Six malicious packages on PyPI, the Python Package Index, were found installing information-stealing and RAT (remote access trojan) malware while using Cloudflare Tunnel to bypass firewall restrictions for remote access.
When I Bookmark something, it's just for me.
When I Like something, it's just for me and the person who made the post.
When I boost something, it's because I want to share it with others.
There's no software in the background recording and evaluating my behavior so it can decide the best ads to show me, and what I should see or not see in my feed to increase my engagement.
It's pretty nice not being the product anymore and just enjoying the web again.
#Mastodon & #TwitterMigration FTW
It's just dawned on me. The hyperlink is the greatest invention since computing as a whole. It's truly incredible that you can easily transverse swaths of information with a single click. Incredible that there are no silos. The dream behind the creation of the internet, through all the cruft, lives on.
Protip:
When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,
"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes
I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."
The third edition of the beloved _The Shadow of Yesterday_ is here: https://www.arkenstonepublishing.net/tsoy
And that version is also CC.
For those with OGL worries, CRN Games released a bunch of their stuff under CC-BY:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080501100028/http://files.crngames.com/cc/
Just a reminder: the Cairn SRD and the game files (Affinity Publisher) are all available as CC-BY-SA 4.0, for free, here: https://cairnrpg.com/
All the text on the website is also CC-BY-SA, including the d666 spellbook table, my GLoG hack, and anything else you can find that isn't linked anywhere.
Please, hack my game.