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I can't confirm it, but I think a few of the scenes from Halt and Catch Fire come from Soul of a New Machine.

My dad was Tom West from Soul of a New Machine. Tracy Kidder lived at our house on weekends in the late 1970s while he was working on this book. He and my dad remained friends for …

Getting stronger and better every day Evan; best wishes for the speediest recovery possible.

In the United States local drug store Rite Aid got in some serious trouble for using AI facial recognition. Looking at some of the Federal Trade Commission's complaints against the…

We stay on top of keeping MetaFilter's gopher server working. gopher://gopher.metafilter.com

I believe part of the issue is that the other John Does may be people in other countries (according to the lawsuit) which may add to the issues with identifying and/or charging the…

Thank you so much for this. I'm pretty Wiki-literate and was having a hard time understanding this from their initial pages.

The tool posts the pictures to Wikimedia Commons, logging in there is required for file upload (hello I'm Jessamyn the Community Manager at the Flickr Foundation - please try this …

Hi felix!

Right?! Hi I'm Tom West's daughter, librarian, owner of MetaFilter and someone who spends a LOT of time talking to people (mainly men) who take only some of the messages away from …

I honestly feel like part of it is just that the site sometimes feels like abandonware. That is, it's still running but older cruft is still there (like how you can add AOL Instant…

Hi! Yes I'm the owner which is mostly paperwork and legal and sort of "the vision thing." Loup is running day-to-day stuff and we have a 12-member Steering Committee who will hopef…

Hey!

Thanks. I miss my dad a lot.

I had a very long and angryish set of dealings with them about this. I finally got an engineer to let me download the archive but man... promises promises...

I feel like a lot of it is changing the discussion. Like not everyone has the money, time and effort to be able to do a small claims thing, but there are a lot of things you can do…

Yep -- if you make over $600 (and mine was $600 + $90 for court costs) they have to send you a tax form and report it.

I think I put the bulk of it on my Medium post you can read here. It was surprisingly not a lot of stuff. https://medium.com/@jessamyn/suing-equifax-in-small-claims-c...

I definitely tried to (last year was such a shitty year!) but there wasn't a lot of traction for that. Maybe if I had brought in therapist bills and said "Reimburse me"

How badass is that?

They sent me a W-9. I do not think they plan to appeal.

And they had to send a lawyer from Atlanta to Vermont which probably at least tripled that. Not saying it's not small change, just saying there are other costs.

Yep, it's a really useful thing libraries and librarians-without-libraries spend a lot of time doing. We're often good at teaching things that are poorly documented or that people …

Sometimes librarians are also those things.

Access to the courts is something guaranteed by the Constitution (standard disclaimer about the shape THAT's in). Usually googling "File a small claims case" and your state name wi…