[1] https://webfinger.net

Did you have the conversation "do we need to move from $whatever CI/CD to GitHub Actions?" beforehand? What were the arguments in favour?

Or less snarky: what's your gripe with zipped XML? It compresses reasonably well, has a useful structure, and has decades of mature tooling around it.

Does it compile straight Java bytecode, or does it generate Java code which is then compiled by javac?

Just some information I wish I had known at the start of my tinnitus journey.

I wish I were rich enough to distance myself from the noise of the riffraff. But with some 8 billion humans on the planet, that seems unsustainable.

Building with soundproofing in mind would be a good place to start. Asshole-proofing is trickier. There's nothing unreasonable about expecting people to behave in apartments (or elsewhere). Many (most?) places have laws about noise and nuisance, getting them enforced has not been easy in my experience.

Edit: 8+ billion people, apparently. I'm getting old.

Would be nice if people could keep their noise levels down in general.

Adding encryption shouldn't be hard, as long as you can communicate the keys out of band.

Could probably achieve the same result using audio instead of video, but maybe that would be too annoying?

From a propaganda perspective, things are probably more complicated. I imagine some European democracies are more easily influenced than others. And when the EU itself is on an authoritarian bender, it's hard to see how foreign meddling could make things much worse.

More transparency into party funding might be a good place to start. That's something that seems pretty vague at least here in BE. More direct representation would also be pretty sweet, but that might be asking for too much...