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techmememe··on Andrew's Faith in the USD
I mean if you think $65k is the price of air time go for it, but personally this sounds more like Irrational Exuberance and the madness of crowds. For those studying history, we all know how that ends. Market bubbles pop, and BTC is not easily fungible.
techmememe··on Free Software Foundation leaders and supporters desert sinking ship
Let the corporations pull out, the grass roots is rising up.

https://rms-support-letter.github.io/

techmememe··on AT&T lobbies against nationwide fiber, says 10Mbps uploads are good enough
Hardly! The rest of the world is 100Mbps+... stop lobbying against much needed infrastructure.
techmememe··on Red Hat Withdraws from the Free Software Foundation After Stallman’s Return
Let the corporations pull out, the grass roots is rising up.

https://rms-support-letter.github.io/

techmememe··on Vaccine Passports, Covid’s Next Political Flash Point
COVID Passports are basically what Larry Lessig (Code v2) and Snowden (Permanent Record) warned us about. A papers please society that digital tracks and restricts movement of people in the real world.

Never let a good crisis go to waste!

techmememe··on The final official release of Classilla
Might be possible to slap these patches on top UXP and get it building. http://thereisonlyxul.org
techmememe··on Signal is having technical difficulties
You can still use the old version called Silence.im, it was not behind a central server, used MMS to exchange private keys.