I think it is a bid problematic that anybody can create an account on github and open issues there (if enabled).
No "professional", paid software would allow ordinary users to communicate directly with the programmer. Or allow outsiders to post comments on their products website.
Just moving discussions to irc would already filter a lot of spam. As a last resort you could require some kind of proof that you are a maintainer of a bigger distribution. Or something in between.
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cwassert commented on The European public DNS that makes your Internet safer dns0.eu... · Posted by u/doener
Would be great if it has the option to block ads.
Mullvad offers such a service for free. https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls
Good. If Germany wants to do its own thing, then so be it, but they shouldn't be allowed to block / disincentivize other EU members from using nuclear power.
If we want to incentivize "clean" tech, we should go by an objective metric, such as co2 emissions per kilowatt-hour (where nuclear power is even less emitting than PV/Wind over its total lifecycle)
First of all, of course one country should be able to influence other countries in the EU. That's the whole point of the EU.
Secondly, the waste products of nuclear reactors are much more problematic than CO2. Handling of this waste is often overlooked when looking at the costs or CO2 footprint.
And that does not even touch the associated risks.
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cwassert commented on Nuclear reactors a mile underground promise safe, cheap power newatlas.com/energy/under... · Posted by u/geox
And what about the cost of safely storing nuclear waste for thousands of years?
Our governmental methods of punishment for corporations strike me as lacking. This seems similar to Wells Fargo, where ok, the company was fined, sued, made to pay restitution (somewhat) to victims. But underlying it all, the culture and incentives at the company that produced the situation didn't get fundamentally changed. Which often perpetuates across specific leaders, boards, and is a part of what a company is -- and doesn't just get replaced by removing one or two people.
What does it take? You have to dismantle a company before it changes these kinds of deep-rooted issues? Or can a government penalty call for that? That is hard to achieve. Who's going to change the evaluation procedures that HR has in place to measure what rating or bonus you get this year? That seems to me as important as who is CEO.
None of the penalties courts mete out (short of dissolution/fined into bankruptcy) seem to be able to achieve this level of change needed.
Change the system.
A blind focus on the concentration of wealth will only improve tech if it helps profit, will only improve lifes if it helps profit, will only protect the environment if it helps profit, will only influence politics to increase profits. It will try to create poverty because that eases exploitation. As you already hinted, the motivation has to change.
Headlines like that make my imagination run wild
Shooting oneself in the foot!
In my acute mind I can see a man (Satya Nadella) standing in a desert. With no socks and shoes on. Aiming a rather large 12 bore shotgun at his foot. Then! a loud bang, The man looks down and half his foot is missing.
I think shooting yourself in the foot is something you would do to avoid drafting. It makes me sad that this may become relevant again in Europe. It certainly is in Ukraine and Russia. : (
cwassert commented on The KeePassXC Kerfuffle lwn.net/Articles/973782/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Amen to that. But in Gentoo this is handled in an even better way.