What evidence do you have? I’m going of of what experts are saying on the fediverse:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacexs-starlink-could-cause-cascades-of-space-junk/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacex-dropped-space-junk-on-my-neighbors-farm-heres-what-happened-next/

It does work this way, and Starlink is waging a PR campaign that it’s no big deal.

Yeah that’s like any 3rd party repository

On the contrary, I think it is something to avoid. Imagine letting a single person ground all space launches for 9 years. And all the pollution that adds to the atmosphere. All the junk landing on people’s farms or houses.

Yes you are trusting them, and the developer. Just like you are trusting F-droid if you download from them. You also have to trust that the compiler program doesn’t do anything fishy. It’s trust all the way down.

The good news is that lots of people are working on making the systems trustworthy, and you as a consumer can learn to distinguish between what can be trusted for your usecase and what can’t.

Bye bye future space launches once we have full or partial Kessler syndrome.

Bye bye earth based astronomy.

But dang this tech is so much better than Hughesnet

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I just gotta say.

Photoshopping is such a great skill to have. Thank you for making my day better.

In the play store you’re trusting Google and the developer.

I’m not sure how obtainium works. But if you download binaries from GitHub, you’re trusting the developer to accurately build their source code into the binary without adding anything. You’re also trusting GitHub implicitly – way back when, source forge was sometimes adding malware to downloads iirc.

F-droid is kind of cool in that they are saying, “we will ensure for you that the code you execute is the same as the open source code you can read”. But this added level of insurance comes with downsides – like sometimes it’s harder for the developer to make their code build properly, or maybe updates take longer.

I was hoping the work could be to solve protein folding or something.

But I guess that’s not how the ‘crypto’ part could ever work.

Iirc etherium is proof of stake

The main difference is of philosophy of trust. With F-droid you trust F-droid to build the binary from the developers’ source code. With Accrescent, you trust the developers to build the binary from the source code.

Who can say

I was never really into the offspring I keep forgetting they exist

Oh I get it now.

Is this blink 182?

So energy intensive though. There has to be a less wasteful way to do proof of work

Patents have gone too far. I just want to stream Spotify to my home speakers; I shouldn’t need proprietary bullshit to do that

As a longtime Linux user who unfortunately daily drives Windows, this is my main gripe. Windows has killer apps.

And I’ve bought shitty hardware that didn’t work with windows on it, but I’ve also had hardware that works correctly on Windows but not on Linux, because of the hardware manufacturer’s lack of support.

It’s too bad that laptops that are 100% compatible with Linux are always sold at premium prices.

Total Annihilation is so difficult to run on any semi-modern Windows system, and it’s not even that old… right? (Cries in 1996).

On the other hand you can still play it using modern actively-maintained engines.

But yeah I’m not sure how to evaluate this criticism of maintaining compatibility with unmaintained software, because I know that Windows prioritizes backwards compatibility a lot, but I thought Linux also famously did (don’t break userspace; any bug that people depend on is a feature, etc).

If there’s anyone that truly loses here it’s apple and Mac.

I still use Ubuntu and like it. I get that snaps are centralized under canonical, but aside from that it still feels like a good community that I’ve interacted with for years, with a great LTS distro.

For the average person wanting to get started I still recommend Ubuntu. Does that make me stuck in 2008?

I bought a Chromecast Audio right before they were discontinued, trying to get in while I still could. It’s the only way I cast to a wired speaker system from the 80s that works reliably.

I loved the convenience but I will not go along with their cash grabs. I will not buy their new product because they took away the old one that was still working.