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Benjamin Slade @emacsomancer@bsd.network

You know who does creepier stuff with your data than Cambridge Analytica? Your ISP boingboing.net/2018/03/21/the-

"if you are publishing research behind a paywall, I don't know what you are doing, but it isn't Science."

"If you don't publish everything necessary to reproduce, including hardware decisions and settings, it isn't Science."

[Smart people worry about AIs, not because they're necessarily dangerous, but because they remind us of] corporations...colony life-forms that use us like gut-flora, maneuvering us to help them thrive & reproduce, jettisoning us or crushing us if we cease to serve their needs...
locusmag.com/2018/03/cory-doct

I wish the answer were "make our own internet" but it's *not happening*. I don't get to talk to my friends across the ocean via a handful of WAPs running clever mesh firmwares. We need to fix the internet we have. And I think that has to involve political change.

They say you can fit three Earths in Jupiter's great red spot but I don’t think anyone has actually tried.

Ah, that awkward stage where you've changed your password but your muscle memory doesn't agree.

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@lattera soon 'systemd-statusd' systemctl service info will return a json dump of the service status, completely but will require apps to communicate with systemd-statusd over dbus. /s