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Of course Mozilla employees deserve to be paid. Are you really saying the only way to ensure this happens is for them to sell the software or sell ads? (I write GPL-licensed softwa…

My problem with this is that ideally, software I deign to run on my computer acts with only my interests in mind. The overarching goal of these changes is not to preserve my privac…

Does anybody know whether this also applies to firefox android?

Sorry, I wasn't intending to provoke.

Aside: figure 1 epitomizes everything that I hate about high-impact results-first journals: everything has to be packed into this one figure because nobody's expected to read anyth…

Although I love IF, I'd never heard of Scott Adams and his games until now - so thank you! I noticed while reading this that at some point he began targeting a portable game engine…

and gopher still exists

Every time this happens I'm reminded of Kinagrams replacing Logotype among extras in Anathem (Neal Stephenson).

I'm a "normal person" who's never created a mastodon account, and just tried this. The original article (a "toot") has a "sign up now" button in the side pane, which I clicked, ent…

Not working from Switzerland.

Web app and IMAP/POP mail access affected. I've been with them for years and this is the first outage I've experienced. Feeling for the people tripping over themselves on a Friday …

I just did this for FF, worked like a charm! (I'm a programmer, but I've never put together a browser extension. This took 5min total.)

How does this work for free software projects which aren't themselves commercial but list employees of big companies among their major contributors? E.g. the Linux kernel?

I remember attending a conference presentation back in the early 2000's by one of the FFTW authors. They claimed that the mapping between architecture and optimal FT algorithm was …

Switzerland also. Although you can also just BYO and drink anywhere on the train.

Chicken is also a very practical scheme with a large well-maintained collection of libraries (and easy FFI).

I agree, although it's never "cheating" to block ads on our own devices, unless we accept that it's okay to force people from looking away Clockwork Orange-style. (Even the term "b…

Not mentioned in the article, but sulphur-based geoengineering was the focus of Neal Stephenson's latest novel, Termination Shock.

LyX has the best system for entering maths into a computer that I've ever used. The combination of (a) understanding standard LaTeX (and amsmath etc) commands, (b) keeping track of…

In practice they're not so different . There are plenty of people regularly publishing stuff over gopher that has nothing to do with retro-computing. Gemini also grew out of a goph…

I think losing ISP-provided hosting (by default) really marked the transition of netizens from active participants to pure consumers.