there is an O'Reilly plan for public libraries which is dope and accessible to those less privileged to afford premium access.
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I really wish something like Hack Club existed while growing up, how empowering! great work.
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I'm all for it -- it's hard to understate the extent to which LetsEncrypt has improved the WebPKI situation. Although the effective single-vendor situation isn't great, the "this is just something you only do via an automated API" approach is absolutely the right one. And certificate lifetimes measured in days work just fine with that.
The only things that continue to amaze me are the number of (mostly "enterprise") software products that simply won't get with the times (or get it wrong, like renewing the cert, but continuing to use the old one until something is manually restarted), and the countless IT departments that still don't support any kind of API for their internal domains...
There's a slew of RFC documents that cover these related protocols so imagine that now means "requests for compliance".
As much as I love Bazzite at end of the day it's still a custom distro and every single day there is a chance they just close the project down and move on. Happened to so many distros in the past, this is not out of question. I’m not saying “big corporate” distros are better but personally I'd rather stick to something more mainline.
Hopefully Valve will release a general version of SteamOS with Steam Machine coming (and even they are questionable with their track record)
Universal Blue is under very little risk of just shutting down operations without warning (as opposed to a hype-based BFDL kinda situation like Omarchy). I'm a happy Bluefin user and would wholly recommend people step up to help out with the distro if possible.
It's been fascinating watching the party of "small government" turn into one that supports ever expanding powers of a three letter agency whose job is supposed to be patrolling the border. It's like a new 9/11 Patriot act moment, except it's only one side supporting it this time.
Or is it because LLMs know everything that is in books, so people don't feel compelled to learn any more themselves?