Corn Woman 🌽 @WomanCorn@schelling.pt

For information about using clothes pegs to manage IP address distribution as a backup, just ask your sysadmin or netadmin about “pegging” next time you see them at work.

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.

oh my god. He did it. HE DID IT.

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.

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. 😰

https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUFDRAEducI

#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.

This guy won - democracy moment

From IRC:

More information and photos: https://github.com/PDP-10/its/issues/1232

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🌏"

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1756818696700657935.html

#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