while economies of scale naturally apply to farming.

While that is generally true, David R. Montegomery’s book, Dirt, referenced some interesting studies which indicate that dense urban farming can potentially out-produce industrial agriculture by 10 to 100 times depending on size (the smaller the farm, the more potential for increased productive capacity). The only downside is that urban farming generally has more carbon emissions than industrial scale farming, but the pro’s it tends to give (healthier and more nutritive diets in food-deserts, community building effects, less reliant on outside sources of food for urban areas) are pretty worthwhile.

Relevant passage of the book referenced from an Edenicity video:

That video also referenced a really interesting experiment by someone trying to sustain themselves off a small garden with limited time and effort put into it: https://www.unsustainablemagazine.com/home-gardens-vs-farms-efficiency/

If his numbers are accurate, he was able to produce enough calories to sustain him for a year in a 35 by 40ft garden plot.

I’ve personally used 4 encrypted communication apps, here are my thoughts:

Signal: huge downside that it required a phone number (not sure if it still does), and the centralized nature of it makes me very wary of it. It worked reliably when I did use it, but I no longer use it.

Matrix with Element: As others mentioned, it leaks meta data. It wasn’t very reliable in my experience with encrypted group chats. Messages would constantly not be readable by other users in the chat, requiring frequent re-sending to finally get through. Overall I found it very frustrating to use.

XMPP: Experience can somewhat vary depending on the app used. With the Movim desktop front-end, I can sometimes have issues with encrypted messages not getting unencrypted (possibly just user error on my part), but with mobile apps like Conversations or Monocles, its been pretty much 100% reliable. Doesn’t drain my battery either. Would recommend.

Deltachat: I’ve used this the least, but I really like it. Super easy to connect to friends and join a group chat, its all encrypted by default so no real chance of encountering an unencrypted message, very nice UI, is available on all platforms as one app, and has been 100% reliable with low battery drain. Highly recommend if you don’t need to make voice calls (it can do texts, images, and supports voice/video files you can send and play within the app).

For anyone reading who needs help finding a group to help chip in with: check if you have a local Food Not Bombs chapter near you. They’re a grassroots movement that helps feed whoever needs food on a regular schedule.

Alternatively, if you have a local Mutual Aid group (search your town/city name + ‘mutual aid’ to find them, or refer to this more in-depth guide if that fails), I’m sure they’d appreciate some help too! :)

We have a whole community of free movies over at !fullmoviesonyoutube@piefed.social, be sure to check it out!

That happened a couple times to me lately as well.

I’m not saying that lemmy’s algorithm is at all similar to mainstream social media’s dark patterns and addictive algorithms.

Lemmy’s use of a simple algorithm is necessary for this site to function at all (sorting newer posts from older posts is itself an algorithm), and does not imply that something nefarious is afoot. But it does use, by definition, an algorithm.

To state there are no algorithms is objectively false.

My observation is that the posts that self-censor happen to (likely not even intentionally) boost the popularity of said censored post due to the increased amount of comments against the self-censoring, as a result of the simple (non-addictive and non-exploitative) nature of Lemmy’s sorting algorithm.

Take note that so far, this post has received 12 comments in a short time just regarding the censoring, rocketing it up to be seen by more people, some of which will add their own thoughts on the censoring, and perpetuate its increased ranking in the feed.

The ‘Hot’ and ‘Active’ sorting options on your homepage is a primitive sorting algorithm, explained further in the lemmy docs themselves:

• How Lemmy’s different sorting options work
• How Lemmy’s ranking algorithm works

A recent post with more comments will rank higher when using the ‘Active’ sorting method, hence why self-censored posts, which encourage people to call out the self-censoring as unnecessary (which I agree with) likely boost the self-censored post higher than it would’ve gotten without the censoring.

Something I’ve noticed is that self-censoring seems to artificially increase the rank of post in the feed, as the people who comment about it boost the post’s activity, and thus make it show up higher depending on the the viewer’s post sorting method chosen.

EDIT: To be clear, I’m not advocating for self censoring to game the system, it’s just something I’ve observed happening on the posts that do self-censor. Every post with censored swears has always received more comments than it normally would’ve due to people commenting on the censoring, which has boosted it in my feed.

Here’s the github to Timeshift, their in-house snapshot tool.

He’s already filthy rich even if he got fired tomorrow.

Mint has snapshots available out of the box even with ext4, the welcome screen prompts you to create a snapshot to fallback to if anything goes wrong.

Mint is based on 24.04, and will rebase on the next LTS when it’s released.

Alternatively, Linux Mint Debian Edition is based on Debian 13, which is currently newer than 24.04. Good option for non-nvidia users.

It doesn’t really pass OP’s criteria if you need to install Nvidia drivers, though. It does not have a 1-click graphical installer like Mint and Ubuntu do.

Just a heads up: according to this post, Archive[.]is/.today/.ph is currently serving up malware to visitors, essentially using your traffic to DDoS another target.

From the linked thread:

The DDoS attack runs as JavaScript code in the browser of visitors of archive[.]today websites. Effectively this abuses the devices and abuses the devices of visitors for the attack. Effectively this abuses the devices of visitors for the cyberattack, which makes it a lot more challenging to block on the recipient’s side. Someone knowingly participating in a botnet may also be guilty of Computer sabotage" according to § 303b StGB in Germany or similar laws.

This is currently still ongoing, as visiting the CAPTCHA sites still delivers JavaScript code for the DDoS, to access the targeted site many times. Most commonly used content and ad blockers like uBlock Origin should already be filtering this by default, but we can’t expect everyone to use them, especially on mobile devices.

You can usually find community and some cool people at local mutual aid groups, here’s how to find those.

I think peak design of various aspects happened at different times.

• peak mobile OS design was Palm OS from PDA’s
• peak device design was Blackberry handhelds with physical buttons

Those two things combined today with a polished Linux base and a decent camera would become the new peak.

Personally I’d recommend getting either a used Google pixel 8 or 8a, or a new pixel 9a and installing GrapheneOS on it, which will give you the best possible security and privacy, as well as the longest security support of almost any android phone (7 years from point of release, pixel 9a will be supported until 2032).

Costco has some cream cheese in tubs, from what I recall.

(Image source, for those curious)

Pixelfed is like a federated instagram. Piefed is like Lemmy (and Lemmy is like reddit), but different.