Yeah, but the Index had 2 ~$150 lighthouses. Not that $300 is enough to cover the cost of the compute, but it’s one area of “savings” compared to the Index.

Almost certainly not. All you would really need to do to stop this is limit who can submit pull requests to verified devs. Things go back to the way they were during the clunkier, before times when everyone used Subversion, when there were more hoops to jump through to contribute code. Make it so you need an existing contributor to “mentor” first-time contributors (making sure they aren’t an AI, are writing competent code that follows project standards, etc.) before giving access to submit dozens of pull requests.

You guys are looking at other people’s accounts for trustworthiness? Most I do is judge people off what instance they’re on (which I feel is simultaneously both a very and also not very “dot world” of me).

Also in the US we grow massive amounts of corn to be processed into ethanol for gasoline, less than 5% of that land converted to solar would make the same amount of energy that all the ethanol from the corn produces. And if slightly less than half the land used for corn for ethanol was used for solar, the US would be at net zero carbon production.

And it’s not like ethanol is some byproduct that still allows that corn to be used for food or something else. Nope, we’re wasting all that land exclusively to burn up in our cars.