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This is not only about being able to see a nice night sky (although I admit I love seeing one), it's a very much more fundamental issue.

Light pollution has dramatic negative consequences for wildlife and thereby our ecosystem we so heavily depend upon.

Among a few ultrarich which amplify their voices by screaming through their media mouthpieces to make them sound like they're of any importance to society, from which they leech their wealth in the first place.

PyInfra 3.8.0 3 months ago

I wouldn't call it heavy, but more complex instead. Salt is astonishingly lightweight (at least before they started vendoring everything and I stopped using it) and extremely fast - due to its execution model it doesn't really matter whether you target 10 or 10000 nodes with a job.

It's not so much about which countries actually grow that much right now, but which mindset underpins the political and medial discourse, trying to get those countries "back on track for continuous growth" or whether there's some realization, that infinite growth as fundamental principle just isn't what we all should be aiming for anymore.

The great thing about BeaconDB: the API-compatibility to MozillaLocationService. So apps just need to update their endpoint to continue working.

RIP pthread_cancel 10 months ago

A standalone library would have to work with all the existing system facilities (e.g. NSS on Linux systems) to be not restricted to just resolv.conf entries, but to allow for all the various other methods of resolving names.

Good EU regulations 11 months ago

Cookie-banners were never mandated. It's just a fucking stupid way by the website operators, trying to circumvent data privacy regulation.

And when it comes to USB-C. Sure, it's far from perfect, but it's a great foundation to built upon and improve.

Good EU regulations 11 months ago

The Germany municipality of Tübingen implemented a "Verpackungssteuer" (tax on single-use packaging, utensils). It was fought by the local McDonald's franchisee up to the highest relevant court (Bundesverwaltungsgericht) and finally approved.

Dozens of other German municipalities were just waiting for the final decision to implement their own local tax.