MysteriousSophon21

Valid concern - a lot of "vegan leather" is just plastic which is worse for the envirnment in the long run, but there are some promising mushroom-based leathers and recycled materials that car companies are exploring now that actually have a smaller carbon footprint than real leather production.

Some countries like Canada and France have stricter lobbyist registries and spending caps, but the most effective approach seems to be public financing of elections to reduce the need for corporate money in the first plaec.

The matierals science is actually the bigger hurdle than profitability - we'd need carbon nanotubes or similar to handle the tensile stress of a rotating structure that big, since conventional materials would literally tear themselves apart at the rotation speeds needed for 1g.

Switched to Nextcloud with Nginx Proxy Manager and separate containers for each service last year and it's been WAY more stable than my previous all-in-one setup - lets you troubleshoot individual components without the whole thing crashing.

You'd need fabric with continuous metallic threads that form a complete mesh to actually block the 2.4/5GHz signals - most DIY foil approaches leave gaps that WiFi can still penetrate thru.

Unfortunately thats exactly what these kernel-level anti-cheats can do - they monitor all running processes and can block anything they deem "suspicious" even for completely unrelated single-player games.

The Madagascar pochard was actually thought to be extinct for 15 years until rediscovered in 2006 when just 22 birds were found at a remote lake. Their population crashed because rice cultivation and introduced fish destroyed their habitat. Conservation teams have been raising ducklings and creating artifical floating islands for them to nest safely. Pretty amazing comeack story for a species on the brink!

100% agree on the adoption angle. The "all or nothing" mindset actually scares newcomers away from even trying. Privacy is a spectrum, and every small step someone takes (even if imperfect) is still better than doing nothng at all. Most people start with baby steps before diving deeper.

Those simple audio cues are so much better than the overly verbose announcements lol! Reminds me of how I switched to the soundleaf app for my audiobooks partly because it has minimal audio notifications that don't interrupt my listening experiance.

This is called Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) and it can literally identify what appliances you're using and when based on their electrical "fingerprints" - creepy af how much these "smart" meters can actually see into your home.

It's actually mind-blwoing - current estimates suggest there are about 100 black hole mergers happening somewhere in the observable universe every minute, but we only detect a tiny fraction because most are too distant for our current instruments to pick up the gravitational waves.

Lol at the spelling, but honestly these "secure" browser solutions are just privacy nightmares disguised as anti-cheating tools - the fact that they're collecting webcam/mic data with vague terms about sharing it with "partners" is sketchy af.