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The title doesn't make it clear. It's a fund-raiser; they need money. Promising-sounding non-profit dedicated to advancing FOSS-based Federated Networks (Matrix, Pleroma, Mastodon,…

Launch loops ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_loop ) are most commonly discussed at orbital-class scale ... 2,000 km long runways to throw stuff (and possibly, people) into…

I've been using Mint and Ubuntu for the past 5 years. Installed Pop on a spare laptop 18 months ago, to experiment with. Switched to Pop as my primary OS 3 months ago. There isn't …

>GMail doesn't actually filter spam. It just hides it This is not accurate. There is a long on-going issue with GMail (and others) wholesale blocking delivery of email from domains…

Nice idea, I signed up. Curious to see how you handle weighting/filtering of the sources, the whole "fake news" issue. Not your primary concern, I'm sure, but I don't (normally) us…

Actually sounds very similar to how the rocket equation works, too.

And yet we appear to be debating.

Lie detectors are a measure of heart rate, respiration, and galvanic skin response (roughly == how much you sweat). What relationship—if any—those have to the truthfulness of a per…

Here's a first-hand review. I posted this as a reply a minute ago, then decided to make it a primary comment. Wire has been my go-to communications app for 2-3 years now. Running i…

You can add sturgeon (source of caviar, among other things) to that list. Living fossils, been around 130+M years. Lake Sturgeon[1] reach sexual maturity at ~25 yrs, only reproduce…

Works for me now, too. Temporary hiccup, apparently.

Original site is inaccessible for me ... is this a temporary issue?

Tangential shout out for a nice FOSS alternative to Patreon ... Liberapay. Matrix has an account with them, you can support them there, and 100% of your money goes to Matrix. https…

widespread use != massive popularity Ask your average Windows user.

My dos centavos ... Running NoScript, giving full js permission to the primary domain and all (apparently) relevant 2ndary domains, home page still doesn't resolve. If you need goo…

So, reading through this discussion, I'm seeing a lot of "IRS tax law is confusing, complicated, and even contradictory on cryptocurrencies", and a lot of other people saying, in e…

Well, apparently not impossible, if one denies hard enough.

Musk has actually said that he expects BFR to be cheaper to fly than their original Falcon 1 ... meaning prices in the $5-10M range, as opposed to $60+M for F9.

So, the latest drop seems to be triggered by credit card companies blocking purchase of cryptocoins "'cuz volatile". Am I missing something? Since when do CC companies get to decid…

In the US, at least, the underwear drawer is a popular place to hide other things ... eg, your illegal drug stash, or the engagement ring you bought, etc. I think there's also subt…

Just curious ... show of hands, how many people here have never been on Facebook?

I ran a small home/experimental aquaponics system for over a year, fed the fish, primarily, free worms out of my vermicomposters.

That just means SpaceX will become one more giant ISP that is not required to support NN in the US. I love SpaceX, and I'm optimistic that they will be a much better provider than,…

Thanks. I know about that. They used to sell Librems that had Qubes pre-installed, and they were on-track to get Librems to be the first officially certified hardware for Qubes. Th…