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I'll put it like this. Close by where I live is a monument for civilians who were taken from their houses and shot by the German occupiers during the last months of WWII. Simply be…

For what it's worth, pubnix - public accessible UNIX systems - were/are that to an extent. You'd get a free account on some shared system, you log in via a terminal, and you get ac…

This an interesting question. Forgive my meandering take on this. We already have a mix of technologies to achieve that effect. Sort of. Simplified, you can host a personal website…

From the posted article: > EPA Seeks to Eliminate Critical PFAS Drinking Water Protections > The move continues to expose communities across the country to toxic forever chemicals …

If a pension system is purely based on repartition: yes. But that's not the case in most countries. Pension plans mostly involve pension funds which are rooted in the financial mar…

Oh, it's not just the "big stories". History is a pretty big flag that covers a lot of territory. At heart, history is about asking perennial questions like "where do we come from?…

As someone who lives in one of those locations mentioned in the article: split out locale and language into different settings. Because they are not the same thing. This article ex…

> personal responsibility A sense of personal responsibility dilutes very quickly as more people get involved. This is a well researched dynamic in groups and collectives. As it tu…

> Your standalone web site is like a cactus in the middle of a vast desert nobody cares about Yet, cacti thrive in the desert, uncaring about the opinions of others. > in fact now …

I strongly disagree. One of the examples mentioned studies population changes during NZ's colonization. It's part of Maori-led research. Such research provides a better understandi…

That's at the heart of this discussion. There are two legal entities at play here: automatic, a for profit company, and the WordPress Foundation, a non-profit. It's believed that t…

This depends on the jurisdiction you're in. I.e. Europe's GDPR argues that you need consent to keep someone's personal data. Encryption doesn't equate anonymization, so there's a p…

That's not because of the GPL. The GPL has little to do with barring access to a platform on which code is published. Arguably, if a copy existed elsewhere, say GitHub, then WPEngi…

I'm a bit surprised that the author doesn't mention key concepts such as linked data, RDF, federation and web querying. Or even the five stars of linked open data. [1] Sure, JSON-L…

Take a peak on Reddit's /r/datahoarders or /r/datacurator. There's also https://wiki.archiveteam.org/ who may point you in a direction. Sometimes stations do keep a record of their…

I dabble with Gopher for two reasons. First, it's a simple protocol. Learning about the basics of networking, building your own Gopher client, Gopher offers a great opportunity to …

I agree, moreover, this is what the author wrote: > All that aside, the problem isn’t just “bad comments”, because I’m a grown woman and can take critique. The biggest problem is t…

Potentially more then one might assume. This is an area that needs more research, but initial estimates seem to indicate that an increase in launched very much warrants concern. CB…

I'd agree. The big differentiator being your own personality and your own outlook / expectations of life and others. There are plenty people around looking to have a date, and mayb…

Cooking classes, volunteering, sport clubs, the gym, group travel, boardgames, photography classes, dancing lessons, language classes, concerts, movie clubs, hiking groups, etc. et…

30 years ago, you didn't live vicariously through the published perception of the world you friends held 24/7. Social interactions stopped when you put down the phone or went home …

If de-orbiting is your concern, then I would suggest taking a step back and considering the impact on our atmosphere of increasing the number of launches. This isn't a theoretical …

Balance issues usually are a symptom of an underlying condition. For instance, an elderly relative of mine has had several strokes. While they have regular PT sessions, it's basica…

Mongo and Elastic have changed there licenses to the "service-side public license" (SSPL) which is a particular own flavor of AGPL. The OSI has stated that this isn't an open sourc…

You're linking to a generalized announcement that mentions research data, but omits mentioning the institution's own research data management services which exist specifically to d…