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stiangrindvoll··on Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to prevent lawsuits
So we could create a directory in IPFS with all melodies possible? :)
stiangrindvoll··on Disney CEO Bob Iger immediately steps down from CEO position
Ooops, yea seeing the same thing..
stiangrindvoll··on Richard Stallman spoke at Microsoft Research this week
Good example of combining what you believe the most in and the ability to talk to the "enemy".

Too many people does not even see that as an option.

stiangrindvoll··on Blender 2.80
Yahoo! This is your celebration

Celebrate good times, come on!

stiangrindvoll··on Facebook to ban white nationalist content
Also, By mere searching for specific terms, Facebook gladly assume your motives to be to in particular way. This seem misguided and not well thought through.

Finding a book in the library about frogs, doesn't make you a frog.

stiangrindvoll··on European Parliament approves copyright reform
Could this directive speed the creation and adaptation of distributed technologies? If the topic of uploading to centralized cloud entities is just removed or ignored all together.
stiangrindvoll··on Schools in England Introduce a New Subject: Mindfulness
I think this makes perfect sense. Good one from the Buddhists this one. It's all about making the children stronger, tougher and more aware of them self and people around them. How they affect the world and how the world affects them. If the world is mean, harsh or tough, they are already capable to handle them self.

One can also as an adult start practicing this. Can be quite exhilarating.

Here is a good book on the subject https://www.amazon.co.uk/Miracle-Mindfulness-Gift-classic-re...

stiangrindvoll··on Paradise Lost is one of the most important poems
Any recommended print for this?
stiangrindvoll··on The Human Brain Is a Time Traveler
Thanks for the suggestion, ordered it ;)

Related video by the author that was also interesting: https://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_hawkins_on_how_brain_science_...

stiangrindvoll··on Show HN: A website that converts any IPFS file to HLS and reups it to IPFS
So this is going into the land of RPC, have anyone work together on the load this would demand on a bigger scale than one man's $5 box.

Already a seed of thought in place for this: https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/116

stiangrindvoll··on Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software (2016)
Good to see this discussion and the different viewpoints of the matter coming up to the surface from time to time.
stiangrindvoll··on Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman [pdf]
Decided to buy a copy, plus some other cool stuff!
stiangrindvoll··on OpenBazaar 2.0, powered by IPFS
Anyone that has or is close to having something like that would probably do good to get the voice out there just about now.. Marketing vice, and for anyone that is sitting on the fence to bail other "solutions".
stiangrindvoll··on OpenBazaar 2.0, powered by IPFS
A blacksmith knows good and well that his newly forged hammer, meant for building and construction, is also used for destruction and despair.
stiangrindvoll··on OpenBazaar 2.0, powered by IPFS
I know it has been ongoing for awhile, but.. just in case.. cloning the repositories anyway, powerful application like this shouldn't be available only on github.
stiangrindvoll··on Blocklist Facebook domains
This is quite a powerful message!
stiangrindvoll··on Nginx Api Gateway with testing for continuous delivery
Generally when running nginx as an api proxy it can be troublesome to get the routing correctly the first time, therefore testing is required. This repository showcases how to do nginx api-gateway route tests using RSpec.

This repository also got a blog to explain it in detail: http://underthehood.meltwater.com/blog/2017/12/12/lightweigh...

stiangrindvoll··on The sequence 1 1 ∞ 5 6 3 3 3
How can we make this happen with ipfs itself? :)
stiangrindvoll··on iTerm2: Please disable 'Perform DNS lookups to check if URLs are valid'
Makes you wonder how your own port 53 traffic looks like...
stiangrindvoll··on Interesting commands for the Linux shell
Doesn't matter how long you've been using a GNU/Linux shell, you'll always learn something new every day. Thanks for this.
stiangrindvoll··on uint32 maxout gets woman denied a $43M jackpot
Some things are too good to be true.. All hail the uint32 God!
stiangrindvoll··on Sid Meier’s Civilization VI
Waiting patiently for the Linux release... ;)
stiangrindvoll··on Live Announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize 2016
From http://www.nobelprize.org/ The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2016 to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end, a war that has cost the lives of at least 220 000 Colombians and displaced close to six million people.
stiangrindvoll··on Cayley – An open-source graph database
there is also: https://github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph also a golang project as the title mentions, if this matters to anyone.
stiangrindvoll··on All Norwegians become crown millionaires, in oil saving landmark
You can also look at it the other way around. In the summer, some (north) parts of Norway you will always have sun :)