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Honestly a lot of the work of local newspapers are picked up by our local television stations.

Last week my partner and I found a dead man wearing nothing but his undies in our parking lot. He froze to death the night before. So we called the police and got him picked up and later that night saw a news story on a local station's website saying that man's family was looking for him. We called their police department and the next day he was confirmed to be their dad who was suffering from dementia. The poor guy probably thought he was at home so he took off all his clothes and laid down.

I'm sure his family would have found out eventually but that local news station helped us get the news to them quicker.

The only thing that bothers me at the moment is how little power local news has to really investigate corruption or wrongdoing by local and state level officials. Like that Roy Moore scandal.

Are you positive they aren't contributing anything upstream?

> My group of friends averages in the 150-250k range of income which is high for the area for sure but it's evidence of the thriving technology scene.

That's honestly not evidence of a thriving technology scene, its evidence that you and your friends make a lot of money. Would you say you and your friends are representative of the typical worker in the Midwest?

I could see how it is low compared to farmers, but most farm income goes into operating costs. Farmer Joe could be making 500k a year but that doesn't mean he's taking home much in profit, in a lot of cases he's taking far less.

I was not trying to imply globalism was one thing. I also pointed out that it is the norm for "liberal democracies", as a way to not paint with too broad of a brush. I very much agree with you.

"Both sides" have anti-globalists, and both have globalists, and despite an interesting few years globalism is still the establishment norm for most mainline parties in liberal democracies.

Yeah they did. After being bought by Bezos they made a number of changes that have been for the better. They've turned a profit over the last few years based on their growing subscriber base and their digital publishing business.

Of course they've built it all using AWS and I would love to learn more about how they leverage that platform.

Hah I wish. My experience in a javascript shop is someone finds a library, they add it to the project, then one day in the distant future, long after the developer has left, everything breaks.

I found it terribly incomplete. $40 and it can’t cover all four standard weights: regular, bold, italic, and bold italic. I believe it was last one, bold italic, that it was missing and the website is careful to obscure that fact.

So two things:

1. I believe icecat is going to update pretty soon to version 68 to track with the latest esr, so perhaps in a week or so please check the main channel for an icecat version that should work with most, if not all, up to date extensions.

2. If I do get Firefox built and packaged then I’ll be more than happy to add it to the nonguix channel. Though I’m strongly considering just creating an unofficial icecat that keeps up with the latest version of Firefox like icecat on windows does. We’ll see what happens after these tears dry.

Icecat is really just a set of scripts to strip out branding from Firefox and packages it with gnu shit, though the gnuzilla project provides the esr version for convenience.

Not in "production" but I use it on my personal laptop and desktop. I wanted to learn a scheme and I figured what better way than to dedicate all of my home computing time to configuring a system and crying myself to sleep trying to build firefox on it.

He is, in my opinion, considering he’s the primary maintainer of what has been called GNU’s flagship application, emacs.

Not sure if that list is comprehensive. Neither Ludovic Courtes or John Wiegley are on it (and they are both signatories of the open letter).

Who has Ken Liu inspired? I love the Dandelion Dynasty novels. I’m hoping to read more.

Is silkpunk even a thing outside of Ken Liu’s Dandelion Dynasty (which is amazing btw)?

I told my mom this (among other things) and we’re going on year two of not speaking.

It’s like when parents say they hit you because they love you. But they “love” you regardless. They’re just hitting you because they’re mad.

I didn't grow up in the projects but I was projects adjacent, where I caught the school bus with the project kids and hung out in their homes. In fact my best friend whom I still talk to regularly now that we're both in our early 30s grew up in multiple projects throughout his childhood.

The thing that really helped the both of us out were magnet schools. By taking us out of our neighborhoods and giving us friends and relationships from more walks of life, I think it helped us see that the world was larger than the blocks we grew up on and we adjusted for living in a world that didn't begin and end with things that were in our immediate surroundings.

Recently I've watched 'The Wire' for the first time and the season focused on education really hit hard. Having gone to 'inner city' schools where I wore uniforms and felt pressure to pursue... let's call them 'non-academic' goals, I really related to the outlook of the adults in that school. Particularly when the kid's mom was scolding him for not having the initiative to start selling drugs (this was my friend's mom in spades) and the retired police officer who explained to that kid's dad that he didn't have to live in the same world they grew up in. I got a similar speech from a vice principal who grew up in my neighborhood.

How does China’s heavy investment in Africa and Eastern Europe fit into the thesis that they only want to be local hegemons? I believe they’ve even setup naval bases in some of these nations.

the farmer’s market is one of the reasons I want to com le back.

It's more like "share your email and if it turns up in a leak we'll inform you."

Some password managers already do this and I personally think its a nice feature. Though I often generate new emails and passwords for sites on the spot so this feature isn't of much use to me.

Yeah but does guile even work on windows? Last time I checked it was still very much confined to *nix systems.

No. He builds off of stable releases because otherwise something could change in the underlying implementation that breaks emacs-mac. It would mean more maintenance on his part.

I wonder if part of it is some people hacking emacs and going through a update-save-restart cycle instead of just evaluating their change in place.

Then again it may be the case that part of the cycle is seeing if the package management system of your custom distro (be it spacemacs, doom, or whatever) picks up and configures the new packages correctly.

At what point is a company no longer a startup and just a small business looking for talent? I ask because my view of a startup that isn’t a unicorn worth millions within its first few years (where rapid growth will encourage a hiring spree) is its usually a handful people and some office space.

Are typical start ups really doing whiteboard interviews during their early stages? I expect white boarding from a company like Uber or Discord but don’t most still hire based on networks and recommendations?

I wonder if this will contribute to the world having RISC-V laptops sooner rather than later.

Better question: What do we call veggie burgers that predate impossible and beyond meat?

I never thought of that. And it makes a lot more sense in that context.

I agree. I went with a 2015 chromebook pixel (running guix system) just because I wanted a 3:2 screen ratio.

Tangential but the fact that I had to open up the machine and remove a screw to completely replace ChromeOS with linux bothers the fuck out of me.

I use protonmail so VPN comes as part of the package. I use it at all times with my phone and when I'm away from home with my notebook.

Magit is a good one. But its an emacs package and, well, I wouldn't want to shy over the fact that it may require some effort.