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New comment by gego in "Yes, Other Countries Do Housing Better, Case 2: Germany"

gego — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 13:10:18 +0000

You should definitely look at Austria's "Sozialer Wohnbau" and "Gemeindebau" in Vienna https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeindebau

Also look at the conference series Working Class Districts and Urban Policies https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...

New comment by gego in "Olaus' Carta Marina"

gego — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 12:59:58 +0000

Scientific American has a high res version of olaus Magnus carta marina, so you can see all those pesky (sea) monsters up close ;)

New comment by gego in "Vivaldi: Violating CoC on forum may close your email account"

gego — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 20:38:07 +0000

...at least you can get a copy of your data through a GDPR request...

New comment by gego in "Vivaldi: Violating CoC on forum may close your email account"

gego — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 20:22:54 +0000

...so well defined that famous art posted by museums now gets blocked by over-eager bots and moderators...

New comment by gego in "Ask HN: Open-Source alternative to Zoom – Teams – Google meet and so on"

gego — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 00:56:57 +0000

It's basically a free jitsu instance to use and test https://www.fairkom.eu/en/fairmeeting

New comment by gego in "Ask HN: Open-Source alternative to Zoom – Teams – Google meet and so on"

gego — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 21:19:46 +0000

Look at the open source office tools from faircom... Scroll down a little https://www.fairkom.eu/en/fairapps

New comment by gego in "EFF co-founder John Gilmore removed from org's Board"

gego — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 21:21:09 +0000

Nice, didn't know that detail, always something new, thx.

New comment by gego in "EFF co-founder John Gilmore removed from org's Board"

gego — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 21:10:43 +0000

True, just thought it might give some insight into recent pain points, Gilmore's email at the eff is gnu after all :)

New comment by gego in "EFF co-founder John Gilmore removed from org's Board"

gego — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 20:59:21 +0000

Perhaps this is relevant although it is about the fsf(clarification added after comments): https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/16/glibc_gnulib_fsf_copy...

The glibc stewards are seeking input from developers to decide if the project should relax the requirement to assign copyright for all changes to the Free Software Foundation,"

I do not, and have never, had an assignment in place (it's a running joke that my patch contributions have been all-minus-signs)," wrote glibc contributor Rich Felker, "but given recent behaviour by the FSF board, I am completely unwilling to assign copyright to them in the future, so not making this change may affect my ability to contribute.

New comment by gego in "EFF Board of Directors Votes to Remove John Gilmore from the Board"

gego — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 20:36:22 +0000

...not eye to eye with Gilmore? Thanks for gnu tar, liberating bsd, parts of gnu make, gbd, curating binutils and gcc with Cygnus, helping in the crypto wars, frees/wan, boots, gnu radio, one laptop per child... so it might be hard to be eye to eye me thinks...

New comment by gego in "RSS is wonderful"

gego — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 15:32:41 +0000

tinytinyrss ftw

New comment by gego in "[dead]"

gego — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 14:27:39 +0000

New comment by gego in "[dead]"

gego — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 14:21:14 +0000

It does not bode well for the new walled gardens when art's place online is on onlyfans... is this something we want?

New comment by gego in "Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files"

gego — Sun, 17 Oct 2021 14:49:01 +0000

...syncthing

New comment by gego in "Ask HN: Non-tech professionals on HN?"

gego — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 14:00:21 +0000

...as a historian I agree ;)

New comment by gego in "Facebook Political Problems"

gego — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 05:09:07 +0000

... it's basically the Thiel way of doing things... Competition is for losers, monopolies are fine, local situation does not concern, extracting wealth is key, even if we destroy the local ecosystem in the process... makes me optimistic for any eco change chance we might still have...

New comment by gego in "I'm sorry"

gego — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 05:05:42 +0000

...so that's how you get a lot of work for nothing... people, please never sign something without at least clearly stating what you think it means. A sneaky way is printing the document and sending it back together with a statement of how you interprete it - best on the page you should sign... A simple (see email 211007) below your signature often is enough... if you did not sign on paper but just by clicking some buttons, your position is even better, especially if you are in a non us legislation and there is no translation...

New comment by gego in "Facebook Political Problems"

gego — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 04:49:41 +0000

Thank you for the great article. I would argue, that a lot of the negative side effects you discuss vary due to the country you live in.

Countries who do have achieved a working balance between eco, social and market- economy (some in Europe or Asia) suffer, as platforms like Facebook attack their foundations - a bit like a trojan horse - offering a neutral platform for products and ideas often not subject to the laws, taxes and regulations that make the balance work ...

New comment by gego in "Ask HN: Are you still using business cards or which alternatives have you tried?"

gego — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 05:29:59 +0000

Thx - some good points made here!

New comment by gego in "Ask HN: Are you still using business cards or which alternatives have you tried?"

gego — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 05:02:59 +0000

good point - you are basically arguing against extravagant alternatives that would break the flow of conversation as people are so cute sed to seeing and taking business cards - what I fear is that the automatic reaction continues after a meeting by dumping them all ...