canopic jug writes:Developer Dave Grauer has a long blog post about the broligarchs of Silicon Valley where he asks how they became the face of "technology" and examines how that came to be and what can be done to correct the error.
oregonjohn writes:We are entering a new phase of developing Soylent News. I'm John and I am the president of the nonprofit board of Soylent Phoenix, which manages Soylent News.Soon we'll be asking you to review, suggest, and comment on our proposals for a variety of organizational and management changes that we hope will build our community and that will make the site more useful and friendly without changing the intent and basic design.More coming soon so keep an eye out for updates. Your input is essential.https://soylentnews.org/faq.plJohnOriginal SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.
An Anonymous Coward writes:A very pretty and detailed Tor Network Status (Onion link) page, listing node by node and type for each.This is an unofficial current list.For official lists and more info, visit:https://consensus-health.torproject.org/
fliptop writes:The popular and original mainstream illegal music file-sharing platform that caused absolute mayhem for record labels in the early 2000s was sold to tech company Infinite Reality on Tuesday for a whopping $200+ million figure, as the startup said that it hopes of transform [sic] the streaming service into a music Metaverse of sorts:
canopic jug writes:Software engineer, Alex Gaynor has made an analysis of Postel's law including a discussion of its shortcomings. Postel's Law, also known as the Robustness Principle, states "Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept."
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Frosty Piss writes:https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/19/ubuntu_2510_rust/Efforts are afoot to replace the GNU coreutils with Rust ones in future versions of Ubuntu - which also means changing the software license. Canonical plans to replace the current core utilities - from the GNU project and implemented in C - with the newer uutils suite, which is written in Rust. Rather than technical issues, most concerns raised in the discussion on Ubuntu Discourse are about licensing. As a product of the GNU project, the existing coreutils are licensed under the GPL - specifically, GPL 3. The Rust replacements are licensed under the much more permissive MIT license.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.