Karl Fogel's blog
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So what’s the blogiquette take on writing a post that’s essentially a link to another post somewhere else? I just read a great piece by Ben Collins-Sussman over at iBanjo, about the difference between hacker and non-hacker cultures — using banjos and guitars as the case study! Check it out.
If your computer can’t lie to other computers, then it’s not yours. This is a fundamental principle of free and
Continue readingI just wrote a thing in Emacs that others might find useful: Although the code’s documentation gives a short example,
Continue readingThe number twelve is a lie; I just wanted to hook you. More than a year ago, my friend Jim
Continue readingThere’s a petition circulating that is essentially a public indictment of Richard Stallman. More than half of the initial signers
Continue reading% So, why are we not using \appdxsection here? % % Sit down, my child, and you shall hear a
Continue readingI decided to try out this lossless text-compression demonstration site by Fabrice Bellard. It uses GPT-2 natural language generation and
Continue readingHave you noticed how Trump consistently says that “we can’t let the cure be worse than the problem“? (emphasis mine)
Continue readingI wrote a semi-personal post over at QuestionCopyright.org on why the National Emergency Library is a good thing. (Instead of
Continue readingUpdate (2019-11-25): Audrey Eschright has made a link roundup of “pieces I’ve been reading on the topic of modern free
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