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Enshittification is properly viewed as a cybersecurity risk, a category of insider threat. You defend against it, when possible, by using open source software and open, documented …

It seems like what Europe really needs to do this is a viable mobile OS. It's been true for a while that Linux + LibreOffice is plenty to handle most government workers' needs on t…

I often venerate antiques and ancient things by thinking about how they were made. You can look at a 1000-year-old castle and think: This incredible thing was built with mules and …

Some courts publish word processing templates for briefs; for example, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit: https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/court-forms-fees/brief-templat…

I do a lot of long-form writing. I switched from typing first drafts to writing them and saw improvements in my creativity, organization, and general quality of writing, and also f…

Yes, that is what I mean. By the way, on the benchmark game website, is it still possible to sort benchmark results not by speed, but by gzip'd source code size?

Some other examples of what you are talking about: In the regular expression benchmarks, some entries implement their own idiomatic regex parsers or link to the PCRE2 library, rath…

In 1983 “learning how computers work” was a huge goal for many buyers. Parents bought computers so that kids could learn to use them, which often meant learning to program. (BTW, t…

Bar passage rates are falling because law schools have become increasingly theoretical. Many law professors have never had actual clients who pay them for legal work, or have worke…

What I appreciate about books like this is that they assume the reader is already familiar with programming, and so the book cuts to the chase and explains why this language is uni…

Not for this stuff. The EFF has no lobbyists in Washington DC, in fact doesn't even have an office in Washington DC. What they do, they do well: Litigating in court. But don't give…