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As far as I know, the rights are still owned by her family. The albums were issued by an independent label operated by one of the persons who tracked down her music. The recent reissue of "How Sad, How Lovely" is on Jack White's Third Man Records (also independent).

I mean, visiting Shakespeare & Co _is_ a very touristy thing :) They have a nice selection, but it feels a bit like a well-curated tourist trap these days (pre-covid, anyway...), with a large part of the visitors mainly there to take a selfie.

Regarding Joyce: the present Shakespeare & Co is not the one of Joyce and Hemingway. That was a different store at a different location with a different owner, closed in 1941. The present one (1951-) wasn't called Shakespeare and Company until 1964. But for sure it also had its fair share of famous patrons.

My #1 recommendation for English books (new and used) in Paris would be The Abbey Bookshop, which is not far from Shakespeare & Co. Run by a friendly Canadian guy since 1989. It's quite an experience.

Switched from Gmail to Fastmail in 2008. No regrets. Haven't considered anything else since (and didn't notice these recent problems I now read about). Email hosting is something I'd want to change very rarely. Track record counts for a lot; good-AND-profitable email hosting is tough, and I generally wouldn't trust any entity [in this space] that's been around for <5 years. Fastmail's been at it for 20+ years now, and I'm reasonably sure I don't have to worry about changing anything for at least another 5-10 years.

Some of the latest models in the "classic" lines with one or more RAM slots: P14s Gen 2 AMD/Intel (a.k.a. T14 Gen 2 AMD/Intel); T15 Gen 2 / P15s Gen 2; P15 Gen 2; T15p Gen 2; P1 Gen 4; X1 Extreme Gen 4. Plus some of the slightly more "budget" ones like L14 Gen 2 AMD/Intel and E14 Gen 3 AMD.

Tip: search "<model name> psref" to quickly get to a PDF with specifications.

Ubuntu 21.04 5 years ago

I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Firefox (from the default Ubuntu repo) is updated frequently. It might lag behind the official release by a few days, but I can live with that. Currently at 87 [0], so I expect 88 (which Mozilla released a few days ago) any day now.

[0] https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/firefox

Corona Labs is shutting down in a couple of weeks. While they're releasing everything under a permissive license (MIT) and turning it into an open source project, the future is very uncertain.

No need to speculate, it's right there in the GitLab issue. The now-resigned director of risk and global compliance Candice Ciresi wrote this six days ago [0]:

"The countries selected were not chosen because of legal requirements, they were not chosen based on risk, they were not chosen based on political climate (as other countries are facing heightened sanctions from the US). I do hope they were not selected because a customer asked for it - or that could violate anti-boycott laws. In fact, having no objective basis for the restrictions is not conservative - it is careless. (Please let me know immediately if a customer has requested that we not do business with any particular country as that may be a reportable event.) I recommend against proceeding until you have developed a sound basis - that gets applied equally - for any exclusion of any country."

To which VP of Engineering Eric Johnson replied:

"I appreciate your position. Please be aware there is an active, time-sensitive contract negotiation linked to this matter. And you need to advocate to the DRI that the company walk away from that contract in order to enact your proposal."

See also her further comments in [1].

[0] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/5555#not...

[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/5555#not...

It really should be noted that years later Joe changed his mind about OO and came to the realization that perhaps Erlang is the only object-oriented language :) From a 2010 interview:

..."I wrote a an article, a blog thing, years ago - Why object oriented programming is silly. I mainly wanted to provoke people with it. They had a quite interesting response to that and I managed to annoy a lot of people, which was part of the intention actually. I started wondering about what object oriented programming was and I thought Erlang wasn't object oriented, it was a functional programming language.

Then, my thesis supervisor said "But you're wrong, Erlang is extremely object oriented". He said object oriented languages aren't object oriented. I might think, though I'm not quite sure if I believe this or not, but Erlang might be the only object oriented language because the 3 tenets of object oriented programming are that it's based on message passing, that you have isolation between objects and have polymorphism.

Alan Kay himself wrote this famous thing and said "The notion of object oriented programming is completely misunderstood. It's not about objects and classes, it's all about messages". He wrote that and he said that the initial reaction to object oriented programming was to overemphasize the classes and methods and under emphasize the messages and if we talk much more about messages then it would be a lot nicer. The original Smalltalk was always talking about objects and you sent messages to them and they responded by sending messages back."

See https://www.infoq.com/interviews/johnson-armstrong-oop (2010) for the full answer (and more), it's worth a read.

Some congress-goers see tons of talks, some see none. I wouldn't stress too much about it; do what you feel like, but be sure not to miss out on the non-talk-stuff, because that's an equally big part. For me the "best stuff" is meeting people, and an easy way to do that is to check out the assemblies/projects going on. For more about that see the wiki, which is the main source of info (apart from the Fahrplan) and is always being updated: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2018/wiki/Main_Page

#35c3 on hackint.org is the main IRC channel. Easy way to get answers. @c3infodesk on Twitter is worth following.

This year your wristband is also a public transport ticket valid in the city of Leipzig (zone 110). At night a special tram runs between Congress and the central station (Hauptbahnhof), so no need to worry about getting back.

The alcohol on offer inside is not very exciting, if you care about that. There is however a big supermarket (or hypermarket, rather) nearby, Globus, along with some restaurants/fast food places. No problem bringing in drinks/food from elsewhere to Congress. No security check whatsoever (pointing it out because while this is "obvious" to CCC people it might not be obvious to everyone).

The venue is big: https://35c3.c3nav.de/ is helpful for navigation.

Every year, no matter what I do, I feel I missed out on lots of things and that it ended too quickly. Just explore and enjoy!

If you happen to be around on the 26th ("day 0") you can go check out the venue in the afternoon/evening. Wristband exchange usually opens at some point in the evening of day 0 (last year it was open until midnight-ish). Nice way to avoid the day 1 queues and explore. Some of the bars inside will probaby be open. (On day 0 they don't check wristbands so you can just go in.)

Not sure what there is to talk about here: TLDP has been essentially dead for many years, unfortunately (exactly one document was updated in 2015; one was updated in 2014; ..). It was a fantastic resource back in the day (I wrote one of many HOWTOs), but lost any relevance at least a decade ago.

Makes me think of this case from the early 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_McElroy

("Over the course of his life, McElroy was accused of dozens of felonies, including assault, child molestation, statutory rape, arson, hog and cattle rustling, and burglary." ... "McElroy was shot to death in broad daylight as he sat with his wife Trena in his pickup truck on Skidmore's main street. He was struck by bullets from at least two different firearms, in front of a crowd of people estimated as between 30 and 46. To date, no one has been charged in connection with McElroy's death.")

I am guessing they are counting cable as fiber. The Swedish competition authority is saying 1 300 000 fiber, 670 000 cable and 960 000 dsl

The numbers in the report you linked are from 2014 and 2016 and are based on statistics from PTS. PTS' most recent report [0] says that in 2017 there were 2.4 million fiber subscriptions, or 62% of all fixed broadband subscriptions, with a big increase over the last few years.

I do agree that Com Hem was a terrible thing, convincing way too many people (or apartment building associations) to sign up for very-long-term contracts. Well, they're still a terrible thing, but plenty of people have seen the light now :)

[0] http://www.statistik.pts.se/media/1315/svensk-telekommarknad... (p. 30)

If you ever wondered why so many people only have relatively expensive cable internet in Sweden instead of being connected directly to widely available fiber networks that is to a large extent because of EQT.

Care to expand on this? Among OECD countries Sweden is near the top in "Percentage of fibre connections in total broadband subscriptions" [0], with 61.8% (for reference the OECD average is 23.3%, with US at 12.6% and e.g. Germany being woefully poor at 2.3%).

[0] https://www.oecd.org/sti/broadband/1.10-PctFibreToTotalBroad...