I don’t think the CEO or anyone else was at fault, one of their teams picked people for the company to support, it was either before bad behaviour became apparent, or ignorant of it, then the community complaints and they fixed it
What’s to complain about?
To take the voice of the other side
Age verification is a thing that’s becoming more important
It’s expensive for all the companies if they have to do age verification, apple and Microsoft are huge so they can easily absorb the cost, so if we make those companies do it, it takes the load off the other companies
It’s not that they’re open source hostile, it’s that they’re open source blind. I think they’re also using corporate versions of windows so they don’t get the worst of it, so they’re not incentivised to find alternatives
Linux is going to have a lot of trouble funding ID checks in the handful of jurisdictions where it’s necessary
I wonder if Linux should be presented as business software (since most Linux installations are servers) that should not be bound by that law, what does a server care about the age of the worker who set it up or the company that owns it
My suburban shopping centre has space for 2.2MW, it’s about 5km from the nearest power substation
But they can only export 30kw into the suburban grid (10kW/phase * 3 phases)
To export the other 2.17MW they would need to run high voltage main lines 5km to the nearest substation
The farm nearest me has 13kW and is right near a main power line
And the solar doesn’t need nuclear industry staff, and doesn’t need nuclear industry certified parts, and doesn’t produce radioactive waste
Solar doesn’t need to refuelled
Solar had pretty high wind loads that need to be supported
You can place ground based solar farms just outside cities where they have access to main power lines that can carry megawatts; inside the city they probably can only push kilowatts per phase.
30kW is the limit for commercial (or any 3 phase) solar generators in my town, that is cheaper to mount on the building roof
The solar farm nearest me, right near the high voltage wires that supply that side of the city, has 13MW of panels, three orders of magnitude more
This is propaganda. It is intended to make you think worse of ground mounted solar, the carpark side is to make the message palatable, but isn’t comparable. But solar farms in fields is the cheapest way of deploying massive solar plants
Carpark solar is limited to the power infrastructure at the carpark, the limit for commerical building solar in my town is 30kW, the solar farm nearest me (on a sheep field) is 13MW
Commercial buildings get to choose: solar on the roof or solar over the cars. Putting it over the cars will more than double the cost.
So this is, or acts as, propoganda, saying “this effective thing is bad, instead we should do this impossible thing”
Not a win because it’s not vegan? Most people don’t share your beliefs.
Most people are happy to use the animals we have spent thousands of years making useful
I see this as a win/win/win - the sheep farmer gets rent for the land the panels are on, the weeds are kept down by the sheep, we get clean electricity, we get wool
Ed. “Animal races” the word is species, races is for the variation in humans, or in fantasy it’s the humanoid species
I suppose it would be reasonable to talk about races of sheep to talk about all the different types of sheep
Which component of Debian is an operating system for this purpose? The desktop environment? The system service? They come from various third party providers
I wonder if the numbers would be higher if there wasn’t so much crossover between Linux users and unwillingness to pay for stuff that can be gotten for free
Among humans I have heard that there is more variety within human races than between them
Music says we’re the whole human race