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The idea is that a company pays a subscription fee to Tidelift, which takes a cut and then distributes the remainder to open source projects that the subscriber uses. Code and chill
Yeah, a Wired link. Sorry and/or "deal"
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A team of students in the UK has created a way to turn handwritten equations into computer code, which could help maths experts solve their most complex problems. How to prevent doctors from getting into coding?
And me as well
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Browser maker faces backlash for failing to inform users about Chrome Sync behavioral change. "If you walk away, I will follow"
Evil level: creepy
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Most of the internet could be affected as some Linux devs threaten to rescind code in response to CoC controversy. No code with Code of Conduct
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"And they were singing..."
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What a mess. 
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How would that work, exactly, with already-running servers and such? (I can't get to that site)
Because if your system depends on some off-site code to run, you're wrong.
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I read the whole of the Code of Conduct and would encourage others to do so before commenting as it is quite short.
In my opinion the Code of Conduct is perfectly reasonable (basically don't be nasty to other people) - how it is used is another matter which is perhaps what is of concern to people.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Yes the how it's used is what most of the outrage is over.
If other communities who've adopted a similar code of conduct are anything to go by social activists will trawl through everyone's social media history and start witch hunting anyone who's ever made a joke about forking repositories.
There's already a few people talking about Ted Tso's controversial opinions (not actions) on certain topics unrelated to the Linux Kernel. Probably more, I haven't been paying close attention.
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I might start a Soapbox post on this because I think it's an interesting area for discussion.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Sounds like a great recipie for a flame war!
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The whole thing reads like elementary school children telling the teacher on each other for not playing nice and the teacher threatening to take away their toys. This whole social justice thing has gotten way out of hand and I'm wondering where all of the adults went.
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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I think George Carlin put it best – "Political Correctness is fascism pretending to be Manners"
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Donathan.Hutchings wrote: I'm wondering where all of the adults went.
to the bar to drin a gin tonic?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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trawling through his social media? dude was ranting about rape stats on a linux mailing list, not on some obscure blog that people had to search for.
here's a simple rule i use, one that's kept me away from a lot of trouble: don't talk about things like rape in professional forums.
modified 25-Sep-18 11:48am.
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Applications using Azure Active Directory (AD) to authenticate—a category that includes Office 365, among other things—will soon be able to stop using passwords entirely. It just looks you up on HaveIBeenPwned.com and fills in the results?
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Noooooooo!!!!!!!! How else am I going to remember that its Fall2018, if I'm not typing it in every day.
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Microsoft is working on a new enterprise-focused skills kit for Cortana, based on its Bot Framework, which can be used to build skills and agents for business use. It looks like they want you to write an app. Do you want to help with that?
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If it involves Cortana - hell no!
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“We built Microsoft Learn so that you could have one stop for self-paced, guided learning on all of our platform products and services,” wrote Jeff Sandquist, General Manager, Developer Relations for Cloud + AI Division. At launch, the new website features more than 80 hours of learning content for Microsoft products such as Azure, Dynamics and PowerBI, and there’s also everything you need to prepare for certifications exams. All the content is completely free, which is really nice. Until they create the new "one-stop-destination" for all their training
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The update is designed for businesses and consumers that haven’t opted into Microsoft’s Office 365 service with monthly feature updates. Now with all those great new features like ... uhm... and uhhh...
Yup, still with the ribbon. You're not getting rid of that anytime soon.
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The Open Data Initiative is meant to help companies better govern their data while maintaining both privacy and security considerations. So your data will be shared between hackings?
I could have sworn this was announced a while back.
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The Guardian: ‘We will get regular body upgrades’: what will humans look like in 100 years? Mechanical exoskeletons, bionic limbs, uploadable brains: six experts’ visions of 2118: by Richard Godwin[^]Quote: But of all the developments emerging now, it’s technology focused on the human body that would appear to introduce the most chaos into the system. California biotech startups talk of making death “optional”. Facebook is working on telepathic interfaces. Bionic limbs will soon outperform human limbs. Crispr-Cas9 gene-editing technology theoretically allows us to fiddle around with genomes. We could look, think and feel in radically different ways.
Are we ready to treat our bodies as pieces of hardware? We might be getting there. Take something as innocuous as tattoos, which have boomed in popularity roughly in step with the information age. Seen in one light, they’re a faintly retro fashion trend. In another, they show an increased willingness to alter our physical selves. You might think of them as the surgeon’s marks before the real enhancements arrive. I asked six scientists and thinkers to share their vision for the body in the next century.
I don't want to even get 80 (that's five years away, for me).
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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BillWoodruff wrote: I don't want to even get 80 (that's five years away, for me).
I have to disagree. Assuming that we have true replacements for body parts (i.e. replacements that are as good as, and require as little maintenance as the originals), I don't see why I wouldn't want to live for a few centuries, if not forever.
It is makeshifts like today's transplant technology (with the possibility of rejection) that make replacement of body parts so onerous.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: I don't see why I wouldn't want to live for a few centuries, if not forever.
I doubt that such technology will ever go mainstream, for obvious reasons 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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