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Direct links for english have been provided (as stated in a sibling comment). Yet the catalog server (to download localized versions) seems to be under heavy load or otherwise hard…

If you dive head-first into Python's string behaviour, you'll eventually learn the hard UnicodeDecodeError-way what the difference is between a stream of bytes/octets and a text ma…

The superior OS that was eventually killed by the inferior Windows 95. OS/2 did a lot right. The integrated Windows-Environment was initially better than native Windows: better pro…

The whole installation was more like 20 floppies back then, though. Source: copied and installed dozens of internal use only betas of 2.0 up to Warp.

It is.

For two decades I've been waiting for popular support for a complete or at least Clipper-chip-style encryption ban in the "free world". It always was on the other far end of the sp…

They do not know how to perfectly control it. Given the obviously huge scale at which they operate, it seems to work reasonably well. Yet the huge scale is exactly what scares the …

So ordinary people may finally read my papers with reasonable effort? Sounds like an improvement. I am not in the academic content distribution industry though.

> Protip That's the problem: We should not need to be "pro" to get software - even in an open world without walled gardens.

For most stuff that is very true. There is one bread that keeps me easily saturated on 6 slices for the whole work day (=manageable caloric intake) but I need to make that myself. …

I'll give you an actual scenario, maybe you can relate: One of your kids is sick and yells for attention. You shuffle in the next load of bedcovers into the washing machine while t…

Unison via SSH to a Raspberry-Pi-attached USB HDD. Upload to Flickr via cron-triggered python script from RasPi. Arq to S3. Hoping that "only to camlistore" will be the answer in 3…

You get annotated as well as original PPT-slides along with clear text transcripts of what he says in the videos. Can be a bit awkward as it is not a textbook text but it gets the …