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xte

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    Comment #18858446

    Yes, git, however host a repo for anyone it's another story. In the past most FOSS projects was mirrored by tons of different participants, mostly universities, ISPs, companies wit…

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    Comment #18858400

    Tomorrow, back at home I get few pics :-)

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    Comment #18856850

    I reformulate: no governments that theoretically can achieve free energy want it, perhaps governments that can't dream it as a temporary solution to find a way to lock it out for t…

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    Comment #18856740

    Perhaps it not comply to USA regulation but for my home I opt to design custom interior wall (simple commercial iron profile instead of classic plasterboard structure) and countert…

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    Comment #18856339

    Did you try org-mode "habit" ? It miss the Google assistant trigger, unless you write some kind of support but offer an incomparable comfort and effective environment + of course t…

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    Comment #18854189

    Because it's not "founding" but alms. With some intermediary subjects that gain and reign as they want. Not much different than Ottoman's empire "islamic alms" that was in fact a f…

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    Comment #18850598

    Of course there are FOSS paid developers, for instance Intel pay few devs to work on Linux in order to have the hw they sell work properly. That's good. That's not someone that liv…

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    Comment #18850544

    Good. On witch cloud? Google? Amazon? Microsoft? When I was a bit younger I read that "internet" was a fantastic decentralized infrastructure explicitly design to being fault-toler…

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    Comment #18850520

    Ah ok, so you change Microsoft cloud for Google cloud... UAU... And what about PRs&c? Sorry for being rude but for me is unacceptable to depend on tons of proprietary stuff from a …

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    Comment #18850090

    Sorry for my poor English: I mean "most lives are lived by defaults" because we live in a society that prize and push Ford-model workers, pyramidal organization. So most people sim…

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    Comment #18850060

    IMO no, it isn't. FOSS project need participation, so not money but resources. FOSS idea is that software is knowledge, something that must be public and grow through interaction (…

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    Comment #18849844

    Hem, no perhaps is my poor English but you do not understand: I know what a git remote is. My point is what kind of "other remote" a typical FOSS project have these days? In the pa…

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    Comment #18849696

    Of course, like the trend "hey if it does not work for you write down your code"... On git only: what is another remote? A GitHub concurrent company? A personal dyndns from a singl…

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    Comment #18849570

    I do not want to depend on any proprietary platform, it doesn't matter if it's friendly or not. I favor a distributed model as much as possible, that means for now having personal/…

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    Comment #18849547

    Nice but no. We need to push Free Software and to push it at political level, with the target of forbid closed source products. We do not need subsistence economy, we already won t…

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    Comment #18849503

    Mh in the past many work came from another project ConTeXt from Pragma-ade a sort of LaTeX with an easy DSL and a tons of style. however many other are in a similar state while LaT…

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    Comment #18849177

    They simply can't... Less powerful in that sense means less developed. Such kind of research demand enormous resources and knowledge. These days industrial knowledge is mostly in p…

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    Comment #18847064

    Oh, someone start to understand that... Many in the industrial sectors have understood it well only in the sixties...........

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    Comment #18847031

    IMO bamboo can't be a bigger thing than wood simply because: - bamboo cultivation came from not-much-developed countries, so not much good for us and not much easy to develop for t…

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    Comment #18846937

    That's was a classic in many different society in many different time... Have "non standard" life for most people means a rapidly evolving society that push innovation, experimenta…

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    Comment #18846743

    As an admin I will never ever put ssh private keys on any kind of mobile crap. I have no control on it, I can't trust it in any way. However yes, I like photograph not only to fix …

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    Comment #18846696

    Few things: no government really want unlimited energy for all for a simple reason: power&control. If any country in the planet can be autonomous if it can produce enough food for …

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    Comment #18844264

    An ancient proverb say "power corrupt, money corrupt": if you start a company with good intention when (if) money and power arrive you start to head naturally toward "dangerous" di…

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    Comment #18844257

    I have built since few year my first wood house (Euroclass A+) and have had very limited "long-term" experience of wood structures for small "garden-like" construction, in summary:…

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    Comment #18844193

    I have built my first wood houses since few years, European class A+, short answer is yes however less than concrete houses. Long answer structure is from lower flat and upper is: …