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It's odd to me, as a Brit, to see that this stuff was not mostly public anyway. (looking at you https://github.com/alphagov )

I don't follow. It allows citizenry to identify wage discrimination and other malpractices, people can get paid on the value of their work and not just how good they are at gaming …

http://textfiles.com/ people familiar with the culture

I work for one of the largest Swiss ISPs, and these mailboxes are still to this day read by actual people (me included), so it's sometimes worthwhile even today.

Under what circumstances would commercial companies be required to buy a license?! If they provide Linking as a Service?

I do the exact same for Illumos, just ripped ideas from depenguin.me (which is how I previously installed FreeBSD after they discontinued the rescue system).

I haven't noticed any difference or problems with the Android TV application vs the Android or web client. What exactly is broken or not great for you?

How can you commit treason against a foreign country?

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It was not a state actor. There were plenty of high profile people and projects being owned just for the fun of it back then.

Next we'll be hearing that ~el8 was a CIA front. :)

If a child chooses to get a USA passport, surely this means renouncing Japanese citizenship?

This is a naïve question, but why on earth are unions isolated to one company so often in USA? Surely an industry-wide solution would be more effective.

Nobody is forcing anyone to work for these scumbags. It is a choice.

It is wrong. I'm sorry to be blunt, but here we are. Just because pepsi tastes like coca cola, doesn't make it coca cola. Open source/free software places no restrictions on use/mo…

It's the norm, rather than the exception, here in Europe. My employment contract is set through collective bargaining and I work at one of the largest tech employers in Switzerland…

European Union legislation mandates that all 27 member states must by law grant all employees a minimum of 4 weeks of paid vacation. (but yes, in practice, many offer more. one of …

Modern society does a pretty good job of that already. How many prescriptions for antidepressants do we issue in the western world? tl;dr, I consider them lower risk than horse rid…

True enough, but his health declined in his late 80s. David Nichols is still going strong in his late 70s, Albert Hofmann died at 102, Ram Dass died at 88. I don't see psychedelics…

iRedMail stack on a hetzner machine. Migrated mails with getmail and dovecot import, but it isn't perfect, and no calendar etc. But nobody is ever kicking me off a platform again.

I received the email on Monday. I, too, was in the boat of having friends & family using it. It was a mistake to trust their promises, but this was from back in the day of "do no e…

Had a lot of fun with bo2k and friends. cDc zines got me in to hacker culture and probably contributed to my career trajectory.

I can also recommend the following books by Nils M Holm: LISP From Nothing ( https://t3x.org/lfn/ ) LISP System Implementation ( https://www.t3x.org/lsi/ ) Scheme 9 from Empty Spac…

Not quite true; zcash is best-of-breed and works well. Dead on for this being a devastating error though. I regret advocating Signal, and this destroys Moxie's credibility in my ey…