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by glasshug 4y ago
Funnily enough, Linux may be one of the few projects in the "alternatives" column that _is_ viable :)
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by glasshug 4y ago
I wish this were true! But keeping your software current in 2022 is an continuous project. UIs improve, platforms shift, features expand, vulns appear, needs change, server bills need to be paid.
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by glasshug 4y ago
Readers interested in these arguments can find more at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Inclusionism and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deletionism .
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by glasshug 4y ago
There's definitely a systemic bias on Wikipedia towards its generally more-white, more-male, younger, English-speaking editors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Systemic_bias I'm not sure what the poli
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by glasshug 4y ago
> The problem isn't with the editors, but admins who spuriously make these judgment calls. Deletion decisions are made by editors, not admins. See, for example, the decision referenced by the author: https://en.wikipedia.
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by glasshug 4y ago
Wikipedia's notability guideline does not pass judgement on the importance of Oscars or "CLIOs," both of which are notable and have their own pages. Wikipedia's guideline for the notability of voice actors is:[1] > 1.
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by glasshug 4y ago
Please read the discussion that deleted this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio... It's a hard problem. Volunteer editors are spread thinly over millions of articles, some of whi
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by glasshug 4y ago
See in particular, §3B.18 Crosswalk Markings https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/htm/2009r1r2/part3/part3b.htm#sec... One interesting subtlety unnoticed on the L.A. Crosswalk site: > The design of the lines and gap
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by glasshug 4y ago
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's prob
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by glasshug 4y ago
It wouldn’t have attracted 500 votes if it were common :)
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by glasshug 4y ago
Yeah, if you're looking for a package, you'll want to stick to the Cloudsmith .deb since it's bound to Caddy's GitHub release workflow so guaranteed to stay up-to-date: https://cloudsmith.io/~caddy/r
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by glasshug 4y ago
> On a more extreme end, if someone intends to be racist, sexist, or exclusionary in their writing, and wants to draft that up in a Google document, they should be allowed to do that without an algorithm attempting to sanitize their inte
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RFC 8908: Captive Portal API(rfc-editor.org)
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by glasshug 5y ago
Some great research went into this! I'd be wary of the browser advice though: > #2 Chrome Alternative: Iridium Unfortunately releasing a browser only three times a year [1] is not enough to stay ahead of the Chromium 0day market. Th
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by glasshug 5y ago
Maybe I can be the first to speak to the actual Wyden–Heinrich letter [1]. I hope I don't sound like a spook when I say: there's been no splash because there's no (public) substance. Having read the 70-page PCLOB report [2],