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Won’t it get hot as hell in there, all that wood and foam and rubber?

You can have nodes on a mesh network which act as gateways to the internet, but such nodes are going to have to go through an ISP. There’s no other way to connect to the internet at large unfortunately.

this is what the mesh networks are that people have mentioned elsewhere in this thread.

It is theoretically possible to create a purely peer-to-peer network where each individual connects to people nearby, and then any individual can in theory communicate with any other, by passing data packets to nearby people on the network who then pass it on themselves until it reaches the other person.

You can probably already grasp a few of the issues here - confidentiality is a big one, and reliability is another. But in theory it could work, and the more people who take part in such networks, the more reliable they become.

I stopped paying for YouTube when they started cracking down on free users, and stopped using them pretty much entirely. It was hard though - even though I have Netflix, I always found it easier to find interesting and informative things to watch on YouTube than Netflix. I’d watch YouTube several times a day, whereas with Netflix I usually spend about 10 or 15 minutes scrolling through their god-awful UI before closing it and finding something else to do.

Just had a look - $6 a month, based in NYC. Definitely better than giving YouTube money, for now at least. They say they have a 50/50 profit sharing model with creators - profit presumably is after salaries (including bonuses?) have been paid, so it’s not clear exactly how much of your subscription does in fact go to the video creators. Still, a better option than YouTube, if only to support competition.

Community service is a classic punishment which I think makes good sense for nonviolent crime.

It should be a good option, but it’s more difficult to run effectively than it might appear. The ideal would be for it not to be purely punitive, but to offer in itself some level of rehabilitation. For instance, a bike thief might be sentenced to helping out in a community bike workshop, or someone who committed low-level fraud might be required to help poor people manage their finances.

At the moment the reality is quite different I think, and people end up being sentenced to pointless busywork. I know someone who was given a community sentence for fighting and he described it as a bit of a joke. Every Saturday, they were supposed to clean up litter from grass verges, but the main issue was no one wanted to be there, not least the supervisor. So they’d generally just mess around for a bit and go home early.

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A good tip is to search the Amazon reviews before you get a laptop for “Linux”. Even if you don’t buy it there, you’ll often find one or two Linux users saying how well everything worked, or didn’t.

Ah got ya, it’s a site to show each EU government’s position on this. Only three EU governments are opposing right now! Gotta get them numbers up!

That’s good, thanks for that info. It does say it’s a “good will” gesture from the various train companies, but it seems to be a firm offer - would be good to have it enshrined in law nevertheless.

From what I read, you need to get a Delay/Cancellation Confirmation somehow. You then would need to book a seat on one of the following trains - on some routes, most trains are full by the time of travel, and in the event of a delay like this, you’re probably not the only one needing to reschedule. You may well need to get a hotel overnight and travel the next day. All possible, but potentially stressful.

I will still avoid getting long distance trains with connections - but saying that, none of the several international train journeys I’ve made so far have been delayed more than 15 minutes.

Missing a connecting flight is no less stressful - and I also always avoid those as much as possible, although because long-distance flights are shorter, the knock-on effects of missing a connection tend to be less (more likely to be able to find a seat on a replacement flight on the same day for instance).

off-topic but wow, it’s great to see so many lemmy instances up and running 🥰

it really looks like we’re well on the way to hitting critical mass

You must thank the Lord every day that you weren’t wiped up with a Kleenex and flushed down the toilet with your other brethren who didn’t manage to make it inside! The Lord’s grace is truly magnificent!

Ah yeah sorry I wasn’t saying that Orban shouldn’t be criticised for supporting this, but those other governments that claim to be better than Orban are showing their true colours by supporting it.

Governments like Denmark, Italy, Spain and France are all dead keen on universal surveillance of the plebs for the exact same reasons Orban is - control and authoritarianism. They’ll use whatever arguments they think are most likely to allow them to get their way - be it children, terrorism, or whatever else.

You only have to look at the UK, where they’re using anti-terror legislation to arrest people just for peacefully protesting.

lolol did somebody actually say that?? Pretty funny either way…

from what I recall though, the zoo prefers small animals (think rats, hamsters, rabbits) because they better resembles the prey the zoo animals would normally eat. And yes they do euthanise them first!

err you seem to have forgotten to mention the other countries that are *not* widely regarded as being run by fascists…

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Definitely good news to hear. Over the last couple of years, I’ve made several long journeys by train that normally would have been by plane.

One rule of thumb I’ve been using is to only get direct trains. I find travel a bit stressful in any case and I don’t want to be worrying about any delay with the first train causing me to miss the second. If the two trains are the same operator, you would at least be able to reschedule onto a later train - as long as there is one with free space which isn’t guaranteed at zero notice. If the trains are run by different operators then it’s presumably down to whatever agreements exist between them. So I skip all that uncertainty by only doing it when there’s a single direct train available. Hopefully the EU will come up with a good solution for this as well.

Reports also have emerged of attempts to stop the spread of chikungunya with even larger mosquitoes to eat the insects carrying the virus.

And if those larger mosquitos get out of control, there’s a simple and obvious fix…

Well. Some of those chaps were carrying knives - without a licence - so we had no choice really.

Is violent knife crime a thing over there?

yes we’ve had spikes of knife attacks over recent years, a lot of it is gang related, with kids stabbing rival gang members in tit-for-tat spirals of violence.

Knife crime in general is nowhere near as bad as it is in America (and of course as you point out you guys have gun violence on top of that), but the UK is historically a peaceful country and our tolerance of friends and family being murdered in the street is a lot lower than yours.

how to link to video

I don’t think you can link directly to videos on reddit (anymore?) without linking to reddit as you did.

If you’re feeling public-spirited, you can download off reddit with yt-dlp:

yt-dlp https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1mawojw/ukrainian_counterbattery_fire_took_out_insane/

and then upload that somewhere else like https://catbox.moe/ and then link that: