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by mlinksva 5y ago
Please do support archive.org (Internet Archive) but archive.is is a different entity (which apparently one can donate to, though not sure of its structure), see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today
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by mlinksva 5y ago
https://fossandcrafts.org/episodes/20-hygiene-for-a-computin... does a great job of introducing capabilities in an easy to understand manner.
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by mlinksva 5y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20171130000415/https://about.com... was one 5+ years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11281700 https://github.com/commonsearch
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by mlinksva 5y ago
> I see ads as harm, harm through manipulation. Like pollution, right? You working or not on FOSS isn't going to make a difference. Demand that ads be taxed/banned/regulated -- like pollution -- and hey, that's an act
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by mlinksva 5y ago
Unless I'm forgetting (Unless I've forgotten, Unless I forget, Unless I forgot...I'm not sure!), LWN is the only "content" I've personally had a paid subscription to for years. Always fun to read a bit of its o
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by mlinksva 5y ago
Surprising enough (expectations set by decades of Debian/Ubuntu) that I had to look it up, but it's true https://github.com/elementary/os/wiki/Release-Upgrades#perfo...
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by mlinksva 5y ago
I don't know either very well (and guess you know phabricator very well) but it seems to me the criterion that there's a big difference between the two on is the last -- significant developer community not employed by the leading
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by mlinksva 5y ago
The "why" in the article doesn't rest on open source being magic: - building company without VC - 100% open source, easy to self-host, high quality import/export - building software so that it is easy to maintain and ope
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by mlinksva 5y ago
I don't know whether there are any real complementarities between chipmaking and operating systems r&d being geographically close (doubtful) but in case there are, I vaguely understand Dresden is a bit of a hub for the latter due t
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by mlinksva 5y ago
The linked https://privacytests.org/ looks like a really useful aggregation/rundown/testing of privacy protecting features across browsers.
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by mlinksva 5y ago
I'm a bit sad that marketing words work on customers, but that's just how the world is apparently. :) Thanks for the reply and major congratulations and good luck!
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by mlinksva 5y ago
https://github.com/lapce/lapce/blob/master/docs/why-lapce.md strikes me as really nice -- the author tried really hard, with lots of code to show for it, to get what they wanted from vim, then neovi
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by mlinksva 5y ago
I wonder what "blockchain" means here. The word is all over https://logsentinel.com/ but it may be just to make "immutable audit trail" more buzzwordy. In 2017 they posted a skeptical https://
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Support for 500 participants to Jitsi Meet(youtube.com)
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by mlinksva 5y ago
> Over 80% of contributions to Chromium come from Google, about 77% of contributions in WebKit come from Apple, and at Mozilla Central - about 82% of commits are from Mozillans. I hadn't seen this breakdown before. Curious if this d
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by mlinksva 5y ago
Thanks! That works great. Like the parent, easy access to autotranslation is a reason I sometimes reach for a non-Firefox browser. It really ought be a feature shipped with Firefox; without it most of the web is effectively inaccessible. Th
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by mlinksva 5y ago
How Law Made Silicon Valley (2014) https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a... presumably has been superseded (pointers appreciated) but points out some areas of law that made the US favorable to gr
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by mlinksva 5y ago
> Up north, in Grand Rapids Do people in Michigan refer to Grand Rapids as "up north"? Doesn't look like it on the map. Sure it's a little bit north of Detroit, but a lot to the west. I have zero Michigan connection a
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by mlinksva 5y ago
Oklahoma and North Dakota. Various other states have restricted non-competes recently, particularly for low wage workers https://faircompetitionlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/No... and more are worki
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by mlinksva 5y ago
You had me at cabsec (I don't think this terminology has taken hold, but I see it on one of your blogs https://capabilitiesdigest.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-cabsec-f... ), lost me at blockchain. Fortunately the
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by mlinksva 5y ago
Yes. The westernmost county in MD is considered part of the Pittsburgh PA media market. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_Media_Market
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by mlinksva 5y ago
Which strikes me as a good idea. Particularly since DC retrocession and merging low population states (also elegant) have no legs. Every metro with population above median or average of existing US states should have the option of forming a
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by mlinksva 5y ago
before https://web.archive.org/web/20071109215242/http://unenumerat... after https://web.archive.org/web/20091017171846/http://unenumerat...
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Second French Plan for Open Science [pdf](ouvrirlascience.fr)
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U.S. Copyright Office Hiring Chief Economist(usajobs.gov)
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by mlinksva 5y ago
Has "The idea of taxing cryptocurrencies specifically for carbon emissions" been proposed? I don't see it mentioned in the article discussed here. I wish the article had proposed that idea, it'd be more complete if it ha
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by mlinksva 5y ago
Such coordination would be great, but carbon taxes aren't doomed to fail without it. I'd guess that every country has taxes that are worse for competitiveness than a carbon tax, and can be displaced. Additionally, carbon border ad
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by mlinksva 5y ago
Good for Austria. From the article it seems they figured out a way to pay off rural voters (larger carbon dividend in areas with poor transit) and energy intensive industries (other tax cuts). I'd rather not see such provisions, but th
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by mlinksva 5y ago
Not a fan of advertising (online or otherwise, wish online wasn't exclusively...targeted) (tax it!) but bubble accusations seem unfounded. It's possible to find negative or uncertain returns to spend but that doesn't make a b
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Multistakeholder Manifesto on Cybercrime: call for responsible action, inclusion(cybertechaccord.org)
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