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Fundsache: “Ob das Internet in 20 Jahren genauso kommerzialisiert sein wird wie etwa die öffentlich-rechtlichen Fernsehsender (die ursprünglich auch vollkommen ohne Werbung ausgekommen sind), liegt an den Weichen, die jetzt gestellt werden. Wenn das Internet eines Tages nur noch als Träger von Werbung fungiert und große Unternehmen das Angebot bestimmen, sind die Chancen vertan worden, die wir heute haben.” Source: https://events.ccc.de/congress/1994/internet-hype_folgen.html

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Bad idea of the day: ‘twitch writes a novel’: the previous ~15 words are shown & the top ~20 next words based on a markov model of some corpus are voted on over a 2 minute period (going to the first item, if no votes are cast) until 50k words are written.

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Javascript is a just-OK language saddled with the world’s worst graphics toolkit: three distinct languages, each with specs so large that nobody has written a new implementation in 20 years, for live-editing a rich tech document to make it resemble a canvas, in ways that are not portable between the 3 implementations or minor revisions of the same implementation.

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NixOS 14.12 released
NixOS 14.12 “Caterpillar” has been released, the third stable
release branch. It brings Linux 3.14, systemd 217, Glibc 2.20,
KDE 4.14.1, and much more. See the release\
 notes
for details. You can get NixOS 14.12 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
 page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 14.12, check out the [manual section\
 on\
 upgrading](/manual/nixos/stable/ind … ⌘ Read more

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