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If you want a world where the data you present like this matters, seed it. Even if google doesn't use it, the collective internet applying this kind of metadata makes the web ferti…

Yes, 50% of shuttle losses were due to SRB failures (Challenger)

No open source, then I'm not playing. I use Zim wiki for everything just now and I don't like it. I'm in the market for a replacement, and would even pay like with how Immich does …

I think it's important to understand the early development. It's true that you can (and always could) use avr-gcc and libc, but the core sale was what makes it not this. The "locke…

Arduino has long been fraught with governance and licensing issues, but at its core has been supported first and foremost by a community of keen amateurs and patient professionals …

Magic/More Magic switch required.

ArchiveTeam is working on backing up selected channels/videos to the Internet Archive, where they can also be watched via their Wayback Machine. You can help them decide what is cu…

for what it's worth, I strongly disagree with the various right wing theories about the _cause_ and specifically the idea that there is intentional exploitation of the demographic …

It's a statement of fact, which is neutral on its own. Where it becomes a right wing talking point (or a discussion about the socio-economic future of a country) broadly comes down…

I'm not sure that source code verification is such a problem. It feels like it's definitely easier to write code to solve a problem than to verify some code written by someone else…

It's not one-or-the-other. You can achieve all that customisability without having to edit the code, while also leaving it as an option for those who want to take it further.

"Currently, the app isn’t open source, as I felt it didn’t need to be." No open source, not selling me as a customer. If you make your entire product about customisation, you're do…

The very first line of the article states that this is a retrospective of the August '23 incident, hence the downvotes.

I don't know about this instance in particular, but the vertical scale in similar maps is often exaggerated to make it easier to differentiate the different floors. At the cost of …

Forgotten not in the sense of lost knowledge, but more that the individual is not known proportionally to the importance of his work, or perhaps consistently when compared to his p…

No free software no support. You don't have to merge it upstream right away, but publish it for others to study and use as permitted by the license.

It's not so funny, because this article was written at the time freenode was burning to the ground, and the article suggests that it would be very easy for everyone to move to libe…

It's a surprise, I'm a UK citizen living in a UK dependency and will shortly be returning to Great Britain, and I can't access it. Huh!

You can do it in a virtual machine, and people frequently do. The software can't detect nor escape it. Unrelated (seriously), there's also OARC, the online amateur radio club. It's…