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runningmike
823karma·351submissions·December 26, 2016
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“ We hope that the Rust Foundation considers the history of trademarks and software freedom that we've discussed above.” Imho hope is not enough. More voices, e.g. users should make noise. What i…
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Great example of do not complain, but just do it better. Really like this! Of course made possible with Foss and cc-by-sa work. Quote heard from stalman ‘we should have called it freedom software inst…
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I would strongly recommend MyST. MyST extends Markdown for technical and scientific communication. See https://www.myst.tools/ …
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False choices imho: nowadays just combine markdown, rst and living code in notebooks using the great Jupyter book system. It is build on sphinx but resolved crucial friction points by creating MyST m…
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WordPress powers still more sites than every other solution (> 42% of websites worldwide). Imho WP is a great example of user driven innovation along with advances in web technology. And the exampl…
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Creating books with Jupyterbook gives creating books in markdown endless options. It’s simple but you can create complex interactive books as well. All browser based powered by JupyterLab and building…
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Great to see this post on HN front page. Joshua is a technical inspirational guy. I was lucky to meet him several times when he organised meet-ups in Apeldoorn. The problem mentioned is typical for mo…
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‘You literally cannot pay for it. If you do, it becomes something else.’ This is mot true and imho misleading. You can pay for GPL software. Many people do pay a lot for FOSS software. You can pay dev…
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$500K/yr plus Seems like a total joke. Just do something that gives you energy and makes other people happy. The reward will be higher. Be creative.
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It’s not insecure by design: use is so complicated that you never look back when you get it working. Too complex , so too error prone for most devs makes the risks of vulnerabilities high.
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20 years ago I discovered antivirus software did not detect spyware by design. So never ever trust software that is not FOSS. Use Foss with reproducible builds to be a bit more safe against these by d…
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Simple in use and simple to extend. Still powerful and showcase for continuous innovation without large disruptions. The example that gpl software can be very successful.
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Great report, with very personal note from Ton. Watched Ton at https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/speaker/ton_roosend... for who like moving images.…