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Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
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I feel like I am quoting Maciej Cegłowski's "The Website Obesity Crisis" every other week at this point, but it's such a super-condensed source of white-hot truth and insight that I don't feel bad:
"Let’s commit to the idea that as computers get faster, and as networks get faster, the web should also get faster."
This is the most obvious and natural idea in the world, but somehow it's a genuinely radical position. I think the battle is lost on the web, but if you start again and only put in what you need you just arrive by default at a situation of what feels like breakneck speed.
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Precisely. Consulting only works if the software does *not* do what the commercial customer does 😂 and they require some extra customizations etc.
If it just does its job, nobody will bother to come up with "take my money" because why would they (unless they think strategically).
The free vs premium model is an evolution of this idea and makes a lot of sense, but still you can't do this for OpenSSL...
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@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo that was the theory in the late 1990s of how open source was going to be funded, with Red Hat as the poster child for this model. As the data from the last 20 years indicates, it works for some things, but not for second and third tier common infrastructure like OpenSSL. This is the stuff funding projects like Snowdrift.coop and Tidelift are trying to find ways to fund properly.
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FYI Frank from Own/NextCloud has given some excellent talks about funding free code development, what's effective or counterproductive and why. Some of that is discussed in this interview and there are links there to the talks:
https://librelounge.org/episodes/32-companies-money-and-society-with-frank-karlitschek.html
As memorial plates on former NKVD building were removed in Tver, a group of Russian scientists publish an open letter calling this yet another attempt to whitewash Stalinist crimes. Let's keep this in mind next time we talk about "Russia did X".
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A law in Germany requires all drives on highways to line up to the far side of their lanes during heavy traffic so that emergency vehicles can pass them more easily to reach the scenes of accidents.
It's not only law, people do it elsewhere too without specific laws. It's important to teach people about this on driving courses. Law certainly helps prevent true imbeciles from blocking emergency vehicles though.
These curly things are actually proteins crossing lipid layer. Soap breaks the latter :) #science is beautiful.
Cryo-EM structure of Chikungunya Virus in Complex with the Mxra8 Receptor
https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0092867419303927
Few did end up in prison actually but Polish catholic hierarchy did everything possible to prevent that and otherwise doesn't seem to be interested in changing anything.
Catholic hierarchy was for decades covering sexual scandals on large scale and they did it very cynically, blaming the victims, protecting really nasty sexual predators. Some top catholic priests accumulated massive wealth and openly enjoy luxurious life with expensive cars, and businesses. They openly challenge Pope Francis, and seem to prefer Old Testament way much over the New one. As result church attendance and overall trust of Church has decreased 3x over the last two decades.
Russian police officers launch flashmob to demand freedom for Russia’s ‘Police Ombudsman’
Yeah, one of the best and funniest dubbing I've seen was for various children movies like "The Penguins of Madagascar" - they *were* localized in really good way :) On the other hand I can't imagine watching series like "Fauda" in any other language than original (Arabic and Hebrew) because the whole climate of the movie would be lost. And I learn some words, too :)
To be honest, in Poland nobody did as much to destroy the moral order as greedy, anti-Christian and abusive Catholic priests.
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#telegram dumped the Gram TON blockchain and cryptocurrency project after unfavorable US court ruling https://telegra.ph/What-Was-TON-And-Why-It-Is-Over-05-12
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slovenia is empty for some reason, i nominate melania trump
If the ATM sells DAI then definitely go for it - or you can buy ETH and then convert to DAI, or just contribute in ETH.
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Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
Joined May 2019
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