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This is journalism. They think lasers work like in science fiction, where you shoot a beam, and there is like this small beam ejected that flies towards the target at slow speed.

RE: https://wetdry.world/users/avesbury_rosetta/statuses/112259750743540070

Nothing because we didn't have social media to spread rumors across the planet. What were we supposed to do, post it on our Geocities page and write an ICQ/AIM bot to spread conspiracy theories?

Even then half the planet was still on dialup

"zeitgeist" can be translated as "time ghost". when people talk about putting something aside "for the time being", that's what they mean.

A reminder that on Monday, when the Solar Eclipse occurs, there will be earthquakes.

It's not because of the eclipse. It's because today alone there were almost 300 earthquakes. And last year there were an average of 2,000 earthquakes a week. They are pretty common. We just don't notice them because they don't always occur near us.

But when they happen during significant events, it presents an excellent money making opportunity for people with no morals. So there's scary rumors about earthquakes on Monday. And there will be. Maybe there will be 300 earthquakes. Maybe some will be significant. It most likely has nothing to do with the eclipse, because it happens daily, with and without an eclipse.

TLDR: earthquakes are common. And tying it to a celestial event is a great opportunity for charlatans.

#earthquake #eclipse

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

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