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this. It doesn't matter one whit about the instance, except perhaps initially. Maybe. You choose who to read and follow and the instance doesn't matter. I already 'follow' about 80…

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." - Buckminster Fuller Capitalism has to be…

Thanks very much. I'd never heard of letsencrypt. Plus I happen to use nginx for websites these days. Great tutorial; simple.

Every democracy should have one. The author credits the original idea to Egypt and links a MorsiMetre in the 'about' link: http://morsimeter.com/en (there is an Arabic version too)…

I just tested this with zimwiki, works perfectly, as it's all plain text files. http://zim-wiki.org/ I didn't try it with encryption as zim wouldn't understand it.

Another way to take advantage of ctrl+r is to add a comment at the end of the line when you have very similar commands. e.g. ssh fred@127.0.0.1 #servername ffmpeg -some -long -inca…

RMS wrote: > To begin with, GNU will be a kernel Right. Not so much. That was exactly the last thing to happen as it turned out. He and everyone else in the effort worked on the to…

This is great on so many levels. It's Q theory to Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. The one guy just multitracks himself over and over, but superbly.

How about coding sites such that folks don't need to 'add to cart' in order to find out what they'd actually be paying if they were to purchase? That's most often why I 'abandon' c…

This is silly. I've run a printing press in my mis-spent youth. And repaired photo-copiers. One technique that is often taught is to turn the page upside-down -- in order that you …

Actually, this is a very good question. The vast majority of people have not done the experiments themselves. We actually do 'take it on faith' about a lot of things, like the eart…

"What are we doing to make sure that the ones working to disrupt Mozilla’s products is Mozilla itself" Stop. Just stop it. All my users are sick of re-learning an app they've been …