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thenickpersonon Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of your Dropbox account

FYI this is easier to do with GNU stow, which can take a directory of configs and symlink it to another directory (like $HOME).

thenickpersonon GitHub confirms it has blocked developers in Iran, Syria and Crimea

This affects companies that have US users too. Your only option is to move out of the US and not use products with any users in the US. That means your only option is China, which is far worse for online rights than the US.

thenickpersonon Fighting for Open Source Sustainability: Introducing Code Sponsor

Unfortunately, it's limited to projects with 100+ stars. Cool idea though.

thenickpersonon [Ask HN] Material Design Bootstrap Theme

I am working on a Bootswatch theme called Paper, which is based on Material Design: https://github.com/nicolasmccurdy/bootswatch/tree/gh-pages/p...

I have a bit of work to do before it will be done, but if you'd like to contribute feel free to fork it.