yknow what’s great? unit pricing laws

tldr: in australia businesses must display “unit price” on labels: price per 100g, per 100ml, per sheet, etc for every product so that packages are comparable

fun fact: manufacturers often ship specific black friday models of electronics with cheaper internals

https://cybernews.com/gadgets/black-friday-deals-cheaper-quality-electronics/

it was always wild to me back in the day when so many container images were based on ubuntu… was like PLEASE debian is functionally identical here at like 1/10th the base container size!

i’m so glad piefed is picking up steam! once voyager support is good i’m done with lemmy and donating to piefed

really sad that FPTP here led to the inevitable outcome: the only party that shouldn’t have won did win

i can make a much cheaper, less complex, and perfectly accurate version of this that automatically sorts waste based on its final destination: it’s just a trash can and it all goes to the dump because recycling isn’t profitable :(

just 1 really big asylum

as an aussie, this is all so fucked up… we have basically nothing here that’s canadian, but i’m certainly switching all my shopping and services away from US brands in solidarity (RIP vegemite :p)

global solidarity against the fucking bully

at the very least, anyone could be next… but even without that somewhat selfish take, canadians don’t deserve any of this

pushing web standards in their user-hostile favour

that’s what automation is for - nobody is going to manually check them, but anyone is able to automatically set something up to check their hashes in change… the fact that it’s possible that anyone is doing that now that it’s a known issue perhaps makes it less problematic as an attack vector

because it’s been like… a second

there very well might be consequences- taylor swift probably isn’t too pleased, and she has the money to sue… but law suits take time

energy independence aka more AMERICAN companies drilling for oil all over the world so they can make more money and assert their influence

but it’s never energy independence through renewables