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[–] poVoq 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I think you need to read the manifesto again more carefully if you don't see how it was quite intentionally designed to be anti-authoritarian. You simply can't have a "Solarpunk" authoritarian state, it would be a direct contradiction of the terms. The same is not true about "bright green environmentalism" despite the overall progressive terms that are used to describe the idea.

[–] poVoq 2 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Any political leader that decides to adopt it.

What I mean is that contrary to Solarpunk there are no built in protections against cooptation by an authoritarian but eco-concious government.

[–] poVoq 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

If you need it you will find it, and if you don't, maybe it is unncessary clutter in your life that would be better to get rid off in a yard sale asap?

[–] poVoq 2 points 5 days ago (6 children)

I still don't see where the punk is in that. "Radical" is a politically neutral term that can just as well be applied to a top-down radical reorganisation of society.

[–] poVoq 12 points 5 days ago (8 children)

It led me to learn that there is a label that more or less matches solarpunk in political theory: Bright Green Environmentalism

Not really, as this concept doesn't say much about power-structures and is rather a description of Singapur like futuristic eco-authoritarianism.

Solarpunk without the punk (and anarchism) isn't Solarpunk.

[–] poVoq 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

One example she offered was using Starship to launch a satellite. If that satellite was not working, she explained, the satellite could be brought back into Starship’s payload bay to either be repaired or returned to Earth.

So exactly like the Spaceshuttle? I doubt that will be economic in most cases even if Starship launches are significantly cheaper.

I think the more likely outcome will be much cheaper sattelites made with heavier standard components and with more fuel on board to deorbit or stabilize them if something goes wrong.

[–] poVoq 2 points 5 days ago

Is the source-code for this website available somewhere? Might be pretty nice to have for other instances as well.

[–] poVoq 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Great, next should be Italy's (and Malta's) illegal cooperation with the Libyan mafia militias.

[–] poVoq 6 points 5 days ago

It's a bit confusing at first that it comes with a read only web-interface, but once you got a Mastodon app or an frontend like Phanpy set up with it, it works quite well.

[–] poVoq 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

We are having some odd issues with the server right now. Not sure what the cause is. As a side effect we updated to the new lemmy version 0.19.7, but I don't think that was the cause of the issues as we did that only after the server crashed a few times.

Edit: seems to be resolved for now, but we are not sure what exactly cause it, so it might happen again.

[–] poVoq 5 points 5 days ago

Excellent book, highly recommended.

[–] poVoq 4 points 5 days ago

Pre-rendered 3D models as 2D sprites. Looked quite cool back then, but IMHO aged very poorly.

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The Sky is Falling; We've Got This (margaretkilljoy.substack.com)
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Now lets try... (slrpnk.net)
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Introducing Convo, an XMPP app for KaiOS (badrihippo.thekambattu.rocks)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21494404

Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions in the EU have shown one of the steepest drops in decades. Brussels said the data showed that tackling climate change does not need to put the brakes on economic growth. 

The European Environment Agency (EEA) on Thursday reported an 8% fall in EU-wide emissions linked to global warming in 2023, citing a significant decline in fossil fuels and a rise in the use of renewables.

The 27-country bloc is the world's fourth biggest emitter of greenhouse gases after India, China and the United States.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by poVoq to c/photon@lemdro.id
 

It seems like contrary to Lemmy-UI, Photon does not display the user supplied post language anywhere and also has no way to set the post language in the UI. Nor does it have the profile setting to set language visibility.

I generally think that this feature in Lemmy-ui causes more harm than good due to the various ways in which people accidentally deselect "undetermined" as a language option, or how community mods accidentally prevent people from posting due to strict language restrictions... and a bunch of other related bugs that caused me to abandon this feature.

But having no representation at all seems like a bad idea given so much of Lemmy uses that feature and it also seems like Photon does hide wrongly language tagged posts if people misconfigure their profile settings in Lemmy-ui?

I can't confirm the latter, but this report https://slrpnk.net/post/14769073 sounds a lot like that is what is happening.

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