https://chromakode.com/post/slow-news
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.
I once learned the idea that if one does nothing to seek out news, the important things will find their way to you.
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This was emailed, but is worth posting here.
https://chromakode.com/post/slow-news
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.
I once learned the idea that if one does nothing to seek out news, the important things will find their way to you.
This was emailed, but is worth posting here.
Writing > Computers, Internet >
Everything is frail to failure. Be it hardware, software, data, business relationships, or people, nothing is immortal and immutable.
Many things are immediately recognized; the hardware and software, but we fail to see people; the wetware. They represent the intellectual backbone of major projects, the "wet infrastructure" upon which our technology relies, and when they cannot contribute, their projects suffer and we suffer. Their influence isn't just notable, but critical.
For the internet, esr calls them Load-Bearing Internet People.
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Software >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.yacy.net/
A self-hosted peer-to-peer search engine.
Aborted because openjdk-8 is not available to me.
https://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK
https://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK/git-annex_implementation
https://web.archive.org/web/20200610074549/http://iabak.archiveteam.org/
A distributed backup of The Internet Archive.
Aside from donating to The Internet Archive, offering disk space is the least someone can to do.
Abandoned - As of 2020-06-19 the archiveteam.org wiki says it has been broken and unmaintained since 2016-12.
Internet >
This is as complete a document as I can think up. I hope I've covered it broadly enough.
VoIP >
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For extremely cheap telephone service using VoIP, I have this device. Instead of having my computer on all the time, I have this box hooked up to my network. I then have a regular telephone plugged into it. Once configured, everything is magic.
I think I purchased mine from CanadaComputers - Cisco SPA122 on canadacomputers.com