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Using it everyday to repair borked Windows Installs, data recovery, forensic hardware diagnostics & examination.

Combine with that a very long conversation with Microsoft on the impossibility to customize the desktop experience for dedicated purposes (again someday I will tell that story) led directly to a career in embedded Linux and a lifelong Desktop #Linux supporter.

#TLDR #Knoppix #FreeSoftware #Philosophy #Community #Licensing #Freedom


Our publishing co-op is looking for a marketing volunteer, which could lead to paying work once we are funded or selling more books. (We are currently developing a crowdfunding campaign / investment round to launch later this fall.)

We publish #SciFi, #poetry, #fiction, #memoir, #philosophy, and #art. Please help spread the the word!

https://cosmos.coop/volunteer-to-promote-upcoming-book-releases/

#books #publishing #coop #volunteer


One positive that's come out of the recent SNS shake-ups is encountering new and deeply insightful voices I wouldn't have found in a more stable social network clusters/hierarchy. This article on letter writing philosophers, for example:

https://helendecruz.substack.com/p/letter-to-robin-waldun-on-reviving

Similar concept of less formal research letters is something I'd love to see revived for the modern age!

#writing #philosophy #history


"Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting."

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born #OTD in 1646. He was a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat. He is a prominent figure in both the history of philosophy and the history of mathematics. He wrote works on philosophy, theology, ethics, politics, law, history and philology. via @Wikipedia

Books by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7168

#books #philosophy #mathematics


The philosopher Karl Popper published what came to be known as the Paradox of Tolerance in his book "The Open Society and Its Enemies" in 1945.

It dealt with the question of how a society that promotes tolerance is to deal with those who are intolerant.

#Paradox #philosophy

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