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this. It doesn't matter one whit about the instance, except perhaps initially. Maybe. You choose who to read and follow and the instance doesn't matter. I already 'follow' about 80 like-minded geeks I'm interested to read each day and that's all I can keep up with. I never look at either the local timeline or the federated timeline: they are too much information; firehose. edit: and those 80-odd ppl are all over the planet on various instances in various languages.

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." - Buckminster Fuller

Capitalism has to be replaced. Trying to change it is futile.

We've been trying to tweak capitalism for a couple of hundred years and we're still stuck in a global board game of Monopoly.

There is only one outcome in such a game and everyone knows it: one winner takes all and the rest ...

Thanks very much. I'd never heard of letsencrypt. Plus I happen to use nginx for websites these days. Great tutorial; simple.

Every democracy should have one.

The author credits the original idea to Egypt and links a MorsiMetre in the 'about' link: http://morsimeter.com/en (there is an Arabic version too).

I just tested this with zimwiki, works perfectly, as it's all plain text files. http://zim-wiki.org/ I didn't try it with encryption as zim wouldn't understand it.

Another way to take advantage of ctrl+r is to add a comment at the end of the line when you have very similar commands. e.g. ssh fred@127.0.0.1 #servername ffmpeg -some -long -incantation #vid2mp3 It's better than an alias or function in your rc file as you can easily edit to change some args

RMS wrote: > To begin with, GNU will be a kernel

Right. Not so much. That was exactly the last thing to happen as it turned out. He and everyone else in the effort worked on the tools and apps.

By contrast: > I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) > and things seem to work. This implies that I’ll get something practical within a few months

Anyhow, torvalds had already put in the work on the kernel and wanted feedback.

Torvalds had a kernel and no tools. RMS had tools but no kernel, so the inevitable happened and they were wed. Torvalds even chose the RMS version of a marriage license.

The marriage is fruitful, but RMS is frigid and bitchy the whole time, solely over the name of the child -- even though the child has matured and gone on to a brilliant career they can both be proud of.

This would also be a good time to note that Torvalds is not the one who chose the name of Linux -- usenet chose it.

I have great respect for RMS and admire his courage (and self-discipline) very much, but I really wish he'd let that thing about the kid's name go. Just let it go already Richard.

How about coding sites such that folks don't need to 'add to cart' in order to find out what they'd actually be paying if they were to purchase? That's most often why I 'abandon' carts. They make me start a cart in order to see the bottom line.

This is silly.

I've run a printing press in my mis-spent youth. And repaired photo-copiers.

One technique that is often taught is to turn the page upside-down -- in order that you not be distracted by the content.

You are, at that point, and your job, is to be only interested in the copy/print quality. Registration, blur etc. Not the content. That's the editor's job. Not yours.

The same may be said in this instance for the layout. That's your focus, or should be. That's the beauty of Lorem Ipsum: most people don't know Latin. If you want a change, make it Klingon, but retain the original use. That is, to check the page. Don't make it distracting by being readable or in any way comprehensible.

Actually, this is a very good question.

The vast majority of people have not done the experiments themselves. We actually do 'take it on faith' about a lot of things, like the earth is spherical, the earth travels around the sun, how gravity behaves etc. etc.

We also think people from former times were idiots for believing the Sun went around the Earth -- even though both would appear identical to casual observation.

We take it on faith from others in an appeal to authority. I, personally, have done very few basic experiments and my numbers differed wildly from the expected number (I suck at experiments).

Science, natural philosophy, has completely divorced itself from the whole of philosophy and any other kind of thinking.

Science is able to describe my friend's physical attributes in some detail, but science can not describe our friendship -- the faith and trust that goes into it doesn't fall within the purview of science, but it's nevertheless a reality that we all deal with.

Equations are simply abstractions to model the real, physical world. When our mental shorthand substitutes those models for the real thing in our thinking we get into problems.

"What are we doing to make sure that the ones working to disrupt Mozilla’s products is Mozilla itself"

Stop. Just stop it. All my users are sick of re-learning an app they've been using for years already. Every time they face relearning the FF interface means it's just that much easier to try something else -- and they do. Huge exodus to chrome(ium).