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"Bluetooth was never supposed to be called Bluetooth. Back in 1996, a consortium of companies—Intel, Ericsson, Nokia, and later IBM—decided to create a single wireless standard. Each company had been developing their own short-range radio technologies, but all the names they came up with sucked."

"We’ve barely scratched the surface of what the open social web can be — and it’s already better than what we have."

The classic!

Collection of PDFs on gardening with native California plants.

Came up in the LXQt Wayland issue thread, recommended by the author of Featherpad
https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/issues/10#issuecomment-1759317897

"Security researcher Joseph Tartaro thought NULL would make a fun license plate. He's never been more wrong."

"More than a decade ago, the earliest era of blogging provided a set of separate but related technologies that helped the nascent form thrive. Today, most have faded away and been forgotten, but new incarnations of these features could still be valuable."