Alpine Linux has completed their migration to SourceHut for their mailing lists 🎉
They're running their own instance here:
Astronomers make history in a split second with localization of fast radio burst https://news.ucsc.edu/2019/06/fast-radio-burst.html
Mozilla promotes privacy technology, gets called ‘Internet Villain’ by British ISP’s https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/07/08/isps-call-mozilla-internet-villain-for-promoting-dns-privacy/
Seriously question—and I feel a bit naive for having to ask—but is there any advantage to Guix versus any other distribution’s package manager? The literature all makes it sound revolutionary, *but it’s a package manager.*
Is it the commitment to packaging only free software? Because that’s great, but it’s not unique either.
Signed,
Oblivious in Orlando
Full disclosure, the new sidebar is pretty much cribbed from @sir, but it works a lot better than what I had before. I’ll “make it my own” over time.
Just redesigned my personal website, dumped the landing page in favor of a more traditional blog format, and toned down the colors. What do you think? https://danielmoch.com
Nobody asked, but here's the right way to do the whole "giving out slides" thing (except maybe with more image descriptions) http://boringtechnology.club/
Generated using better-keynote-export https://github.com/mcfunley/better-keynote-export
Looks like I should give Blackadder a watch https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/07/rumor-has-it-theres-a-cunning-plan-to-bring-back-blackadder-for-fifth-season/
"On 10 April, astrophysicists announced that they had captured the 1st ever image of a #blackhole.
No headlines mentioned that the image would have been impossible without open-source software: #Matplotlib, a #Python library for graphing data.
Just 5 days later, the NSF rejected a grant to support that ecosystem, saying that the software lacked sufficient impact.
#opensource is widely acknowledged as crucially important in science, yet it is funded non-sustainably."
Secure boot probably wasn’t strictly necessary, but I got it working and I’m glad I did
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