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Could you be more specific? Future of what exactly?

Server computing: Open source is currently winning, it will probably keep winning.

The Desktop: Open source is fully usuable, however only a small percent of market share. Might be the future if wine and proton keep seeing major imorovements.

Mobile phones: Open source isn't winning (I wouldn't really count android as open, but that's up for debate). I don't see open source being the future here anytime soon, though I truly hope it makes it.

Ah so if your civilization ends but humans ad a spicies survive, the next civilization won't have it so easy. That makes sense, thanks for clarifying.

> but a runaway green house effect is certainly possible

Could you go into detail about how this could happen? My understanding is that this would require lots of greenhouse gasses getting pumped into the atmosphere somehow (Something like all the forests in the world burning down). I remember hearing one theory regarding methane calthrate [1] causing this effect, however I haven't read any studies going into the specifics of how large this effect could be.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_clathrate#Methane_clat...

The pandemic example was just an argument that our food supply system is robust in the face of some unexpected events. What do you think could happen during non-pandemic events which could topple it?

If I'm understanding you correctly, your argument is that if we don't become a multi-planetary species, extinction is assured. And we don't stand a chance of going multi-planetary if we don't take advantage of cheap fossil fuels within the next several years.

Why do think we need to leverage fossil fuels to build rockets? My impression was that solar and wind are already out-competing coal in terms of electricity production, and are close to beating natural gas too.

I also don't think fossil fuels are required to build rockets. Hydrogen can easily be generated from electrolysis (although a bit more expensive than from methane), Methane can be produced from plants, and while I haven't heard it tried yet I imagine a fuel similar to RP-1 could also be synthesized from plants, similar to how we make ethanol.

Do you think we won't be able to switch to renewables in time, or is my analysis on how effective renewables are off?

> A small disruption in the intricate supply chain of essential food is all it takes.

During the start of COVID the supply chain of food got disrupted quite a bit. Large restaurant suppliers no longer had customers because the restaurants were closed and grocery stores didn't have enough supply to keep up with customers. However, I didn't even have to dig into my emergency rice stash at all, and I haven't heard of anyone else actually going hungry.

Do you think a larger disruption might cause a cascading effect, or how exactly would that play out? The COVID example appears to show the opposite: our food supply chain is rather robust.

> We estimate heavy losses, maybe near extinction

Do you mean human extinction or extinction of certain animal species? I can definitely see certain animal species dying out, I couldn't see a scenario where humans die out though. If you mean human extinction could you provide some further reading?

I've been waiting for desktop video calling for years! This is the first official news I've heard of it, I will definitely join the beta test.

I believe the innovation is that the satellites sit in low earth orbit.

Traditional internet satellites operate in geostationary orbit, which is around 35,000km above the surface of the earth. This was preferable because with only a handful of satellites you could give the entire globe internet connection. However you have much higher latency due to the distance. Not exactly sure why the bandwidth is so slow, distance probably doesn't help here either. Maybe those companies are also running outdated systems.

Starlink satellites operate in low earth orbit which is around 400km, which is way closer, leading to far lower latency. However, at that distance you need to basically cover the sky with satellites in order to always see one. That's why they're planning to launch thousands of them.

> That discomfort has to do with your own narrow associations with the word, unable to separate the contexts and therefore triggering the human slavery version of master/slave in your mind and the associated emotions.

I agree with all of this. I'm sure if I were to work with master/slave systems for a while the connotation to me would change from the historical one to the technical. However even then, if I communicate with someone outside of technical people, it will carry the slavery connotation to them.

A while ago I had a similar issue when trying to explain male and female connectors to a friend. When she heard me use the terminology she thought I was joking, and I had to show her the wikipedia article and connectors on amazon. In that case it was harmless, but I could imagine the same scenario happening when trying to explain master/slave terminology to a colored person, and it coming off as an offensive joke.

> Slavery still goes on today and changing the terminology has done nothing to help that in any way.

I'm aware slavery exists in other contexts and continues. In this case, I was trying to point out the first thing that comes to mind when I hear "slave". I imagine other US born devs might think similarly. I doubt this would do anything to solve slavery, but it would make me more comfortable.

> Is your skin colour relevant to your answer in any way? I have no idea why you included that

Since this is a racially charged topic, I assume the opinion of someone of color would hold more weight. I wanted to make my background clear so you wouldn't be guessing.

White male here: I always found the terminology of master/slave uncomfortable. I never really encountered the word slave outside of american history classes, so in my head it does remind me of slavery in the US. I would frequently avoid using the word "slave" in technical discussions. I'm happy with this change.

How do you acquire 10k sacks of sand on such short notice? Also, how much does that cost?

I love spirit. If I can save $50 on a flight that would normally cost $200, that means I can visit my girlfriend 4 times instead of 3 for the same price. I'm not particularly tall so there's no change in comfort for me. I wish they had more routes though, been handing a good percentage of my annual salary to delta.

Ideally I would like to see an additional section in man pages devoted to examples. The TLDR pages could then be moved into the man pages.

This is a list of things I hope come to be this decade. 1) The death of ads on the internet. Looking at advertisements becomes much less socially acceptable, and ad blockers become the norm. 2) A properly open source mobile OS takes over. 3) The Linux desktop hits 20% market share. 4) IPv6 replaces IPv4, all but the biggest websites switch over completely. 5) On the back of IPv6, fully peer-to-peer secure messaging takes over. I can now send a full movie to my friends within a group chat, no servers needed. 6) Self-hosting software becomes easy and mainstream (something like yunohost, but not necessarily that implementation). No more command line knowledge needed.

Paywalled for me. Anyone have a solution?

The point is heating up the car so it's warm when you get inside. I don't have this feature and I live in the northern US. In the winter the car is freezing for the first 3 minutes as there is no heat until the engine warms up. Being able to start the car from the other side of the parking lot would increase my comfort by a large amount.

No, because GNU and Linux are bound by license restrictions which require the unobfuscated source code to be made available.

If all websites made their source available as well as distributing the binary, there wouldn't be a problem.

Would it be ethical/useful to overwhelm NATs with addr:port combinations to overflow the NAT's translation table? If NATs start breaking down, it might force upstream to start adopting IPv6. I could see a system of doing this as setting a different port for each outgoing connection. Thoughts?

Using melatonin properly completely changed how I sleep. I used to have trouble falling asleep and waking up in the morning, so my sleep schedule would drift back to the point where I would be late to work because I was falling asleep at 4am. I followed the advice of this article[1] and got my sleep schedule back on track. TLDR:

* I take 0.3mg at 7:00pm with the goal of falling asleep at 11:00pm

* Redshift always on at 4500k, turns to 2500k at 10:00pm

I still use a screen until the moment I fall asleep, and I probably don't get enough sunlight. However the changes listed are sufficient for me at least.

[1]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-th...

I'm surprised nobody is mentioning LXC[1]. I'm by no means a containers expert, but they claim to be more secure since they default to running as non-root. Unlike docker, I had no trouble installing LXC with apt, while with docker I often got an outdated version. I'm now using LXC for all of my basic container applications (self hosting a wiki and a few other sites).

[1]: https://linuxcontainers.org/

Took me a good few minutes to figure out, click on the big black image with the text "How Fit are you Really?

Link: https://www.worldfitnesslevel.org/#/

Nothing too crazy, just got done setting up OpenWRT this week, but am having a few issues getting ipv6 working properly.

Also setting up a mediawiki server for the family, mainly so I can get all of my mom's great recipies and share them with the rest of the family :)

Because they have access to the source code itself. No need to reverse engineer anything.

Yes. First line in the README on Github: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon

Building off of that $0.000001 USD per email thing, has anyone proposed a proof of work per message sent system? Sort of like the server accepting messages says "hey find some value x where the first n digits of hash(nonce + x) are zero". So the server sending the message could decide if it really wants to complete the work.

It may be a total pain for users if servers set their proof of work really high and reject everything, but maybe it could be implemented to work well, thus limiting spam.

This would have the same effect as Gates's idea, but compute power is easier to come by than real money.

I've always found it too difficult to choose the "decentralized" option for many services. It's just not convenient enough to spin up my own gitlab server, or own email. I tried to do both of those things a while ago when I was still new to Linux, and gave up due to the number of steps involved which I inevitably fucked up.

The solution for me would be packages which hold my hand through the install process to make installing such software as easy as possible. Obviously, packaging software in this way would take way more work, and people qualified to do this would rather package more software rather than hold some noob's hand.

That being said, hopefully in the future when software gets even more mature, repackaging will become less necessary, and this type of packages might become more common, allowing decentralized systems to be easy enough to set up that they become common.