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What's your favourite ~comp-related news/event that's happened this week?

Posted January 17, 2019 by Eva (edited August 4, 2019)

It's been a very exciting week for computing! From urbit getting rid of their ~~semi-~~ fascist founder, to Drew DeVault going full-time on free software; so much has happened.

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kavi
January 17, 2019
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I've been pretty busy this week, so haven't seen much, but the GoDaddy JS injection was a pretty big topic. I thought they were good cheap hosting, but they're scummy. Care to share a link on Drew...

I've been pretty busy this week, so haven't seen much, but the GoDaddy JS injection was a pretty big topic. I thought they were good cheap hosting, but they're scummy.

Care to share a link on Drew going full time on Free software?

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  Deimos
  January 17, 2019
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  https://drewdevault.com/2019/01/15/Im-doing-FOSS-full-time.html Discussion from HN yesterday
  
  https://drewdevault.com/2019/01/15/Im-doing-FOSS-full-time.html
  
  Discussion from HN yesterday
  
  6 votes
  1. kavi
    January 17, 2019
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    Thanks.
    
    Thanks.
    
    2 votes
Eva (OP)
January 17, 2019
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My favourite event, personally, though not exactly worthy of note, was this twitter thread: https://twitter.com/gypsy_panther/status/1077009093921886208...

My favourite event, personally, though not exactly worthy of note, was this twitter thread:

https://twitter.com/gypsy_panther/status/1077009093921886208

https://twitter.com/reneefrench/status/1085863465061765124

https://twitter.com/gypsy_panther/status/1085923301342375936

https://twitter.com/reneefrench/status/1085927891093745665

For anyone not aware, Renée French is the wife of Plan 9 and Go creator, Rob Pike, and has created every single one of the mascots to Pike's projects. Great artist.

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