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Comment Obstacles of releasing software (Score 1) 105

This reminds of the debacle when PGP was first released. The US government classified it as a "munition" that could not be legally exported, so the source code was printed out (unlike digital code, printed code was not subject to the export restriction), and the hard copy taken to Europe and transcribed back into digital form, where it could be released and re-imported to the United States.

Comment Not just Aspergillus (Score 1) 49

Other infectious fungi are also expected to spread as a result of climate change:
"Risks from fungal infections such as blastomycosis are likely to increase with climate change-associated shifts in temperature and rainfall, and this may contribute to the geographic expansion of cases, a phenomenon that appears to be already underway."
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11542677/

Comment Yes (Score 1) 148

I use it. Limited data plan, so I don't stream much. Limited space on my audio players, so I prefer it to FLAC except in rare cases where I can notice loss. My linux encoder software defaults to ogg, so the vast majority of what I've saved is in that format. MP3 has gotten better, but it is still license-encumbered.

Comment Use filtering and caching proxies (Score 2, Informative) 450

You can run a caching proxy (e.g. "squid") on your computer to prevent re-fetching pages you've already fetched, and chain it to a filtering proxy (e.g. "privoxy") to block downloading of large but superfluous stuff like advertisements. If you're not already using Firefox, you might consider trying it, and installing the NoScript and/or Flashblock extensions to give you control over Flash, Java and other downloads that might otherwise automatically happen whether you actually want them or not.

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