Almost a year a go the lead developer of GrapheneOS, Daniel Micay, publicly admitted that he was experiencing mental health issues and announced he would step down from the project. As displayed by Micay's behavior, just in the last few days even, he is still dealing with those issues. Micay will jump to cry he is being "harassed" and melt down when he meets just the slightest amount of resistance in a discussion that hasn't deviated from technology. He will even do this simply due to the format or style one chooses to reply with, irrespective of content.

Today, we can see that Micay deleted off of GitHub his announcement that he stepped down, probably when he thought not a lot of people were looking. As evidenced by the writing style and choice of words on the project's social accounts, Micay is operating those social media accounts. The recent Git commit history shows he's active in the project again.

Micay does do great technical work. However he is very quick to jump to accuse others of "harassment" and "misinformation", dividing development efforts and excluding others from projects in what looks like an attempt to control others and reduce competition in the space.

As Louis Rossman pointed out, Micay bullies other people, some would even call it "harassment", then tries to hide it behind an excuse the he suffers some form of autism.

" You ask me if it is possible to use popular tools like Chrome on Ubuntu. I say yes. Just download it from the official website and install it by double-clicking like you do it with exe files in Windows."

https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/01/22/qubes-air/

A user should be able to load a cryptographic key to the bootloader and boot any OS of their choosing. I'm kind of more on the extreme "Free Market" way of thinking, but even I think that government should step in and force an iPhone to be like a Macbook in this way.

You are, unfortunately, correct. Some of us still run illumos Unix (SmartOS), but we are a tiny minority. I hope that things can work out so that something other than the lowest common denominator is accessible enough to also have a pervasive footprint.

A lot of very crummy ideas are popular in ways that would not have been imaginable 15 years ago.

>> or even an unsophisticated approach like a Dockerfile

In a handful of "higher end" on the salary side of DevOps/SRE roles I have done, I managed to quietly do things with flake.nix -- next time around I'll do them with Guix. I can get Guix container images going, that's not hard for me.

But yeah, doing things non-Docker isn't too hard for us DevOps ninjas (what DevOps was in 2012, not the watered down thing today).

After doing flake.nix, I managed to get written company policy ratified by our legal team that all container images must be binary reproducible. That probably fell apart since I left, unless the high quality CTO I was serving is still there.

This is very easy to solve for.

>> choice of scheme

There was more wisdom when everyone at least tacitly acknowledge that maybe not everyone should be touching servers.

Guix has accomplished, as in put into real world practice, their ideas.

https://rumble.com/v4fmjiu-mike-benz-part-2-how-the-departme...

https://rumble.com/v4fmjiu-mike-benz-part-2-how-the-departme...

"warm" fusion does exist, see https://brillouinenergy.com/ - some have insisted that Brillouin Energy is doing cold fusion, but I am not sure if cold fusion is an appropriate description. The Brillouin Energy team is completely external to the Safire team, though they may share some of the "controversial" views that the Safire team also holds about how electricity plays a greater role in chemistry than conventional thought. The awesomeness of the larger zeitgeist of science is that it is always changing.

As far as I know, and am interested to find out, Brillouin doesn't reach a temperature of 25,000 °C.

>> They have a working plasma, yes

The Safire plasma, on its face as shown by direct observation, behaves very differently than other plasmas, in a way that others were not able to make happen.

>> They do not, in any way shape or form, a self-sustaining fusion-producing plasma.

I think this here exemplifies how there is one set of words on the screen, and some here are reading some other set of words. This phrase you have presented has not been written anywhere else on this thread. I am not aware of any point where the Safire team wrote or uttered "a self-sustaining fusion-producing plasma".

Whatever ghost you thought you were arguing against, I don't think it exists.

That said, the Safire plasma, like other plasmas, produces heat that can be converted to electricity. Because the Safire plasma remains contained by its self-containing magnetic fields and does not require external magnets to force the plasma to stay contained, the *energy requirements of the external magnets are not required*.

Hence all that is required is the already modest amount of electricity to keep the plasma lit and a steady supply of hydrogen. Because the Safire plasma continues to run, and without the overhead of external magnets, abundant electricity can be harvested. This *does not mean* that Safire "puts out more energy than it takes in", this only means that the abundant electrical energy is being harvested from what *existing energy* is converted. This is *not* and also *no one claims* that this is somehow "free energy" nor "self-sustaining". Something that requires something external to it to continuously feed hydrogen is not self-sustaining. On this front, the Safire plasma team has only ever claimed (as far as I have seen) that they have a very efficient way to harvest usable electricity from Hydrogen ; the Safire team has never claimed that their Safire plasma chamber is or somehow could be "self-sustaining".

>> They talk about cold fusion as if it exists as well.

Cold fusion is a thing that scientifically exists. Perhaps what they have written in scientific terms, is some larger meme that you have confused the term "cold fusion" with, similar to "self-sustaining fusion-producing plasma" above.

>> These people either have no idea what they're talking about

The Safire team has created a novel plasma chamber where the plasma chamber has multiple layers and self-containing magnetic fields. If you have worked on a team that has created something similar, perhaps you know more about this topic than the Safire team, but if you haven't, they are speaking from real-world experience that they objectively do have.

Furthermore, please show me another team separate from the Safire team that has created a multi-layer plasma with self-containing magnetic fields documented to have done this before the Safire team on-record accomplished this. Pro tip: you can't.

>> Show even the slightest level of skepticism

What is it, exactly, you want me to be skeptical about?

That they have a multi-layered self-containing plasma?

That the plasma in the Safire type 2 chamber is self-containing and does not require external magnets like a Tokomak reactor?

That in their plasma chamber fusion is occurring and heavier elements are forming?

The Safire team has been, for close to a decade now, forthcoming and transparent about their guesses, about what they are finding, how often they are finding it, what they think they know, what they are confident they know, so on and so on.

To be clear, the Safire type chamber containing this plasma, has ultimately one and only one at-the-crux differentiating feature, external magnets are not required like Tokomak. The Safire team does not claim to have "invented" the concept of a plasma chamber. Hot plasma does cause fusion to occur, this is not special nor novel (and Safire team did not "invent" nor advent this either). In a Safire plasma chamber the plasma is self-containing, that's the one differentiating thing, that's it.

About 10 years ago members of the Safire team (as it is now named) shared their findings in writings. In addition to their writings they shared several hours of raw video footage of plasma regimes they had in the lab of a Safire type 1 plasma chamber.

I have watched them, albeit remotely, over the years steadily progress from their experimental chambers, to their type 1 plasma chamber, to their type 2 plasma chamber. That plasma in their approach to a plasma chamber is self-containing has never seemed to be in dispute. Hell, I could probably get one of these running in my own industrial garage if I tried to, and I wouldn't be the first one to do this.

People I personally know have met these folks face to face at various conferences. What these people I personally told me was that these plasma tinkerers were no less mild-mannered, candid, forthcoming, willing to listen, and willing to answer than they present themselves online. What I and many others have seen out of them is consistency.

If you think there is some specific detail that is highly questionable, please point out to me what you think it is. I am more than willing to carefully consider what you have to share and disconfirm what seems to be reasonably true. If you have some new information to bring forth, please do.

The saying "old science dies hard" does come to mind here.

Please help me embody the skepticism you are asking of me, you can do this successfully by addressing the very specific details you are concerned about and also by not failing to make a sincere attempt to answer the questions that have been presented to you in this response.