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by riffic 1y ago
The idiom is a reference / alludes to a quote (originally John Gilmore, "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it"), and should have been noted as one: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jo
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by riffic 1y ago
Starlink itself is an ISP. so you're going to circumvent an ISP - with an ISP?
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by riffic 1y ago
orange site still doesn't support markdown link tags though.
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by riffic 1y ago
this would align well with the concept of Permacomputing https://permacomputing.net/
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by riffic 1y ago
Unrelated to the marketing attempt here but it should be noted that the CA Browser forum voted to drastically shorten certificate lifetimes. Look for 200 day expiration cycles starting next year, 100 days in 2027, and 47 days in 2029.
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by riffic 1y ago
when we say "Linux dev" we usually mean kernel development. It'd be nice if the headline reflected the actual project.
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by riffic 1y ago
pendulum swing
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by riffic 1y ago
You say "A list of changes" and all I'm seeing is "A pattern language". They're all able to be distilled into patterns (or antipatterns). Someone actually wrote a book on it.
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by riffic 1y ago
feel free to use alternative roots but everyone else has agreed to this system after much deliberation.
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by riffic 1y ago
most necklaces are metallic are they not?
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by riffic 1y ago
what? Cray machines were pretty rad looking in their own way.
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by riffic 1y ago
AP Stylebook says "avoid alphabet soup." Good writers refrain from unnecessary acronyms (I refer to plain language rules, or "plr").
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by riffic 1y ago
Using the term "engineering" for what we previously called programming, for one.
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by riffic 1y ago
Why is it named "Rail Over Bridge", when the picture clearly shows the bridge is over the railroad? What's with the need to define acronyms all the time in writing like this ("ROB"? "Public Works Department (PW
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by riffic 1y ago
Close. A missionary is what the sex position was named after.
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by riffic 1y ago
correlation isn't causation. look at the tremendous wealth inequality first.
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by riffic 1y ago
Ethernet was developed at Xerox PARC and was inspired by ALOHAnet. Metcalfe was however a co-founder at 3Com.
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by riffic 1y ago
not one single mention of Dice in this thread.
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by riffic 1y ago
agreed. it's nostalgic sure but it's not a good editor.
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by riffic 1y ago
*its
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by riffic 1y ago
it's the andromeda strain
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by riffic 1y ago
having a correct or incorrect copyright date actually doesn't mean much in a legal sense.
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by riffic 1y ago
speak an open protocol. ATProto, ActivityPub, whatever, just build interop in.
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by riffic 1y ago
been a while since it's come up but does Darwin support kernel level containerization yet? Apple should recognize the use case or utility and run with it.
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by riffic 1y ago
not to mention most of us know how to click to a source to view the authoritative list. why repeat it here?
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by riffic 1y ago
cool, thanks for the wall of text.
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by riffic 1y ago
poorly thought out aspirations then. Many of the communication outlets through this utility have as well their own web infrastructure, hopefully serving as a single source of truth, whether that looks like wsj.com or whitehouse.gov. Inter
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by riffic 1y ago
It’s hilarious to look back at old threads on the orange site where people made wild claims, like calling Twitter a “public utility” without much thought. But honestly, I always saw the company as vulnerable to these issues. That’s why Masn
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by riffic 1y ago
guess they'll just keep doing it anyways and will now do "parallel construction" to get a case through court.
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by riffic 2y ago
wormed it is

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