The thought of countless office workers slaving over spreadsheets and performing mindless work makes me sad. These machines that I love were supposed to free us from menial labor. Instead, there are people out there copying something from one spreadsheet and pasting it into another, over and over, ad nauseum. It's because the tools are incomplete, a consequence of trying to tie every conceivable operation to a button on the screen.

For this case, awk and sed can automate all of this :)

It started by putting up optional sign up forms with a cleverly hidden opt-out link. Over time, sign up became mandatory. Now I can only share files with other Dropbox users. That's not what i signed up for. I understand that Dropbox needs to make money. Today, they do that by showing investors that they are growing. One key measure of growth is the number of user accounts they have. So, it makes sense to make every effort to get people to sign up. But, in this case, they are not gaining users through the value of their service – they are using the value of my relationships and my data to force people to sign up. Not cool, guys.

And they provide a solution :) There is also a lot of open source software that can be used.

The webring of xxiivv

another group in Minnesota :)

They published their manifesto in order to understand what they stand for.

It is indeed minimal :) Kind of cool

Dire que la charcuterie traité aux nitrites est cancérigène est bien légal.