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 Any good books on how Linus did what he did and how he makes it all work? 
 Legends can eat shit.
Some soft people thinking maintaining and managing something as big as the linux kernel is an easy task. You can manage something like that without strictness, we don't live in a disney movie.
Also, shouting and being dissing doesn't really make you an "awful" person when you have created the tool that  provides a huge portion of the liberty of technology.

Money laundering, stealing ideas, having sweatshops, exploiting people, selling you privacy, etc, these are the things that make an awful person. 
 The fact that Bitcoin isn't yet accepted everywheree and for everything really underlines for me ... 
 Aren't the transaction fees of bitcoin a major issue? Won't something like monero and litecoimn be more useful in real world? I have used them many times for purchases. 
 I don't know much about lightning, but I still assume that you have to get the bitcoin somehow in the first place. Right now, if I buy 1mil of bitcoin with my fiat,   about 200K will go into transaction fees. So the only way is to buy so much that the transaction fee becomes a small percentage. Am I wrong?
 
 I bet you that a Nostr-based versioning system could work really well. It may not be exactly like... 
 It has to be atleast fully git compatible. (Like podman is to docker). Mastering git takes a lifetime, nobody wants to learn a whole new version management tool. 
 But how can we fix this issue? If it's an open wiki, anyone can edit and if you have more editors, you can edit more. Am I right?

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 Sometimes I wonder if we're not focused enough on developing meaningful (and free) social spaces ... 
 As a person living in a heavily sanctioned country, I really feel this.
Oh you want to use docker? Too bad you're from xyz. Oh you want to use gitlab? Too bad (foss my ass) .
You want to learn this skill or read this article? Sorry, information and knowledge isn't allowed for you people.
We live in 403 and 503 errors. 
 It almost never works where I'm from. 
The country I'm from is literally the worst place for cyber activities. The current situation is very similiar to china, but way worse because at least in china they have high speed internet, in here, it usually doesn't get above 30-40 Mbps. 
 Wouldn't like to say, but middle east. 
 I really hope that too. 
 Never heard of it. What is it? 
 Some rebellious country in the middle east :) 
 Yeah that is the case, but most of our problems are with our own government. (which was fixed by the us,uk,france and russia. I think y'all know where I'm talking about)
The government is officially and openly against the people. 
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 Can someone provide a comparison between nostr and the fediverse?(lemmy, mastadon, etc)