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   by textaural 8y ago

   In 2002 there was an attempt to fork the Spanish Wikipedia. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/wikipedia-spanish-fork . There was a lot of internal pushback to the forking, but they did it. But the technical and economic i
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   by textaural 8y ago

   Oh here it is. The website was not launched when the presentation happened. Now it is. http://cryptocouple.com/
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   by textaural 8y ago

   I recently went to a conference presentation that attributed this CS in joke as indicative of how the field is deeply gendered. This paper isn't by the researchers I saw, but speaks to that. https://dl.acm.org/citation.
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   by textaural 11y ago

   I have found https://donottrack-doc.com [made by the NFB] to be helpful in thinking about data collection. If I have time at the end of this semester I'll be taking my first-year students through the first episode.
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   by textaural 11y ago

   Although not short, Nathan Ensmenger's "The Computer Boys Take Over" is a fantastic history of the complicated and diverse roots of software. In the intro he states, like the comment above, that the history of software tend t