The energy cost needed to lift people into space is enormous. A lot of this is basic physics, and it's going to be difficult to get around both the resource spend and pollution in that.

(People probably fly too much, and even now somewhere around 20% of humans has ever been in a plane)

A) There's more radiation in space
B) Getting people to space puts their bodies under a lot of stress, and has its own risks
C) Most environments in space are not that clean/healthy even apart from the radiation
D) The costs involved make all this impractical for all but the very richest of people

The most common reasons people use public-commercial VPNs are not actually good reasons - the main valid reason is to get access to content limited to other countries.

May as well hire a novelist to study the person and write a script for a response. Stop chasing GenML stories so hard.

NIH-funded work is not the same thing as work done by NIH employees.

This isn't an insult contest.

Llama has license restrictions that make it not-open-source.

Due process is important, no matter how unpopular it is.

Security should not be an excuse for vendor to control things customers should be able to turn off. It's a problem when Apple does it too; you shouldn't assume everyone criticising MS on this is applying a double standard.

There are some people who benefit from a secure bootchain, but deciding for their sake that everyone must have it to run the OS is not an appropriate response.

Stamping ownership over a process and letting a person or other entity charge others for use of that, particularly given that when an idea has all its prerequisites in place independent discovery is almost inevitable - look at how often the sciences see independently dupliicated discoveries - means that patents are more letting any jerk put up a toll gate anywhere they please in the space of ideas.

If you have a site as big as Github, you could have a team of top-notch people looking over usage patterns and still you probably wouldn't spot all the usage patterns.

If Linux usage on Steam is significantly SteamDeck, then the increasing age of the Steam Deck hardware is probably a good part of this. Unlike with traditional portable gaming consoles, people think of it as being more like a PC, and are less enthused to buy/use it when it starts to get creaky.

I would've bought a version 2 of mine ages ago if they would've sold one (a real version 2, not just the variant with the nicer screen).

It'd be good if some adult in the legislature would block this. It's a waste of time and money to recognise a state cryptid, and most recognitions of official this or that are also a waste.

I have UHC as my insurer. I don't like them. But they're not murderers. Words have meanings.