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Comment · 9 months ago
All countries in the world recognise Greenland as a territory of the Danish crown, including the US. Danish for 700 years. This is why it is so outrageous for the US President to announce to break the law of the nations with imagined up reasons that are never properly explained. It does not help to punish those who disagree. The European Union has no other choice than to respond to this unilateral escalation.
Comment · 9 months ago
I think Pirateboxes could be interesting for exchanging infos in offline scenarios, they would work like wireless bulletin boards and file exchanges that you could access ad hoc via wifi.
Comment · 7 years ago
I just recall the takeover of the Lubuntu project by this kid, kicking out all others and his attempt to threaten others in the project at Christmas time as a ubuntu tm licensee for his website impostering as a Ubuntu trade mark owner. His forged evidence provided worked with Github staff to get others blocked. I don't trust Ubuntu accounts anymore and I don't trust Canonical because they let it happen.
Comment · 10 years ago
The books of Pieter Hintjens, ok, he is a developer but...
Comment · 10 years ago
ok. I am neither a fan nor a foe of jake.

His role was evangelism, he was successful with it, but it does not affect the technology in any way. Just as the death of your car salesman would affect your customer experience but not the way Ford builds cars for you.

I have no idea what "deploying Tor" means, but apparently it means loading an installation package on a machine. So come one, you could impress non-techies with that but...

Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
Evangelist. Not developer.

"did lots of work on these issues" is misleading. He was an imposter and that was precisely his official role in the tor project.

Comment · 10 years ago
I just recall the mobbing of Jake against Asher Wolf that made her freak out...

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