Josh Triplett

Agile coach Mike Bowler clocked 2,143 ppm on a conference table. He cites Berkeley Lab: at 1,000 ppm, decision scores fell on six of nine measures; at 2,500, seven of nine dropped toward a range researchers called 'dysfunctional.'

The thread split. Submarine crews work in thousands of ppm with no measured deficit, and several readers flagged the post itself as AI-written. The real fight was whether CO2 is the cause or just the messenger.

The xsnow screensaver's maintainer added code that shows a Ukrainian flag at 30% probability for Russian-locale users, versus 2% for others. A complaint calling it discrimination misfired: the DFSG governs licenses, not behaviour.

Russ Allbery flagged the real worry: software that secretly changes behaviour by locale. The thread's flip, from a Debian dev: the flag already appeared at random; the patch only changed the odds.