> Imagine an overworked, underpaid, network engineer.

At Cloudflare?

All the network engineers I know are overworked. Underpaid is subjective.

The Venezuelan engineer

for everyone

I like the adjacent conversations just as much, or more.

We(?) more or less want this to be a place of general curiosity,

perhaps revolving loosely around those things, but not tightly clung to them.

> That case still hasn't had a resolution, and it's about 4 years ago now.

Sure it has!

The resolution was “go fuck yourself, what the fuck are you going to do about it?”.

Y’know: respectfully.

> if some greater consequence to not publishing was put in place.

Such as, losing trust,

due to this being the one postmortem you don’t write about?

If you insist on staying in the abusive relationship,

try Windows Server.

I heard LTSC is also good. If I ever go back to that abusive relationship I might try that out. But for the meantime I'll deal with Linux' issues.

If one insists ;]

If you can see the mold, that’s too much mold for anywhere sharing air with the inside of your living and sleeping space.

> or spread

Not explicitly true - dry spores get anywhere dust does.

Whether they become active growth or not is a different question.

Mold spores are everywhere. If they were a useful and plentiful food source, an organism would have evolved to consume them in bulk by now.

The presence of spores isn’t a problem by itself and eliminating them isn’t feasible.

Spores are kind of designed to not be valuable as food. Can you name some organisms that actually consume spores rather than eat and then poop them out?

It doesn't need to be the species' spore-stage per se, as long as it occurs somewhere in the lifecycle before bad-stuff-humans-care-about happens. Can we encourage any (microscopic) conditions that trigger germination that turns out badly for the fungus?

Kind of like how there are plant seeds we don't eat directly, but we trick them into opening up and eat the sprouts.

Better to make living spaces antimicrobial,

use surfactants,

instead of particleboard, open edged gypsum board, and open grain woods in basements and attic rafters

where humidity and condensation are inevitable.

or unusually warm!

(When your shower is improperly installed, for instance)