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tpush··on A new home and license (AGPL) for Synapse and friends
Well, the point of the AGPL + CLA combo is precisely to be able to profit off of community contributions by distributing proprietary versions.
tpush··on A new home and license (AGPL) for Synapse and friends
So you're trying to monetize other's contributions without giving them the right in return.
tpush··on Cooking and bird safety
? This is about dietary cholesterol, not saturated fat.
tpush··on Cooking and bird safety
Straight from the actual current guidelines:

"A note on trans fats and dietary cholesterol: The National Academies recommends that trans fat and dietary cholesterol consumption to be as low as possible without compromising the nutritional adequacy of the diet. The USDA Dietary Patterns are limited in trans fats and low in dietary cholesterol. Cholesterol and a small amount of trans fat occur naturally in some animal source foods. As of June 2018, partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs), the major source of artificial trans fat in the food supply, are no longer Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS). Therefore, PHOs are no longer added to foods."

Source: https://www.dietaryguidelines.gov/sites/default/files/2020-1...

tpush··on Biohacking Lite (2020)
Your 14% figure stems from a single study, precisely the oldest study mentioned on the report linked, while three paragraphs down it mentions the newest study, quote:

"The most recent results (University of Bristol; Defra project AW0234), from a survey of 67 flocks (not including conventional cages) were similar but even worse, particularly because only keel bone fractures were recorded. Thirty six per cent of hens from enriched cages had fractures (of the keel bone) and the average prevalence in other non-cage systems ranged from 45 to 86%. In the worst flocks, 95% of hens had fractured keel bones." (Emphasis mine.)

The report I linked even says that the old results massively under estimate bone fractures because they seldomly used x-rays to find them!

And not only that, your 14% figure are the new fractures, i.e. the ones that did not occur during laying! One newer study from 2006, mentioned in your report just two paragraphs after the one you got your figure from, estimates these old fractures of free range hens at 44%!

> The fractures seem to be mostly unrelated to the number of eggs laid in this study.

Even that is explicitly contradicted by your report, quote:

"Osteoporosis is further exacerbated by the great egg output of modern hybrids. In 1930, a hen laid around 115 eggs in a laying cycle (from about 20 to 72 weeks of age) but nowadays a hen lays around 300 eggs, almost an egg per day for a year. A hen’s need for calcium for eggs exceeds her body reserves by about 30 times."

Please, actually be honest on offering a counterpoint.

tpush··on Biohacking Lite (2020)
There are no regular hens anymore! That's kinda the point. Every supermarket supplying hen is producing far more eggs than their non purpose-bred ancestors would.

The broken bones are not even visible, their behavior change is very subtle. You'd have to x-ray the hens to see the damage.

Here [0] is a report from Switzerland (in German) saying that 97% of egg laying hens in Switzerland have on average 3 broken bones, some even as much as 11.

Ethical eg farming using current hen races is simply impossible.

[0] https://www.luzernerzeitung.ch/wirtschaft/neue-studie-roentg...

tpush··on Biohacking Lite (2020)
Intermittent fasting and not eating the foods TFA mentions is precisely not conventional longevity advice.
tpush··on Biohacking Lite (2020)
Chicken bred for laying eggs suffer immensely during their entire (short) lifetime. The effect of breeding these chickens for the sole purpose of laying as many eggs as possible results in practically every chicken having multiple broken bones.

This affects chickens regardless of them being free range, organic or whatever.

tpush··on Biohacking Lite (2020)
No, it's a nonsense recommendation.
tpush··on Biohacking Lite (2020)
> [...] No more expensive, easy to prepare, arguably tasty, ethical (as far as OP's arguments), [...]

Commercial egg farming is anything but ethical.

tpush··on Biohacking Lite (2020)
> [...] and how it goes against a lot of conventional longevity advice re: diet.

Why do you think it goes against "conventional longevity advice"?

tpush··on Biohacking Lite (2020)
> Avoid sugar like the plague, including carbohydrate-heavy foods that immediately break down to sugar (bread, rice, pasta, potatoes), including to a lesser extent natural sugar (apples, bananas, pears, etc - we’ve “weaponized” these fruits in the last few hundred years via strong artificial selection into actual candy bars), berries are ~okay.

This is not an evidence-based approach. I swear all these nutrition grifter folks on YouTube and Twitter melted certain people's brain.

tpush··on Microsoft: Require user consent before sending any telemetry
I'd support that law.
tpush··on Windows 11 Pro's On-by-Default Encryption Slows SSDs Up to 45%
All Intel CPUs since like 2016 have VP9 decode support; that's unlikely to be the culprit.
tpush··on Valve says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS not happening, there aren't enough players
> I believe they also contribute a lot to the FreeBSD kernel.

They do not.

tpush··on LLMs can't self-correct in reasoning tasks, DeepMind study finds
I mean, there's plenty of other meds whose exact precise functioning we don't know, just what results and side effects it has.
tpush··on My personal C coding style as of late 2023
Again no, foo isn't called at all since countof() only uses its argument in a sizeof expression.
tpush··on Apple declares its $17,000 solid-gold watch officially obsolete
Apple creates the want in the first place or amplifies existing want.

That is what ultimately drives consumption-based pollution, so they are directly to blame.

tpush··on Glibc dynamic loader hit by a nasty local privilege escalation vulnerability
> [...] its bad and well-deserved reputation.

I contest that reputation exists in anything but your own mind or bubble.

tpush··on Azure dropping database support for MariaDB. Users advised to migrate to MySQL
I guess that's why technology abuses the user so much these days.
tpush··on Norway wants Facebook behavioral advertising banned across Europe
The want in advertisement comes primarily from those that want to advertise, not the other way round.
tpush··on Microsoft Discussed Selling Bing to Apple as Google Replacement
*wealthy software engineers in English speaking countries
tpush··on Mozilla.social mastodon waitlist
If it is very evident, what's an example of Wikipedia's supposed bias?
tpush··on Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support
That's fine, people can still load your program onto it themselves.
tpush··on Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support
Yes there is, because the for-profit organisation making you sign a CLA for your contributions is effectively using your free labor to suppress wages of its employees.

Doing free work for an employer is always parasitic with regards to its employees.

You have a third option here which you didn't list, which is forking the project into one which is working in favor of the public; removing the CLA and giving each contributor shared ownership of the project. Your contribution should then be made to that project.

tpush··on Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support
That is by definition not compensation.

I have to say I'm disappointed seeing you defend exploitative labor practices.

tpush··on Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support
That copyright of the Linux kernel is being shared by all is contributors is essential in making it an actual public good.

I have no idea what you want to express with your second paragraph, though.

tpush··on Striking auto workers want a 40% pay increase–the same rate their CEOs’ pay grew
But the fortune 500 company can offer more for its CEO. It just has to pay its janitor more. Which it totally can, being a fortune 500 company.
tpush··on Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support
Yes, lots of organizations want free labor. That has no bearing on whether its ethical.

There's a somewhat decent argument to be made for non-profit organizations, but there's none for for-profit orgs like Microsoft.

tpush··on Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support
Microsoft requires contributors to sign a CLA giving Microsoft effective ownership over your contributions.

You should never be working for a for-profit organization without compensation.

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