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gego

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About gego

Gego is a digital historian.

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    Comment #29724476

    You should definitely look at Austria's "Sozialer Wohnbau" and "Gemeindebau" in Vienna https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeindebau Also look at the conference series Working Class …

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    Comment #29724404

    Scientific American has a high res version of olaus Magnus carta marina, so you can see all those pesky (sea) monsters up close ;)

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    Comment #29544314

    ...at least you can get a copy of your data through a GDPR request...

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    Comment #29544120

    ...so well defined that famous art posted by museums now gets blocked by over-eager bots and moderators...

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    Comment #29425275

    It's basically a free jitsu instance to use and test https://www.fairkom.eu/en/fairmeeting

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    Comment #29422756

    Look at the open source office tools from faircom... Scroll down a little https://www.fairkom.eu/en/fairapps

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    Comment #28993294

    Nice, didn't know that detail, always something new, thx.

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    Comment #28993175

    True, just thought it might give some insight into recent pain points, Gilmore's email at the eff is gnu after all :)

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    Comment #28993053

    Perhaps this is relevant although it is about the fsf(clarification added after comments): https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/16/glibc_gnulib_fsf_copy... The glibc stewards are se…

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    Comment #28992803

    ...not eye to eye with Gilmore? Thanks for gnu tar, liberating bsd, parts of gnu make, gbd, curating binutils and gcc with Cygnus, helping in the crypto wars, frees/wan, boots, gnu…

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    Comment #28978846

    tinytinyrss ftw

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    Comment #28930961

    It does not bode well for the new walled gardens when art's place online is on onlyfans... is this something we want?

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    Comment #28896855

    ...syncthing

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    Comment #28809904

    ...as a historian I agree ;)

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    Comment #28782263

    ... it's basically the Thiel way of doing things... Competition is for losers, monopolies are fine, local situation does not concern, extracting wealth is key, even if we destroy t…

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    Comment #28782226

    ...so that's how you get a lot of work for nothing... people, please never sign something without at least clearly stating what you think it means. A sneaky way is printing the doc…

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    Comment #28782097

    Thank you for the great article. I would argue, that a lot of the negative side effects you discuss vary due to the country you live in. Countries who do have achieved a working ba…

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    Comment #28769535

    Thx - some good points made here!

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    Comment #28769390

    good point - you are basically arguing against extravagant alternatives that would break the flow of conversation as people are so cute sed to seeing and taking business cards - wh…

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    Ask HN: Are you still using business cards or which alternatives have you tried?

    Recently I had to decide if we would be using traditional paper business cards or something different (and perhaps even eco friendly). It seems that in Europe and especially parts …

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    Comment #28759018

    ...while we're at it, if we are taxing senders why not also finally put a cost on metadata and user data e.g. by a fee that gets sent to a copyright collective... "little" basic in…

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    Comment #28671949

    Entrepreneurs sold off supplies and want importers to offer more for cheap...