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by Fice 11y ago
I do not use ad blockers because I want to see how the owners of a website I'm interacting with really treat their users. I do not want to help some crappy web site to look better and more trustable to me than it really is. Don't
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A new court ruling could get you kicked off the internet for file sharing(vox.com)
2 points by Fice 11y ago|0 comments
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The Decentralized Library of Alexandria(blocktech.com)
1 points by Fice 11y ago|0 comments
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by Fice 11y ago
> What is the analogous workflow in fossil? Private branches: https://www.fossil-scm.org/xfer/doc/trunk/www/private.wiki
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by Fice 11y ago
Looks similar to IPFS ( https://ipfs.io/ ) but with less ambitious goals. And the IPFS team is also working on JS implementation that will run in browser: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs .
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Inferno-rpi 0.4 released – boot time is now about 1 second(lynxline.com)
28 points by Fice 11y ago|4 comments
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Why Linux should thank Microsoft and why the future is dark(karlitschek.de)
3 points by Fice 11y ago|2 comments
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You are much more likely to be killed by mundane things than terrorism (2013)(washingtonsblog.com)
55 points by Fice 11y ago|50 comments
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Net neutrality in the EU is only a few amendments away(savetheinternet.eu)
3 points by Fice 11y ago|0 comments
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Europe’s ‘Net Neutrality’ Could Allow Torrent and VPN Throttling(torrentfreak.com)
1 points by Fice 11y ago|0 comments
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Online pharmacy fined £130,000 for selling patients' personal data to scammers(ibtimes.co.uk)
2 points by Fice 11y ago|0 comments
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Squeak 5 is out(news.squeak.org)
172 points by Fice 11y ago|43 comments
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Pharo Ephemeric Cloud(pharo.org)
55 points by Fice 11y ago|9 comments
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Static site extension for Mercurial(draketo.de)
2 points by Fice 11y ago|0 comments
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by Fice 11y ago
Shampoo project ( http://dmitrymatveev.co.uk/shampoo/ ) might be useful. It's an Emacs mode for remote Smalltalk development that support GNU Smalltalk and Pharo.
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Ardour 4.0 released(community.ardour.org)
28 points by Fice 11y ago|1 comments
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Nvidia's New Hardware Is “Very Open-Source Unfriendly”(phoronix.com)
8 points by Fice 11y ago|3 comments
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by Fice 11y ago
Yes, and the presentation I linked to shows how this can benefit the end users.
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by Fice 11y ago
One interesting feature of HURD is userland device drivers: https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/07_uk_dde_on_...
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by Fice 11y ago
«...programming new editing commands was so convenient that even the secretaries in his office started learning how to use it. They used a manual someone had written which showed how to extend Emacs, but didn't say it was a programming
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by Fice 12y ago
Also there is LyX ( http://www.lyx.org/ ), which tries to combine the advantages of both worlds.
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Project Xanadu(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by Fice 12y ago|0 comments
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by Fice 12y ago
Emacs is currently my preferred operating system, and I wish I could use it for everything. One problem is the Web. A modern browser is also an operating system of it's own, and while it is possible to embed a full-featured browser int
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by Fice 12y ago
Yes. And it's a shame that in the modern world convenience appears to be more important than ethics.
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by Fice 12y ago
Fossil supports incremental import and export to Git, so it should be possible to maintain a Git mirror of a Fossil repository or vise versa. This does not work for tickets and wiki, but the Fossil web server can also render markdown docume
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by Fice 12y ago
That reminds me of Fossil, a DVCS that integrates issue tracker and wiki so that every clone of a repository contains fully functional project website accessible via built-in http server.
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by Fice 12y ago
I see no technical reason why GitHub could not have been implemented as a federated system. Should we even consider convenience of a service that has serious ethical issues?
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Why I don't support or contribute to GitHub repositories(wubthecaptain.eu)
1 points by Fice 12y ago|0 comments
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by Fice 12y ago
For increasingly many developers (potential contributors) a project effectively does not exist if it is not on GitHub. And, being a huge centralized service, GitHub is very susceptible to censorship (e.g. repos being taken down via DMCA or
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by Fice 12y ago
Why is everyone so happy about the whole open source community becoming dependent on a single commercial company?

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