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Re:The entire New Yorker Archive Is Now Fully Digitized on Thursday December 25, 2025 @05:19PM (#46387392)
Unfortunately, it's not likely. The full text back to 1925 (of articles, with no images) has been available on ProQuest for a while, and many libraries subscribe to that which is ok, but lacking all the great photos, cartoons, ephemera etc.

Many libraries also subscribe to Libby/Overdrive which does include the full images of all the pages, but Libby only provides coverage for the past year. Unfortunately publishers of newspapers and magazines often offer great archival content of this sort on their websites, but don't allow libraries to license it for their patrons.

It's a thread:

OpenTofu Project was recently made aware of a letter by HashiCorp’s lawyers, alleging that OpenTofu was not respecting the terms of its BSL license governing its Terraform codebase.

OpenTofu vehemently disagrees with any suggestion that it misappropriated, mis-sourced, or otherwise misused HashiCorp’s BSL code.

Indeed, it seems that HashiCorp may be conflating code that it had previously been open-sourced under the MPL and more recently developed code it published under the BSL.

OpenTofu’s maintainers have investigated this matter, and intends to issue a written response providing a more detailed explanation of its position in the coming days.

Re:Canada Bans WeChat and Kaspersky on Government Phones on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @05:21AM (#38096130)
The CIO of Canada is part of the Treasury Board which is the body that oversees government spending, including government employees.

Real Time Rail is payments infrastructure. The national implementation of that would be overseen by The Bank of Canada which is responsible for monetary policy and part of the Ministry of Finance.

Not clear to me what OP is trying to say, and whether or not you agree with the decision, I'd argue it's pretty important to ensure the cybersecurity of some 300k public sector employees, many of whom have access to sensitive information

Re:The Ruling That Threatens the Future of Libraries on Sunday April 09, 2023 @01:45PM (#35504843)
The role of neighborhood public libraries is to serve their community. They usually focus on providing equitable access to resources, especially more vulnerable populations. They rarely have the resources to conduct preservation of generally published works. You might see some preservation of titles of local interest. But it’s generally taken on by the central branches of larger public libraries in larger cities, university libraries, state libraries, the library of congress, and archives.

I’m not sure you’ve read this NPR article, as it actually explains a lot of nuance in the decisions that libraries need to make when discarding books.

Re:Google cancelled a talk on caste bias on Thursday June 02, 2022 @10:12AM (#31595126)
this NPR podcast was pretty insightful about this issue https://www.npr.org/transcripts/915299467
Re:Ask HN: Any Open Library Memberships? on Sunday May 08, 2022 @11:09PM (#31310114)
most of the online library apps used by public libraries (like Overdrive/Libby) are built entirely around enforcing DRM so I think it's unlikely they'd allow easy access to the raw text
Re:Ask HN: Any Open Library Memberships? on Sunday May 08, 2022 @11:08PM (#31310107)
Most libraries have a way to request items for purchase and usually have budget to buy things that are requested, within reason and depending on their policies.

Austin TX has an eCard program, you can access their Overdrive for $22 https://library.austintexas.gov/mylibrarycard

As well, you may want to look to see if you can get access through other librarires in Texas via the TexShare Card program. https://www.tsl.texas.gov/texshare/card

Re:Vancouver Zoning Map on Friday April 08, 2022 @04:00PM (#30961832)
It stands for First Shaughnessy District, it's an area with a lot of unique pre-1940 single-family Tudor-style homes
so would it be ok to mockingly use the n word in the same way?