YES. I should be able to evaluate that, and many supply that. When I buy an iPhone I can see exactly what Apple's recycling and use of recycled materials looks like, for example. Environmental impact doesn't only happen within their walls, it hits us all and they have a responsibility to declare that for anyone to see, not just customers. That you think they should be able to do whatever they want behind closed doors and we all just have to suck it up is one of the reasons I'm glad to be old and not far from escaping this world of children who no longer give a shit about anything except self satisfaction.
> That you think they should be able to do whatever they want behind closed doors
I haven't stated an opinion here at all, nor have I defended anything. I've merely relayed some observations that I understand to be true, and I've asked some questions.
But I shall now allow myself to be opinionated: You doin' ok over there, bud? You seem to be attacking the choir.
Almost certainly it's energy density for long running, high load usage.
If a family car energy usage is 1x, then a light duty truck is about 1.5x, and a heavy duty truck doing hauling or towing is about 4x. A medium sized farm tractor would probably be 20x or more.
In that light, it's not hard to see how cars and light trucks could fare well with today's battery energy density, while heavy duty trucks are at the limits. For a tractor, it's not even close.
I do think we'll see smaller tractors going electric in about 10-15 years.
For small tractors many only use them for an hour per day - often mowing the lawn once a week. I have used mine all day cutting wood - and only but 15 minutes on the engine (the rest was me running the chain saw of loading something by hand).
Which is to say an electric tractor would be great for me, but for most farmers useless.
Heavy duty trucks run well on electric in the EU at least, as the work time regulation make for regular charging and lower speed limits for trucks makes the consumption manageable.
Your nose is literally a special flower. What smells good to it may not to another and vice versa. I far prefer the smell of pot smoke on the sidewalk to the smell of tobacco smoke. You youngsters missed the years of indoor workplace smoking and smoke breaks with 20 smokers surrounding the office entry door. It's just another smell to you. But for those of us who lived through the bad days of smoking, it's a toxic soup, a smoke inferno hell pit we're not thrilled about revisiting right outside of our favorite restaurant. A little bit of grass burning, no big deal. A cigarette and my meal's ruined.
See also, cigarettes, cigars, and pipe smoking. I find those smells about 10x as offensive as smoked weed. I don't see the HN crowd coming out against tobacco despite these two being roughly equivalent in use. And that 20 ft from the door thing is a joke when it's on the sidewalk you have to walk through to reach the bus stop or your car. At least the pot smell doesn't stick to my clothes until they're washed like the tobacco smell.
Until we start throwing cigar, pipe, and cigarette smokers in prison for smoking where I can smell it, I'm totally okay smelling some pot. The playing field needs to be leveled.
I don’t want my toddler exposed to secondhand pot smoke. Unfortunately it’s more common than secondhand cigarette smoke in my experience. I wouldn’t get upset on my own behalf but he’s too young to choose and it’s my responsibility to act in his behalf as much as I can.
Are you arguing that my toddler should be okay with it? The point is that it’s not about what I am okay with it’s about my being responsible for my son and what his adult self might want. We had opinions about the positive health effects of cigarettes in the 1940’s and 1950’s that turned out to be wrong. There’s a possibility you’re wrong about pot smoking too.
Government tobacco smoking bans in indoor spaces accessible to the public (or outdoor spaces near the entrances to such spaces) are not uncommon in the US, nor are private contractual (via leases for rental properties and sometimes CC&Rs that bind property owners) bans for non-public spaces.
Well, you can verify that the code that you downloaded is the same that everyone else downloaded. Even if it contains webviews.
Now if it contains webviews, it brings the security issue of... the webapps, of course.
Personally, I want an open source app. You can audit an open source app and even compile it yourself. You can't really do that with a website. And I don't mean just mobile apps, that applies to desktop apps, too. I wouldn't run a web-based terminal, for instance (do people actually do that?).
>Well, you can verify that the code that you downloaded is the same that everyone else downloaded. Even if it contains webviews.
Not impossible to do with websites, if the need to do it was there. It would take about 15 minutes to create a browser extension that could make a hash of all the files loaded, to compare with other users with the extension installed - but honestly that's just not needed because if you're connecting via HTTPS, then you're getting the files that are intended to be served, presumably not malicious if you trust the source. And if you don't trust the source, then why are you loading it to begin with??
>Now if it contains webviews, it brings the security issue of... the webapps, of course.
Web applications are sandboxed in the web browser. Very little issue with that, outside of browser bugs/exploits, but bugs and exploits are found in every system ever.
>I wouldn't run a web-based terminal, for instance (do people actually do that?).
AWS has a web-based terminal for EC2 instances. It's not a problem, a lot of people use it.
> And if you don't trust the source, then why are you loading it to begin with??
I trust that Proton (for example) has implemented E2EE in their services. I wouldn't trust them to handle my unencrypted data - I wouldn't trust anyone for that. I don't trust that their security is perfect - no one's security is. So if they're breached, they could serve me malicious JS. I don't trust they're impervious to government pressure or blackmail. By making sure the files served to me are the same as the files served to anyone else, I can be relatively sure I'm not targeted personally. People could also review those files to make sure they're not malicious.
> It would take about 15 minutes to create a browser extension that could make a hash of all the files loaded, to compare with other users with the extension installed
You completely underestimate it. I am absolutely certain that you cannot create a browser extension that meaningfully solves this problem in 15 minutes.
> Web applications are sandboxed in the web browser. Very little issue with that
Except that when we are talking about end-to-end encryption, the sandbox has nothing to do with it. The sandbox defends against something else, not the server serving you an end-to-end encryption program abusing it.
> AWS has a web-based terminal for EC2 instances. It's not a problem, a lot of people use it.
I genuinely can't see if you just don't understand the point being discussed at all, or if you keep saying off-topic things as a way to divert the discussion.
>You completely underestimate it. I am absolutely certain that you cannot create a browser extension that meaningfully solves this problem in 15 minutes.
You are absolutely wrong. I write browser extensions, I can spin up a new one in a minute, and the code to monitor and hash all resources loaded by a webpage is trivially easy to do. It would be simple to set up a server to allow comparing the hashes, in a POC. I'm not talking about making this a robust service that everyone can use, I'm only talking about how easy it is to do in a general way. It's far easier than you think it is.
>>>I wouldn't run a web-based terminal, for instance (do people actually do that?).
>> AWS has a web-based terminal for EC2 instances. It's not a problem, a lot of people use it.
>I genuinely can't see if you just don't understand the point being discussed at all, or if you keep saying off-topic things as a way to divert the discussion.
You're right, I certainly don't understand the nonsense you're trying to convey.
I'm also tired of this pointless internet interaction. Goodbye.
> I'm not talking about making this a robust service that everyone can use
Right. So you cannot do it. Thank you.
> I'm also tired of this pointless internet interaction. Goodbye.
Seems to me that you don't enjoy discussing with people who behave like jerks, which I admittedly did, just for you). You may not have realised it, but you started it. I am happy to disagree in a respectful tone, but you broke it first. Maybe that's something to think about in your next totally meaningful internet interaction, though it sounds like you like telling others that you know better because you are older.
The success of the war depends on the approval ratings of the US president which will almost certainly take hits when US military takes hits so the US citizens seeing the US military taking hits at a higher rate than relatively recent wars in the area is a bad sign for "winning" whatever "winning" means here.
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