vagrancyand

@vagrancyand@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux and open source getting age checking exemptions could be problematic⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Then I’ll return to cash and cash-alike prepaid cards?

  Prepaid debit cards are a multi-billion dollar industry in the US, they will lobby against any type of requirement to have digital identity verification to use their cards online or in apps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peter Thiel is leading investment in an ocean data center powered by waves—and the startup is reportedly worth $1 billion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it would be something that’s needed, that would improve humanity in anyway, maybe.

  But here’s the problem, these will kill off entire ecosystems. The installation alone will do that, but also whatever anti-corrosion, anti-growth coating on the outside that has to be somehow maximally thermally conductive will do that. The ocean is alive, it wants to be alive, and that life destroys metal and organic matter. It also just eats through petroleum products and every single type of coating we have invented.

  So no matter what these will be coated in some toxic paint, that will need to be frequently reapplied, like within 6 months of application, because we want to keep thermal conductivity and barnacles and various other sealife are what I would think everyone can agree are ‘insulating’ layers.

  So where-ever these are will have an entire town built up around them for the constant maintenance; which again involves constantly killing off everything that grows around them and on them, while leeching toxic materials to the environment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California bill pushing to keep games playable after server shutdowns "doesn't reflect how games actually work", ESA assert⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This just in, the ESA has no idea how games work.