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The Ultima Online protests might qualify, but the protesting was on the streets virtually. They wanted bug fixes, reduction in lag, etc. https://www.wired.com/1997/11/chaos-in-brit…

Highly recommend fly.io as well; I started an elixir app for a client and decided to use fly.io and very impressed with how easy it is with the feature set so far.

Even after reading the Wikipedia article [1] I'm a bit confused what the relevance is, unless it has to do with Christian pacifism, but even then it would be nice to have context o…

I did hear this week that Autodesk Construction Cloud is currently banned from military projects (was in use and is not currently permitted) because of something to do with securit…

I use it for servers because of the stability. For me, that's the key differentiating factor. I set a server up and it will keep running indefinitely, with easy sysupgrade, syspatc…

I work with the KDE virtual desktops grid with a 3x2 arrangement and wrap around on a 32" curved screen. I've found it very useful to put the same windows in the same grid squares …

I triple boot; there are things I can only really do on Windows with full support (commercial art programs, Unreal Engine), but for software development and general usage Linux win…

I second this. When I saw that they were moving to subscription I was suspicious, but with the fall-back license and discounts for subsequent years' updates, I'm very happy with it…

Document generation from Word Templates (yakdocs.com) & stripe analytics dashboard w/ SQL queries (yak-mu.com), both use Kotlin on the JVM w/ Java WebToolkit ( https://webtoolkit.e…

I hadn't read the Lead Bullets article yet; it really is fantastic. For anyone else who hasn't read it, you can find it here: https://a16z.com/2011/11/13/lead-bullets/

Maybe this is a dumb question, but even if equipment isn't producing cutting edge chips, why can't they just produce slightly less performant chips and sell those for other purpose…

I run a lot of OpenBSD servers using either only base (httpd + pf + relayd) or base + software I write with minimal dependencies. The security in base is excellent for that. I don'…

I think it depends very much on the data being modelled. Certain situations might call for a timestamp instead of a boolean, especially if it is a value that is only ever turned on…

I dealt with that accidentally by finding "Boots of Blinding Speed" off of Pemenie in the western swamps; then later finding the Cuirass of the Savior's hide in Tel Fyr. It increas…

The NCSU library has an impressive system for housing and retrieving books that is fully automated, not quite a warehouse, but similar concept. 1. https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/huntlibr…

> I’ve argued before that this is because the difficulty of building tools depends more on the complexity of programming languages (which are extremely complicated; just see C++) t…

If you already have a chat infrastructure set up with all the bells and whistles, then you probably don't need this; it is a different kind of workflow. But one workflow for it wou…

I think the idea is so that core developers have a quick way to chat with one another over design ideas w/o needing to register or setup other infrastructure, then move the best ov…

I use it for most of my projects, with git covering the rest of them. I prefer the cli usage, philosophy, single binary / single file repository, and having all the notes/issues tr…