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Cake day: February 28th, 2022
  • hanabatake@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.ml•Communism is when no food
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    3 months ago

    I am french. I already saw these figures and tried to understand why it was like that. The figures might be technically correct but it doesn’t make sense to compare them with other countries. 5000 people dying each year of hunger, it would be revolting.

    We do not let people die of starvation in France, unless we think it is the best thing to do. We have this concept of “sédation profonde et continue”. Assisted suicide is prohibited in France. So people that suffer from uncurable decease can stop receiving food and hydratation until they die. They continue to receive painkiller or are even put in coma because letting them die that way is legal and considered the most human thing to do. A french christian newspaper wrote an article about it End of life: Are we really letting patients to die of hunger and thirst in France?. They are really opposed to assisted suicide and even them are OK with this process. So technically, we are letting people die of hunger.

    About people suffering from hunger, we have food bank to help them, meal costs 1€ at university… It is far from perfect but we are not letting people die like the figures would let imagine.

    About overseas regions, it is not that poor. The poorest overseas region, Mayotte, has been mostly destroyed by a cyclone two years ago. Both public services and NGOs thanks to a lot of donation reacted quickly to avoid famine. The situation is still bad but people are not starving.

    Hope I answer the question

  • hanabatake@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Examples of racism on Lemmy?
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    2 years ago

    I did not see any racist comments for quite some time. But xenophobic comments were common on threads about Ukraine’s invasion.

    The anti-French sentiment is also present here like in the whole English speaking web.

    The French aren’t known for their hygiene so I am not surprised their river is filthy

    From a post about an olympic triathlete who got sick: https://lemmy.ml/post/18887659

    In Belgium: Tartare or Mayo. Andalouse for the gal, thanks In the UK: Salt and Vinegar In both cases: I will have to change seat if you plop yourself in front of me with your poor fries inundated by ketchup. Only the French do that, and it is a Casus Belli in my book.

    From a post about dipping fries: https://lemmy.ml/post/18963222

  • hanabatake@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•*Permanently Deleted*
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    3 years ago

    Proton does have open-source bridges/proxies, so they aren’t hiding these details from us

    The issue I talked about was not privacy-wise. It just suck to have to use a package that is not in debian repository just to receive commercial emails. Updates are a pain. And it is the kind of software that people should keep up-to-date.

    Proton emails are stored in an encrypted form that goes beyond the simple authentication that is part of the POP/IMAP specifications

    Ok, let’s talk about privacy. Email will never be secure because it was not designed to be and there are too many issues.

    The subject line and other metadata are not encrypted. (from protonmail website). Most of the people use email to register to accounts and for commercial communications, where all valuables informations are in the object of the email.

    There are more private way to communicate with people (like xmpp or matrix for example)

    We kill people based on metadata. Well metadata encryption are pretty important.

    So giving up convenience for 0 security sucks.

    Perhaps Thunderbird could be enhanced to support the Proton features directly?

    It would be great if there were an add-on for it. If someone knows how to develop it, please do it, it would improve UX a lot.

    But it does not solve the issue completely. On mobile, the issue is still there (I know they have an app but I would prefer to have all my email at the same place). Also, if I want to use nextcloud mail, you have to developp an addon for nextcloud now.

    Edit: changed the link for the alternative piped link suggested.