kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

@neil

Which is not bad sign actually, means social media managed to create a barrier that is somewhat effective in reducing their reach. And SMS are more costly for spammers.

@InvaderXan

A very good book on that subject https://www.thebeginningofinfinity.com/

@Wetrix There are some dicks in FOSS community obviously and all kinds of toxic attitudes or bullying were discussed for at least decade. FOSS on the other hand was always very much about team work and these attitudes never survived for long... This guy certainly has some kind of God complex which is sad because he's harming an interesting and reasonable project.

"Prosecutors in Cologne, western Germany, are seeking Jürgen Mossack, 72, and Ramón Fonseca, 68, on charges of aiding tax evasion and forming a global criminal enterprise, according to reporting by ICIJ media partners Süddeutsche Zeitung, NDR and WDR."

https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/germany-seeks-arrest-of-panama-papers-lawyers/

All of them? 🤔

@dump_stack

I guess there's just a credit of trust and goodwill for open-source projects, especially security and privacy related. In rare cases this doesn't work 😃

@knowak This trend - less nuclear and more renewables equals more fossil gas - became so widespread that fossil gas companies started quickly jumping the bandwagon and selling fossil gas as "the best friend of renewables"... Which is precisely the model Greenpeace is "reluctantly" promoting today with all their "necessary evil" rhetoric.

@knowak And this is not only Germany, the same phenomenon was seen in many countries - here's a comparison for NY where a decrease in nuclear share was promptly compensated by increase in fossil...

@knowak

So while Germany has indeed increased share of renewables, it has at the same time *increased* imports of oil and gas. They have decreased nuclear and coal, but the gas imports are skyrocketing and - most importantly - CO2 emissions are decreasing very little or even increasing (depending on what reference year you compare against).

@knowak

The reason is obviously that while 40% looks impressive in daily news ("another day fully powered by renewables"), wind and power have the advantage that they don't work when they don't work.

At the same time German industry, hospitals and households expect 24/7 energy supply.

@knowak An obvious and inconvenient benchmark is France who had decarbonised their energy sector long ago by transition to nuclear, and they did so to levels that Germany can only dream of.

Germany's energy sector CO2 intensity is on average 5x higher than France's.

And that's in spite of Germany having 40% of renewables in their mix.

@knowak 10 years ago Germany started its Energiewende, primary objective of which was reduction in CO2 emissions.

As of end of 2020 they only succeeded at two *secondary* objectives: closure of nuclear power plants and increase of renewables. But not reduction of CO2.

They did reduce but much less than they could and planned.

@knowak No problem, let's set the priorities first - I assume we're concerned about decarbonisation to mitigate climate change.

Now, energy sector is the largest single CO2 source. Any change you make here has huge impact on global emissions.

@freemo @2ck

Oh now I see - I needed to follow @amerika to start seeing them

@freemo @2ck

BTW I see your replies but I don't see the ones of @amerika 🤔