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This thing Facebook did — running an MITM on Snapchat and other competitors’ TLS connections via their Onavo VPN — is so deeply messed up and evil that it completely changes my perspective on what that company is willing to do to its users.

Nintendo DMCA'd the biggest site for pokemon fangames, Relic Castle, earlier today. It hosted countless fangames, as well as hundreds of fan-made resource packs for fangame development, tutorials and guides to help new devs, and hosted biannual pokemon game jams. Apparently, they contacted the site's hosts directly, resulting in the site being immediately shut down with no warning, giving none of the site's users a chance to back up anything. This is the greatest blow the pokemon fangame community has ever received - Relic Castle was the #1 biggest hub of fangame development on the entire Internet, and now it, and all of the resources hosted on it, are gone. Not only were countless fangames lost, but this will severely hinder the development of other fangames in the future, especially newer devs.

holy shit never thought i'd see the day where Node got synchronous require()s for ESM 😭

(If it doesn't mean anything to you, don't worry about it)

joyeecheung.github.io/blog/202

@theropologist when it became useful to claim our opponents were Nazis (to steal the universal condemnation) we stopped emphasizing the loserdom.

But actual neo-nazis are still losers

@gersande Wikipedia rules, especially around notability, reliable sources, and original research just wreck attempts to improve it.

khtml is like, a cute initiative, but nobody's gonna use this small-time browser engine

I just saw that Mozilla is retiring the Mozilla Location Service which provides an open, crowdsourced alternative to proprietary location services from Google and other vendors. 😰

github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/iss

This is used by GNOME and thus Fedora, Ubuntu, Endless OS, etc. to help provide OS-level location services without requiring every app to implement its own. And apparently a patent troll is part of the reason Mozilla stopped investing in it. 🙃

#OpenSource #Linux #GNOME #Mozilla

This is why Piracy is not Theft. It happen with Sony taking away movies and Anime that people purchased.

Microsoft did the same thing when they forced Minecraft players to migrate to Microsoft accounts. If you didn't migrate on time, tough luck, you lose access to your copy of Minecraft that you purchase.

Therefore, if buying is not ownership, then piracy is not theft they say.

I saw this video a few days ago, and yes, this is pretty egregious.

youtube.com/watch?v=rUFDRAEduc

#enshittification #microsoft #minecraft

Today, 3/14, is Pi Day in the US, where the date corresponds to the first three significant digits of the eponymous mathematical constant. Europeans find this baffling, since there, under the metric system, Pi is exactly 10.

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