kbal

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

smooth end-to-end encryption works only tuta-to-tuta or proton-to-proton

The difference is that proton tries to be somewhat interoperable with other services. It uses standard PGP encryption, you can import public keys to it from elsewhere, and you can download your private key from them if you need it.

* Of course I meant that you can easily export the private key from their web client, which is not really a download as such.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It really isn't. Today's unpowered gliders are astoundingly capable compared to anything the Wright brothers lived to see, and that they're not suitable for replacing all of commercial aviation as it exists today should not be taken as a slight against them.

Most of it will need to be replaced by ground-based transport.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's more appealing to everyone, irrespective of age. Wikipedia suggests that it's been popular since the 19th century at latest. It was flavoured cigarillos that were the first tobacco products that tempted me, at a young age but not a child. Later, when I was much old, if pleasingly-flavoured vapes had been unavailable I would've had a much more difficult time quitting the nicotine.

But anyway, it's the misguided notion that enjoying things which taste good is childish that I find offensive. Advocate for banning all tobacco and I can't really say you're wrong to suggest it, but don't fall for that nonsense.

[–] kbal@fedia.io -2 points 5 months ago (5 children)

first commercial flight on an electric plane

Oh, it's a flight school. Perhaps it's not a scam, then. Places where electric planes might make commercial sense: Pretty much anywhere you could use an unpowered glider.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 25 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Fear not citizens of Earth, my sources in Chicago inform me that Illinois has not yet been disintegrated.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If anyone's claiming that any of these things is equivalent to another it isn't me, but marketing campaigns aimed at children (for tobacco and in general) are also something we'd be better off without.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 2 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Tobacco is the health hazard to children and adults alike, not the flavours added to it. But that's another moral panic.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 43 points 5 months ago (10 children)

What a joke politics has become. Since the 1990s "protect the children" has become a perennial excuse for absurd legislation that does nothing of the sort, and not one party has learned how to stand firm against the calumnious deceit of the people who habitually abuse it. The Liberals feel confident enough to oppose this bill only because they have their own which is almost as bad.

Strange to think that only a few generations ago Canada was known for "good government."

[–] kbal@fedia.io 12 points 5 months ago (6 children)

They want one baseball brand. One football brand. One basketball brand. One twitter. One facebook. One instagram.

Why's everything need to be so complicated, anyway? Can't we just have on sportsballgame and one twitgramface?

[–] kbal@fedia.io 28 points 5 months ago (4 children)

The kernel art department really failed us here. Instead of a blue screen of death we could've had, I don't know, literally any other colour. I'd have gone with the Puce Screen of Panic.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 39 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Having only a clickbait title to go on, rather than watch the video I'll just guess:

  1. But I NEED Adobe Microsoft Fortnight Premiere Plus Pro Version 16 to LIVE

  2. Other religious reasons.

  3. Don't have a computer.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you were using linux in the 1980s you were way ahead of the curve.

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