I liked my Pebble. I’m curious what they do with modern hardware. I’d love something repairable.

Flipped inside out, even.

If you have different threat models for different data, then you should enumerate them and work through each.

First of all, figure out your threat model. What data are you trying to keep secret from Facebook? What will happen to you if Facebook gets that data? What lengths are reasonable to prevent that outcome?

Then figure out how to consistently prevent that data from leaking.

I don’t want Facebook knowing my address, name, age, and face - basically I don’t want to be doxxed. I’m not willing to go through the effort of hiding my IP, so I’m willing to give up on that, but the others are easy enough to lie about.

I think it’s more the network effect. There aren’t many users here. Like, I know the handles of all the usual posters on the Canada community.

Always. I can only speak for myself and those I see around me.

Agreed. IRL things seem the same as always.

It was.

Eugenics was considered left wing around the 1930s. In Canada, the “father of Medicare” initially supported eugenics but realized how awful it was pretty quickly. The women who got universal sufferage similarly supported eugenics.

As a lefty, it sucks, but we need to be aware of our past and avoid similar mistakes.

That’s how we got our first place. The sellers still got 2x what they’d paid for it seven or eight years before. But the price was relatively low, so we could afford it.

I really liked Bringing Up Bebe by Pamela Druckerman.

I don’t think it’s necessarily an accurate picture of parenting in France, but I appreciate the ideas she presents:

• mothers (and parents) should keep their lives and outside interests;
• teach your kids to be independent (don’t helicopter, etc);
• teach kids to exist in an adult world;
• socialized and properly funded childcare is necessary.

Active living may not be the only way to address the obesity epidemic (it’s endemic now, isn’t it?) but it would help. People will be happier and healthier if they can get exercise as part of their day to day activities.

I really prefer walking to cycling. I’m totally fine with bike infrastructure, but I’d really just like neighbourhoods to have amenities they can walk to.

Generally I agree, but

you might have to code your own drivers for some of it

is a bit hyperbolic. Most of the time, most users will be using pretty standard hardware to do pretty standard things. They won’t need fancy drivers to do it.

M U R D E R

All in favour say “aye”

None of this put a dent in CO2 emissions, because more energy available just means more energy consumed.

I’m my geo, we’re lowering GHG emissions and increasing electricity output. That isn’t entirely due to renewables, but it’s part of the equation. Those renewables were affordable due to feed in tariffs mentioned above.

Without continued advocacy, entrenched interests will reverse those trends. With continued advocacy, we may be able to lower emissions further.

When you get to 50, you’ll understand.

I’m not the original commenter, but as someone in a similar boat, I’ll interpret:

Aging fucking sucks. Seeing doors close as your body switches modes is depressing as hell. Knowing you have another half century left, but it’s all gonna be worse is a terrible feeling.

Political advocacy is the way to go. Pushing politicians to change laws is what got renewables to be cheap in the first place. We need more of that.

Solar, wind, and EVs have become much cheaper after they received significant government incentives. Feed in tariffs started in the 1990s, implemented by Japan, Germany, China, and many other governments decreased the cost of renewables and built industrial capacity.

Governments did that because of significant environmental advocacy from the 1960s onwards.

Advocacy feels like it doesn’t work now because there’s massive advocacy pushing back against our longterm interests, but it’s couched as “industrial interests” so we don’t see it.

If you truly don’t need the money, donate it to an org that’s doing political advocacy.

10k of solar isn’t going to make a difference in the grand scheme of things. Changing laws and regulations will.