Yes, there is an antitoxin for botulism, and the amount needed is based on the amount ingested so if it is addressed promptly, you know the rest.

If it's shit laws all the way down you won't be allowed to use a VPN without a license

We could end up with a future where Apple allows sideloading everywhere but China...

"We need to stop calling things that aren't copyleft "open source" - because they aren't"

Yes, they are.

"Open Source" doesn't mean you can do anything with the sources. It means you can see them. Some of us were using the phrase for years before the OSI even existed.

Cringe to who? People who don't know shit about Microsoft, Bill Gates, the relevant history, or the computing ecosystem in general? Fuck 'em, Slashdot is not for them.

But that's super dumb, because they run the site. They can track every click and collect browser info without adding anything to their pages, and as an added bonus, they aren't giving their tracking info away to others when they do that.

Probably more like they are putting ads on Faceboot and having the tracking pixel on their site makes it so that they can get clickthrough stats in the same interface as they post the ads.

He spent years fighting Free Software by fraudulently equating Open Source with it, on the basis that another member of the OSI allegedly coined the term "Open Source" which was around for well over a decade before then.

This is the next logical step; Having succeeded at this original goal, now he is trying to declare that Open is dead, and long live Post-Open.

Open is not dead, it does what it was supposed to do: Specifically, it shares knowledge about how to do things. But it doesn't do what Free Software does, which is to give the actual user a good chance to have updates which they can actually use. And it never, ever did.

In fact, systemd frequently doesn't work. I had a boot problem that I could only have resolved using a debugger, as I tracked the problem down to systemd itself. At that point I lost interest and switched to Devuan. No systemd, no systemd problem.

We needed more options than we did before because some of the best ones were contaminated with systemd. For example Debian, so now I have to run Devuan. It's an entire distribution which didn't even need to exist if only Debian hadn't gone to the dark side. And what's crazy is that you can still change Debian to use sysvinit if you want, but then a bunch of stuff doesn't work because of all the systemd-dependent tweaks in Debian. And literally the only reasons they went to it were 1) GNOME, which sucks now anyway and 2) because writing init scripts was too hard for Debian package maintainers. Shell scripting is a central Unix feature, so this was only a move to let people who don't understand Unix make contributions which they also don't understand.

Having more options isn't positive when the new options are just bad, AND they make more people have to do more work. cgroups can be manipulated with shell commands. startpar already lets you start services in parallel with sysvinit. We didn't need systemd.

But... how?

What he was known for before this was pulseaudio, which is trash. It was always trash and it's still trash, and now it's been replaced by something much better which has been around a much, much shorter time.

Where did the good will come from in the first place?

Chuck E Cheese at least had games of skill.

This is only preying on addiction.

But if they had competitions where the winner got paid, they could only collect a share of winner's entry fee plus loser's entry fee, this way they can collect money from bystanders as well. So it makes sense, in a sleazy way.

Now you've got a ton of maintenance points.

Better to have one big facility, IF you can design it worth a shit so the whole thing doesn't catch fire at once. There have been a couple of failures like that, they are embarrassing and stupid.

Just another job for shipping containers.

If one starts with something, the cheapest thing to start with is everything but the batteries. Then you start saving money right away by using less grid input.

You also do not want to be building batteries with a spot welder. You want to use cells that have screw terminals, not a bunch of little bitty things. Not only will it be cheaper, but it's more serviceable. If you have a cell failure with your welded battery you're going to have extra work to do comparatively. It makes sense to weld a pack for an ebike, but not for a house.

Shipping is human activity. You think container ships are from mars or what?

The fossil fuel industry is the most subsidized thing in history. Let's do this! Though if we did it all at once, civilization would probably collapse.

EVs are the old. At first there were far more EVs than ICEVs because of the lack of availability of fuel. Anyone could assemble a state of the art battery back then, and it was much easier to generate electricity than to refine gasoline. That part is still true!