griffey · HackerTrans

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Problem is that the current administration is ALSO going after 501c3s. They just changed the rules for reporting via 990 tax forms (that non-profits in the US use to report their activities) to make them far more detailed and require more details about where and how money is being spent. On the surface, most people read that and think "good, more information is better" but what ends up happening is that foundations and other large donors may shift the way they give due to the new ruling, which will leave huge swaths of non-profits without funding.

griffey

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That's great news. I will keep an eye out and would happily throw a few bucks your way for a 16 pro max version.

griffey

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I had the privilege to interview Vernor back in 2011, and continued to have interactions with him on and off in the intervening years. He was, as others have said, just immeasurably kind and thoughtful. I'm sad that I'll not have the opportunity to speak with him again.

griffey

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I haven't done so yet, but I'll throw a link to ButterBox up on the LibraryBox site and suggest people take a look.

griffey

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waves at n8fr8too...

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Thanks for situating this in history! It's easy for people to look at the project and be like "why no RPi?" without understanding that when LibraryBox started, Raspberry Pi's didn't have onboard wifi, and the travel routers we chose to support were SIGNIFICANTLY less expensive as well. We're in a very different hardware world now.

griffey

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FWIW: one of the other main issues with the project as it neared its end was the move to mandatory SSL connections. By its nature, LibraryBox has to be able to work entirely offline, and trying to sort out how to manage SSL connections in that situation without also causing potential security issues in sensitive use situations...well, we tried and couldn't come up with a reasonable, usable solution to those overlapping issues.

griffey

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At one point there was a sort of "starter" content set that was made up of CC or public domain works that was distributed by the community as a torrent. But the project itself was always about the hardware/infrastructure aspect, not the content itself.

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