Poul-Henning Kamp: A Generation Lost in the Bazaar – Quality happens only when someone is responsible for it.

“The bazaar meme advocated by Raymond, ‘Just hack it,’ as opposed to the carefully designed cathedrals of the pre-dot-com years, unfortunately did, not die with the dot-com madness, and today Unix is rapidly sinking under its weight.”

Rebuttal in the comments: “Engineers like to think that the world could be designed, however Nature shows the opposite. Any sufficiently complex system cannot be built out of design, it has to be evolved. Evolution is messy (anarchic?): pieces that work get reused, pieces that do not are lost.”

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Tech Tools for Activism is a gateway to a set of tools to help campaign and organise more securely online. (Via diastopia.darkcloud.ca.)

The dream of the nineties is alive in Hyperboria!

“And that's why you want a meshnet: to be able to take control of the macrostructures that form the internet [...] and it also educates people about how the internet is structured and that they can take it back from the corporations.”

Welcome to the Social Meshwork.

Going underground. (Sorry, for members of the CJDNS meshnet only.)

You know you are a developer when you try to solve “dependancies”.

And time began to seriously pass.

Endlich! Sensomatic in der Presse!

Mehr als Papier: Die neue Liebe zur Oberfläche.

Auf gedrucktem Papier sogar mit sehr nettem Gruppenfoto.

Downsizing my server from a dedicated DS3000 to a vServer VQ 12.

Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram. (Via www.reddit.com.)