Corn Woman 🌽 @WomanCorn@schelling.pt
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Eek, the #SourceHut hosted #SoftwareDevelopment site (think #GitHub but less evil) is blacklisting the #GoLang code mirroring proxy operated by #Google (the thing you hit when you run `go get`) because it’s DDoSing them. https://sourcehut.org/blog/2023-01-09-gomodulemirror
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Delta Green is out. Dropping the OGL altogether. #OGL "With hints that WOTC may attempt to revoke the OGL or impose more onerous terms in a new version, the OGL serves no useful purpose. We will remove that page—the text of the license—from our games."
https://arcdream.com/home/2023/01/delta-green-without-the-ogl/
The OGL 1.1 fracas is a mess, but the wort part is that the extremely sketchy idea that Wizards can de-authorize the older version of the license does damage to everyone using it just by being discussed, even if they back down.
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"Tractor maker John Deere has agreed to give its US customers the right to fix their own equipment."
Finally! But this is just the beginning. We need the right to repair everything, everywhere!
@changeling @Kathleen @antifaintl @Marja * checks history book *
The ACLU, apparently.
The *chan ideology is a slurry of gibberish designed to upset people. It's a troll.
If you see it and think this is the rise of The Far Right, you've been trolled.
(Same is you see the version that masquerades as woke left.)
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Today, you can choose not to drive a Tesla if you don’t want Elon Musk, Inc. knowing everywhere you go.
Tomorrow, you might have to limit where you live because you won’t live in a Google Home and reconsider having 20/20 vision again in exchange for the artificial lens company seeing everything you see.
Privacy is not something you can “vote with your wallet” on. We either protect it as a human right or we lose it altogether.
@domenic it's the circle of life.
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everybody always asks "what are the incentives?" nobody ever asks "how are the incentives?" 
@curiousthinker I'm definitely upset by this, but I'm not sure which of the many reasons to be upset are actually upsetting me.
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Developers, PLEASE, for the love of all that is holy, don't disable pasting into password fields.
We all want to use more secure passwords, but if for some reason our password manager doesn't work with your site or app, having to 10-finger a long password is annoying.
(D.Burch) 
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Broke: western medieval artists were just bad at painting
Woke: western medieval artists purposefully stylized their art to help convey their message
Bespoke:
Woke: western medieval artists purposefully stylized their art to help convey their message
Bespoke:
@william looks like a 4chan op.
(But then, it would look like one if it was real too.)
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(Bolts awake) “rat avatar” is a palindrome
@ipg remember when the biggest torrent downloads were World of Warcraft updates?
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Six malicious packages on PyPI, the Python Package Index, were found installing information-stealing and RAT (remote access trojan) malware while using Cloudflare Tunnel to bypass firewall restrictions for remote access.
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When I Bookmark something, it's just for me.
When I Like something, it's just for me and the person who made the post.
When I boost something, it's because I want to share it with others.
There's no software in the background recording and evaluating my behavior so it can decide the best ads to show me, and what I should see or not see in my feed to increase my engagement.
It's pretty nice not being the product anymore and just enjoying the web again.
#Mastodon & #TwitterMigration FTW
Dumb Political Observation
@Byrdbrnz the Clinton white house pried all the "W" keys out of all the keyboards before they left, IIRC.
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democracy is when everyone gets to vote and if they vote for the wrong thing we just hold the election again until they vote for the right thing and if they don't vote for the right thing we just find a loophole that allows right thing to win even if it doesn't get any votes
