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The warrior roared and the barista roared back much to everyone's shock.

"You challenging me?!"

The warrior gaped, axe in hand, suddenly unsure of how to proceed, "Yes?"

"Then get in line and I'll deal with you when it's your turn."

The warrior shuffled to the back of the line sheepishly, until finally, it was his turn.

"So, we meet again."

"Unicorn latte please," the warrior mumbled.

"No duel?"

"You've... proven your bravery."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #Writing #TerylsTales #UrbanFantasy

OH, ALSO: third-party app marketplace creators must have €1,000,000 ‘letter of credit’

So yeah this ONLY benefits big companies with bad intentions like Facebook and Epic

Fuck you #Apple for intentionally doing this the bad way.

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Whoever decided this should be a real magic card deserves an award

Are there any browsers built using WebKit other than Safari?

(There were a lot, but they seem to all be dead or have migrated to Chromium.)

@Hyolobrika @colinsmatt11 Sone is the Twitter/Fedi-alike built on Hyphanet (formerly Freenet.)

Identities there are (of course) public keys.

@flats they said spam/platform manipulation.

This is, of course, untrue.

I'll probably get unbanned in a couple weeks with no explanation, if others' reports are indicative.

>new browser
>ask the developer "is it a new browser or google chrome"
>they don't get it
>pull out a chart explaining the difference between a new browser and google chrome
>they laugh and say "it's a good browser ma'am"
>download the browser, look inside
>it's google chrome

Tom Lehrer at age 85, swearing 

Via Wikipedia:

> In 2012 rapper 2 Chainz sampled Lehrer's song "The Old Dope Peddler", on his 2012 debut album... In 2013, Lehrer said he was "very proud" to have his song sampled "literally sixty years after I recorded it".

> Lehrer went on to describe his official response to the request to use his song: "As sole copyright owner of 'The Old Dope Peddler', I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?"

Getting banned from Twitter shows me I never did get a reliably good feed here

this month two apps on my phone have enshittified to the point of unusability

both were ones i actually paid money for

everything else (besides pokemon go) has been fine

foss people go on about how "free" doesn't mean gratis, but so often the cost of the real freedom turns out to be the opportunity cost of the profits the developer refused to make from it

#Today I learned IBM published the source code for the original PC BIOS. I always knew the clean room reïmplementation story, but didn't realize the original sources were public at the time, too.

https://github.com/philspil66/IBM-PC-BIOS

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/12018/why-did-ibm-make-the-pc-bios-source-code-public

@enkiv2 no sympathy for Jezebel (which was always bad), but these policies will also negatively affect actually good sites.

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