jbrjake
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- Comment on Current state of the internet 1 week ago:
Pretty sure you’re thinking of tzdb, the time zone database: …medium.com/the-largely-untold-story-of-how-one-g…
An adjacent and thematically resonant story is the volunteer effort that powers curl, which so many people use: thenewstack.io/the-world-runs-20-billion-instance…
- Comment on Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have? 2 months ago:
When the first DVD cracking util was released, DeCSS, it violated the DMCA and people were getting sued and threatened with felonies for sharing it. Very quickly people figured out loopholes to make it an archivable creative work, like putting it on tshirts and encoding it as a prime number: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime