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This will work in general. One point of improvement: right now, if the request fails, the panic will cause your whole program to crash. You could change your function to return a Result instead, and handle errors more gracefully in the place where your function is called (e.g. ignoring pages that returned an error and continuing with the rest).

Look into anyhow for an easy to use error handling crate, allowing you to return an anyhow::Result

Mir ist schon klar, dass das Wahlwerbung für die Piraten ist.

Ich wäre halt eher davon überzeugt geworden, die Piraten zu wählen, wenn sie mir das Gefühl geben, dass sie die Themen differenziert durchleuchten und mir keine Meinung vorgeben. Wenn dann trotzdem noch eine große Übereinstimmung rausgekommen wäre, hätte mich das mehr beeindruckt.

So finde ich es eher problematisch, durch Anspielung an den Wahl-o-mat dessen guten und unabhängigen Ruf dafür auszuleihen, um eine ähnlich aussehende Werbeaktion zu machen.

An sich ganz coole Initiative, aber ich hätte mir gewünscht, dass die Fragen weniger suggestiv und eher neutraler formuliert wären bzw auch Gegenargumente bei der Abstimmung erwähnt werden. So wie es jetzt funktioniert, ist es dann nicht überraschend, wenn man bei Themen, wo man sich selber nicht so auskennt, dann ähnlich wie die Piraten abstimmt.

Hey URL, go and fetch your friend JSON!

Makes perfect sense.

I'm surprised that the post does not mention switching to Firefox or any other privacy tool other than their privacy badger, e.g. no mention of uBlock Origin.

Right! The last I remember hearing the "closed source is more secure" argument was about fifteen years or so ago, so it's surprising that it is being pulled up from the dead.

From the FAQ of the Sunbird website (the tech powering Nothing Chats):

Will the app be open source?

Some of the messaging community believes that software that is open source is more secure. It is our view that it is not. The more visibility there is into the infrastructure and code, the easier it is to penetrate it. By design, open source software is distributed in nature. There is no central authority to ensure quality and maintenance and by putting that responsibility on Sunbird, development would not be feasible. Open source vulnerabilities typically stem from poorly written code that leave gaps, which attackers can use to carryout malicious activities.

To help satisfy our own ambitious goals of providing total privacy and security, we are currently undergoing a third party audit that will validate our security, encryption and data policies and plan on receiving ISO 27001 certification after launch.

This was a huge warning sign when the first round of news about Nothing Chats came around, so I'm glad we're now getting early confirmation that security by obscurity still is a horrible idea and doesn't work

Thanks for sharing! I agree with your main point about overall emissions not changing too much since most of that reduction comes from feedlots already.

One small addition: the product that I originally linked is based on 3-nitrooxypropanol, a petrochemical-derived active ingredient, not from red algae (so there is probably a different calculation about production cost and CO2 impact than growing, processing and transporting red algae on a large scale).

Fun fact, there is already a food additive to reduce methane emissions from cows

The blog posts mentioned in the NYT article [1, 2, 3] are also worth a read, if you want to understand the evidence for tampering.

The reddit blackout make me realize that I would be willing to pay for a monthly subscription in return for ad-free access and to support ongoing hosting and development.