Yeah, and I’m talking about solar farms, which do not use any water at all. Maybe some to clean the panels, but that is exactly my issue here: The article is throwing stuff together that really doesn’t belong together. Buying gas from Egypt is different than building a solar farm or building industrial hydrogen plants or importing agricultural products.

duckduckgo browser is based on Chromium (as nearly every other “alternative” browser is) and therefore will use Manifest v3 and neuter uBlock.

To totally confuse you: The USA uses the “standard litre” while Europe uses “normal litre”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_litre_per_minute

I know what they are saying. I just don’t think that building a solar farm in Morocco is really colonialist and would push them to still use fossil fuels as claimed. Go to google maps, search for those projects mentioned in the Guardian article and they are being build in the literal desert with enough space around:

https://www.google.com/maps/search/Noor+3+solar+power+station,+Ouarzazate/@31.0343835,-6.8871281,12839m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDIxOS4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

However the article is claiming:

European countries are extracting renewable energy from Morocco and Egypt to “greenwash” their own economies, while leaving north Africans reliant on dirty imported fuels and paying the environmental costs, a Greenpeace report says.

But why?

I’ve actually read the Greenpeace report the article is based on and that doesn’t mention your point.

https://www.greenpeace.org/static/planet4-mena-stateless/2025/02/ce97182f-beyond-extractivism_-towards-a-feminist-and-just-economic-transition-in-morocco-and-egypt-report-eng.pdf

It is actually really a strange report:

In the context of the greentransition,green colonialism- the continuationof colonialrelationsof plunderand dispossessionin the era of renewableenergies. Europeaninvestmentsin renewableenergy,greenhydrogenandagriculturemeet Europe’sresourcedemandsandmaintainthe growth-basedWesternlifestyle,while imposingecologicaland socialsacrificeson GlobalSouthcountries.Thisdynamic creates"sacrificezones",where local populationsbear the impactsof Europe’s energyandconsumptionneedswith little benefi

I’m not sure why Greenpeace came to this while talking about projects that are building solar farms in the desert.

Try searching for the correct charts. You are talking about global prime energy consumption and it makes sense that this is growing in a world with a growing population, enormous economic growth in China and India and so on.

But if you take a look at Europe: Primary energy consumption has been sinking since 2006 from 18,997 TWh to 15,662TWh in 2023:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/primary-energy-cons?tab=chart&country=OWID_EU27~OWID_AFR

The share of fossil fuels is also decreasing:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fossil-fuels-share-energy?tab=chart&country=~OWID_EU27

So this does work.

If they gave more time than just a few months, in example at least an entire year, then people could at least download those files before hand. Not sure how long this would take and how stressful this would be for their servers.

They could also give the option to pay for this. They should know what storing a video costs and therefore could give creators the chance to cover that cost.

Peertube won’t cut it. Those people in the article have thousands of hours of videostreams there. If you’re streaming at 1080p, that will be around 1.5GB of storage per hour. 4k will be worse. So if you have 5000 hours of videos like the one guy in the article, that is a neat 7500GB or 7.5TB of video. There is no instance around that will allow you to save that amount of videos.

So hosting your own instance would be the only way. Looking at Hetzner storage box, 10TB of data will cost you 25€/month or 300€/years. That is money, but should be possible to pay out of your own pocket.

There are better gadgets to track your sleep. If you want to just track how you’re sleeping, get a cheap fitbit. Withings or Apple Watch are also able to detect sleep apnea

You should at least play around with the export options and do regular exports. You really don’t want your diary of over 5 years to be stuck in an unmaintained app. And since this seems to be supporting exporting into markdown - maybe try an export and checkout logseq or Obsidian?

Just imagine how much energy it must cost to provide this garbage to every mail going through Yahoos servers.

Let’s be honest: Everything that might be “worse” or “annoying” in Firefox for someone is not relevant in comparison to “no working adblocker available”. A browser without adblock is unusable

• a $2000 bed
• with a $19/month subscription
• which is a full linux computer
• full of security holes
• that allows the company to ssh into your bed
• that totally could give those guys access into your local network
• the CEO is flirting with DOGE and is offering them free beds
• they are tracking your sleep data and tweeting about it

WTF?

German shepherds shouldn’t be bred at all. They have genetic defects that make them suspect to certain illnesses, such as hip defects. Don’t buy them. They will suffer and you will have an expensive vet bill.

TBH: It does sound bad, but it is one of the best ways to lower the effort needed for moderating. Currently every idiot from every instance can show up in your community and start spamming. You have to clean up after you’re back from work and have other things to do. Set a reasonable limit on account age and karma and that will keep the biggest idiots, because they will be banned or downvoted to oblivion before they can start posting in your turf.

So I now have to buy a VPN to tunnel out of Italy and then another VPN for accessing stuff?

If they open source all their code, some tech wizard will implement a self hosted obsidian sync server with the same convenience as theirs in a day, and the company will lose their revenue stream

Obsidian is storing everything as plaintext files. Those convenient selfhosted sync solutions have been out there for years.