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"Once upon a time, in a galaxy not so far away (this one, in fact), a few internet rebels decided that they were tired of the corporate overlords"

Laptops, mini-pcs and tablets with open source firmware, made to order and available with various Linux distros from elementaryOS up to Qubes pre-installed. UK-based.

"As a QA engineer it’s easier to personify the forces of chaos you’re defending against as a single evil weasel than a million random monkeys."
Examples in terms of email list management.

A = All functionality works without JavaScript.
B = Non-essential functionality doesn't work. C = Important functionality doesn't work. D = Nothing works without JS.

On Murderbot and its influences among science fiction, AI stories, and neurodivergence.

Great discussion on MetaFilter on a really interesting piece by Martha Wells on Murderbot and its influences.

Archived link to article by Amit Singh of KernelThread. It looks like he incorporated it into the first chapter of a book on Mac OS X and released that chapter online, but both kernelthread and the book's website are no longer up.
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/mac-os-x/0321278542/

Consensus is to use minimum legit date - ex. "1953:08:01 00:00:00" for August 1953.
Technically spaces are allowed for the unknown parts ("1953:08: : : "), but the poster isn't sure about compatibility with other tools. XMP tags allow leaving out the unknown parts, so "1953-08" would be valid