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gcupc sir , enkiv2

@sir @enkiv2 IMO this kind of hostility and code-shaming is unnecessary and unwanted. And I say that as someone who thinks he should move the project to using modern Python coding practices/tools like python 3, pipenv, and black.

arunisaac felix

Citing national security, prosecution of criminals, etc. is not an excuse to pass arbitrary laws that take away the rights of the entire citizenry.

fsf

#LibrePlanet 2019 videos are live! Watch Alexandre Oliva deliver his talk, "Who's afraid of Spectre and Meltdown?": https://u.fsf.org/2tn

nolan

Interesting interview with Jaron Lanier (2018): https://www.vox.com/2018/7/27/17618756/jaron-lanier-deleting-social-media-book-kara-swisher-too-embarrassed-podcastQuestion: “How [do you] respond to the argument that without viable al…

jeroenpraat jeroenpraat

So a person in the fediverse made the thinking error that climate activism hurts the Third World. Let me explain in a few quick points why that this utter bullshit:- the term Third World is a imperialist term from th…

arunisaac solariiknight

We've been self-hosting various services for around five and a half years. That's even more amazing! :-)

fsf

Are you enjoying the #LibrePlanet talks we've been sharing from our GNU MediaGoblin instance? One enthusiastic and generous free software supporter has been transcribing videos, to make them even more accessible: https://u.fsf.org/2uh

bob bob

People are getting quite concerned with facial recognition in public, and trying to ban it, but really there have been far more intrusive types of surveillance going on for a much longer time. If you have a…

njoseph1 njoseph1

"A common misconception when thinking of “Emacs as an OS” is to assume that Emacs special modes are re-inventing the wheel. They are not (for most of them), Emacs and its modes focus on the user interf…

arunisaac solariiknight

Like she said in the video, upper caste/class vegetarians have access to more expensive foods such as cheese, panneer, butter, ghee, etc.

fsf fsf

Thanks so much for your hard work, Phil! Other supporters are welcome to join in this project -- you can see the full list of videos at
https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/tag/libreplanet-2019-video/

fsf

In case you missed it: great news from our licensing team: six more devices from ThinkPenguin have received Respects Your Freedom (RYF) certification! This makes ThinkPenguin the retailer with the largest catalog of RYF-certified devices: https://u.fsf.org/2te

arunisaac solariiknight

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

arunisaac

Ditched helm in favor of ido. Suddenly, my emacs feels blazing fast. While helm is indeed more feature rich, I'm quite happy with ido.

arunisaac

Trying out netsurf, an independent web browser project that has its own HTML parser/renderer. It is delightfully fast reminding me of the good old days of Firefox 2 and 3.
https://www.netsurf-browser.org/