That’s not quite true. If you can’t complete a build without a proprietary dependency, it’s not really foss even if all the source code is freely available, because you can’t exercise the freedom 1 (or 3). Similarly, if there’s not a FOSS RTS, you can’t exercise freedom 0.

“The Java Trap” from RMS was about this, IIRC.

Oi! Can we get an admin over here? r/PrequelMemes is leaking again!

Yeah, I run a mixed (unsupported) system from time to time for hw support, but testing requires a lot for admin time than stable does, so I can certainly see that moving to something more malleable than stable. Arguably that’s what I’m doing while my system is mixed, since it’s not (supported) Debian.

I installed Gentoo 2004.3 under the watchful eye of a Gentoo developer. (Gentoo did come in handy because I was using amd64 Opterons before most binary distributions had 64-bit packages.) It also took me about 3 years to get tired of rebuilding world “continuously”. I similarly switch to Debian on 2007-11 and I’m writing this from that installation, just migrated across several generations of hardware.

I used to prefer personalized ads over the insanity that was 90-00s “random” ads experience. But, since ads became a risk vector, I agree with a block by default approach, and I’ll find alternate ways to support sites I visit frequently rather than allowlist ads.

Where is /r/boottoobig on the Fediverse?

The tether / power transmission line does pass through potential flight paths, tho.

Still, I imagine the impact to be even less than ground-based turbines.

While it is rather complex and hard to predict, the most likely global outcomes are fewer extreme weather events and extremely mild cooling. The hairy ball theorem tells us there’s already somewhere on the globe with no wind, so it’s not that big of a deal to convert some wind into electricity. This particular approach couldn’t convert “all” wind into electricity.

https://www.sciencenewstoday.org/spinning-skies-how-earths-rotation-shapes-our-weather – We won’t run out of wind until after we start slowing down the rotation of the earth, and we watch that pretty closely to know when to add leap seconds, and I imagine it’s an just absolutely huge store of energy in the form of angular momentum (et. al.).

I use vim keybindings and have ESC,/ to do a reverse command search.

“que sera sera” es un ejemplo.

I got stuck on 23. :(

I wish we had time-limited blocks / mutes on Lemmy. I use them all the time on Mastodon to exit a conversation when I am getting to short. If it really matters, I can revisit after a fortnight of reflection.

Also, while other locations in the Fediverse might disable access to unauthenticated persons, comments and post in Lemmy are generally public in that way. So, a blocked user could simply logout (or visit from a different instance) to see the content.

Also, as a third-party I do want someone (e.g. a fact checker) to be able reply to a comment with more information, so that I can see it, even if the commenter doesn’t want to see replies (from the “woke mob” or wikipedians, e.g.).

I understand some people think the reply thread under their comments is somehow “owned” and should be “controlled” by them, but I don’t agree. I think this should also be true in most places on the Fediverse, tho it isn’t (as I understand it) on Mastodon (and the like).

Yeah, there are certainly ways of preparing eggs that aren’t allowed in 24-hour diners (no line cook is doing “Scotched” egg next to your bacon), but poached or boiled are both allowed most places, on top of the normal fried options (sunny-side, over-easy, over-medium, over-hard) and scrambled.

Often people wait too long before starting to defrost their holiday turkey, which can take many days. (I’ve heard something like 2 days/kg [24hours/lb], but never done it myself) Inexperienced cooks will then try to “save time” in the oven by increasing the ambient heat, ruining the food.

Either that or it’s some confusing analogy with climate change that I don’t “get”.

The hacker known as 4 Chan is BACK, baby!

Global warming is independent of population, emissions can be controlled without population controls.

Yes, they do need more people, and immigration is a possible “solve”, but right now they aren’t getting the immigration necessary – tho largely due to their own policies.

We need less people

No we don’t. And, S. Korea in particular will need more people than they have available, soon.

Smaller economy is fine, I guess – tho deflation has certainly caused problems in the past. Better distributed wealth is a shared goal. Depopulation, and other forms of Degrowth, are largely driven by eugenicist ideas and are neither necessary nor desirable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW8vkUY93i8

Well, I would say you could immigrate to the U.S., but that’s a bad idea for a number of reasons, IMO.

No countryside up in Scotland anymore?