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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.

The Zeitgeist has changed, it's no longer 2004 and Stewart can't operate in the environment he personally created. I'm glad that every Soylennial will see their God fail and be exposed as irrelevant as their shit takes they've had stuck in their brain for twenty years.

The ex-president of #Mongolia trolling #Putin 😂

"After Putin’s talk. I found Mongolian historic map. Don’t worry. We are a peaceful and free nation🌏"

threadreaderapp.com/thread/175

#Ukraine #Russia #Tucker #Carlson #MAGA #GOP #US

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.)

>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
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