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"US trade partners are already "looking into tariffs or taxes on digital services as a retaliation tool that could cause pain to the US," the report warned. And other experts agreed that if such countermeasures become permanent fixtures in global trade, it could significantly hurt the US tech industry, perhaps even splintering the Internet, as companies are forced to customize services according to where different users are located."
As usual, the "conservative" approach is to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

Contamination of a couple of batches at one spice supplier cascaded through the whole supply chain.

"Thirty years ago, Robin Dunbar theorized humans can maintain a friendship group of 150 people, with five intimate friendships. Despite many attempts to challenge the theory, Dunbar's Number has stood the test of time. Backed by neuroscience and statistics, Robin Dunbar explains why his theory still prevails."

The original web page describing the development of a 3D equivalent to the Mandelbrot set.

"Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines"
Tell it to install an OS, and it'll (theoretically) set up a qemu machine with optimized virtual hardware and download the installer.

Another Pinafore fork, with additional support for Akkoma, glitch-soc, and Iceshrimp features. Appears to still be maintained as of May 2025.

"Perkeep (née Camlistore) is a set of open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing and synchronizing data in the post-PC era. Data may be files or objects, tweets or 5TB videos, and you can access it via a phone, browser or FUSE filesystem."

"Here’s the truth about natural bug-spray alternatives"

Reddit post listing a lot of online stores that aren't just Amazon and Walmart.
I didn't know Deep Discount DVD was still around! (Edit: signing up has to be done on DeepDiscount.com because they only registered that one for their captcha account)

On what Patreon's actual service is, vs what the company thinks it's doing