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3395810··on CentOS Linux is ending because Red Hat refused to invest in it
CloudLinux is also working on a CentOS replacement.

https://blog.cloudlinux.com/announcing-open-sourced-communit...

3395810··on Introducing Open Web Docs
What is the idea here? Open a channel with each website that I visit. Lockup the BTC that I will ever send them but only send it to them slowly each time I visit it.
3395810··on Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani
You think voting machines are suspect but just this one time there was nothing wrong with them?
3395810··on Android Ported to RISC-V
There is a contemporary books that explains this called The Impending Crisis of the South[1]. It was banned throughout the south and men were executed for distributing it in Arkansas.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Impending_Crisis_of_the_So...

3395810··on Porting Firefox to Apple Silicon
The free version of MBAM is an old-demand scanner but the paid version has "active" protections.
3395810··on Why cats are crazy for catnip
They get high from ingesting it. Not from rolling around in it.
3395810··on Why do we assume extraterrestrials might want to visit us?
I assume that any culture that is capable of developing interstellar flight will have a high degree of curiosity. We humans study even the most "mundane" life forms on our planet and try to study the rest of the universe outside of our planet. That is why I think extraterrestrials would want to make contact with us.

> We may be a phenomenon as uninteresting to them as ants are to us; after all, when we’re walking down the sidewalk we rarely if ever examine every ant along our path.

However, there are people who do study ants.

I think Roadside Picnic is a good novel but not indicative of how extraterrestrials who are capable of visiting Earth would actually behave.

3395810··on SpaceX acquires former oil rigs to serve as floating Starship spaceports
Oil rigs aren't build in place. They need to be moved to where the oil is.