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Can't believe they didn't call it VouchDB.

We are happy to be providing this public service :-). I wish the term were better known outside tech; it's useful in so many contexts.

So many stories like this about Slack. We use Zulip ( https://zulip.org/ ) for our corporate chat, and we've never looked back. It's been good, and it's fully open source. We self-…

Wow. This project was the cause of a very long and intense discussion about mis-use of the term "open source". See https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/40#issuecomment-5397146... f…

Xlife I believe it implements Bill Gosper's hashlife quadtree algorithm (already mentioned elsewhere in the comments here). Xlife is unbelievably fast.

Most of the comments so far are about the temperature and the closeness to the sun, and, hey, I get it: those are both amazing to think about. But to me even more amazing is... 0.1…

That part about "...you wouldn’t want to wing it with the configuration, because allegedly you could break your monitor with a bad Monitor setting" -- strike the "allegedly"! Or at…

Just ordered. Thank you :-).

Got it -- I appreciate the explanation.

AHHHH, that's the key thing I didn't know (I have a Raspberry Pi sitting in a drawer and have played with it embarrassingly little -- I didn't realize how important having the SPI …

Thank you. My idea was more the opposite: do it with a normal laptop or desktop computer driving the display, rather than a tiny microcontroller. I guess I'm assuming that either t…

Does anyone know why projects like this always seem to specify using a particular type of tiny, low-power computer (usually a Raspberry Pi or something similar) to drive the displa…

The most important factor in my learning Emacs was doing it in a room with experienced Emacs users. I really strongly recommend doing this if you possibly can. A few minutes of an …

There are algorithms where I think "Sure, with enough time and attention given to the problem, I might have thought of that." And then there are algorithms where I think "Oh, wow. …

Very happy user of a System76 Lemur Pro laptop (i7, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD) for the past year, FWIW. I'm running stock Debian on it, not System76's Pop!_OS. I get the kind of battery …

The linked page is on signalusers.org, but Signal's regular home site is https://signal.org/ . I'm looking all over signal.org for some link from there to signalusers.org, as that …

Please consider editing the original question's headline to specify "HTML" too :-). Otherwise a reader might think (as I did) that you're asking a question the answer to which coul…

If you liked this article, you might also like the book "The Edge of Memory: Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World" by Patrick Nunn (Bloomsbury, 2018). https:/…

Just following up to say thank you, @Daeraxa and @jjgreen, for the examples. @mdwalters, good luck with the text editor, and @wmf we may not personally agree on the AGPL but we do …

Not mixed feelings here: I wish they wouldn't do that. No doubt it was meant as respectful homage, but the effect is to flatten and obscure his particular qualities, because they h…

Po Lu's port of GNU Emacs to Android has been approved, pending a couple of minor checks, to be merged into the main Emacs tree and thereafter maintained in-project like any other …