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Yes, 'universal within the defined scope'. Everything within that service. Microsoft Windows doesn't have a backdoor to data on your android phone, but its backdoor is still univer…

I think the point is that in writing something like systemd it's more likely to be the norm than if you were, say, writing a Ruby server.

Thank-you so much for sharing Life in Life! It's the perfect way to convey how complicated transistor-level emulation is to design...

Preserving dying languages is not unlike basic archaeology, preserving our past so that future generations can understand it, in a way that isn't superficial. The way you put it, "…

I have a better idea; municipally subsidized automated agriculture, to be distributed to all citizens. This has the added benefit of removing fear of starvation from starting a bus…

"Rich Person Acts Like Bigotted Asshole: World Agape in Awe"

Well, it's funny you mention that, because I think kids are right to question compulsory pedagogy: http://www.wesjones.com/gatto1.htm

I think your drive to learn is what's really valuable (disclaimer, I'm 23). Looks to me like a lot of people give up on learning anything at some point, and just rot away. The fact…

Automated food production at the municpal level, tax funded. You solve a whole lot of other problems at the same time. There's a lot of understandable barriers to implementing that…

Isn't this actually fraud? It's identical to giving an ad clicker script to your readers to artificially bump up your ad revenue.

Certainly; if you can audit the source and reflash the device yourself :] But that's unthinkable until it's possible to build alternative devices locally as cheaply and easily as i…

Assaulting a person is neither legal nor ethical

She should be going to the police, not tweeting. As it is, depending on jurisdiction, she seems to be committing the crime of defamation. There's nothing she can accomplish here, e…

I have a raspi with ArkOS as a home server, and it's good. Some minor stability bugs presently, but the user interface is beyond excellent compared to other home-hosting solutions.…

[For a purported breakthrough with such grand plans for reshaping the food industry, I found Soylent to be a punishingly boring, joyless product. From the plain white packaging to …

The issue is that, given a little more time, we'll see a "one-size-fits-all" captcha breaker, one that needs little to no modification to break the captcha on new sites.

A lot of ordinary people seem to be barred from doing anything by willful ignorance. It seems to be a rational decision too; if they let themselves fall into Stockholm syndrome, th…

People are working on bringing convenience to self-hosting. Don't assume that freedom precludes comfort: https://arkos.io/

Update:[6] Plenty of people are already working on solutions to our various social problems, but lack resources. Some are capable of living off very little, but there's one recurri…

But... Mozilla IS irrelevent without it's differentiating principles. Microsoft sacrificed backwards compatibility with Vista and look where that got them...

Funny this happening near the end of the filming of James Rolfe's movie about the E.T. game... http://cinemassacre.com/2012/11/10/avgn-the-movie-trailer/ The more people investigat…

Relatedly, Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Space as culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNxnCzz5oQE I'd agree with the both of you on the value of big space exploration projects as dri…

Okay, sure. There's R&D for the $40,000 arm. There's R&D for the $50 arm too. They didn't just download the code and print plans from Github. Justifying a fourty grand pricetag bas…

Yes. Today. This was not always the case. Consider this; at what point was the first person hired to work on the kernel? At what point were there a majority of patches submitted by…

I suspect there was research conducted by public universities to create this pill, IE that it was publically funded. The ethics of "I researched this I made this it's mine so you p…