One of the things that contributed to the downfall of USENET was when people worked out how to post binary files, encoded as multi-part blocks of ASCII text. It still has piracy problems but you can just ignore that stuff.
Ignore all the software pirates over there. Yes, sir, the ones sitting at the free bar full of top shelf liquor with strippers on each side. Yup, better not go over there.
That and hand over your ID to make sure you’re not buying too much. Don’t want people making meth. We sure solved the illicit drug problem in this country with that one.
I watched people’s apathy result in both the Bush and Trump administrations. Both were utter disasters. Voting for the party that’s not an utter disaster is the obvious choice.
But it’s also not the only thing to do. I think the huge mistake of the Obama Administration was figuring that we elected this guy and he’ll fix everything for us. Doesn’t work like that. There’s a hundred things to do at the state and municipal levels, and a lot of them will have a more fundamental effect on your life than anything at the federal level.
Eh? Not sure what you’re basing that on. Republicans won in 2000 after impeaching Clinton, and Democrats won in 2020 after impeaching Trump. There are no other modern examples of impeachment, at least not at the Presidential level.
Now, impeaching for obvious political grandstanding, yes, that will absolutely hurt them.
Afghanistan should be stricken from the title. There were no pretenses on that one. The US could never just let 9/11 go, and our allies and the rest of the world agreed. Just for the invasion in itself, Bush never would have been charged with any war crimes there. No, not even in a more just international criminal system than the one we have.
Iraq is a different story. The fabrications were obvious, our allies called them out, and then we did it anyway. Iraq had no connection to 9/11 and no WMD program in active development. That was obvious to everyone at the time who wasn’t a senseless warmonger. Almost as bad, it took resources away from Afghanistan, which was the fight that really mattered. Stack on top of all that the fact that we could no longer realpolitik by playing the authoritarian governments of Iran and Iraq off of each other. Iran had no direct counterbalance on its border anymore, which freed resources for them to start a nuclear weapons program. They never could have done that if they had to keep up a conventional military to make sure Saddam Hussein didn’t start another war with them.
The two should be considered separately. Bush ought to be tried as a war criminal for invading Iraq, and for what happened during the long occupation in both countries. But there’s no good reason for trying him for invading Afghanistan.
Indulgences do absolutely nothing without relying on a deity.
Carbon capture could work, and we’ll probably need to do it in some form. It’s just that the popular ways to do it are all scams.
It’s the difference between investing in a perpetual motion machine, versus investing in a spray can that a guy in a commercial says can improve your house’s energy efficiency, versus investing in actual new insulation and windows. The third one is expensive, but it’s the only one we can take seriously.
Only a handful of countries have carbon offset policies. It’s mostly corporations “volunteering” for a carbon offset program as part of a greenwashing campaign. The whole thing can work in theory, but a lot of these programs are way too cheap for the current state of carbon capture technology.
That’s if they’re even bothering to implement a real solution at all. They may be planting trees only to pull them up again in a year and start fresh, but count 30 years of expected carbon capture for both sets. Trees aren’t even the best carbon sink to begin with, but people like trees. That, in turn, makes them all the better for greenwashing. Cheap, get to count the same grove multiple times, and looks good for marketing. Tanks of algae are ugly, but they would work far better at this job.
All this said, I think threads like this give people the mistaken impression that carbon capture is entirely a scam. We will almost certainly need actual carbon capture to avoid +2C of warming.
These days, the top. Pretty close to it, too–other than the hardline tubing, that’s about what my gaming setup looks like.
I’ve also ran systems in the past where the “case” is the box the motherboard came in, and you started it by tripping the switch header with whatever piece of metal was handy. Good times.
The community is all but gone at this point. It used to have a lot of highly concentrated competance. Many of those people left (or were driven away) in the last few years, and nobody is taking their place.
There is no such thing as a junior Perl programmer.
My company still uses it significantly, and has already had one major failed attempt to get rid of it. I expect we’ll still have it for years to come. I’m at least 25 years away from retirement, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it was still around then. That said, we’re moving to Elixir, and with a much better plan than the previous attempt.
All that said, we gobble up all the experienced Perl devs we can and try to make them happy enough to stay. There’s good money to be made in a long-tail language.
Not quite there yet, but I think Lemmy has the potential to be the best of both. Something you could host without a major company involved, but also attached to a wider community. It isn’t getting the critical mass just yet.
Also, yeah, like a lot of PHP apps at the time, phpBB had some boneheaded decisions. Like “plugins” that didn’t use any kind of API hooks, and instead relied on patching the code directly.