https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/2025-01-16-No-Billionares-at-FOSDEM-please.html
"If billionaires want to participate in FOSS, I’m going to ask them to refrain from
using our platforms to talk about their
AI/blockchain/bitcoin/climate-disaster-as-a-service grifty business ventures, and inste
My own thinking on this, from at least 1980s, is that we're going to
consume all known reserves of petroleum, but that we better leave the
majority of coal in the ground. When I last looked at it, there was
something like 200 years of known coal reserves at current rates of
use. This was particular
Summary:
I have a nuanced view on fossil fuels, recognizing both their benefits and
drawbacks.
Pros:
They provide affordable energy, which is essential for maintaining our
current industrial society.
Cons:
Fossil fuels are environmentally harmful, contributing to pollution and CO2
emissions, whic
Good to hear an optimistic view. Maybe I have read too many apocalyptic books
after the pandemic :) During Covid we wondered if it will be a pandemic which
leads to a post pandemic world as in "The Dog Stars" from Peter Heller or in
"Earth Abides" from George R. Stewart. Luckily it was not the c
