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Big tech has ushered in a second Gilded Age. We must relearn the lessons of the first, writes the former US labor secretary

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What does it take to be a Linux contributor, and why be one?

Neil McGovern was elected as Debian Project Leader in April. The project is going through some major changes such as a switch to systemd. We reached out to McGovern to understand his roles and plans for one of the most revered open source projects.

On April 18/19 a bunch of OpenPGP folks met in Dreieich near Frankfurt to get to know themselves better and exchange experience in implementing and deploying OpenPGP based applications.

Lorsqu'une personne seule décide de se lancer en affaires, peu de choix s'offrent à elle quant à la forme juridique d'entreprise qu'elle peut utiliser. En fait, elle a deux choix : l'entreprise individuelle ou la société par actions (compagnie).

L'entreprise individuelle a l'avantage d'être une forme juridique très simple et peu coûteuse à mettre sur pied et à faire fonctionner, ce qui en fait un choix très intéressant pour les travailleurs autonomes du Québec.

Dans cet article, Éducaloi explique les avantages et les inconvénients de l'entreprise individuelle en tant que forme juridique d'entreprise permettant à une personne seule de se lancer en affaires.

A recent Jon Carroll column got me thinking about Making and Fixing.

This was the passage that got me started:

... I took it to Dave up at the repair place. "You need a new battery," he said. Looked like a fine battery to me, but what do I know? I had a second opinion from the guy who wanted to sell me a battery. What could go wrong?

I brooded about this on the way. I realized how much we are at the mercy of the repair people in our lives, and how much we do not know about, well, most things.