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Cerne Abbas Giant(en.wikipedia.org)
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by markvdb 7y ago
Do watch "Solaris"[0], the 1972 USSR Andrei Tarkovsky[1] science fiction film inspired by the Lem book. Even if you'ree not into science fiction . It's magnificent. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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One usually _wants_ to stay where one feels comfortable. Human nature. Whether one realises one's in a bubble will only rarely change that.
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Organising a conference is hard. Creating value is hard. Farting on social media is easy. As a conference organiser, handling social media fires is especially hard, because you're at peak load already. You're organising a conferen
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by markvdb 7y ago
Let's hope this mess brings us at least a stronger FOSS mobile ecosystem...
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EDIT: Perceived change generates just as much stress and associated opposition as actual change. You've just enabled me to make that explicit for myself. I feel stupid that took me so many years. Thank you for that. Writing this out so
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> By that criteria (which are real criteria from real people), the only viable replacement for Microsoft Office, is the next version of Microsoft Office. By that criteria, the only viable replacement for Microsoft Office is the _same_ ve
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The IBM developerworks articles about this are old (2000!), but still incredibly useful and well written. Start here: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-sed1/index.html https://developer.
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The relevant legislation has only been in force since 20170615 [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_roaming_regulat...
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> While WildDuck is more secure by definition than most alternatives > ... > You can run WildDuck on any system that supports Node.js, Node.js and more secure by definition? That sounds _very_ strange to me...
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Gmail is still imap readable.
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Related observation. Wealth used to especially escape countries to small neighbours. Examples: * Belgium: Luxemburg * France: Monaco, Luxemburg, Switzerland * Germany: Liechtenstein, Luxemburg, Switzerland * Italy: Vatican city, San Marino,
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Thank you for your comment. "I think the reason why our parents opinion is unpopular is because people usually account for diminishing marginal returns by acknowledging that the loss of utility one person experiences paying 1 is greate
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The only way I could agree with you would be when speaking about a reasonably intelligent, healthy individual not living where health is a bankruptcy lottery. As it stands now - and I apologise if I completely misunderstood a poorly written
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White House aides to recommend Trump veto net neutrality measure: document(reuters.com)
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Made me think of the legendary Aleksei Stakhanov and the movement named after him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stakhanovite_movement
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Fond memories of Charles Steinkuehler's Linux Router Project [0]. Similar floppy disk based project. The author's friendly attitude was one of the things that got me into free and open source software. Thank you Charles! [0] htt
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by markvdb 8y ago
2011 Lenovo Thinkpad X220 daily user here. Really nice machine really for my needs, running the latest Debian smoothly. I do have a spare ready to take over if needed. Old hardware could always die very suddenly. It's a frugal solution
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The net failing us is not about misinformation. It's about people being less in touch with other flesh and blood members of their species, and more into their own bubble of truths or "truths". People want to hear the fairytal
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What many people don't realise is that the Soviets also made significant investments in "high" culture in western Europe. I distinctly remember a very important independent film distributor in Belgium got at least partly fina
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Latvia being my second home country, I found one photo [0] from the article particularly interesting. It depicts a communist rally on (at the time) Brīvibas bulvaris, one of the main boulevards of Riga. The picture can be dated between July
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by markvdb 8y ago
The tradition in (parts of) Italy is similar: http://in-formality.com/wiki/index.php?title=Voto_di_scambio... This is why it is illegal to take pictures of your vote.
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In terms of EU R&D budgets, the UK is a net receiver by 63%. It contributes 5.4 10^9€, and receives 8.8 10^9€, says the Royal Society [0]. To find a stick to beat a dog in the EU budget is easy. After looking closely at UK financial con
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Gandi. Fairly low pricing, very FOSS friendly, often actually knowledgeable support that you don't have to hit with a baseball bat before they get a clue (unlike OVH).
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The image seems to be an allusion to the theme behind the Asterix comic strip, of a small and happily independent Gaul village surrounded by a giant Roman empire unable to conquer it. It's _hard_ to capture a very abstract ideal like f
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2011 Lenovo Thinkpad X220 daily user here. Really nice machine really for my needs, running the latest Debian smoothly. I do have a spare ready to take over if needed. Old hardware could always die very suddenly. It's a frugal solution
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It's not. For that kind of money, one buys the Brompton electric. The Brompton engineers know what they're doing. They basicly created the folding bicycle as it exists now.
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In some parts of the world, it's very often the other way round: kids financially supporting their parents. Or what would you do when your parents' savings and pension had all disappeared in the collapse of the USSR? That's e
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...which is why you have some privacy minded people using gmail anyway, or getting biometric passports.
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by markvdb 8y ago
Thank you for the kind words. Much appreciated!

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