Falsehoods Programmers Believe About LANs
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FSF is Now on Bluesky - But Won't Advocate Signing Up Due to Nonfree JavaScript
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is now on Bluesky, they announced this week. But "We can't advocate that you sign up for a Bluesky account like we do with Mastodon or PeerTube since signing up for…
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- Recommends against signing up due to nonfree JavaScript
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