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Many country leaders also clearly think the same

> day where you can deploy your own software you can control and modify as you need.

Canvas is mostly FOSS

https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms


Good luck trying to stand up something usable.

> download a few containers from docker, make some quick config changes

You don't even have to do that if you don't want to. There are so many good piracy streaming sites which are on par, if not better, with commercial ones.

https://fmhy.net/video


Chinese is one of the most popular languages on Wikipedia

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5


I've seen claims about Wikipedia pushing both pro-Israel and pro-Palestine agenda, depending on who you ask. Which only makes me think that the real bias lies in the reader.

That's because apparently adhering to Wikipedia's own policies is a "pro-Israel" agenda. Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger (the founders of Wikipedia) have both called out the site/foundation on this, but I can't find the one on Sanger from a more trustworthy source than the New York Post.

https://www.theverge.com/news/813245/wikipedia-co-founder-ji...

https://nypost.com/2025/03/10/business/wikipedia-disrupted-b...


On the current events page, yes there is a bias. It will take time for them to be ironed out. I was referring to misinformation and disinformation on historical events. I have seen two parallel articles, the second created to give an incorrect narrative, of an event.

How is this relevant to the question?

GeoIP services can sometimes be wrong, they are essentially just lookup tables for IP subnets. I have a VPS in the Netherlands which most GeoIP providers detect as being in Czechia, for example. I assume whichever one the site is using just has the wrong country listed for your IP.

Unlike their fanbases, KDE and Gnome teams collaborate all the time

...until it comes to bikeshedding new standards


Why are "personal homepages" listed as dead? Sure, they're not as ubiquitous as they used to be, but almost every tech-adjacent person I know has one. Webrings and guestbooks are also very much still a thing. I'd say they are far from dead.

Of the people I know in tech roles, there are far more who have no online presence at all.

Personal pages were once an option in those people's minds (i.e. get around to it later). Then it got bargained down to social media profiles. Now anything at all has become a liability and the juice isn't worth the squeeze.

I think that's what they mean.


They used to be part of your ISP. You got a usenet server, and a mail server and a web server with a certain amount of space, just as part of signing up.

This meant that everyone had one, you didn't have to go sign up somewhere else. You still could if you wanted to have a URL that didn't have your ISP's name in it.


Did they? I've been around for ages (I know the dial up tone by heart). My early ISPs at best offered a mailbox (not a mail server), no web server, Usenet was extra.

And few people used the ISP mailbox because you couldn't take it with you when you left. Hell, I got my gmail during the invite only era


I also got a gmail during the invite only. I was so stoked, I drew a picture of Link (from Wind Waker) holding a Gmail icon over his head in his triumphant "got a new item!" pose.

Some ISPs from back in the day did offer a few megs of space for a web site with a ~username url that you could use to build a personal site. But by the late 90s this practice began to wane as services like GeoShitties became the norm.


I guess mainly because of insta, facebook and other social media platforms, but I am a fan of old days. But our numbers are pretty limited compared to the mass.

Sure, but I think it's just that internet is now used by much more non—tech-savvy people, not because people are switching from having a personal homepage to social media. The ones who know how to create a personal site still usually have one. Almost every post you see on HN is from someone's personal website.

That doesn't include Quarto, which seems like the closest alternative


I'm not familiar with Quarto, feel free to update the table in a PR


Memories are failable :) Here is the PR you merged June of last year, changing the file extension from `.qmd` to `.qd` after a discussion about Quarto: https://github.com/iamgio/quarkdown/pull/90


Of course, just saying I'm not familiar with the language itself and its capabilities! :)


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