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The Right to Lie: Google’s “Web Environment Integrity” Proposal is a Geyser of Badness Threatening to Swamp the Open Web.

If your computer can’t lie to other computers, then it’s not yours. This is a fundamental principle of free and

count-fold-lines: Emacs hack to fold duplicate lines and count them.

I just wrote a thing in Emacs that others might find useful: Although the code’s documentation gives a short example,

Twelve Pieces of Classical Music, for Jim

The number twelve is a lie; I just wanted to hook you. More than a year ago, my friend Jim

Why not to sign the anti-Stallman petition on GitHub.

There’s a petition circulating that is essentially a public indictment of Richard Stallman. More than half of the initial signers

Actual comment from a LaTeX document that I am writing now.

% So, why are we not using \appdxsection here? % % Sit down, my child, and you shall hear a

So this happened.

I decided to try out this lossless text-compression demonstration site by Fabrice Bellard. It uses GPT-2 natural language generation and

Don’t Cover For, Just Cover: How to Report on Trump

Have you noticed how Trump consistently says that “we can’t let the cure be worse than the problem“? (emphasis mine)

Why the Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library is a Good Idea.

I wrote a semi-personal post over at QuestionCopyright.org on why the National Emergency Library is a good thing. (Instead of

Ethics Enforcement Via Software Licenses Considered Harmful.

Update (2019-11-25): Audrey Eschright has made a link roundup of “pieces I’ve been reading on the topic of modern free

SOLVED: ‘apt-get dist-upgrade’ error when going from Debian 9.x (“stretch”) to 10.0 (“buster”).

Thanks to user lamayonnaise in this Reddit, I was able to solve the problem described below, which I encountered when