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"Your local government might be discussing surveillance tech like Flock cameras, facial recognition, or automated license plate readers right now. This map helps you find those meetings and take action."

"The German Resistance Memorial Center is a site of remembrance, political studies, active learning, documentation, and research. An extensive permanent exhibition, a series of temporary special exhibitions, events, and a range of publications document and illustrate resistance to National Socialism. The center's goal is to show how individual persons and groups took action against the National Socialist dictatorship from 1933 to 1945 and made use of what freedom of action they had."

"As I explained in some detail in my 2016 article "They Live and the secret history of the Mozilla logo", I commissioned this artwork from Shepard Fairey to use as the branding of the newly-founded mozilla.org and our open source release of the Netscape source code, which eventually became Firefox. This happened in March 1998..."

Docs and protocol specification

Mark Weiser on what a computer interface *shouldn't* be, even when we think it *should*.

"This post dives into the Usenet archives and covers 1980s online discussions about Unix, BSD, and historical hardware."

"With the passing of Rebecca Heineman today, I wanted to share some images from her last, now forever unfinished project. She was working on amazing stuff right up until the end.
It was Dragon Wars remastered. Jennell Jaquays was art directing."

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On the difference between optimization an premature optimization

Main issue for tracking problems like Windows showing a warning, macOS forcing the user to jump through more hoops every version, and Homebrew planning on dropping LibreWolf.