Imagine that genetic modification escapes into wild, and then everyone on the plannet affected by it. How your patent will help to avoid that?

It can't. That's not what patents are for. The same could happen for an unpatented modified plant.

We have the USDA for these things. https://www.aphis.usda.gov/news/program-update/aphis-issues-...

> APHIS found this modified petunia is unlikely to pose an increased plant pest risk compared to other cultivated petunia. As a result, it is not subject to regulation under 7 CFR part 340. From a plant pest risk perspective, this petunia may be safely grown and bred in the United States.

Monsanto has sued (and won) several lawsuits where their patented seeds cross polinated with non-GMO crops due to wind, etc.

That is... crazy. Who do you sue? Mother Nature? The farmer who "received" their crops? Who pays damages, etc?

I use one line static site generator:

  for I in *.md; do pandoc "$I" --template=template.html --metadata title="My Site" -o "${I%.md}.html"; done

pandoc is awesome. As well as standard markdown it can handle syntax highlighting, convert LaTeX equations to MathML and much else besides.

Came here to post this too. Pandoc and a few lines of shell, all you need. Here is a super fancy Makefile:

  CONTENT_DIR  := content
  BUILD_DIR    := public
  MD_FILES := $(shell find $(CONTENT_DIR) -name '*.md')
  HTML_OUT := $(patsubst $(CONTENT_DIR)/%.md,$(BUILD_DIR)/%.html,$(MD_FILES))
  .PHONY: all clean assets serve
  
  all: $(HTML_OUT) assets
  assets:
   @mkdir -p $(BUILD_DIR) && cp -a static/style.css $(BUILD_DIR)/
  $(BUILD_DIR)/%.html: $(CONTENT_DIR)/%.md templates/default.html site.yaml
   @mkdir -p $(dir $@)
   pandoc --standalone --from gfm --to html5 \
     --template=templates/default.html \
     --metadata-file=site.yaml \
     --toc --toc-depth=3 \
     -o $@ $<

Ask ChatGPT, it'll spit out the rest (sample posts, template, CSS, YAML, Makefile, etc)

I use Linux for 30 years. Never had this problem. However, I saw newbies, which copy paste commands from tutorials to shell and then frustrated, because # is a comment.

I bet you've never accidentally rm -rf'ed your home directory or your email archives either.

> I bet you've never accidentally rm -rf'ed your home directory or your email archives either.

If this is a concern to mitigate, consider adding the following alias to your preferred shell profile:

  alias rm='/bin/rm -I'

This will not conflict with scripts using PATH-relative 'rm' invocations, yet will provide the desired protection from erroneous interactive use of "rm -rf".

See here[0] for details regarding the '-I' flag.

0 - https://linux.die.net/man/1/rm

This would have helped when I `rm -rf`ed my home directory, but I was on Ultrix, whose `rm` didn't have the `-I` flag. In fact, I don't think even GNU `rm` had `-I` yet. I was in /tmp/something where I'd unpacked some software package I'd downloaded and decided was of no use, and I wanted to read netnews, so I typed

    rm -rf * & cd; trn

Several hours later, around 3 AM, I was done reading netnews, so I exited trn. Then I remembered that there was one newsgroup I had forgotten to read, so I typed ↑↵ to run trn again, which had the effect of again running

    rm -rf * & cd; trn

but this time in my home directory. And of course my frantic ^C^C^C had no effect on the `rm`, which was safely in the background.

Fortunately the computer center kept nightly backups.

I alias rm='rm -i', and then check that I'm deleting the right thing. And then redo the command with `yes | rm -r whatever`. This ends up giving me an "audit log" of what was deleted.

I do

rm /dir

Then go back and add the -rf.

Works on GNU and BSD. On GNU only you can

‘rm /dir -rf’

On Linux, we are free to add symbols to third or fourth level:

ʼ́ ¹² € § ° ≤≥ • — – ≠± ®©™ «» „“ …

Some will evolve, some will stay. We are evolved from 1 billion year old bacteria, which still there, on Earth.

> pirating someone else work.

Are you aware that you're not paying the authors, but paying the journal, who usually don't pay the authors anything and even demand payment FROM the author to publish their article in the first place? This is not like buying a book, journals are leeches with morally indefensible business models.

Authors decided to pay to these journals and play by their rules in return for something, that have value for them. I respect their choice. However, I also want to have better science with free access. I can reproduce few papers, and publish my work for free, if someone will peer review them for free.

> Authors decided to pay to these journals and play by their rules in return for something, that have value for them. I respect their choice.

Have you ever spoken to anyone who works in academia? Because almost everyone will tell you that they couldn't care less if people get their articles from SciHub. Academia is much uglier than you're romanticizing it to be.

How do you reproduce a paper without having read it?

Obviously, someone must buy the paper, reproduce it, compare with original work, and then publish result for free. Same thing as for free software: someone must by a computer, write a software, then publish it on github.

Publishing it on GitHub is optional; you can publish it anywhere accessible. And unlike these journals, it doesn't cost you anything to access free software. In fact, paywalling it makes it unfree.

I think you don't know what you're talking about.

Users need a new feature or a new power to justify transition. Learning of new OS is not free. Someone should reuse Android UI, but upgrade the OS to full Linux.

Mimicking the Android UI and UX is very trivial. The hard part is getting the OS to run on the mobile device in the first place. On top a tonne of custom drivers, it also requires way to either get accepted by the OEM locks or a way to bypass it entirely. This is getting harder by the day even with Android custom ROMs.