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MoonlightFox

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  • Top virologists sound the alarm on bird flu and plead with world leaders to prepare for another pandemic

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  • I live in Norway, so the government will do everything in it's power to protect its citizens probably. Like it did during COVID.

    Theres no supply chain issues here currently either. During COVID pretty much everything was available besides acceptably priced GPUs

  • Top virologists sound the alarm on bird flu and plead with world leaders to prepare for another pandemic

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  • How to prepare for this shit again? I guess I can start by storing some masks, and a lot more food.

    Any advice or thoughts? I can work from home fulltime, and grocery deliveries is possible.

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    Tesla sales drop in the Netherlands due to global trade tensions | News.az

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  • Tesla's sales in the Netherlands have plunged dramatically, with only 382 vehicles sold in April

    Wow, that is hilariously bad 😂

  • Euro zone consumers happy to ditch US products if hit by tariffs, study finds

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  • I only wish it was easier to identify the US products. I have replaced about 80-90% of the household spending that went to the US to EU products.

    No more Netflix, HBO, YouTube premium, or similar. No more groceries with a US parent company or raw ingredients from the US.

    Replaced most apps.

    I think I have moved about 200-300$ a month of spending. I still have to replace some pet food, for example.

    But there is still something here and there, and it's hard to avoid it without help. I can't spend all my time on this.

  • Warren Buffett to Step Down from Berkshire Hathaway at Year-End

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  • Thats good. I try to use the opportunities like this to inform people a bit, because it is hard to know.

    The efficient market hypothesis is so incredibly useful, and saves people from hubris and bad investment decisions. It always grounds me when I think about other investments and financial decisions as well.

  • Warren Buffett to Step Down from Berkshire Hathaway at Year-End

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  • You might be correct, and you might be mistaken. However according to the efficient market hypothesis, the news have already been priced in. It is in other words too late.

    An average professional stock market trader with excellent tools and information at his/her disposal is correct 50% of the time.

    If you are correct 51% of the time you are really good. 52% excellent, 53% maybe close to world class.

    The best us normies can do is trust the efficient market hypothesis, and buy low cost global index funds and hold for decades.

    Disclaimer: I am not a professional, so this is not financial advice. So you should probably speak with a professional financial advisor before making any decisions

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  • I would think a lot of countries are tackling a lot of emergency scenarios at the moment.

    Increasing defence, digital sovereignty, robust power grid, basically just preparing for bad shit

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  • Cash will change to a digital form or disappear, I don't agree with the people claiming it wont't.

    Scandinavia is so close already, recieving cash is considered bothersome. No one uses it for anything anymore. Well.. Besides drugs.

    Both electricity and the internet is critical infrastructure. Any downtime of either is really serious. It is however not rocket science to solve the biggest issues in regards to payments. As long as people can show their identity we can agree on tiny loans for stuff. Or just having the government bail out all verified purchases after the fact.

    100$ per person isn't that much money. Any bigger purchases can be handled with invoices.

    So I am more worried about heating in the winter and access to water and sanitation.

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  • It was probably the best case scenario. This happening outside of winter or a war was pretty lucky.

    Now they get to learn and improve.

  • Privacy is a team sport - how do we get more people to play?

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  • While I agree in theory, in practice open source has a similar amount of expected trust as closed source can have in many cases. I use all sorts of open source software without reading the code. I ain't got time for that.

    I can trust that software from a lot of organizations are trustworthy even if it is closed source, but I can't trust any open source repo without reading the code. I habe to use other ways to evaluate it, is it probable that someone has audited it? Is it popular? Is it recognized as safe and trustworthy? Is the published and finished build the same as the one I would get if I built it myself?

    But yes, you can never be 100% certain without open source and auditing it yourself.

    I do trust that my travel pass app from a government organization doesn't install malware / spyware on my phone. I can't trust a random github repo even if it is open source.

  • Privacy is a team sport - how do we get more people to play?

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  • We had some emergency law that was almost passed recently. As in it passed the first of two rounds. The second voting round is just a formality, all laws are just passed after the first in practice. Luckily some law professor raised the alarms and it did not pass the second time. So within a couple of hours margin it was stopped.

    The law gave the government the ability to force people to do a lot of stuff, work any job at any place in Norway. If you do not comply you could get up to three years in prison. It would not be a problem with the current or any government in the near future, but it is a law. And we can't have laws that rely on trusting politicians. Because we might have politicians with anti democratic tendencies in the future

  • Privacy is a team sport - how do we get more people to play?

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  • I think certain arguments work, and certain don't.

    I live in a very high trust society, Norway. This has a lot of advantages, but also some downsides.

    We trust eachother, our neighbours, our government and our media. Which is fantastic, and well deserved. The government deserves the trust.

    This makes it hard for me to make people realize how important privacy is, because they trust organizations with their data.

    During COVID, Norway made their own app for tracking who met to prevent the spread. Of all the apps in the world, Norway wanted to push about the least privacy friendly app in the world. This from a country with the highest press freedom and rankings for democracy. Most people though it was fine, because why not? We trust our government.

    https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/06/norway-covid19-contact-tracing-app-privacy-win/

    Luckily someone protested enough, and it got scrapped for something better.

    When I try to convince someone I have a couple of angles:

    1. You trust the government and organizations with your data today. But do you trust the government in 30 years? Because data is forever. The US has changed a lot in a very short time, this can happen here as well

    2. You have a responsibility for other peoples privacy as well. When you use an app that gets access to all your SMSes and contacts you spy on behalf of companies on people that might need protection. Asylum seekers from other countries for instance.

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    Birds are evolving

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  • This is why I subscribe to lemmyshitpost

  • Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store

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  • Can you elaborate on the spyware part? This is new to me

  • Patrick Stewart on Extras - YouTube

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  • How do you find meaning in life?

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  • Interesting perspective. I think I kinda agree.

    I have a logical view of the universe as deterministic and that nothing matters, but my feelings contradict this, which is fine.

    However, the thought that life HAS to have meaning as something negative is a new perspective, in that it implies moral and ethics.

  • I cheated. Wife forgave me. How to reearn trust?

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  • Kudos for trying to stay in the marriage. Not because of the oath, but for yourself. I can imagine that the hurt must have been immense and that the temptation to leave and start fresh was big.

    When I was younger this was black and white for me. As I have grown older I have realized that life is not that simple. I have been fortunate enough to not experience this myself, but after a relationship for 11 years I can understand why people stay after cheating.

    It's so easy for someone to say that it is black and white on social media. You see it all the time with all sorts of things related to relationships and human behaviour.

    Having your perspective in this is really valuable, thanks for sharing.

  • I cheated. Wife forgave me. How to reearn trust?

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  • If you want out of the marriage, then this is the time. No point in working on a marriage you don't want.

    If you want to stay then:

    Couples counselling. Seriously. It is not cheap, but it's a lot cheaper than a divorce. It also resolves unhealthy tension and issues in the relationship. You might even get out of it with a lot better marriage than before you cheated.

    Do that for a long time. Show that you care by taking initiative, and resolve this with a counsellor and your spouse.

    I also believe it is possible to regain trust, and to forgive.

    You did a bad thing, but don't let it define you. Now you got to set it right, show her that you actually care about her. Do the hard work and make the relationship stronger than ever.

    You should not tell anyone you cheated, if your wife does, then you have to accept that. She might feel that this affects her honor and standing amongst other people. So let her decide if people should know or not.

    Anyways, good luck! Be patient and be kind. You can do it! 👍

  • How do you find meaning in life?

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  • Logically I am a determinist and a nihilist. It's the only thing that makes sense to me.

    But I can't live life like that. Life is lived through feelings and it feels like I have free will. So I feel meaning by contributing positively and that my choices in life matter.

    So, I contribute, try to do good, be helpful and nice to people, and also fulfill some hedonistic desires such as good food, lovemaking, shows, etc.