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Atom kinda does. Atom is a paged format, so a publisher can publish their entire history in their Atom feed and only the most recent page gets redownloaded to see new entries as th…

Possibly very much like Usenet. In the 80s there was a distributed "Slack-like" (for lack of a better description) distributed BBS network called Citadel (still some sites around n…

Small nit, as a legal vehicle, the constitution allows itself to be entirely replaced.

If your editor has a wiki mode (like Emacs' org mode) then maybe nothing. If not, then Obsidian is your browser and your editor is your editor. For example, git syncing between And…

I've created and managed five distributions for two companies. I've found RPM to have slightly easier tooling across the whole stack, from developers building individual RPMs/specs…

My Tesla FSD v14 will wait for any pedestrian stepping or approaching stepping into the road.

As a district, aren't you also able to work with Google to enable research and educate modes in addition to the "give me the answer" modes?

The technologies I’d like to see tracked include post-scarcity economics, resource-based distribution, and needs-based allocation systems.

Not sure where you're getting your information from. My FSD (v13.2) has driven unmapped roads, including gravel roads, hills, narrow roads, and switchbacks, in the backwoods of Ten…

I'm building a community site DevOptimize.org: The Art of Packaging[0] for this type of content. Would be glad to host with an interested editor(s). Near-term roadmap includes wiki…

The Free Software Foundation (FSF), as the author of the GPL and LGPL licenses, maintains that any software running in the same process space qualifies as "linked" under the terms …

If it helps any, at two companies I was responsible for ensuring that all FOSS was made available to customers in an easily re-buildable, re-imageable way alongside our proprietary…

Permissibly licensed software does not require you to provide sources or the changes to it. Copyleft licenses require the source, including changes, to be provided. The original pu…

Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical, and myself, among many, "sell" GPL software that are used by others as part of their proprietary products. Each of those, and the customers, are required …

I may be misunderstanding, but I'm not sure I want a "remote desktop" where every process runs on the remote. I want the original promise of X, where I choose where apps run and th…

https://DevOptimize.org - The Art of Packaging There isn't a site that collects all packaging practices and how-tos in one organized collection. Now there is. RPM, Deb, IaC, Chocol…

Using the turn signal will nudge it to change lanes.

Just a data point, no argument: My 2025 Tesla stops for road work flaggers spinning their signs from "Slow" to "Stop". This issue here, correctly, is that it should come to a stop …

Just for currency: I can't hop in the back of my 2025 Tesla while FSD drives. It has an interior camera now. It complains if I'm looking outside my window too long.

I'd prefer a blame-free NTSB investigation. It was a fault. Find the root cause, fix it, carry on. You're correct, they can still ground a fleet, but there doesn't also need to be …

Not really. The rise in autonomous production is going to match a rise in autonomous repair and maintenance.

The packaging model of distribution is ubiquitous. Every distribution does the same thing just using different control files and tools. The differentiation between distributions is…

How do you get yours to drive into a parking lot and park correctly? My HW4/v13.2.8 gets indecisive and ignores lines when getting to a destination. I always have to disengage befo…

We implemented a low-power wireless sensing device on a microcontroller using asynchronous coroutines in C to replace eight state machines. It was a dream. Every operation process …

Voyage from Yesteryear (1982), James P. Hogan is my favorite. Essentially, yes, the robots can do better once shown but people create because it's enjoyable and, where desired, rob…