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Cake day: June 1st, 2023

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  • We put so much important information/data through browsers (and smart phones for that matter), and it is becoming hard to trust third party code running on either. Trust in the publisher has become mandatory for me and the only browser plugin I run now is Bitwarden. Neither the app store operators nor the browser publishers seem to have an answer for reliably thwarting malicious actors. I don’t know what the answer is, other than developing literacy in writing browser plugins and adding functionality through my own code.






  • I like the preferred list concept. I also didn’t hate when lemmy world used a bot on news subs to post the media source’s political leaning and overall credibility to every submission. Many disagreed with the bot’s source of information, but what if every submission here got an automatic pinned **This source lacks consistent credibility because reasons… ** type post with you maintaining the list/assessment the bot draws from?

    Between moderation of the worst of the worst and a strong disclaimer on dubious sources, it might help visitors gain better media literacy.










  • If safer is a realistic outcome, perhaps things would further evolve. Ride share cars today are dual-use vehicles that typically carry driver + no passenger or driver + one passenger with the capacity for 3-5. If future autonomous ride share cars turn out to be dedicated to ride share, maybe most would end up being 3-wheel with just one or two seats. Shrinking the size of a substantial potion of cars on urban roads could be beneficial to road safety, power/carbon intensity, road capacity/density (which could also lead to more equitable road use for bikes and pedestrians).