Not just the EU, the rest of the world. The whole point of OSS was to distribute knowledge across all of humanity, not just be used as a way to make trillions of dollars in profits by a few billionaires working off the backs of OSS developers.

2 pounds of sugar is not the same as 10 kg of sugar.

I started using Linux every day in 1999 and I’m glad I did.

Managing a Linux server is no different from managing a Linux desktop. If you were to consider the GUI nothing more than a display layer over the top of a server, you’d have a good mental map of how things work.

To get started, use the same desktop distro as your server and use their preferred or default windowing system.

Once you’ve familiar with it and the pitfalls it comes with, you’ll know which questions to ask for your next choice, but you will be able to build on what you already know.

I’m not a concrete expert, but a tonne of concrete is less than half a cubic metre.

A concrete truck carries 10 cubic yards, or nearly 18 metric tons of concrete.

If this “educational fact” is true, then that amount of sugar might cause an issue with a piece of sidewalk, but it’s unlikely to get noticed on anything being built with concrete, unless you bring a metric shit ton of sugar to the party.

As it happens, sugar appears to be added to concrete on purpose, specifically to increase the working time at the potential cost of weakening the structure, but research into that is ongoing.

Source: https://concretecaptain.com/what-does-sugar-do-to-concrete-mix/

In other words, this post is bollocks.

Edit: After it was pointed out to me by @Lupus@feddit.org that my link was slop, which I agree after reading more than the first two paragraphs, I went looking for better information and found this actual research:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221450952030036X

Interestingly during my search for information in relation to sugar added to concrete, my results appeared overwhelmingly generated by LLM, like the top link I found initially.

Also, adding sugar appears to increase the compressive strength and that might be more significant than the increased work time.

It appears to be an attempt to monetize open source software, something which should in my opinion be applauded, given the trillions of dollars made off the backs of software developers who contributed to OSS without ever getting compensation, something that’s required to have a roof over your head and food to eat.

Another approach being attempted in this space is by Bruce Perens (of Open Source fame).

He’s calling his efforts Post Open: https://postopen.org/

Disclaimer: I contributed to the community conduct document.

Incidents like this are a perfect excuse for the bean counters and marketing experts to chime in and recommend that the firmware be updated specifically to block third party ink or toner.

There’s no downside, the world is already trash talking your company, even if you didn’t do anything wrong, but while it’s happening, you get to sell a shitload more ink and toner.

Now you can consider yourself an “Award Winning Author”.

For the lack multiple upvotes, here’s a “silver” coin.

Might have to consider some Oscar generic awards ceremony worthy credits before long, mind you, finding the name of the obstetrician who birthed me is going to be a challenge.

I also noticed a distinct lack of family genealogy in your signature, if it wasn’t for our primordial ooze ancestors, neither of us would be here today.

This is going to require “some” research.

Hmm … I wonder if embedded YouTube iframes work … purely for bandwidth testing purposes of course.

I just discovered another missing attribute from my signature:

Hi mom!

So … adding a pronoun to every single email on the planet kills one person?

Can we nominate that person … there’s a few that come to mind.

On a more serious note, the article is crapping on about pronouns and land acknowledgements as if they’re what’s killing people.

Here’s a thought, what about AI, or what about the biggest carbon emitting companies, 57 account for 80% of emissions?

Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/since-2016-80-percent-of-global-co2-emissions-come-from-just-57-companies-report-shows-180984118/

This article is nothing to do with killing people, it’s everything to do with killing pronouns and eliminating land acknowledgements.

Ooh … there’s going to be a lot of fun had with this… I wonder if you can use blink tags and animated gifs … strictly for educational purposes … I’ll be right back …

“Your proposal is acceptable.”

Or an apprentice Locksmith cat.

If you’re renting, take photos and make sure it’s in your property report. You’ll likely get charged for the “damage” if you don’t.

Also, do a walk-through with video when you move in, take it slow and cover every surface. It’s amazing what you can prove was already there.

This sounds interesting. Can you change hostnames as well, like say www.reddit.com to old.reddit.com?

Make a bookmarklet to do it for you?

Block and Report … it’s similar to Like and Subscribe … but different.

You’ve been on the Fediverse less than a day and THAT’S your contribution to the global discourse?

Yeah, Voyager here too. The indicator helps evaluate if I care enough to respond. As for Eternal September, it was a doozy and the road was pretty rough.

That said, I’m still here, so there’s that 😇