I’ve seen a few people use handguns as bear deterenant (in addition to bear spray) for primary reason that rifles are hard to fire inside of tents.

Are they making wise decisions? Probably not, but .45 magnums apparently work for scaring bears away from tents.

Obviously people that live in cities are a different story as the police/troopers are far better equipped to handle wild animals and can legally discharge weapons within city limits without you needing to do paperwork or risking your life, just don’t have food on you when backing away slowly.

edit: cars are also a reasonable deterrent (bears rarely try to attack moving vehicles, and when they do the driver is usually being stupid)

how would civilization protect from the neighborhood bears?

damn press always ruining fun, if mildly dangerous, foods.

the programmers should at least use licenses that prevent legal use by the police and government agencies.

https://web.archive.org/web/20241111010722/https://thetech.com/2024/11/07/daniela-rus-research-must-end

archive.org link to the “the tech” opinion piece that was redacted.

Instagram has a shit algorithm, yt shorts are generally just worse forms of yt or reposts from ticktok/insta. People are willing to tolerate a lot of data selling already, so why should they care that it’s being shared with the CCP?

I love the idea, it covers most instances of extreme customization in Linux.

if the (US and many others) governments weren’t run by fascists I might agree, but I know that politics change and facist, homophobic, racists are always going to have a chance to be elected in a democratic (republic) system.

the main problem I have with the government doing this is that they would be the ones to define who the minoritys are. If I remember correctly the US consider veterans to be a protected class, what if a government decided to extend minority status to those that themselves (as part of their “culture”) codified intolerance to existing protected minorities (such as certain religions with respect to homosexuality)?

the law shouldn’t dictate this because that would require rigid definitions of misinformation and minorities. are Nazis minorities? What about Israelis? Or Palestinians?

is spreading a rumor misinformation? What if it is later found out to be true?

if solar was incentivized to have batteries, power factor correction, and (if the power companies can shut off the connection at the house during service to prevent backfeding) use frequency correcting inverters.

Exactly why personal solar energy will hit a tipping point as the rates rise drastically as more users use zero to negative energy. Those that cannot afford solar will suffer, but the Environmental impact will probably be reduced.

how would you ban any internet service without firewalls or routing? DNS bans are trivial to bypass and maybe I’m not thinking hard enough but I’m out of practical ways to prevent access to Twitter or meta.

Ukraine and other countries where fixed infrastructure is failing iirc benefit from having low cost Internet access.

usernames are the only form of attribution that makes sense and has ever been used (aside from email, which is again practically a username)

probably was the internal id number, but still scummy behaviour.

some idiots think personal freedom is overrated and like to imagine the web browser as a mysterious black box that “just works”.

Thankfully all but the shitty national ones can be turned off on most Android phones.

can/should the protocol used to deliver emergency alerts support images/video, if so what formats and size limits?

sounds like one of the few cases where more restrictions on browser extensions would be a good thing. Or at least letting users prevent extensions from modifying cookies by default.