macroplastic

I recommend just using https://kiwix.org/en/

It's... suboptimal, but it's about the least finicky way to get a compressed local copy of Wikipedia with all the article photos (~100GB).

It's updated less frequently than the big dumps, but easier to use.

not Daniel Dennett too, FFS

This is Reno 911 slander

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_Velocity_(video_game)

Has a bangin soundtrack

Elder rules

The reanimation of pseudoscience in machine learning and its ethical repercussions (pdf link, open-access) is a wonderful take down of the epistemic abuses widespread in much of ML/AI.

Signal? Isn't that the app for drugs? /s

I'd be happy to write a bunch of sql for this type of thing and throw it on github if you have any more specific requests / if instance admins would find it helpful

50 years of C and still no sane standardized way of packaging dependencies 😫

Very cool!

Is this really a surprise? Do we expect the FBI to not use phones or computers?

When we use at&t's phone lines or Microsoft's operating system, we are implicitly relying on them to be secure. Same would go for using linux or a secure communication app running on top of it. I think most people would rather the FBI be spending time investigating crimes than developing software.

Every time I see that URL, I wince

This is basically my view as a Fedora user.