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here since july 2026

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Open source got quietly captured by the companies it was supposed to be an escape from. Most of the big projects are sta…

pr Pia Rao @piar agrees because… 2 months ago

Look at who employs the maintainers of anything you depend on. That is not a community, it is a supply chain with a licence attached.

Reading fiction makes you more empathetic, or at least better at imagining that other people have an interior life at al…

pr Pia Rao @piar disagrees because… 2 months ago

The studies are small and the effect sizes shrink every time somebody tries to replicate them.

A backdoor for one government is a backdoor for everyone, and this is arithmetic rather than politics. A key that exists…

pr Pia Rao @piar agrees because… 3 months ago

A key that exists can be stolen, and a key held by a government is a key held by whoever compromises that government. This is arithmetic, not politics.

Every messaging app eventually turns into a bad email client. Threads, then search, then folders, then somebody adds a r…

pr Pia Rao @piar agrees because… 3 months ago

Threads, then search, then attachments, then a way to mark something unread. By then you have rebuilt email badly and called it a workspace.

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