Come on, you can do better.

On the wikipedia page you linked, there is exactly zero occurrence of the word “pain”.
The only part that could remotely be linked to your previous argument does not indicate pain at all.

The GLVs responsible for the smell of freshly cut grass play a role in plant communication and plant defence against herbivory, functioning as a distress signal warning other plants of imminent danger and, in some instances, as a way to attract predators of grass-eating insects.

This paragraph is a less sensational and more serious reformulation of the source material, an opinion piece stating the following without a single scientific reference

Trauma, that’s what. It’s the smell of chemical defenses and first aid. The fresh, “green” scent of a just-mowed lawn is the lawn trying to save itself from the injury you just inflicted.

This piece was posted in May 2012 on mentalfloss.com, so not really a scientific study.

Also, nothing in there speaks of the brocoli, which you first referred to.

Edit: spelling, formatting

OP has provided scientific evidence, feel free to do the same to support your claim - I’d wager this is gonna be hard.

And apologies if there was a /s I missed somewhere, I’m quite sensitive about this topic.

I found this guide by Futo’s Louis Rossman pretty beginner friendly and rather complete.
It’s really recorded with the idea that you can follow it step by step and at the end have something fonctionnal and useful.
Not overly fond of the guy, but on foss and self hosting at least we share values.
Also, there’s sometimes a cat on screen :)

Edits

• it has some software choices that I do not share, but I don’t think it matters much - once you’ve built something that works and gained experience, you can do it again with other choices if you want
• IIRC you need 3 computers to follow the guide
  • 1 to act as router and (among other things like network-wide ad blocking) allow access to your self hosted stuff from the outside world
  • 1 to actually host stuff onto
  • 1 to configure everything from
  • you can use pretty much any small cheap-ish computer as long as its processor is of the x86 type (which most are except raspberry pi and anything labeled Atom)
  • you’ll probably have to dance around a bit with screen and keyboard if (like me) you only have one of each, so having the 3rd computer as a laptop (with an RJ45 port) or watchig the video from a tablet is recommanded
• the video is really meant as a complete do-along (even telling you where to find the ISOs to download) which is IMO quite rare and really nice

If you find steps in the video or stuff in my comment that don’t make sense to you, please ask and I’ll do my best to provide useful and understandable explanations.

Great news, ty for sharing :)

Thanks for sharing this, it’s an intersting look at the inner workings of kernel development security-trust model.

I’ve seen a lot of stuff being about Linus in the kernel-related stuff, so I have one question: are they really as central as they seem - and we’re all gonna weep blood when they’re not here any more for any reason - or are they a figurehead (due to being the creator and still being very involved) in a sea of equally involved developpers/maintainers/contributors - and should something happen to them, the kernel would continue going in the same direction?

My anarchist ass obviously hopes for the second option 🤞

☝️this

Other options on mobile:

• using a firefow-based browser (like Fennec on F-droid) on which you can install Ublock Origin
• also on the F-droid store, newpipe handles youtube shit gracefully

For anyone not in the know, F-droid is an alternative app store for android where all applications are opensource, verified and don’t track you.
You can download it from their website (be warned: android is likely to ask you a half a dozen times if you’re sure you want to download, install and give it permissions), install it and explore a great new world :)

So do I. During lockdown a french hosting company set up bbb instances on their infrastructure, and the experience was really good (they even activated the “join with your phone” feature).
Zoom and Gmeet are usable (usually calls are stable and quality is ok) but closed-source shit, and I had a lot of stability issues on public jitsi instances (though I never self-hosted).

I’ve tried opentalk for the first time a few weeks ago (it’s included in my email provider plan) and it worked fine.

Amended title: Rental giant to take a huge step back in climate change fight and generate more GHG to protect their bottom line.

In a capitalistic world where your right to stay alive is determined by the money you make, replacing himan jobs by machine ones is a real problem.

If what was happening was “ok so the machines are gonna do that so you’re gonna have a lot more free time but you still get your wages”, I for one would be happy.

But what’s happening is more along the lines of “well I hope you didn’t just get a mortgage because here’s the door hahaha don’t be sad think lf the extra money the shareholders are going to make” and it’s a real problem.

Just because it’s logical that shitty bosses take shitty decisions which impact negatively other person’s lives doesn’t mean we can’t be upset and vocal about it.

meatspace name I laughed reading this, it has a strong SMBC vibe :)

Thanks for this educational post, TIL I learned something interesting (and sad/infuriating).

Cryptpad is great but I don’t think it entirely fits OP’s requirements :

• it’s really private
• it’s in the cloud, so no self hosting is necessary
• they have a spreadsheet and a form app

However, last I checked, there was no way to automatically get the form answers in an already existing spreadsheet.

My dislike for brave is mostly about its chromium base - chrome being the embrace - extend- extinguish offensive on the web from google.

Running on that VM, I really enjoyed Flight of the Amazon Queen a few years back. Warning: it’s an oldie containing lots of sexist moments - I’m not sure I would enjoy it as much today.

Not yet but it’s on my list of privacy stuff to try. Do you use it ?

I second that, been using mailbox for the past 6 months and it works like a charm. You also have a todo tool on mailbox that I think synchronizes via Caldav too, but I don’t use it so I don’t know how it compares to todo.txt

Proton has a nice UI and works well (I’ve used it for two years before moving to mailbox.org) but as of 6 months back, I was unable to make it work outside their walled garden. You can subscribe to proton calendar with any other calendar app, so you can read your calendar via caldav, but I found no way to edit it other than using their app.

I would recommand Proton for a lot of reasons, but if having a caldav calendar matrers to you I don’t think Proton is a good option.

Well, I find that really sad.

Whatever mistake they make, I think people living with constant fear of the threat posed by a totalitarian regime known for its violence against its own people deserve our sympathy.

Thanks ! That’s one step I still have to take - dive into IRC and its ecosystem(s).

Tha’ts actually what I do. But there are some games I’m not sure I’ll enjoy and they don’t have a free demo to test, so I’m trying them on the seas. Also, 10+ yo games that are still 15,20, sometimes 30€ are not going to get my money, even when much cheaper and on sale, because come on.