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A book I highly recommend, but personally found distressing to read, especially the chapter on the strategy of targeting civilian populations, which continues to haunt me.

A corporation is a single legal entity with distinct rights and obligations, that’s the entire point of incorporating, so you don’t have to create a fully connected graph of agreem…

Don’t forget wantonly destructive.

I don’t think the neologism “dark patterns” is necessary or adds any clarity; it’s almost a euphemism. Can’t we just call this “dishonest design”? I would personally find that a lo…

One of the greats. Invented quicksort and concurrent sequential processes. I always looked up to him because he also seemed very humble.

For a long time I've been wanting a private, E2EE social media app for sharing pics/videos of my son with friends and family, but haven't found anything fitting that description. L…

This seems like a good time to mention that FreeFollow.org is looking for private beta testers for our app that combines the pub/sub model and slick UX of social media (posts, comm…

Thanks for letting us know. Unfortunately we haven't been able to reproduce that with the current version of Firefox, but if you'd like to email us at hello@freefollow.org we'll ad…

Nope.

You might be interested in FreeFollow.org [full disclosure, I'm one of the engineers working on it]. It combines the economic model of web hosting (users pay to host spaces, readin…

I totally agree. Is there a community of like-minded folks out there somewhere? I'd love to see someone give this a try.

Thanks very much for the feedback and bug report, which I have reproduced on Ubuntu. I'll fix the bug shortly and put the feature requests on the list. Edit: fixed in 0.5.20

Author's note: Everyone uses spreadsheets to manage small-scale tabular data because unlike a database they're usable by humans and let users immediately start entering data, but t…