I think it’s okay to not be a fan of religion in general, as while it’s possible to cherry-pick the good bits, almost all religions have a lot of bad bits that are often readily taken up by the uneducated portions of society, such as Christians using the bible to demonize LGBTQ+, evolution, science, etc. That’s not to say uneducated people can’t be tricked into bigotry or suppression of women’s rights using other means, but in my experience, religion makes it much easier for those views to spread and take hold, as well as quell critical thinking in general (since doubting the teachings is oftentimes seen as a sin itself).

The context of the article is mostly about how islamaphobia allows for passivity from other nations as Islamic people are slaughtered in genocide, such as in the case of Gaza. This is a pretty indisputable fact, and one I’ve seen first hand in my own family, where with one member there was ready sympathy for the people of Ukraine, but very little for the people of Palestine, and quick acceptance of the narratives against the Palestinians (though how much of that was due to Islam vs. just plain old xenophopia of middle eastern cultures or racism is difficult to ascertain).

Personally I think it’s possible stand up for human rights everywhere while also not being particularly psyched to see religion of any kind growing its influence. Regardless, it shouldn’t stop the help and solidarity you give to people of any religion who are being subjugated to an unjust death machine.

It’d be quite nice if the USPS integrated GNU Taler as its banking system, were that to ever happen.

Ah, it’s showing up for me now. Must not of federated out yet when I responded.

Good luck with your new community.

If someone attacks you first, and you slip on the brass knuckles before defending yourself, then surely that would be a defensive use?

Sorry, I meant the one in your post body, so [email protected] instead of [email protected].

Quick heads up, your link needs to start with an exclamation mark ! to have it link to your community.

Otherwise browsers will think it’s an email.

The spat with the OBS devs was due to a fedora package maintainer refusing to package OBS with an older library for their own Fedora Flatpak repo, despite the newer library causing severe breakage with OBS (which is why the OBS devs held it back in the flathub release).

The Qt foundation tried to get fucky once already, and KDE and some other major companies that rely on it were about ready to fork it if they persisted. Qt seemed to calm down after that.

Not a great relationship to be in though, constantly suspecting that your toolkit might do a rugpull at some point if the shareholders demand it. But I think they could pull off a fork if they ever did.

You could have the accelerator pedal physically move a variac (variable auto transformer) to directly control the voltage going to the motor.

Alternatively, there is likely a way to directly set the PWM using an analog sensor, instead of interpreting the throttle sensor output through a more complex software stack that could introduce potential errors.

@[email protected]

Glad to hear they’re improving the 2FA! I did forget about their office suite and file storage ability, which does set them apart from all except Proton.

Lubuntu now ships with LXQt.

Lubuntu would be fine, though personally I’d suggest the lightweight Linux Mint versions, such as Linux Mint XFCE.

Mikhail Bakunin: the philosophical basis of his anarchism - Paul McLaughlin

Tuta does not allow you to use third party email clients like Thunderbird.

Offering a free tier lets people try the service, and encourages them to become a paid user if they run up against the limits of the free tier.

From what I understand, Tuta may have a slight edge theoretically, but email itself is a pretty poor protocol when it comes to privacy.

Tuta was forced by court order to implement a message logger for an individual, but AFAIK all of their previous messages were encrypted and could not be read by Tuta, and therefore the Government could only see new unencrypted messages coming in before they were encrypted.

Disroot only recently implemented at-rest encryption, so that should be fairly solid now. Posteo also allows you to encrypt your inbox and calendar at rest.

Even with that, consider all private email providers as mostly just to avoid surveillance capitalism (to prevent your data from being mined and sold), but with only marginal protection from state agents.

Tuta and Posteo are both pretty excellent (posteo is cheaper, but has a few less options that might be a deal breaker if you need them, like custom domain support).

Disroot is a good free option, and they offer custom domains after a one time donation.

Mailbox is okay, though they are known to have a very odd 2fa, and will recycle your address if you ever stop paying, allowing others to claim it and potentially impersonate you.

Posteo is unique in that they’ll never delete your account for inactivity, or even if you stop paying, where they’ll let you access and read emails, but not let you send them until you pay again.

Edit: apparently Tuta is going downhill according to others here, which is unfortunate :(

There’s some good channels on TILVids and Kolektiva.media, and if you’re looking for something specific, Sepiasearch is able to search across all peertube instances.

She also made a video extolling the virtues of capitalism and how science wouldn’t have progressed without it, but then oddly went on to make videos about why she had to leave academia because of profit motive forcing her to research things that didn’t matter but got grant funding to keep her alive, without making the connection that the profit motive that destroyed her dream is due to capitalism.

Not to mention, she’s fueling anti-science perspectives.