Maybe I’ve only ever had good carob, but the carob cookies I made were delicious IMHO. The carob chips I used tasted like a cross between chocolate and raisins.

Based on history, Anarchism appears to be the system most immune to human corruption, to the point where George Orwell (of 1984 and Animal Farm fame) traveled to Spain to fight for the Anarchist society that had formed there (where he got shot in the neck, and while recovering was then hunted by tankies that betrayed the Anarchists, requiring him to quickly flee).

She has a medical condition that makes it difficult to locate a vein with a needle, so it’s likely a majority of the drug administered were injected into her arm muscles instead, which slowed the diffusion enough to save her. She and her attorney warned the state this scenario was likely to occur because of that medical condition, and they ignored her and did it anyway.

As an aside, NovelWriter is a great FLOSS writing app. It’s very much like Scrivener, but it uses Markdown instead of being a rich WYSIWYG editor.

I’ve read it’s a bit meh compared to the classic podracer.

Ah darn, I didn’t know it was just an AI built site :(

I’ve been using it for the past 3 or so years now. The discord-like features are quite new still, and could use a bit more polish in the UX. I think the biggest stumbling block with it currently is that notifications don’t work reliably on mobile, requiring a second XMPP app like Conversations, which does have reliable notifications, to fill out the mobile experience (so you could see the notification from Conversations, then just pop open Movim to actually respond).

Fluxer was promising, though it appears to be pretty massively vibe-coded now, unfortunately. The main dev uploaded 1.3 million lines of code to it last month alone :(

Movim is angling to become a decentralized self host able discord replacement.

That’s genuinely absolutely awesome to hear. That makes Cosmic the first major DE to take a stand against AI, which I’m extremely grateful for, and will almost certainly be switching to when I can, and I hope it brings in new refugee contributors from other DEs who aren’t taking so principled a stance.

Thank you to both you and anyone else at S76 who agreed to this change. :)

Well then… I guess this old video turned out to be prophetic.

I wouldn’t go back if they re-enabled it, this place is better now, and isn’t supporting a user hostile mega corp.

As someone who hates all of star wars outside of the original trilogy (and the Dark Forces and Tie Fighter games, those kick ass), and even then, is sick to death of the trilogy and the star wars IP as a whole; please watch Andor.

It’s just incredible sci-fi that happens to take place in star wars, and it’s extremely relevant to our current times in a way no other show has really captured. It’s extremely well written, shot, scored, acted… It’s probably my favorite sci-fi thing ever, not just my favorite star wars media, and I’m a picky bastard.

It was so good I bought a bluray of it. It was even good enough to make me curious if the Mandalorian was comparable (it was not, not even close).

I really, strongly recommend you give it a shot despite the star wars label, I’d recommend sailing the high seas or grabbing the bluray of season 1 to avoid needing a Disney+ subscription.

Most humans on this planet aren’t able to audibly hear the difference between a redbook CD and a ‘high-res’ format in a blind test. The same is true for DACs and Stereos. There’s an incredible amount of audiophile snake oil that companies pump out because it makes insane money from people tricking themselves they can hear a difference (psychosomatic effect from spending so much).

What is readily perceivable is the difference between a good mastering and a poor mastering, which can effect any format. An old vinyl with its 60db of dynamic range has an inherent limitation of how loud music can be mastered which normally was a downside, but became an asset when CD’s began to go through the loudness wars in the 90’s and 2000’s (where CD’s were mastered to ‘brick wall’ the audio, removing dynamic range in favor of boosting gain so it would sound better in cars or poor equipment), so for music from that loudness war era, the vinyl often sounded significantly better just due to the better mastering, despite the worse theoretical specifications.

It’s also pretty much impossible hear to the difference between a high-bitrate compressed format (like 320kb mp3, vorbis ogg, or opus) or an uncompressed FLAC (I’ve tried, I couldn’t perceive any difference, try it yourself in a blind test where a friend switches between them), so either will be ideal for a phone, where you’re unlikely to be carrying around big bulky headphones that could take advantage of those high-res formats anyway.

Too many negatives to alcohol for me. Even a single beer with a meal can make it more difficult to sleep sometimes, which isn’t worth the relaxation it brings.

I tried some non alcoholic beer when it was at Costco once, and actually really liked it, but it’s way too expensive normally (more than regular beer!), and Costco dropped it fast, so I just stick with flavored sugar free drink mixes sometimes mixed with flavored seltzer water.

The most effective supplement with the biggest impact I’ve ever tried is plain old magnesium oxide (the expensive forms are a waste of money, and you’ll actually absorb less elemental magnesium from them. Just take the oxide form with a meal to avoid the shits).

It’s difficult to get enough magnesium in most diets, and I found that ensuring adequate magnesium intake had the effect of making my mind just feel sharper (that effect is especially prominent if you’re supplementing vitamin-D as well, since that tends to use up magnesium in its conversion process, IIRC).

nothing else has had such a noticeable, non-placebo benefit (except Vitamin D if you’re deficient, which will make you crazy depressed without getting sun or supplementing).

It’s a little campy, but you can tell Rutger is having the time of his life, and overall I found it quite enjoyable.

Deltachat has an extremely smooth on boarding process and is the same app for all platforms, but it cannot do voice calls or screen share (you can leave voice messages though).

Jabber/XMPP generally has a less smooth UX, and different apps across different platforms (except the Movim client, which is a web app that works on all platforms, but doesn’t do reliable notifications on mobile).

With the Movim client, Jabber/XMPP is basically a complete Discord and Signal replacement. It can do group video calls, screensharing with audio (only with chromium based browser for now), as well as voice and text channels under different servers.

Regarding metadata, you may want to read the FAQ.

It will have forward secrecy after they finish implementing Autocrypt2.

A person also has to determine their security threat level. If they think a state actor may take a personal interest in them, then they’re probably best using in-person offline communication. If they must communicate online, then IMHO I don’t think Signal is a good choice due to it being centralized (everything goes through their servers, and they are a single entity making them easier to infiltrate or coerce by governments) and requiring you to link a personally identifying number or credit card.

If they just don’t want a corporation datamining them to sell to advertisers, Deltachat is more than good enough.

From the information available, the only companies making a profit from AI are the ones selling the shovels (the hardware to run it).

https://isaiprofitable.com/

Deltachat and Jabber, both decentralized encrypted messaging apps (as opposed to Signal, which is centralized), don’t even require an email to create an account, let alone a phone number or payment.