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finger touch grep awk cat pip, Red Hat…

Unix. GNU.

Dumb jokes and weird branding kinda comes with the package. People have fun.

I think ‘get over it’ is a pretty reasonable take, overall.

I wrote a crowdsec bouncer that outputs an anubis config. They work together well.

Anubis doesn’t try to do any detection or blocking by itself.

It is good that they’re working towards sustainability though. Lots of devs burn out.

I might, if the specs were good.

I mean, I’d look at the specs first. Because it’s just a logo. Show me the numbers that actually matter.

That said, there are imagery that would give me pause, obviously. I suspect we’d just draw the line in very different places.

If it harms nobody, let people have fun.

Alternately, Super Serious humourless douchebags pretending to be All Grown Up and overlooking powerful functionality because they don’t like the picture on the box.

Some people need to get over their obsession with appearance and face.

Xe Xaio is trying to self fund to replace their day job, so i wouldn’t say there’s no money motivation involved.

It was a slightly uphill battle to get my organization to adopt it for similar reasons but we got there with the branding, and we love botstopper. I put some effort into letting them know just how much it’s blocking.

Kids these days

Back in the day you could fit a pretty functional linux on a 1.44mb disk

From a utility perspective, you may be right. Given the existence of an already-extant fossil fuel distribution infrastructure, I could see it being simpler.

But that said, the “amount of space used” isn’t a great metric to compare the two, since the space used by solar is very different and can overlap with space used for other things.

Getting away from utilities, solar is something that individual people can install on their properties to electrify their own little baby power grid, feeding back to the wider grid or not. This will effect the demand curve in the aggregate, leaving utilities to cover the difference somehow. With load dropping to zero or near-zero during sunlight hours, and increasing in the off-peak and winter hours, they have to consider options to balance the grid that aren’t appropriate for fossil fuel plants.

The niche that gas peaker plants fill is rapidly going away as battery technology improves. I think the calculus, in ten or so years, is going to be that it’ll be “a lot simpler, easier to buy a plot of industrial zoned land, and stick a” battery farm on it to harvest surplus power during the daylight/windy hours and discharge it at other times.

Why does that matter? Solar can go where coal can’t.

Put PV above a parking lot, you’re not using that land for anything else useful anyway.

Lotta places it can go. Doesn’t matter if it takes up more space.

Coal and gas plants can only go in specific spots. Need a water supply, needs logistics, needs a clear zone to vent. So it needs more space than a trivial accounting would indicate.

Sticking coal power generation on your roof, are ye?