Yardy Sardley

All of this seems impossible to enforce in the FOSS ecosystem. People can just fork the software and remove any restriction they don’t like. That’s kind of the whole point of free software. Users are free to use their devices however they like, including in ways that are not intended by the devloper.

And the address space is big enough you can choose a new random address between every connection to avoid tracking.

Subscribed/New most of the time, but I check All/Active every once in a while to see if there’s any drama going on.

Sometimes I’ll hit All/Scaled when I’m really desperate.

I’m getting an “owner of the dimmsdale dimmadome” vibe

Maybe it’s a form of male birth control? I don’t imagine an array of IR lasers delicately roasting your nuts would benefit fertility.

Maybe not fraudulent since you are getting what you pay for most of the time. But I do agree, 99% of commerce is bullshit in some way or another.

I recently came across a term that describes my feelings on the matter pretty well: it’s landfill-core. Our economy depends on people buying new shit, but in order to have that happen without people’s homes turning into mountains of useless clutter, we have to constantly be throwing away old shit. So it seems to me the purpose of this whole economy thing is to expend tons of energy producing and transporting all kinds of shit, so that it can take a brief detour through somebody’s home on the way to the landfill.

Like, the majority of human productivity goes into extracting resources that just get buried again somewhere else, if not immediately set on fire.

If you’re not part of the solution…

I rarely use planes, but I usually see them flying overhead multiple times a day.

Planes are a good answer. Commercial jets normally fly at about 900km/h.

Also satellites. Something in low earth orbit like the ISS or a starlink node would be going about 8km per second.