Not that; I just write free books on how to write software.
Instructor, author, developer. Creator of Beej’s Guides.
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Not that; I just write free books on how to write software.
Supporting on GitHub. Just a few bucks a month. It won’t take many of us to get to $175/mo.
I do pony up for other services (not YT Premium because I won’t give Google any money) and support a significant number of creators via Patreon, giving them more money by far than they’d ever see from me from ads. And I’ve spent thousands of hours on my own dime making written content and giving it away for nothing with no ads or tracking. So yes, I agree.
It should never be illegal to link to infringing content in the US. First Amendment should apply if they have any sense.
We need a competitor badly.
Reminds me of sdf.org.
We were there 6 days ago. Mostly fine except they couldn’t change the monitor at the gate to show the proper destination. I wonder if it was this!
Yikes. Back to Newegg for me!
It should never be illegal to link to a thing. To host illegal content, sure, that should be illegal. But making it illegal to say where some thing, legal or not, is located is asking for all kinds of trouble.
I can’t find the link, but I read that some Canadian news organizations were using URL shorteners to post their own news to Facebook to get around the block.
But the sweaters!
And in politics, too!
It does now–it didn’t in the past.
Looking around, I don’t think that’s true. Lots of bad things are freely said about Mozilla and the people running it.
I switched to Aegis when google authenticator didn’t allow exports. It’s simple and it works.
Illegal to share? So you see a video of someone and before you can share it without legal risk you have to verify its provenance? How is this supposed to be practical either from a usage or enforcement standpoint?
If my ISP starts throttling my traffic, I’ll just switch to one of the zero other providers in my area.
When I was in college we had disposable film cameras. That was more than enough intrusion, thank you very much. I’ve always been incredibly happy that we did not have digital cameras in those years. 😅
I have 2000 Saturn with 220,000 on it. It has been amazingly solid and low TCO.
Of course, they don’t make them anymore, so your point stands. They don’t make them like they used to.
I switched to in-person teaching a couple years ago and am glad I did. It’s been a challenging time as an instructor finding ways to make sure I’m added value.