I listen to #MuellerSheWrote podcasts fairly frequently. I feel like they are #GrokLaw for the 2020s.

#15yrsago Cartoon depicts what went on in the #NSA’s #wiretapping room at AT&T https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/08/secret-room-eff-designers-cartoon-illegal-spying

#10yrsago #Groklaw shuts down over fears of email snooping http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130818120421175

#10yrsago Anonymous #funeral director explains the big con behind the industry, coffins, and embalming https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1kfoy5/comment/cbp748j/

#10yrsago #BurningMan #drone rules https://web.archive.org/web/20130819020808/http://www.burningman.com/preparation/event_survival/drones.html#.UhF-LtHP1qY

#10yrsago The Expeditioners and the Treasure of Drowned Man’s Canyon https://memex.craphound.com/2013/08/20/the-expeditioners-and-the-treasure-of-drowned-mans-canyon/

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*raises a glass to #PJ and #Groklaw*

*raises a glass to #PJ and #Groklaw*

@quincy I hope so. I started contributing to #Freenet when #Groklaw shut down after the #Snowden revelations.

(as a sad aside: the original founder of Freenet decided to take the name and apply it to a newfangled cryptocontract system without privacy — that’s why I’m writing Freenet / #Hyphanet here and not just Freenet: Hyphanet is the name the community chose after the non-profit decided to take away the name Freenet)
@richard @Techmeme @CCC @entropia

Thanks to LWN for another good article, reminding us of the whole SCO lawsuit debacle, with lots of good commentary.

Also glad to see the Groklaw site is still running, even if no longer updated.

[...] Twenty years later, it is fair to say that Linux is doing a little better than The SCO Group. Its swaggering leader, who thought to make his fortune by taxing Linux, filed for personal bankruptcy in 2020. We survived a focused and determined attack that would have brought an end to many other enterprises, regardless of the injustice involved. But the SCO attack should never be forgotten, because of the ways that it changed our community, but also because, despite our much stronger position now, it could happen again. The Linux community has created a vast amount of wealth, whether measured in code or in actual money; when that happens, there will always be those who wish to steal some of that wealth. Hopefully we will be as lucky when the time comes to fend off the next one.

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/924577/75ae0a1538029fcc/

http://groklaw.net/

#Linux #Groklaw #IBM #UNIX

I miss #Groklaw and PJ.

Doing the washing up while listening to the #LateNightLinux #podcast talking about the #copilot lawsuit: https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-202/ Anyone pining for the days of #groklaw?