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"Those who write about, demonstrate or champion the ideas of the IndieWeb. They have all been inspiring for me in my own IndieWeb journey."

"[t]he tech industry’s incentives no longer align with the user. "

"A UC Davis study found a population of Bay Area ground squirrels hunting and eating voles, suggesting the species may be more flexible in its diet than previously thought. "

"Take a tour of the historical sites around Palos Verdes Estates, California"

"Today, the head of the WordPress Open Source Project Matt Mullenweg unilaterally locked the gates to wordpress.org, the central service powering the community that for the past 20 years has been presented as a commons but was in actuality his personal website."

Wiki entry.
Short version: $ pmbootstrap init # Choose device, e.g. "qemu-amd64" $ pmbootstrap install $ pmbootstrap qemu --image-size=2G

Interview/article about Mullenweg, Automattic, and the dispute with WP Engine.

A still-in-draft project to come up with a dual license scheme for software that's free/open for those with small pockets and paid for those with deep pockets, intending to address the problem of big companies just using open source / Free software without contributing back to it.
They note that this will not be Free Software or Open Source, and they don't intend to muddy the waters on terminology.

A bit weird looking back at this 12 years later, though of course many of them go back even further.
At least Saucer Country is finally complete!