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See also Joey Hess's low energy fridge: http://joeyh.name/offgrid/fridge/ Joey's known for the Debian installer and git-annex, among other things.

I'm a student, about to graduate from a BSN nursing program that's online except clinicals. I went from using a Dell laptop to using a Pinebook Pro to mostly using an iPad Air (4th…

Eastern and Central European history has less stable borders/states than Western/Northern Europeans and Americans often assume. Nationalities existed under various empires without …

Yes, although sometimes people feel their country is not normal. "In a normal country, this would not happen," many Russian people said, especially in the '90s between Yeltsin's US…

It isn't scifi, but it's certainly one of the best fantasy novels ever written.

My favorite Soviet/Eastern Bloc scifi novel is The Day Lasts More Than A Hundred Years (1981) by Chingiz Aitmatov. "Ethnic" writers were accorded more freedom of topic than white R…

Three minute read about low tech quarantine management in Beijing in May 2020. I had hoped to collect many more, but failed: http://agk.sdf.org/lib/lrm/lrp20beijing.html

Last I was paying attention, all the legacy aircraft carriers hadn't been upgraded from windows xp, and had no upgrade path. That's only one of the platform's many vulnerabilities.…

another container based approach is what barry kauler of puppy fame is doing with https://easyos.org/ . I haven't used BSD, but I think jails are another solution in this space. I …