cygnus @ cygnus @lemmy.ca

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And a maritime border too. I really don't know why or how the Netherlands come into the picture.

Still not much in the grand scheme of things. Smelting lead to extract silver would have been a far greater contributor, especially since it makes the lead airborne as leaded fuel did recently.

Lead plates are fine as long as you don't eat anything that is both liquid and acidic. Pewter plates (when it was still made with lead) were used until very recently.

Fun fact: Romans were well aware of lead poisoning and preferred terracotta pipes. When they did use lead they allowed mineral buildup inside the pipes, which shielded the water from the lead itself.

This limestone encrustation (sinter, from the German), which had to be periodically chipped away, suggests that deposits of calcium carbonate in pipes and aqueducts protected against corrosion and insulated against the introduction of lead into the water they conveyed. Too, with no taps to shut off, water flowed continuously and so would not have been in prolonged contact with the metal. https://penelope.uchicago.edu/encyclopaedia_romana/wine/leadpoisoning.html

Oh nice, I'll give this a shot! I tried installing the EA app through Lutris — it worked, but I can't install any games.

I'll grant you Aurelian, but equating the Byzantine court to HR department staff is... something. I think the analogue there would be if congress or the Chiefs of Staff were to depose the President.

Not at all, unless you consider the Praetorian Guard "bureaucrats", which would be a hell of a stretch.

I use CachyOS on my gaming rig and it has been outstanding. The only ting that doesn't work is the EA app.

Have you seen any backlash to date other than hand-wringing online?

It's by definition higher than average (100) so yeah.

These are a bunch of civil servants, not tradespeople. Trade unions are the ones you don't fuck with.

After using Proton for a couple years I've come around to the POV that private email is a dead end. There was not a single occasion where the sender or recipient of any email was also using encryption. If I want encrypted comms I use Signal. Instead of Pass I went back to using Bitwarden.

Don't worry folks, the rest of the US just need to tell Trump "hey, that's illegal!" and he'll stop. If you need proof, just look at all the other times in history that dictators' plans have been blocked by the courts.

The combination of AI, crypto wallet and CEO's pro-MAGA comments (all within six months or so!) are why I quit Proton. They've completely lost the plot. I just want a reliable email service and file storage.

https://proton.me/blog/proton-scribe-writing-assistant

Fair enough. Best of luck to you and be sure to encrypt everything.

Pretty rich coming from Proton, who shoved a LLM into their mail client mere months ago.

I've seen no mass movement whatsoever, but it's possible I missed it somehow.

Thankfully I don't live in that godforsaken country, so no thanks. I'm plenty busy with the government up here to prevent things from deteriorating as far as they did in the declining empire down south.