Usually whatever the default serif typeface is. What I care more about is flush left (“ragged right”) alignment, ideally with automatic hyphenation. I find justified alignment very distracting.

Problems with justification » Typographic anomalies

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I must have been asleep the day IBM bought Red Hat six years ago, because I had no idea.

This post is a decade old, so take it with a grain of salt: https://forum.syncthing.net/t/save-power-on-battery-with-udev/2696

I watched the first two seasons, and I’ll at least start this one, too, once they’ve all been released.

I read the books ~40 years ago. I wouldn’t re-read them now; I’ve had my fill of Burgerland’s anti-communist Golden Age. I still remember it, though, and I’m glad I read it.

The show deviates from the books in infuriating ways and also in interesting ways. Some of the acting is a’ight and production is so luscious—the enormous spectacle was what kept me from walking away several times. I’ve already abandoned any expectation of fidelity to the books.

What grinds my gears is mostly around the megalomaniacal bastards Seldon & Cyberseldon, and the portrayal of historical materialism psychohistory as mathmagical. In short, the good guys suck but the bad guys are fascinating.

The licensing: Free and open source vs. paid, proprietary, and closed source. That really is the core difference, the licensing, and all the differences that come as consequences of that difference.

What separates the Linux kernel from the (Free)BSD kernels is copyleft/reciprocal licensing vs. permissive licensing.

The corporate algorithms are not on the side of the Palestinians.

Bill Gates has the best public relations machine money can buy.

• The Nation: Why Bill Gates’s Philanthropy Is a Problem
• Jacobin: Bill Gates’s Philanthropic Giving Is a Racket
• Adam Ruins Everything: Why Billionaire Philanthropy is Not So Selfless
• Citations Needed podcast:
  • Episode 45: The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire: Bill Gates and Western Media
  • Episode 46: The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire, Part II - Bill Gates in Africa
  • News Brief: Big Pharma, Bill Gates Spin Against Generic Vaccines for Global South as Biden a No Show
  • News Brief: #VaxLive is a PR Scam So Those Causing Vaccine Inequity Can Pose as Saviors of Global Poor
  • Episode 146: Bill Gates, Bono and the Limits of World Bank and IMF-Approved Celebrity ‘Activism’

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Thirty years later, same shit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

Yeah, it’s a non sequitur given that those firms have always been constituent parts of the US military-spook-industrial complex.. They DGAF about our actual privacy, though they may prefer that we believe that they care.

Let me Google ChatGPT that for you.

We don’t come to social media for AI copypasta. People who want spicy autocomplete answers can prompt LLMs themselves.

1. Governments have controlled money for millennia, and governments’ central banks have for over a century. There’s nothing new going on there.
2. You’re conflating digital currency and cryptocurrency. All cryptocurrencies are digital, but not all digital currencies are crypto.

You say that as if the majority of currency transactions worldwide weren’t already digital.

but what abt my 386SX tho

⌘C and ⌘V work in the native MacOS terminal app as well.

CTRL+M is like pressing ENTER. Kernigan & Pike, 1984: UNIX Programming Enviornment

RETURN is an example of a control character — an invisible character that controls some aspect of input and output on the terminal. On any reasonable terminal, RETURN has a key of its own, but most control characters do not. Instead, they must be typed by holding down the CONTROL key, sometimes called CTL or CNTL or CTRL, then pressing another key, usually a letter. For example, RETURN may be typed by pressing the RETURN key or, equivalently, holding down the CONTROL key and typing an ‘m’. RETURN might therefore be called a control-m, which we will write as ctl-m.

Best practice is not to use raw credentials on the command line because it exposes them in process listings and shell history files.

https://git-scm.com/docs/gitcredentials