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Are there more neurons in a human brain than there are humans using the internet?

"Installation: we recommend that you use Docker."

what I'm supposed to see: "hey, it's a simple one-liner! Such clean install, much wow."

what I actually see: "we couldn't figure out how to install this thing on anything but our own machine, but hey, here is a well-compressed image of our entire disk, use this instead so that we can stop trying"

So the linux kernel developers are demanding that the paper written by the developers who introduced vulnerable code be un-published

I keep thinking about buying a new flash drive but I know if I wait longer the price per gb will go down

The Free Software Foundation signs their emails "in freedom" while the GOA signs their emails "in liberty". Perhaps these people have more in common than they might think

I think my phone's hotspot blocks dns request to gun related websites. But it doesn't block traffic to those websites, so if you run the dns request somewhere else you can access them through the hotspot wifi but just typing "smith-wesson.com" doesn't resolve an ip. The same happens with a number of other websites I've tried.

At what point does "football fields" get codified as an official unit of measurement?

I once heard someone say "Dogs in San Antonio eat better tacos than the people in Austin"

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The rivalry between San Antonio tacos and Austin tacos is one of my favorite things in Texas

@redstarfish
Schools forcing students to either run proprietary non-free software or pushing them to register for accounts in a centralized walled garden run by surveillance capitalists is such a widespread problem, how can we begin to counter onslaught of oppression?

Would it make sense to create a crowd-sourced searchable db of incidents, which names schools and instructors who impose non-free software or impose #MACFANGZ?

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