i think there is no way to prove we would have dug up and burned any more oil than we did since we can’t prove a counterfactual. what we do know is, despite an increased use of electric vehicles, oil extraction increased.

then even more oil would have been used

if the oil is in the ground, it can’t have been used.

unless it actually decreased GHG emissions, it did no good. it’s rearranging the deck chairs.

less is needed overall.

So yes. It does help

this is what i’m dubious about. just because less is burned in, say, passenger vehicles does not mean any less is produced or burned in some other industry. this article actually says that we made more oil this year than last.

if there is no difference in the actual oil extraction and burning, then it does no good.

is less oil dug up and burned?

xmpp is p cool, too.

honestly, i don’t even want to use discord. i’d like to use mumble, irc, xmpp, email, jami, and jitsi. if discord were just a client that wrapped all of these into one user interface, i’d use it.

you can’t havea president and be stateless.

a communist country is an oxymoron: communism is stateless.

none of those societies are communist.

communism is a classless stateless moneyless society. which part of South America has that?

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the English Wikipedia articles on codecs, the 7 layer model, semiconductors, and microprocessors.

gcc compiler.

the source code for Firefox and the lightest possible Linux environment to run it… … …

and then as many axxo rips as I can cram in, sorted by IMDb rating

maybe. depends on your client or provider

this is my settings screen. it looks like you would need to actually ask your friends to turn on the server-side purging.

you’re asking more than i really know here. i haven’t even convinced any of my friends to use it. it was hard enough getting their email addresses lol.

i think it’s worth pointing out that pgp-protected messages would still be secure in the case of the kolektiva breach, not that anyone is e2ee for mastodon messages.

i would never bother with anything that i consider to be highly secure over any clearnet service. but for keeping advertisers out of my messages or just run of the mill dragnets, or spot-censorship (like how facebook or others forbid certain links), i think deltachat is a really reasonable solution.

but to this point:

, it is inadvisable for privacy to keep data (even in an encrypted form) on a server post delivery.

deltachat has an option to delete server-side.

they make a lot of promises about security, but email can truthfully only reach a certain level of security. the comment from @RTRedreovic@feddit.ch shows weaknesses in relying in protonmail to protect various aspects of your communications, but they sell themselves as TOTALLY SECURE.

the lady doth protest too much.

so they’re no more secure than, say, google, when you implement your own e2ee on top of email with PGP or something. but the promises of enhanced security actually set people up to expect more than that. coupled with the fact that they don’t even let you use imap or pop, it’s not exactly a hacker’s dream service.

if you (and your friends) control your (and their) keys, then the actual contents of your communications can’t be compromised. i think email is fine if you understand the limitations.