What a nice surprise to see this on the HN front page! I was involved with DSLinux for several years. I maintained nightly-ish builds that I hosted on my website. I don't think I ever contributed any code, as my C and system programming skills were still rudimentary at the time, but I did a fair amount of testing and helping people in the community.
Most of credit for the amazing work that made this possible goes to a few individuals, in particular Malcolm Parsons (pepsiman), Stefan Sperling (who later became an OpenBSD developer), and Amadeus: http://dslinux.org/wiki/ContactingDevelopers.html
I used KeyboardCleanTool but it didn't worked for me. What it does is to put an app window that captures keyboard events, but you can still press certain keys (like a lock screen shortcut in the touch bar) to by-pass it. Many times what I did is to open vi in the terminal... and it does the same without the extra app.
I don't think your last statement is correct. According to the linked page, the James H. Miller Jr. plant produces around 19 million metric tons of CO2 per year, while passenger cars produce around 760 million metric tons per year: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1235091/us-passenger-car...
Yes you are correct, my bad I was misremembering. It's the sum of the top 100 most polluting plants (656 million metric tons in 2020) which is close to the total emission of all passenger vehicles. It was closer in 2019, because 2020 saw a 10% drop in emissions due to COVID.
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There was once a similar project also called Cider, created by Corey Donohoe (atmos) from GitHub. It was renamed to cinderella because of trademark infringement, so you might want to check that out: https://github.com/atmos/cider
You can go to https://git.centos.org which is hosting all the sources used to build the system. Of course for RPM packages that is only metadata, not the actual upstream software source.
Just out of curiosity, since it sounds like you might know: on ubuntu I can do something like sudo apt-get source packagename and the system will just download the associated source code if a source repo is setup in the system's sources list. Does RHEL/CentOS have a similar capability?
