right... so it was something like `p@SSw0Rd`, what's the difference?

We don't know the email password was something like `p@SSw0Rd`, only that a staffer temporarily set a Windows 8 password to a variant of password. This does not mean that the gmail password was a variant of password. It was disingenuous of Mr Assange to claim his email password was password, as the only indication we had of a password being a variant of password was for a Windows 8 account and not the email account.

How is it free? Isn't labor+supplies required to tend those gardens?

From TFA, "Volunteers are essential for MUFI to flourish." That explains the labor part but I didn't see reference to land and supply costs.

It's a really nice idea I just can't imagine it's as scalable or sustainable as the article seems to wish for.

They ask for cash donations from the families that get 'free' food, and they also sell produce at local markets and to local restaurants.

LiChess analysis is free and better. I don't know what the Chess.com paid analysis is like, but on LiChess you can just run Stockfish on your games and analyze different lines as you like. On Chess.com you have way less flexibility (at least with the free option).

It says it works on imported games.

I'm still not convinced by PoS, but at first glance, since money = work then PoS might be viable, because what's the difference? Energy goes into creating proof of stake coins, just like it goes into producing proof of work coins, so they should be equally viable... that's what I thought the first time I seriously looked at PoS.

I want to believe that PoS is not simply an attempt to get something for nothing, but I think that maybe it's attempt to get money to work twice. In PoW, the work is done to get coins. In PoS, the work is done to get fiat or whatever, then exchanged for PoS, and then put to work mining, but the value was created outside the PoS system and now it's not clear where additional work is taking place to fuel block validation. I haven't decided 100% that it's a scam, but it is definitely complex and confusing.

The mental model that I'm still stuck with is that PoW is like normal combustion engine... ASICs being high-displacement V8s, while PoS is like some kind of complex perpetual motion machine.