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I mean I certainly agreed with the sentiment, but this is largely describing dishwashers, washing machines, and dryers, which were invented some time ago.

Part of the reason these take time is that a lot of folks are resource conscious (as am I). So we want the dishwasher to be efficiently loaded, the clothes to be dried on a clothesline if possible, the white/colors to be separated (increasea the longevity of the clothes), etc. Sacrificing all of these things makes these chores really very quii, if you can afford to have them all in your home.

And in fact, the cost of these things is relatively low — in my high COL area, it’s not that people can’t afford these things, it’s that they can’t afford a place big enough to accommodate them. Which is its own issue altogether…

In before the .tar.gz/.tar.bz2 gang…

Not every ISP! Where I live there’s an awesome ISP, Sonic, which is pro-NN, and last I heard only offers “best effort” service — which means there’s no throttling your link, no paid tiers; if the fiber and hardware can support 10Gbps symmetric, then that’s what you get.

Sadly, they’re not the norm. And sadly, not offered at my address.

When I’m feeling cool and downloading a *.tar* file, I’ll wget to stdout, and tar from stdin. Archive gets extracted on the fly.

I have (successfully!) written an .iso to CD this way, too (pipe wget to cdrecord). Fun stuff.

I audited a class on the topic. The professor said something like, “Some folks think evolution isn’t a fact, it’s just a theory — but they have it backwards! It is a fact…but it’s a lousy theory.”

A French court has ordered Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco to poison their DNS resolvers…

I hope them publicly advocating for this backfires spectacularly.

“First they game for gay marriage, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t gay. Then they came for the abortions, and I didn’t speak up because I didn’t need an abortion. Then they came for divorce, and…fuck, that might be a real a pain in the ass. Maybe I won’t vote for these asshats.”

— some people, hopefully…

Funding agencies have huge power here; demanding that research be published in OA journals is perhaps a good start (with limits on $ spent publishing, perhaps).

My company did it the right way — they gave us the day off.

If you can get to work on city streets, there’s a good chance you can bike or take public transportation. Nothing evil about that!