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@_ I'll be honest, when I see someone with the username @_, I have to ask if they're a Perl programmer.

Are you?

I wonder if anyone has a writeup of the absurd copyright claims TSR made in the late 90s.

(IIRC: Uploading a character sheet to the internet was copyright infringement. So was using the term "hit points". Personal sharing of campaign notes was only legit if done on the TSR BBS.)

as rumors that gamefaqs will be shut down arise once again, reminder that a full backup was made last year archive.org/details/Gamespot_G

type of guy who reads every "type of guy" tweet thinking "ha, at least i'm not that guy"

(this tweet brought to you by gödel's incompleteness theorem)

techbros when they notice that the duck pond does not have a robots.txt

@codicil best I can do is _Pride and Prejudice and Zombies_.

imo we're really good at the "in whole" piece of book piracy but not yet "and in part."

I wanna see people cutting up the most impactful parts of 5 books on a subject and sticking them together. adding an extra chapter in the middle that they think is missing. rewriting to make it about their favorite characters. different ending. updating technical books to give more modern advice, while keeping all the good stuff. crowdsourced links and comments added as marginalia throughout the book. recipes for every type of lasagna taken from 100 cookbooks, with shitty mpreg Garfield art added throughout. these things should feel alive.

Since (e: I am told that) Fandom apparently intends to remove text walkthroughs from GameFAQs (which Fandom now owns), a tip of the hat to Reddit user prograc, who scraped all of GameFAQs up through March 23, 2020; the full archive is available here: archive.org/details/Gamespot_G

Apple bad 

Inspecting it in Safari shows it as <a href="tel:555-0123456">555-0123456</a> but then wgetting it and looking at what I wgot down don't have that.

Why the heck is this happening. @smorkin help
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@mjgardner I especially like the <I was banned without any reason given, so I can't actually talk to the Go team> cherry on top.

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. sourcehut.org/blog/2023-01-09-

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."
arcdream.com/home/2023/01/delt

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.

"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!

bbc.com/news/business-64206913

#RightToRepair #JohnDeere @pluralistic

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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