Of course, the natural intelligence in me suggests to just build those AI data centres up in Scotland. Or even in Iceland, which has a surplus of renewable, carbon-neutral electricity...

We are not talking about CO2 emissions (which are well-mixed in the atmosphere, and where human emissions dominate volcanic emissions by about a factor of 100). We are talking about sulfur-based aerosols. Just like CO2, these are emitted by humans and by volcanoes. But unlike CO2, they are not well-mixed in the atmosphere, and human (in particular shipping) emissions are emitted into the low atmosphere, have a short atmospheric life time, and mostly have relatively local effects. Some volcanic emissions, on the other hand, are strong enough to reach beyond the tropopause, and do indeed have global effects. I thought it useful to make it clear that while some sulfur aerosols do reach global distribution, that is not true for all sulfur emissions. In particular, the effect of reducing the amount of sulfur emissions by ships has only local and limited effects. It can explain a small part of the current warming, but not nearly all of it.

Science does not do proof, only disproof. And of course dark matter makes observable predictions - e.g. that there are cases where gravity and visible matter are decoupled. As I mentioned above, the famous case is the Bullet Cluster, where two galaxies collided and passed through each other, leaving most of the matter (the interstellar gas) in the middle, but most of the gravitational matter stayed with the stars.

Even the largest modern ships have a height in the tens of meters - for a variety of reasons, from stability to harbour infrastructure. Yes, they are "massive", but that is relative. Massive relative to a truck, or a human, or a single family home. But many volcanoes are measured in the thousands of meters, and their ejecta often reach the stratosphere. These do indeed spread over much of a hemisphere, in particular (pun alert) because they get above the normal weather layers.

...and things like the Bullet Cluster? Dark energy might be explained otherwise, but the observational support for dark matter is really quite strong by now.

Atmospheric chemistry tells us that sulphur aerosols have a relatively short atmospheric lifetime - especially those emitted by ships, which don't have super-high smokestacks. Hence their spread is limited. It's not as if the QE2 is pushing it's exhaust into the stratosphere, unlike some volcanoes.

Funny you should say so. A couple of years ago I actually looked into this to see if we could get a halfway decent coverage of air traffic by installing ADS-B-receivers on ships. The answer was a resounding "no". Sure, we have a lot of traffic routes. But most of the traffic is on a few heavily travelled routes. And the oceans are really big. We have a few thousand container ships on the oceans - but most by far are small ones, only a few hundred go long-distance. If you think these are large numbers, imagine a few thousand people in the continental US - and then imagine how much bigger the oceans are.

"Tiny" is relative. If the temperatures have been stable for a long time (and they have), then even small increases are likely to have a lot of impact. It's only 5 degree C from normal to dead by fever in humans...and human temperature varies a lot more than average sea surface temperature.

That's a nice way to discount any unpleasant news. But then I usually follow the scientific literature, not "the news cycle", and what is published there is not good news.

And yet, on the whole we have managed to discourage people from just taking things lying around, from farm produce to cars on a parking lot to newspapers at a news stand. The system is not perfect, but it works well enough that most of us enjoy living in a somewhat civilised society...

Not a source of particularly good repute. And the blog post is from July 2023, mostly discussing the North Atlantic. We now observe massive sea surface temperatures for a year, and all over the planet. What she writes may well be not wrong, but she misses the underlying main cause, and the article is very much out of date now.

Only a very small part of the oceans are near busy shipping lanes. The effect can explain a small part of the increase, not nearly all of it. And even that small effect was only temporarily masked - it's clear that we cannot keep emitting sulfur forever. And of course these sulfur emissions had serious side effects, from acid rain to human health.

Disclaimer: Personal, anecdotal experiences... Apple appears to have lost some interest in macOS as a premium product for web developers some time ago. It's still good, and for this of us already invested in it it's still a reasonable choice, but just a few years ago the buzz that I got was that lots of devs were switching to it as "the UNIX dev platform where you could pay someone to install and support it" basically. That's no longer the case.

It could also stop Orange from continuing to distribute the software. If they create derivative works, they need a licence from all copyright holders whose code they intermingle. Alternatively, it could force Orange to get a GPL-compatible license from the other copyright holders, so that they can fulfil their obligations. That might be expensive, but it is very much possible.

That is a self-consistent position. But then no copyright infringement is theft. And while self-consistent, the position is unfortunately very inconsistent with how basically all large copyright holders and industry groups use language. So for me, your claim is borderline dishonest unless you make it clear that your interpretation applies broadly.

Also, of course. the OP wrote "effectively a thief", not "literally a thief". The first is arguably true, in that the company profited from illegally appropriating someone else's (intellectual) property.

Reality seems to disagree....

In fact, the Texas grid is only weakly connected to the larger electricity network (i.e. there are some connection points, but no systematic power exchange). This act of desperate stupidity speaks volumes about the quality of the physics education in the state...