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by griffey 4mo ago
Problem is that the current administration is ALSO going after 501c3s. They just changed the rules for reporting via 990 tax forms (that non-profits in the US use to report their activities) to make them far more detailed and require more d
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by griffey 2y ago
That's great news. I will keep an eye out and would happily throw a few bucks your way for a 16 pro max version.
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by griffey 3y ago
I had the privilege to interview Vernor back in 2011, and continued to have interactions with him on and off in the intervening years. He was, as others have said, just immeasurably kind and thoughtful. I'm sad that I'll not have
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by griffey 3y ago
I haven't done so yet, but I'll throw a link to ButterBox up on the LibraryBox site and suggest people take a look.
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by griffey 3y ago
waves at n8fr8too...
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by griffey 3y ago
Thanks for situating this in history! It's easy for people to look at the project and be like "why no RPi?" without understanding that when LibraryBox started, Raspberry Pi's didn't have onboard wifi, and the travel
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by griffey 3y ago
FWIW: one of the other main issues with the project as it neared its end was the move to mandatory SSL connections. By its nature, LibraryBox has to be able to work entirely offline, and trying to sort out how to manage SSL connections in t
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by griffey 3y ago
At one point there was a sort of "starter" content set that was made up of CC or public domain works that was distributed by the community as a torrent. But the project itself was always about the hardware/infrastructure aspe
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by griffey 7y ago
Hello all! I'm the creator and director of the LibraryBox project. Sadly, the project is mostly ceased for a handful of reasons. As noted here, Matthias stopped production of Piratebox code, which was the underlying basis for LibraryBo