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Re:Gnome 40 on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @03:31PM (#26571895)
Maybe you might break the 5 yrs gap with KDE Neon? :)

https://neon.kde.org/

Re:AskHN: How much is Chrome and how much is Chromium? on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @02:47PM (#26571384)
When did you stop using it?
Re:Gnome 40 on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @02:44PM (#26571344)
Re:AskHN: How much is Chrome and how much is Chromium? on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @02:37PM (#26571262)
Have you tried Firefox with the 'Ublock Origin' add-on? No ads in years and snappy.
Re:Firefox 87 introduces SmartBlock for Private Browsing on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @01:26PM (#26570286)
The new 'trim referrer by default' in Firefox 87 [1] was already enabled in private mode only, some months/weeks ago. So maybe they will make it default everywhere after some weeks? Maybe after working out any kinks?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26539673

Here's some readings on why many don't want RMS in a leadership position.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21287006

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20994216

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26545420

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26535789

[5] https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-pr...

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Some well-regarded papers on sexism in CS, which are still relevant as is evident from some comments in this thread.

[1] Why are There so Few Female Computer Scientists (Ellen Spertus, 1991)

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7040

[2] How to Encourage Women in Linux (Val Henson, 2002)

https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/

[3] What Happens to Us Does Not Happen to Most of You (Kathryn S. McKinley, 2018)

https://www.sigarch.org/what-happens-to-us-does-not-happen-t...

[4] Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing (Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher, 2001)

https://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Clubhouse-Women-Computing-P...

[5] The Elephant in the Valley (by Michele Madansky and Trae Vassallo, 2015)

https://www.elephantinthevalley.com/