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If you had to design a political system where big, urgent problems can remain unresolved and connected criminals can stay out of jail, without (much) protest or repression, how would you go about it? I think I’d invent a supposedly all-powerful “grand prize” position called the Presidency, and make sure …
A decade ago, we in the free and open-source community could build our own versions of pretty much any proprietary software system out there, and we did. Publishing, collaboration, commerce, you name it. Some apps were worse, some were better than closed alternatives, but much of it was clearly good …
Mozilla, the makers of Firefox, have an Internet-of-Things unit. Did you know that? It was a surprise to me when I heard about it, but a good surprise. We need the kind of openness that Mozilla stands for in the IoT, and I hope they can play a large role …
Two days and a countless …(censored)… later, I think I figured it out. Here’s the mystery: I successfully compile my Java code …
My hiking permit was for Tuesday, August 2, 2016. So here’s how the adventure went: Preparation Day minus 2: Sunday, July 31, …