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They’re both very similar.

Both still use Google and Bing for part of their search results (albeit with the search queries somewhat anonymised). And both have been working together on a European search index which they have been slowly rolling out over the past year orso now.

Ecosia differentiates itself from the competition by using part of their profits to plant trees, and by promising that their servers are run on renewable energy.

Personally I use Ecosia over Qwant, because I found the search results for news articles to be a bit better. But ultimately both are very similar.

Ecosia (Germany) does too. They work together with Qwant on that.

Both don’t exclusively use their own indexing, and still depend on Google and Bing for part of their results. But you have to start somewhere

There are more options than either automatically funneling Reddit posts to Lemmy, or not posting at all.

Have you even considered manually contributing your own posts and insights? I would much rather engage on a post posted with intent behind it, rather than a Reddit post copied to Lemmy by a bot.

Haram cock

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

Then the Dutch drained it, built the Deltaworks, and now we live in purgatory

Why exactly is leaving Lemmy necessary? I blocked the .ml instances, but I’m content with Lemmy for the rest

Zebra, pronounced like “zay-bra” in Dutch

Yep… If I understand correctly, in California fines have to be issued to the driver of the vehicle. But since self-driving vehicles have no driver, there is noone to issue fines to, legally speaking.

Edit: It’s kind of worse. If I’m reading the article correctly, the shops were closed in response to the march, not in response to immigrant crime. A+ headline manipulation.

I’ll be honest, that is how I interpreted the headline in the first place. Protests devolving into riots is a thing that happens all around the world.

I use Thunder, and I am very happy with it generally.
I used to use (and paid for) Sync for Lemmy previously, but I had the impression bugs didn’t get fixed, so I switched away from them.

They would probably not have managed to slash the price in half with one generation.

The original Honda E was € 35.330 in 2020, which was a difficult sell given the small 170km range.
Half price would mean an electric car for ~€ 18.000

Looking at other Western manufacturers (e.g. Peugeot, Citroen, Volkswagen, Dacia) for a fair comparison, that is a stretch even today. Most EVs don’t really go below 20k, and 25k seems to be the current range for affordable EVs.

The issue is largely the cost of the battery. That cost has come down over the years, but not to the extent that Honda could have suddenly slashed the price of their EV in half.

Edit: That is not to say Honda shouldn’t have kept releasing more EVs.

I’m just pointing out that they probably would follow the same path as the other Western automakers that have pretty consistently been releasing EVs over the past decade orso.

“We’re made of starstuff.” - Carl Sagan

I don’t think laws should be enforced at any cost, but if we can reasonably enforce laws I think there is a duty to do so.

Then there is also a different question of whether we agree with the laws on the books, but that is a different matter imo. Personally I don’t think we should limit access to pornography as strictly as the laws says we should, and I don’t think the ills of social media are solved with a simple age limit.

But that is a separate discussion from the implementation of a (in my eyes) reasonable approach to age verification

The skepticism is very understandable. It is important to scrutinise solutions like this to make sure that they indeed do as they say they do, and to make sure the government doesn’t overreach with their authority.

That said, it should also be possible for laws to be enforced, and there are laws on the books that are supposed to prevent children from accessing things that we as a society have agreed they have no business accessing (alcohol, tabacco, porn, and increasingly commonly social media)

Currently there is no good method to actually enforce those laws on the internet, so there needs to be a solution for that.
I think this form of age verification may be a decent compromise between privacy and the need to enforce these existing laws.

Edit: Typo. I wrote “they” instead of “that”

I don’t see a central authority (i.e. your government) issuing tokens, as much different from the government issuing you a ID card by which you can verify your age to buy alcohol in the supermarket.

As long as that central authority doesn’t get to know what I use the tokens for, it seems like an acceptable solution to me.

That central authority would, from my understanding, be your government. They already have your information, so if they get hacked you are already screwed ;)

From my understanding this age verification app seems to be based on the age verification blueprint they have been working on for a while now, which is supposed to be part of the European “digital wallet”

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/eu-age-verification

From my understanding it works as follows:

• There will be a central “authority”, with which you can identify
• This authority will provide you with tokens indicating you are 18+ (or whatever age verfication you may need)
• These tokens are stored locally, and contain no identifying information other than a simple “is this guy 18+?”
• You can use these tokens to verify age with a website that requires age verification

This solution does seemingly address my two greatest concern with online age verficiation:

• You cannot trust the website, so they only get the information they need. They don’t get any identifiable information
• You cannot trust the authority, so they don’t get to know for which websites and for what reason you request 18+ tokens

Assuming that this blueprint is followed, it seems like a decent approach at online age verification.

We already know that it is rigged. Fidesz has worked hard rigging the Hungarian electoral system in recent years.
Question is mostly whether they rigged the system hard enough that they can still win.

Occasionally I’ll put on the radio either in the car or at home, but it’s not very common these days.
My boyfriend listens to the radio in the car and he regularly finds new music that way.