Re: Excessively energy-consuming software considered malware?

2022-04-04 Thread Liliana Marie Prikler
Am Montag, dem 04.04.2022 um 08:00 + schrieb Attila Lendvai: > There's plenty of past examples of financing these things without the > government collecting the necessary funds. also, these things are > only a tiny fraction of the government's budget. Name one. If you want to appeal to

Re: Excessively energy-consuming software considered malware?

2022-04-04 Thread Attila Lendvai
my apologies for reviving this thread! i did not inted to, i have just failed to remove the mailing list address. in that spirit i'll refrain from further commenting on guix-devel, and i encourage others also to stay on topic. -- • attila lendvai • PGP: 963F 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A39 -- “Freedom is

Re: Excessively energy-consuming software considered malware?

2022-04-04 Thread indieterminacy
Attila Lendvai writes: > > and especially so for inflation, which is straight out a tax that > siphons the purchasing power from people who hold cash equivalents > (i.e. the poor), to the people who own assets (i.e. the > wealthy)... who are also closer to the source of new money, and >

Re: Excessively energy-consuming software considered malware?

2022-04-04 Thread Maxime Devos
Attila Lendvai schreef op ma 04-04-2022 om 08:00 [+]: > the vast majority of the taxes are not taken from the wealthy, > but from the masses. the well-connected easily pays for the > marginal cost of the tax consultants, lawyers, judges, offshore > entities, and whatnot... and ultimately

Re: Excessively energy-consuming software considered malware?

2022-04-04 Thread Maxime Devos
Attila Lendvai schreef op ma 04-04-2022 om 08:00 [+]: > if you want to dig deeper, then a book titled 'The Machinery of Freedom' > discusses the various alternative forms of financing in more detail > (http://daviddfriedman.com/#mybooks). > I get a: 403 Forbidden openresty for that

Re: Excessively energy-consuming software considered malware?

2022-04-04 Thread Maxime Devos
Attila Lendvai schreef op ma 04-04-2022 om 08:00 [+]: > > Undermining the governments ability to raise tax also means > > undermining > > the ability to build schools, kindergartens, public libraries, > > public > > transport, streets, etc. Who is going to pay and provide all of > > this, If >

Re: Excessively energy-consuming software considered malware?

2022-04-04 Thread Maxime Devos
Attila Lendvai schreef op ma 04-04-2022 om 08:00 [+]: > > Undermining the governments ability to raise tax also means > > undermining > > the ability to build schools, kindergartens, public libraries, > > public > > transport, streets, etc. Who is going to pay and provide all of > > this, If >

Re: Building hexyl (a rust app) without cargo, with antioxidant-build-system

2022-04-04 Thread Maxime Devos
Brendan Tildesley schreef op ma 04-04-2022 om 15:10 [+1000]: >  I would have called it cargone. >   >  Do you believe sidestepping cargo all together like this is a good > long term strategy?  In particular that importing packages will still > be easy.  The package definitions look almost the

Re: The GNU Shepherd 0.9.0rc1 available for testing!

2022-04-04 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 06:59:33PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > You can test it on Guix System with: > > guix time-machine --branch=wip-shepherd-upgrade -- \ > system reconfigure … On my 2010 Macbook Pro (with hard disk, not using SSD), boot time to GDM got a few seconds slower/faster

Re: Excessively energy-consuming software considered malware?

2022-04-04 Thread Attila Lendvai
hi Hartmut and Martin, i have just found this draft email, and i'm sending it to you two directly in the hope that you will find these thoughts useful/interesting, but i don't want to further annoy the mailing list with this topic. > Undermining the governments ability to raise tax also means