Whoa

I still don't understand why IA picked a fight with publishers with the emergency library.

IA provides a really valuable service and they're an incredibly juicy target. Going on anti-copyright crusades isn't their mission.

It's what I use for my home server and it's great. You can even use VLC to stream music and stuff via samba.

For the tower defense enthusiast.

This guy's tutorial videos are really good, at least for networking development: https://youtube.com/watch?v=w2p0ugw3afs

I really liked Crubchbang back in the day, but since it (and bunsen) have disappeared, after some distro hopping I settled on Lubuntu. It's nice and simple like Gnome 2 or Windows xp. Nothing surprising, and nothing trying too hard. Very intuitive for long time GUI users like myself, with none of the stability issues that plagued actual GUIs from the past.

Have they given a reason? The blog post doesn't list one.

I'm a nostalgic person by nature. My impulse has always been to save rather than delete. I could never do this. In fact, I did the opposite; I made a GDPR request for my data and ran a script to download all of the posts still available in the API. No response on the GDPR request yet but they're allowed time.

Have any screenshots?

Yeah that's been the harder thing to find on Lemmy. For stuff like retrocomputing or open source I imagine the fediverse will still be a strong contender, but I also like reddit for, like, obscure old games with a total remaining community of less than a hundred people, and that's one thing Reddit and Discord are still the champions of.

• Three Body Problem (and sequels, especially The Dark Forest:) it's good scifi, though I worry that a lot of people missed the message.
• Consider Phlebas/Use Of Weapons: tragic space opera is my favorite kind.
• Gideon The Ninth: sci-fantasy popcorn with a sass-mouthed narrator.
• Providence: Fresh take on ubiquitous scifi tropes, and I'm a fan of Max Barry's punchy writing style.

I wouldn't call AJ a light read, just because you spend so much time wrapping your brain around what the narrator is doing and the cultures are so deliberately weird. All the more rewarding for it though imo.