Well, those are some highly disturbing social dynamics... (nothing new I guess, just superchaged by the latest technics ?)

But Github, being a platform, is a nonstarter.

Have there been any recent popular developments on a similar workflow that is as robust as e-mail ?

They "just" need to settle on a platform. GitLab sounds good and is used by a lot of important Open Source projects.

Did you miss the part where being a platform was most of the issue ?

I'm not sure how long GitLab can be trusted either, as well as git becoming a bit too synonymous with GitHub...

Trump likely has other plans than to give up power willingly (again).

Exactly, fascists are neither left or right : they only care about the Party (and in practice, certain people in it) being in power, not the disenfranchised workers, small bourgeois, or industrialists (much less free markets) they made promises to, and will accordingly pander to or drop them only as much as it serves them.

You seem to assume that Trump will willingly give away his power in 4 years.

He most certainly remembers the January 6th failed coup and will likely spend the next 4 years making sure that he comes on top this time.

And yeah, if he fails, you better hope that the person which did succeed was liberal (and from I heard, AOC is not), because otherwise instead of putting back a system of checks and balances, they will just use the power that Trump concentrated to their own ends.

> In the era in which government information was published in paper formats, preservation of that information relied on libraries. The information was distributed to FDLP libraries based on the needs of the communities that those libraries served.

[...]

> In the digital age, government publishing has shifted from the distribution of unalterable printed books to digital posts on government websites. Such digital publications can be moved, altered, and withdrawn at the flick of a switch. Publishing agencies are not required to preserve their own information, nor to provide free access to it.

An important lesson here.

Which I guess was already known - see how the Library of Alexandria burned down, but random receipts on clay tablets / papyrus were preserved.

Because journalists aren't able to do their jobs :

> The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States.

Companies shouldn't be forced to support their games for long. Only for the duration of the copyright. (/s, but consider the now aligned incentives for sensible copyright duration limits !)

No, but thanks :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33829645

The original 2013 post is 404 and was not archived by IA: https://philsturgeon.com/blog/2013/09/wtf-is-t-paamayim-neku...

Here is an archive link https://archive.ph/ACL9Q

Ok. A better, less ephemeral link is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_resolution_operator#PHP .

'T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM' is the PHP parser's name for the '::' double-colon/scope-resolution-operator token; it means 'T_DOUBLE_COLON' in Hebrew, hence related parser error messages mean "Unexpected double-colon/scope-resolution-operator found". There was some controversy in the PHP community in 2013 about keeping the non-English naming as it was widely considered confusing to users.

At which point you should start protecting your loved ones by having a conversation about this not being acceptable behavior ?

Platforms seem to get a lot more leeway than abusing drugs (alcohol,smoking...) for some reason ?

Hahaha, I was going to make a similar retort but couldn't be bothered.

Fortunately, my parents rejected Facebook from the start; and they're online plenty.

We're all going to have to start having the same conversations about LinkedIn, AKA Facebook Pro.