If you’re not going to show the source code, there’s absolutely no point in using GitHub.

As for getting paid, I hadn’t seen gumroad before, nice, but failing the access to the source, it’s unlikely I’d buy/pay for unknown software and install it sight unseen on anything I care about.

From a security perspective, in my opinion this is a disaster waiting to happen.

Some reasons:

We don’t (yet) have flexible panels that would survive the abuse that curtains experience.

Vertical surfaces are not nearly as effective for the majority of cases in capturing solar radiation.

Windows have lots of obstructions that reduce the effectiveness of a solar panel.

Putting solar panels behind an extra layer of glass that would need to be kept pristine would be counter productive.

The voltages involved in solar panels would create an added source of danger inside the house.

It’s not too late.

As a creator, I’d be much more interested in a way to get paid into my actual bank account in such a way that didn’t involve Bitcoin (et. al.), PayPal or Stripe.

The impact to society from space exploration is immense if not immeasurable.

• Weather forecasting
• GPS navigation
• Earth sciences
• Robotics
• Medical imaging

NASA has a website dedicated to the topic, as do other agencies around the world.

• https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/benefits-to-humanity/
• https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/about/everyday-benefits-of-space-exploration/
• https://www.space.gov.au/why-space-matters
• https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Benefits_of_space_science

There’s also a Wikipedia page on the topic:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefits_of_space_exploration

While this doesn’t answer your question, I use Docker for this exact purpose, since you can throw away everything if it fails, whilst keeping a recipe for success documented in a Dockerfile.

Youngest to oldest, physically at the table at the time.

So when is this happening, so we can mentally and logistically prepare for the next influx of new users into the fediverse?

You do understand that California is not the centre of the universe, that states within the United States of America don’t agree on how to conduct voting, let alone agree on laws and finally, that there are 8.3 billion people on this planet, 96% of whom don’t live in, or are subject to laws made in the USA.

I’m sorry, but no.

Age validation is surveillance under the guise of “protecting the children”, which it spectacularly fails at for more reasons than I can count.

1. Everyone has to validate their age, which creates a whole infrastructure that require documents that “prove” your age.
2. A verified “under age” user will be added to a database by unscrupulous players, creating a honeypot for predators.
3. Age verification isn’t universal, isn’t uniform and regardless of the jurisdiction in which it’s implemented, won’t actually prevent content from being procured from sources outside that jurisdiction.
4. One source of objectionable content is another’s entertainment, legally so, given that laws are made in isolation from each other across borders.
5. The result of such legislation is the effective censorship of content that some lawmaker finds objectionable, which will cause more harm than good.
6. Operating System level age verification on open source platforms will spectacularly fail since they’re published outside the jurisdiction.

So … no.

I understand your point and agree that this is the thin end of the wedge.

What we’re doing here is discussing the phenomenon and I’m highlighting some concerns.

I believe that this is how you get a dialogue happening which will effect change, which is what we’re both advocating.

I think that age verification is about surveillance rather than protecting children and I think it should be fought at every level.

This is me contributing to that fight.

In my opinion, storing a date is pretty much irrelevant unless there’s a process that validates the supplied date, otherwise every Linux user was born on 1/1/1, if not, an administrator can “fix” that

Furthermore, that systemd thinks that it’s the place to store such information is in my opinion beyond absurd.

Who appointed that project the source of age truth in the Linux ecosystem? What discussion was there, who was consulted and where was the vote?

Halle Berry?

Regardless of how or why it failed, the constitution and the society it represented, failed to secure the continued existence of the country.

A constitution is not the only way to form a country and the two examples you gave both ended up with a despot in charge.

Yes.

However, the country that OP is discussing ceased to exist and thus its founding documents are pretty much irrelevant.

I am attempting to point out that a document that you’re holding up as an ideal, together with what it represents and how society surrounding it was structured did not last for more than 55 years, which is less time than I’ve been on this planet.

While it might represent something that you find appealing or inspiring, it didn’t last, or said differently, it failed.

I’d also point out that countries like Australia don’t have a constitution at all and they’ve lasted longer than that.

I think that you need to find a better argument to promote a worker based economy. Perhaps the co-op based system in Italy, which has lasted longer, is a more sustainable way to go.

You fail to understand that the USSR ceased to exist. What remains is run by a despot, regardless of your feelings or intent.

… and both countries are run by despots.

Regardless of the account, anonymous or not, I assume that my identity will be revealed and post accordingly. I’ve been doing so since I first posted on the internet in 1990.

Not for nothing, the same is true for email and any other form of (electronic) communication.

Do I make mistakes? Absolutely! Have I regretted making a post or comment? Over the years perhaps less than a dozen times, that, or I’m getting old and feeble minded.

I try to make my contributions positive and supportive, sometimes I even manage to get the balance right between my odd sense humour and misunderstanding promulgated by online communication with strangers.

I wonder if the influx of slop contributions can be stemmed by a legal document that makes the contributor legally liable for their submission.

Seems like lawyers have been learning the hard way to be accountable for their slop, perhaps these lessons can be leveraged in the open source community.