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From: Philip McGrath <philip@philipmcgrath.com>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Excessively energy-consuming software considered malware?
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2022 09:59:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2002319.M0vKPVJpBW@bastet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <675b6da5-e33a-fbaf-800a-83a949844ac3@gmail.com>

On Sunday, February 20, 2022 7:44:18 AM EST Taylan Kammer wrote:
> On 20.02.2022 13:37, Maxime Devos wrote:
> > The points about slippery slopes, research and niche use-cases seem
> > reasonable to me.  I do see follow-up questions though, should the
> > description in Guix warn about potential issues?  And should the
> > description focus on research uses? ...
> > 
> > More concretely, the p2pool description is:
> > 
> > ‘Monero P2Pool is a peer-to-peer Monero mining pool.  P2Pool
> > combines the advantages of pool and solo mining; you still fully
> > control your Monero node and what it mines, but *you get frequent
> > payouts like on a regular pool.*’
> > 
> > This is quite a bit different from, say, aircrack-ng which seems
> > to be mostly about assessing security, whereas the p2pool description
> > is about gaining money (see ‘payouts’), and without mentioning that
> > mining costs a lot of energy (and hence money, and possibly the money
> > that is gained by mining is smaller than the amount lost due to energy
> > costs!).
> > 
> > My dislike for the description of p2pool might just be my views on
> > money leaking through, though.
> > 
> > Greetings,
> > Maxime.
> 
> I guess a different description would be better.  It sounds almost
> like a sales pitch with the mention of making money. :-)
> 
> I'm not familiar with Monero/P2Pool so I don't know what a better
> description might sound like though.

This description sound like it is promising that, if you run this software, 
you will "get frequent payouts". I don't think that's a claim Guix can or 
should make. I guess there's maybe some tension about to what extent package 
descriptions are speaking on behalf of the package or on behalf of Guix, but I 
don't think it usually causes too much confusion for the description of a 
package like `pypy3` to say what the program's developers think its merits 
are, without Guix as a project appearing to take a position on which is the 
best Python implementation. However, a package description claiming that you 
will get money if you use it seems like quite an extreme case.

(More generally, I share both the concerns about the impacts of crypto mining 
and the concern that for Guix to refuse to package such software might have 
problematic implications.)

-Philip





  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-20 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-20 10:05 Excessively energy-consuming software considered malware? Maxime Devos
2022-02-20 10:48 ` Tobias Platen
2022-02-20 11:13   ` Martin Becze
2022-02-20 16:52     ` Maxime Devos
2022-02-20 20:39       ` Martin Becze
2022-02-24  9:23         ` Hartmut Goebel
2022-02-24 11:18           ` Martin Becze
2022-02-25  0:27             ` Christine Lemmer-Webber
2022-02-25 12:41               ` Bengt Richter
2022-02-25 13:04                 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2022-02-25 16:14                   ` Bengt Richter
2022-02-25 16:32                     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-02-25 16:49                     ` Paul Jewell
2022-02-25 17:05                 ` Maxime Devos
2022-02-25 17:35                   ` Taylan Kammer
2022-02-25 19:00                     ` Leo Famulari
2022-04-04  8:00           ` Attila Lendvai
2022-04-04  9:43             ` Maxime Devos
2022-04-04 10:15             ` Maxime Devos
2022-04-04 12:49               ` Attila Lendvai
2022-04-04 10:16             ` Maxime Devos
2022-04-04 10:37             ` Maxime Devos
2022-04-04 11:22             ` indieterminacy
2022-04-04 18:39             ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-02-24  9:13       ` Hartmut Goebel
2022-02-24  9:36         ` Attila Lendvai
2022-02-20 11:08 ` Ekaitz Zarraga
2022-02-20 11:27   ` Compiling blender Ricardo Wurmus
2022-02-20 11:34     ` Ekaitz Zarraga
2022-02-20 12:19       ` Faster "guix pull" by incremental compilation and non-circular modules? Maxime Devos
2022-02-20 16:47         ` Philip McGrath
2022-02-20 17:47           ` Semantics of circular imports Maxime Devos
2022-03-27 14:12             ` Philip McGrath
2022-03-27 14:19               ` Maxime Devos
2022-03-27 14:24               ` Maxime Devos
2022-03-27 14:33               ` Maxime Devos
2022-03-27 14:55               ` Maxime Devos
2022-03-28  4:24               ` Zhu Zihao
2022-03-30  4:50                 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-02-28 13:17         ` Faster "guix pull" by incremental compilation and non-circular modules? Ludovic Courtès
2022-02-28 18:50           ` Maxime Devos
2022-05-31  4:54             ` Gábor Boskovits
2022-05-31  8:49               ` Maxime Devos
2022-05-31 10:23                 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-02-20 15:54       ` Compiling blender Ricardo Wurmus
2022-02-20 16:14         ` Ekaitz Zarraga
2022-02-20 12:20 ` Excessively energy-consuming software considered malware? Taylan Kammer
2022-02-20 12:37   ` Maxime Devos
2022-02-20 12:44     ` Taylan Kammer
2022-02-20 14:59       ` Philip McGrath [this message]
2022-02-20 18:53   ` Christine Lemmer-Webber
2022-02-20 20:34   ` Jonathan McHugh
2022-02-20 12:32 ` Paul Jewell
2022-02-20 18:26 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-02-20 19:36 ` Ryan Sundberg
2022-02-21  9:29 ` Attila Lendvai
2022-02-21 13:06   ` Maxime Devos
2022-02-21 18:56     ` raingloom
2022-02-21 23:02     ` Attila Lendvai

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