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Friday, 12. July 12024
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How free software hijacked Philip Hazel's life.

Hazel had informed a colleague, Piete Brooks, that he was working on Exim. Brooks wanted to try it out, but Hazel demurred because he had not written any documentation. (This may be the first known case of a programmer refusing to distribute undocumented code...) Brooks response was "I don't want the documentation, I want the code." Even so, Hazel insisted on writing a first cut of the Exim manual before packaging up the code and sending it off to meet its fate.

Die vegini Freischwimmer (»Vischstäbchen«) sind richtig gut! Derzeit nur leider nicht online zu bestellen…

Sophia Süßmilch.

Ein „Fuck you“ an alle Abramović-Erwartungen.

6 Mindset-Impulse, wenn alles Scheiße ist.

Ich sag’s einfach mal, wie das Leben so spielt: Manchmal ist alles Scheiße.

You can deeplink to a specific PDF page.

Just append #page=X to your URL, where X is a placeholder for the page you want to link to.

In geheimer Mission am Bodensee.

Micky Maus Magazin Nr. 15/2024.

Source: egmont-shop.de

An alternative to DevBox?

Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments using Nix.

This is not about the operating system.

Ubuntu and Other Meanings of Life.

Source: substackcdn.com

Command Z is a science fiction comedy web series directed by Steven Soderbergh.

(…) it was inspired by Kurt Andersen's book Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America – A Recent History.

Relevant: chloeradcliffe.com.

Reverse Engineering TicketMaster's Rotating Barcodes (SafeTix).

I think we can all agree: Fuck TicketMaster. I hope their sleazy product managers and business majors read this and throw a tantrum. I hope their devs read this and feel embarrassed. It’s rare that I feel genuine malice towards other developers, but to those who designed this system, I say: Shame.