Russ Allbery
Person on 3 sites
Long-time Debian developer and free-software maintainer (remctl, INN, pam-krb5) who has published book reviews on his personal site since the 1990s.
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1 channel on ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
Updated 2026-10-14 -
5 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Large-scale institutional trust requires multiple major competing players rather than a single monopolistic controller, even in near-monopoly industries. (opens korrents.com)
“This is not how institutional trust generally works; even with vast multinational high-capital near-monopolies such as cloud computing, there are three major players and innumerable smaller ones.”
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Believing that a small, tightly controlling cabal secretly runs a complex system of power is characteristic of conspiracy theorizing, not realistic analysis. (opens korrents.com)
“The only people who believe in controlling cabals this small are conspiracy theorists.”
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Modern histories and reinterpretations of past cultures tend to minimize just how genuinely strange those cultures would feel if experienced directly. (opens korrents.com)
“a strangeness that we paper over in histories and modern reinterpretations.”
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Large-scale institutional trust requires multiple major competing players rather than a single monopolistic controller, even in near-monopoly industries. (opens korrents.com)
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10 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Delilah Green Doesn't Care (opens rcmnd.app)
“My favorite books I read this year were Ashley Herring Blake's Bright Falls sapphic romance trilogy: Delilah Green Doesn't Care, Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail, and Iris Kelly Doesn't Date. These are not perfect books, but…”
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Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail (opens rcmnd.app)
“My favorite books I read this year were Ashley Herring Blake's Bright Falls sapphic romance trilogy: Delilah Green Doesn't Care, Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail, and Iris Kelly Doesn't Date. These are not perfect books, but…”
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Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (opens rcmnd.app)
“My favorite books I read this year were Ashley Herring Blake's Bright Falls sapphic romance trilogy: Delilah Green Doesn't Care, Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail, and Iris Kelly Doesn't Date. These are not perfect books, but…”
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Delilah Green Doesn't Care (opens rcmnd.app)