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Yes you can talk without being able to read. Nevertheless is reading a very useful skill.
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Austria did never set AZ on hold.
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you can very easily self host the server part. it is free software.
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It is not about me. I am only a negligible grain of dust. It is about something bigger.
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6y ago
Price is not the only viable product metric on earth.
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6y ago
I am very happy with 2 Olimex A20 Homeservers with integrated SATA SDD.
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Ubuntu runs also on proprietary drivers. If the hardware vendor stops to maintain the proprietary driver or binary blob the hardware could become obsolete very quickly, although it runs fine hardware wise. My 11yr old Nokia N900 runs absolu
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Will it run with completely free software? The limiting factor for lasting is not hardware but required proprietary software.
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Is there something similar for Apache?
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Will this run on a mainline kernel?
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Just plug in an Ethernet cable for installation. Most eth drivers are free.
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The project needs a copyleft licence. That means the things are given away with a contract that states that they have to remain free and selling is forbidden.
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Emacs has great interactive tutorials built in: C-h t and has a great info system and help functions: C-h h also: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/ There is really a lot of excellent documentation bui
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Is there a list of those that were hip 10 years ago, and if they are still properly maintained today?
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> I used to want to self-host it but (IMO) running a secure, reliable email server is just too difficult these days. I disagree. I am running my own small email server for years on Debian stable without any issues except the initial conf
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This only true if the type describes the whole meaning of the values. If the exit code of a unix program changes from 0 to 1 it still returns an int, but the meaning of that value is completely different one.
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> and a replacing it with a function that returns the same values for the same arguments will be safe No. That is only safe at compile time but not at runtime. Because the type alone often does not guarantee the meaning and semantics of
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1. RSM is not part of modern FSF 2. Governance of free software projects has nothing to do with the competence of the FSF to define criteria for hardware that respects your freedom
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You are wrong, from https://ryf.fsf.org/about/criteria : "We want users to be able to upgrade and control the software at as many levels as possible. If and when free software becomes available for use on a certai
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Why do you have no strong trust in modern FSF?
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The Best thing to do with music is play or sing it for yourself. That is hard, but also very rewarding, because it takes time, patience and love.
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> because we have now separated the data from the website That is why microformats exists. With it the visual representation is at the same time semantic and parseable. https://indieweb.org/microformats
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It is a management failure when this is in only one person head. Outsourcing tools will not solve internal management problems.
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A literary man creates new meaning out of words. You can do this in the shell by combining tools in new ways. You can not do this easily with an IDE, it only has a predefined meaning. Using an IDE is not literature but transcription.
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Communities are more stable than companies.
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There was a Skandalkonzert conducted by Schönberg in the Viennese Musikverein which lead to a slap and a lawsuit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skandalkonzert
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What non free software is necessary to run this hardware? Is there an Intel ME equivalent?
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I am an amateur pianist without absolute pitch but good relative pitch as you described. I have to disagree with this: "If I hear the same song played in C, and then in Db, the two of them will hit me emotionally the same." For ex
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My HP Laserjet 4L does not jam at all but instead prints and prints and prints and prints and .... since the 90ies till today and probably years to come.
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Separating plastic has also the effect of better burning waste. That is because they can control the burning / heat with controlled injection of isolating plastic waste which hast a specified / stable thermal energy in contrast to
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