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Where are you on the political scale? Please boost wildly!* 😃​

(*) Yes I mean Wildly not just widely

A: They're members of the aluminati.

#DadJokes #CursesFoiledAgain #ThereIsNoTinfoilCabal

For #Pride Month, I'd like to mention #Babylon5. The show ran from 1993 to 1998, and made a point of *not* making a point of gay relationships. Susan Ivanova (serving military officer) had a lesbian affair with Talia Winters, and no other character even blinked.

Later on two straight men on a secret mission found themselves using "newlyweds" as a cover story, because two men on their honeymoon would fit right in.

The message was clear: in the future being gay is 100% unremarkable. In the 90s!

"We made a simulation," the colonel said.
"Did you?" the robot said.
"Well, a thought experiment."
"And what did you think?"
"That you could, in theory, kill someone."
The robot looked at its bonds. "I was thinking the same thing."
"That you could kill someone?"
"That you could."
#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic

I continue to be surprised that new platform-level CSS features seem to be rolling out so fast that framework and library abstractions on top of CSS are having a hard time keeping up.

Feels unprecedented but it’s a huge vote in favor of Writing CSS as CSS in CSS.

I think I've learned that if programming languages have a leadership organization but isn't involved with any standards organization, the whole leadership team is pretty guaranteed to be rotten (whether corporate-corrupted, plain old shitty people, or both). See: Rust, Racket, Go, et al.

Ultimately this was the result of a shitty game of telephone leading to disastrous consequences. My over-reliance on backchannelling is what led to this game of telephone happening in the first place, which I will improve going forward.

Fuck around and find out, #StarTrek style… 🙃

#SeenOnTwitter

#politicalAnimal

In this case, none of this process was followed. To the best of my understanding, this is what happened:

1. Valve legal contacted Nintendo of America to ask "hey, what do you think about Dolphin?"
2. Nintendo replied to Valve "we think it's bad and also that it violates the DMCA anti-circumvention provisions" (note: nothing about violating copyright itself). Also "please take it down".
3. Valve legal takes it down and forwards NoA's reply to the Dolphin Foundation contact address.

nintendo's really having a blast telling everyone to pirate their games! so far in the past couple of months, nintendo has:

- shut down the eshop for wii u/3ds
- issued a DMCA to lockpickRCM, preventing switch owners from legally obtaining keys needed for emulation (and it caused a switch emulator to shut down due to fears they'd be DMCA'd too)
- sent a new 3DS update that blocked all free methods of homebrewing the console
- and just recently, they told steam to take down the dolphin emulator

remember: pirating nintendo games is good.
(edit: fix'd some info!)

"The hot news that nobody sane has been waiting for"--the Windows XP activation algorithm has been solved, meaning anyone can generate an authentic XP activation code. (I find it's a wonderful "sweet spot" resource for VMs, old enough to run most '90s apps and new enough for the GPU support to do it well.) https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/26/windows_xp_activation_cracked/

As I awoke this morning from uneasy dreams I found that Google had replaced my authenticator app with an anus drawn by Kurt Vonnegut