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by mlinksva 9y ago
> If you use PostgreSQL in the cloud or from a services company, make sure you ask them what they have contributed to PostgreSQL and what their capability is to fix bugs and with what SLA. The answer to that question is what keeps open s
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by mlinksva 9y ago
I've seen stories about Davis in the past but never read closely, though I've idly wondered how much danger he has been in. A couple questions ask about this and it seems he has been attacked a few times. https://www.re
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by mlinksva 9y ago
Couple other places to help that might have wider impact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Indigeno... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Maps_of_the_indi...
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by mlinksva 9y ago
Even if Librem 5 fails, there will be subsequent fund-a-significantly-more-free-phone attempts. $1.5m is really a small amount. Anyway I do hope Librem 5 succeeds (meeting threshold, shipping...going mass market...) and will probably back i
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by mlinksva 9y ago
Indeed, or at least the dissolution of imperial legacy culture through domination by the populations and cultures of ex-colonies. Independence was a mistake. It only cemented global apartheid. There is still time to demand democracy instead
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Supporting Int 1696-2017 for Source Code Transparency in New York City(harihareswara.net)
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by mlinksva 9y ago
https://ballotpedia.org/California_Consumer_Personal_Informa... Added: I haven't looked closely at either, but it seems at a glance that the initiative is far broader than the bill (which only applies to ISPs), so woul
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by mlinksva 9y ago
> Targeting any more specific than a good contextual match is usually a waste and not any more effective. I'd like to believe this. But why then does user tracking adtech exist? Why is the advertising industry opposed to this move t
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New WebExtension reveals targeted political ads(blog.zgp.org)
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by mlinksva 9y ago
> Before the hurricane of 1900, Galveston, TX was the largest metropolitan area west of the Mississippi. What? It was a bit smaller than the 100th largest city in the U.S. both 1890 and 1900, with StL and SF >10x its size, and many o
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by mlinksva 9y ago
https://about.commonsearch.org/ could use help.
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Software Heritage: a status update(debconf17.debconf.org)
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by mlinksva 9y ago
> We should double our annual infrastructure budget...new roads No mention of maintenance. https://www.strongtowns.org/nonewroads/ https://www.strongtowns.org/infrastructure/
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by mlinksva 9y ago
Hmm, not sure why they aren't showing from the account timeline thing, but some visible from https://github.com/search?q=author%3Abassel&type=Commits&utf... ... probably more under email addresses not associate
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by mlinksva 9y ago
65k+ people have been disappeared in Syria, and it's common to not know why, one article about that which also mentions Bassel's wife https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals... In part, it&#x2
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by mlinksva 9y ago
AFAIK (friend of a friend) most of that work was offline, some of it recovered from hard drives etc after his detainment, and restarted on GitHub from that. His account used for some other projects was https://github.com/bas
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by mlinksva 9y ago
They do, to some small extent. I'm not claiming that indoor gyms should not exist at all or that on should never ever drive to one, nor that there is never a case for a skyway or parking at a transit station (though parking should neve
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by mlinksva 9y ago
I wish the interview was a bit more substantial, but I like the exercise should be free/gyms are bad (exaggeration mine) idea. Gyms are like skyways (eg in Minneapolis), or like mass transit stations surrounded by parking: they detract
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by mlinksva 9y ago
I attended a day of the conference mentioned out of casual interest because I live nearby and was mildly and pleasantly surprised that nearly all of the attendees are serious activists and definitely getting things done in their cities, esp
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by mlinksva 9y ago
This must be Google's response https://www.blog.google/topics/public-policy/responding-camp...
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by mlinksva 9y ago
I've purposefully avoided following the holy war, but somehow recently failed and noticed a new to me argument: systemd replaced lots of functionality wtih a memory safe implementation (shell scripts) with a memory unsafe implementatio
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by mlinksva 9y ago
Also special pavement materials and decrease urban footprint https://www.epa.gov/heat-islands/heat-island-cooling-strateg... Replacing parking lots seems like the most obvious win all around to me.
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by mlinksva 9y ago
New theory to me. How did walkable development lead to ~$5k/mo 2br apartments in SF? If the theory is true, what are its implications? That even more auto-oriented development will make SF cheaper? Or that less development (or even des
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by mlinksva 9y ago
It is also possible to cut those numbers with low tech: less driving. Stop subsidizing roads and parking, start allowing walkable development. Take back the streets. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236825193_St
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by mlinksva 9y ago
I'd be very surprised if defenders of slavery didn't routinely use Jefferson, Washington, and company to justify slavery. I don't know offhand how to find primary sources, but a quick web search turns up an interview[0] with
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by mlinksva 9y ago
Perhaps forcing governments and corporations to share more will be explored if it seems that this publicly documented baseline is far from the state of the art. Impossible to gauge, perhaps, but even realizing that highlights the risk of pu
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by mlinksva 9y ago
> EFF’s interest in AI progress is primarily from a policy perspective. We want to know what types of AI we need to start engaging with on legal, political, and technical safety fronts. Beyond that, we’re also just excited to see how man
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by mlinksva 9y ago
Trademarks are a form of censorship.
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by mlinksva 9y ago
Massachusetts's enforcement of non-competes and poor performance relative to California is the classic variation, first (or at least famously) pointed out in 1994 and subject of many studies since; http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de&
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by mlinksva 9y ago
Yearly surcharge is a great idea, maybe https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/cdot/supp_info/d... documents, though seems too cheap ($100, $200 in central business district). SF sadly does not

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