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We have a similar initiative here in Minnesota: https://minnesota.repair.org/ I really like this idea and would like to see it come to fruition. It's a nice check on consumerism an…

It's marketed as "The Other White Meat".

In my experience, everything from Jupiter Broadcasting [0] is extrememly top-notch and informative. I'd highly recommend all of their shows (including BSD Now!) [0] http://jupiterb…

GNOME has had systemd as a hard dependency since 2012: it uses systemd-logind and a few other systemd services for its basic functionality. systemd is only available on Linux syste…

There's an organization in Minneapolis which does a similar thing. It's called Free Geek Twin Cities, and they recycle old PCs and put Ubuntu on them. It's about $40 for a computer…

Fourthed. He was a great inspiration to me.

KeePass works better is you set it up to use Auto-Type, which sends keystrokes to the window manager to type the passwords into the fields.

Potentially Microsoft could use their significant market power to convince other companies to open source their code.

Check out SDL, Allegro, or SFML. http://libsdl.org/ http://alleg.sourceforge.net/ http://sfml-dev.org/

What exactly is this? It looks to me like a multiplayer vaporwave-inspired shirt maker.

Heller's outline for Catch-22 is especially notable due to the story's non-linear plotline. I found it extremely useful when reading it the first time trough, since the plot is so …

So did I. Makes me suspect it's not completely random...

It's important to remember that anecdotal evidence is not scientific in any way. Just because there exists "peoples' wisdom" doesn't mean that this wisdom is correct. This is why s…

I especially love his marble machines. They're absolutely mesmerizing.

It's nice to see DuckDuckGo mentioned at the end as on-par with Google, Siri, and OnStar. I'm a little surprised they mentioned DDG in the first place, as it doesn't have nearly th…

That's also partly due to Netflix' extreme web market share: They account for ~31% of all global aggregate internet usage, and combined with Youtube, the major video streamers acco…

> she struggled to enjoy some concerts that I enjoyed, simply because the notes from the various players weren't aligned well enough... Hmm, it depends from listener to listener. O…

In the 1960s, La Monte Young wrote a piece entitled The Well-Tuned Piano , a riff on J. S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Klavier . It features an equally-tuned piano, so each interval i…

Hey, I think it's pretty cool, and I'd like to see a write-up of how he did it. Plus it's good advertising for their firm, assuming they don't get sued or anything.

I don't think it's intentional in any respect, rather I'd wager it's more of a bug in Knowledge Graph or the search algorithm or something similar. Even if it was intentional, Brei…