>It doesn’t make any sense to spend that much money on something that’s still Russian roulette for the astronauts.

Sure it does.

We've got billions of humans to spend on getting humanity out of its gravity well. We can and will spare a few more.

Getting humanity out of our gravity well is the most important task this species faces, along with stabilizing our use of the resources in this one. https://nickbostrom.com/papers/astronomical-waste/

If you're not willing to spend a few lives on this problem you're not serious about the problem.

If you’re willing to spend a few lives, you can do that much cheaper than Artemis which aims to be perfectly safe but doesn’t actually succeed.

> aims to be perfectly safe

obviously that isn't true -- it aims to be relatively safe

...but in any case - it aims to bring humanity to the moon. That's the aim. Keep your eye on the prize.

from one of the artemis astronauts on livestream:

"It is very risky, and we are intimately [aware] of that risk"

ie It's not perfectly safe, and the astronauts are well aware of this fact.

astronaut #2

"do what scares you...that's why I'm [on artemis]"

clearly very risk-aware.

> this will hurt artists a lot as they need the fees paid by Spotify to make ends meet.

Anyone using DRM/paracopyright to "make their ends meet" deserves what they get. This is de facto theft from the public domain.

> Spotify is $12/month at most to get unlimited ad-free access to virtually all music.

Until they decide to silence the artist you want to listen to because emperor god trump decides to unperson them.

Putting what music you listen to in the hands of a US corporation is such a dangerously stupid idea that it is amazing to me that there are people here who are OK with it.

>I think Spotify wins over pirating because of its relatively low cost and convenience

Spotify isn't "convenient" if you want to control and understand the media and software in your life. https://www.defectivebydesign.org/spotify

> Putting what music you listen to in the hands of a US corporation is such a dangerously stupid idea that it is amazing to me that there are people here who are OK with it.

Thankfully Spotify isn't primarily a U.S company.

Godwins Law recreated, the new version is Trump.

I am. Copyright is fucking cancer and is one of the worst things if not the worst things that exists to make creating new things harder.

Making bits available isn't "taking artists ability to live in a financially viable way" any more than radio, LPs and player pianos was. If you are an artist who is trying to make art and live do more of that and don't waste peoples time arguing for copyright restricting other people's activity on websites like this one.

Copyright has always been based on moral principles. 'Moral rights' have been part of copyright longer than "encourage innovation and hustle" has been something the government has considered worth promoting. The original copyright laws were about controlling who could print the bible, and the statute of anne was about encouraging learning while controlling what booksellers could and couldn't do. Copyright if anything was about preventing innovation from the very beginning, and slowing the hustle of culture down so that incumbents could edge out newcomers - a drama that has played out generation after generation

yet another github project. STOP USING GITHUB

why?

It is owned by the Evil corp?

seems like shortwave can come back if 2 things come back * access to electronic components [ie something like radioshack used to be being accessible] * local governments stepping back of regulation of airwaves a hint

unless you have one or both of those things, shortwave is useful only iff the government collapses

How to handle this situation is literally defined in the LICENSE for any modern software project

Why?

Publishing to Github should be considered a crime.

Supply chain risk.

Please explain your reasoning.

Somebody else is building your binaries. You've added another link in your software supply chain. How do you know they haven't inserted malware?

> Somebody else is building your binaries.

That happens all the time. Who builds the docker images you are using?

> You've added another link in your software supply chain. How do you know they haven't inserted malware?

You're installing untrusted random packages from PyPI. There are many much weaker points than Astral giving you malware for fun.

Sure it happens, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't think about reducing it.

> Somebody else is building your binaries.

FYI there are two parties you are talking about: Astral, and GitHub too (if you don't trust Microsoft).

> But even that open source model needs to have basic ethical protections, or else I'll have nothing to do with it.

If you don't understand that the eleven freedoms are "basic ethical protections" you have already failed your responsibilities. https://elevenfreedoms.org/

I have read the eleven freedoms.

I refuse freedom 9 - the obligation for systems I build to be independent of my personal and ethical goals.

I won't build those systems. The systems I build will all have to be for the benefit of humanity and the workers, and opposing capitalism. On top of that it will need to be compatible with a harm reduction ethic.

If you won't grant me the right to build systems that I think will help others do good in the world, then I will refuse to write open source code.

You could jail me, you can beat me, you can put a gun in my face, and I still won't write any code.

Virtually all the codes I write are open source. I refuse to ever again write a single line of proprietary code for a boss again.

All the codes I write are also ideological in nature, reflecting my desires for the world and my desires to help people live better lives. I need to retain ideological control of my code.

I believe all the other 11 freedoms are sound. How do you feel about modifying freedom 9 to be more compatible with professional codes of ethics and ethics of community safety and harm reduction?

But again, this makes YOU the arbiter of truth for "harm" who made you the God of ethics or harm? I declare ANY word is HARM to me, are you going to reduce the harm by deleting your models or code base?