The ecological success of mankind surely has affected the planet in many ways but a random prediction from the past bears no significance.

There's one serious unmentioned problem with Microsoft and strongly in favor of Linux (and open source in general). Preserving sovereignty. PC/Windows systems are owned by 0: CLOUD act, 1: Microsoft, 2: antivirus companies, 3: local IT department, 4: you. With Linux _you_ are in control.

I really don't understand all the fuzz. AFAIK AWS always charged for public IPv4 addresses which they call an "Elastic IP Address". I had some troubles getting rid of one of these after decommissioning an EC3 with a reverse address lookup record.

A biogenetic weapon would not have this problem.

No.

They have been used for decades in space and for diving (CCRs, submarines) and this seems a particular bad one as it is fueled by hydrogen. Hydrogen is mostly produced from methane, releasing CO2 in the process. Filtering CO2 from clean air (about 400 ppm) is insane. It should be done at the source. The article also refers to a new carbon removal facillity (DAC in NE Scotland) which deserves its own debunking article with respect to effectiveness.

A plane has no privacy.

... given MS track record. Also, someone gave me a very apt description of AI software: those who do not understand [their own algorithms in software] call it AI. Yes there's a lot of AI research going on but so far it merely seems to yield idiot savants.

subject says it all.

Subject says it all. If you can't stand the heat stay out of the kitchen.

3.3Wh/gram sounds a lot but usability evaporates when taking the half-life of Ni63->Cu63 decay into account: 3.3Wh / 24 /365 / 100 / 3.3V == 1.141e-6A == 1.14 (insert UTF8 greek micro)A. The 3.3V is just an example.

I think this is incorrect and EPR does allow instantaneous (i.e. FTL) communications except that the entangled particles have to travel first and this is bound by the speed of light. So EPR seems to use bandwidth in the past. However, there are some conflicts with other theories so science came up with the "no-communication theorem" to fix the breakage as far as I understand it.

Subject says it all. Even if virus writers just go for the largest market instead of the least secure OS then it's just another argument to use Linux.

Disks are pretty much safe, it's the ECC-less transfer to new disks which is risky. It is very very unlikely for bitrot on disk to go unnoticed thanks to ECC but when you migrate your data to bigger disks, new filesystems then an occasional bitflip due to critical timings (SDRAM, busses, chips, clocks), old PATA cables (no data checksum) or caused by EMI, radiation etc. increases with the size of the dataset. The solution is checksumming before- and after the copy. Even deprecated algorithms (MD5, SHA1) will do.

... it is not the best solution. A leap second table to make it a time representation issue would probably be better.