TIL : Polzi's 36 dramatic situations ( en.wikipedia.org )
In the late 19th century, Georges Polti theorized that "all stories are build from 36 dramatic situations"...
XZ Utils backdoor - Wikipedia ( en.wikipedia.org )
List of IP protocol numbers - Wikipedia ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL that operating system Linux is an example of anarcho-communism ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL that operating system Linux is an example of anarcho-communism ( en.wikipedia.org )
Nomic, one of the best concepts of a game I've seen ( en.wikipedia.org )
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/7647192...
Wikipedia Admin Unmasks As Alt Account Of Admin Who Was Extremely Banned In 2015 To The Great Bewilderment Of Everyone ( en.wikipedia.org )
What?????? What the hell??? — arbitrator Moneytrees, arbitration request for Lourdes...
The Lives of Others - Wikipedia ( en.wikipedia.org )
The plot is about the monitoring of East Berlin residents by agents of the Stasi, East Germany’s secret police.
TIL Law of triviality - Wikipedia ( en.wikipedia.org )
Does this hit close to home for you too?...
NTFS turns 30 years old today! I hear it's still in use by some crufty old legacy operating systems 😁 ( en.wikipedia.org )
Happy 30th Birthday “New Technology” File System! Thanks for 30 years of demonstrating Linux superiority with a gap that widens with every new kernel release 👍
NTFS turns 30 years old today! I hear it's still in use by some crufty old legacy operating systems 😁 ( en.wikipedia.org )
As a full time desktop Linux user since 1999 (the actual year of the Linux desktop) I wish all you Windows folks the best of luck on the next clean install 👍...
Randomness in worldbuilding ( en.wikipedia.org )
Worldbuilding is hard when it feels like you’re trying to turn yourself inside out and create a whole world from what you know. Just to get me out of my own head I like to use Wikipedia’s random page function, and see if I can write my own version of what turns up. Today I got:...
Following Red Hat's lead, Linus Torvalds will only publish Linux Kernel code to paid contributors ( en.wikipedia.org )
At Linux, thousands of people spend their time writing code to enable new features, fixing bugs, integrating different packages and then supporting that work for a long time - something that our customers and partners need....
AoS and SoA - Wikipedia ( en.wikipedia.org )
WAI(S)ervers ( en.wikipedia.org )
I was going through some old things on Gopher recently and came across information about WideAreaInformationServers. The problem I am having is figuring out if there are any still in operation and if so, how you would access them in this day and age. If anyone has info on this topic, I would love to hear your thoughts.
TIL about /dev/full ( en.wikipedia.org )
No, that’s not a typo.
Other Fediverse projects ( en.wikipedia.org )
I had no idea of the size and variety of the Fediverse! It has me feeling a bit overwhelmed. I'm enjoying BookWyrm very much; it's the GoodReads/LibraryThing replacement I've been looking for for years....
Is an open secure instant messaging protocol not what is needed to allow any messaging app to communicate with any other, and to break the monopoly of Big Tech? ( en.wikipedia.org )
The reason why we as consumers get held to ransom by Big Tech is because they are the one’s who create walled gardens of their apps to ensure it is very difficult to leave their service and to maintain any communication with your friends or family who stay behind. They count on that sticky network effect to hold you in place....