thing.

Counterpoint to that: assume I’m Andrew and only care about my legacy. I don’t think that applies to Andrew; I think that, while he’s alive, he wants to be out of the spotlight, as unaffiliated with this as possible, not to be prosecuted, and not to potentially piss off old Epstein buddies who might have deeper dirt on him. But assume.

If I do nothing, I’ll be a footnote in the history books. People will most often see me on some list devoid of context as part of the royal family. My crimes will be explored in as much depth as possible in any extensive biography, but who’s really going to be reading one of those? And to the extent they do, surely there’s some room for an overly skeptical person to doubt it. Meanwhile, my name is going to be overshadowed by other figures like Trump for anyone reading history about the Epstein case.

If I confess, then Epstein is not only the absolute foremost thing I’ll be remembered for, but my name is going to come up at the top of and all over any account of what’s easily going to be one of the most scandalous criminal conspiracies of the 21st century. Even the dumbest, most overly skeptical idiot won’t be able to deny my involvement – of which I’m sure I’m going to have to go into gruesome specifics under oath to be permanently documented. Sure, maybe the five people who read a biography about me might see how I stood up and brought down the conspiracy and think, “Wow, he sure was slightly less of a monster for doing that!”, but the reality is that I’m probably making it much worse for the incurious general public who would otherwise, at best, see and forget me.

You’re getting downvoted for pointing out that this technology, at optimal efficiency on Earth, generates about 1/100,000 the power of a solar panel. “Not very useful” is an understatement (it’s currently fucking useless). Even worse: the title saying “at night” implies a terrestrial usage and misdirects from this technology’s only potential useful application in the future once and if it becomes much better – namely on deep-space missions.

This research is interesting. I hope it yields something useful. Your comment is still 100% correct for the foreseeable future.

Edit: I was conflating the optimal efficiency of 1 W/m² and the actual efficiency of 1/100,000 the solar panel. Sorry for introducing that confusion.

the whole crew were sleeping with each other’s spouses and everyone figured it out and had a huge fight and everyone quit the gym. Whackos.

Okay, to be fair, at a kind of crummy regular gym I went to, all the staff were fucking all the other staff. I’m not sure I blame this on CrossFit.

I apparently smell like checks notes forest. That actually made me look at the fragrant ingredients: aloe vera juice, rosemary, parsley, sage, and “fragrance”. I mean sure: put those together in one place, and bam! Forest. Or Italian home cook’s backyard garden.

I think one of those buttons turns on GLaDOS.

Did a recent poll come out? The last poll I saw in August 2025 (The Economist/YouGov) saw him at 31% total “honest and trustworthy” and 16% “not sure” (page 29).

A reduction to essentially 1/3 of that seems pretty farfetched among the stupid fucks who represent his core base even given what he’s been doing this year.

China has executed 11 members of the notorious Ming family criminal gang, who ran mafia-like scam centers in Myanmar and killed workers who tried to escape, Chinese state media reported on Thursday.

The Ming family was one of the so-called four families of northern Myanmar — crime syndicates accused of running hundreds of compounds dealing in internet fraud, prostitution and drug production, and whose members held prominent positions in the local government and militia aligned with Myanmar’s ruling junta.

Still 100% against state-sanctioned murder and would’ve preferred life in prison, but I can’t shed any tears. Apparently Wikipedia has a whole article on scam centers in Myanmar for further reading.

More established Human Rights organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have refrained from reporting total death counts amid the uncertainty caused by the internet blackout.

That’s fine, but they have been abundantly clear that there are ongoing country-wide massacres. HRW ten days ago, for example:

In the capital, Tehran, videos show a heavily militarized response to the protests as they grew. Human Rights Watch verified videos that began to circulate on January 11 of body bags and bodies piled up in and around the Forensic Diagnostic and Laboratory Center in Kahrizak, south of the capital. The bodies were placed there for families to identify their loved ones. Human Rights Watch counted at least 400 bodies visible in several videos from that site alone. This number is an undercount, as bodies were piled on top of each other, making counting difficult.

Witnesses also said that many bodies were at Tehran’s Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery Complex, 600 meters from the Kahrizak morgue. One person who went to identify the body of a loved one on January 10 said: “When we got close to the [large] halls, we saw bodies piled on top of bodies. They were in body bags, and some had tags with identification details. From the size of the halls, I could estimate that between 1,500 to 2,000 bodies were held there.” The witness said that more bodies were arriving by refrigerated trucks in the late afternoon when they were leaving the cemetery.

I think based on what you wrote that you do actually care about Iran’s civilians and denounce their massacre by Khamenei’s regime but don’t want fascists to use it as a pretext for invasion, so I assume you can, in good faith, acknowledge that this BBC News article isn’t just “manufacturing consent” and that civilians really are being murdered by the thousands by an authoritarian, theocratic regime.

Admittedly I only read this open letter and so am still too out-of-the-loop to say if Organic Maps is in the wrong here. Still, it seems like a sizable and competent enough fork that my initial bias is against Organic Maps.

As a contributor to OSM, I didn’t know about what was going on with Organic Maps. I might check out CoMaps on F-Droid to see how it compares with OsmAnd~. Thanks, OP!

Answer: yes

Lemmy users in crisis

Always has been.

“What is this, some kind of fight club?”

The post is just an ad disguised as a guide

That said:

its obvious they want to be like google but with “privacy” as a gimmic because its only private until they get a government order telling them to do something to unmask a user or monitor an email.

Besides the fact that Proton is based in Switzerland where government warrants aren’t issued willy-nilly, please learn how the mathematics behind encryption works – or, if not, at least trust that it does. For emails that are sent E2EE, Proton can only have garbled data that requires a key they don’t have.

You’re just constantly talking out your ass, and I have no idea why; it’s so unearned. Like I’m not going to debate you on whether ads or corporations are good because a) I broadly agree and b) that’s just, like, our opinions, man, but then you just say shit that’s so demonstrably untrue that all I can think is: “I fucking hate what this decade has done to people.”