Nothing factually wrong with the article, but it has this sound of "this technology will solve all our problems" to it that I find highly problematic. Seven out of nine planetary boundaries are exceeded, climate change just being one of them. And all of them are exceeded because of our wasteful and growth-oriented way of life.

I'm so glad we use Matrix at work. Our IT department even tells us explicitly not to use Teams if we can avoid it.

Yeah, some people on the internet like to oversimplify and I get how your impression arises that those people bend the narrative how they like it.

On the other hand, it's pretty well-documented that

• western governments work with authoritarian leaders when they're not hostile to western corporate interests (see, e.g. Saudi Arabia)
• western governments fund opposition groups no matter if they're democratic or not as long as they can expect an outcome that's better for their corporations' interests (see, e.g. the guy that leads the current Syrian government; see also the royalist opposition in Iran [mostly in exile])

Also left-wing opposition inside western states is often demonized although we have similar aims as some highly-praised opposition movements in other countries.

Of course it's work finding solutions to problems and you should be able to live off your work. And in capitalism, a patent sometimes is the only option to do so.

However, patents and other forms of "intellectual property" are absolutely illogical and amoral. Nobody ever made a completely new thing. Every innovation builds on so much knowledge accumulated by so many people that came before. It's absolutely nonsensical that an advancement that's 99 % an achievement of humanity and 1 % of a single person should belong to that single person.

That's a false dichotomy. We can also improve our technology while ditching capitalism.

You won't listen anyway. Just look at your language, calling us idiots and fuckwits while pretending you're the level-headed one.

There's enough comments under just this meme and every single discussion on this topic explaining why that change is a direct attack on privacy and privacy being the reason why many of us chose Linux.

Also: Nobody should be treated like that no matter if anyone depends on them like that.

Yeah, uneducated people might say something like that.

Expanding on that: in competitive electricity markets, in theory, total demand is met by the cheapest plants (by "marginal price": how much does an additional unit of electricity cost?) that are available.

The marginal price of PV, wind and hydropower is pretty much zero.

The next cheapest are usually older nuclear fission plants and coal power plants.

Then is a huge gap and then come newer nuclear plants and gas fired power plants.

But all of these plants aren't built over night. So maybe before all of the datacenters, total demand may have mostly been met by renewables and coal and gas power plants only operated a few hundred hours per year. Now, total demand rises and those plants need to operate more often. That's why the prices rise just because of demand increase. Other effects (e.g. changes in regulation, corporate greed, ...) might be at play as well.

That's a weak argument because everything used by normal citizens is, in practice, always used by the big corpos against the normal citizens in much greater quantity and with much more force.

Now that I think of it, it's no argument at all because I already admitted, that under capitalism, you might not have another choice to get paid for your work. That still doesn't make it morally good or logically sound.

What the actual fuck? This idiot may have his braindead opinions and do to his OSS project whatever he wants (so sag I wasn't on the list), but that is just such a fucked up thing to do.

I can't help but wonder if maybe this is all the same thing the Muslim extremists fight against in their jihads.

Definitely. Seeing the worst sides of capitalism and imperialism, which for a long time made life in the west bearable or even good for most people, radicalized them. But their vision of how things should be is very unappealing to me as well. Theocracy, strict morality laws, misogyny, that's not a better solution. I prefer left-wing radicalization instead, because that's about making everyone's lifes better. ;)

We're talking about engineers here! We're using MATLAB or Python if we're programming at all.

• Das Fallpauschalensystem wurde in Deutschland flächendeckend 2004 eingeführt.
• Karl Lauterbach ist 2005 erstmals in den Bundestag eingezogen.
• Er ist sein Amt mit dem Versprechen angetreten, das System abzuschaffen, weil es Scheiße ist.

Aber er ist Schuld. Is klar.

No, definitely not.

What's so interesting to me is that in spite of the city's green infrastructure, the inequities persist.

Solar PV has the potential to be a tool for a free society, because it can be decentralized. If it all belongs to the utility, the state or the landlords, it's not decentralized and not used as the tool it could be.

Geht um den Opa des Oberfaschos in den VSA: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Trump

Edith: vergessen, dass ich auf ich_iel bin.

claimed by a left-wing extremist group.

"Claimed by someone saying they were a left-wing extremist group." - fify

Someone else claiming to be the same group distanced themselves from the attack and there are important clues pointing to the original post claiming the attack was written in Russian and machine-translated into German.

No, OP refers to Bill Clinton allegedly having been an Epstein client.

Mh, '0' is a nonempty string, so !'0' returns false. Then of course !(!'0') would return true. I'd absolutely expect this, Python does the same.

And the second thing is just JavaScript's type coercion shenanigans. In Python

bool('0') # returns True because of nonempty string
bool(int('0')) # returns False because 0 == False

Knowing that JavaScript does a lot of implicit type conversions, stuff like that doesn't strike me as very surprising.