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Curious website that explains how pages want to deceive you with examples (save to use and not taken very seriously)

This is a 1994 book about the many woes that Unix derived systems brought to sysadmins that were used to other solutions. Considering the number of commands that Linux still uses, it’s definitely worth a read.

Congress blew a rare bipartisan chance to protect Americans’ calls and texts.

Confirmation in linked github discussion.

For the longest time, I thought you couldn’t boot Windows on Libreboot.

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Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/10731283

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The centrality of archaeology in articulating and espousing the politics of nation states as also erstwhile empires is today undeniable. The history of archaeological research and practice is replete with cases where material culture has been used to produce origin myths, shared imaginaries of communities simultaneous with...