Corn Woman 🌽 @WomanCorn@schelling.pt

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: https://archive.org/details/Gamespot_Gamefaqs_TXTs

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

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. https://sourcehut.org/blog/2023-01-09-gomodulemirror

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."
https://arcdream.com/home/2023/01/delta-green-without-the-ogl/

"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!

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64206913

#RightToRepair #JohnDeere @pluralistic

Today, you can choose not to drive a Tesla if you don’t want Elon Musk, Inc. knowing everywhere you go.

Tomorrow, you might have to limit where you live because you won’t live in a Google Home and reconsider having 20/20 vision again in exchange for the artificial lens company seeing everything you see.

Privacy is not something you can “vote with your wallet” on. We either protect it as a human right or we lose it altogether.

#privacy #humanRights #BigTech #peopleFarming #capitalism

everybody always asks "what are the incentives?" nobody ever asks "how are the incentives?" 😭

Developers, PLEASE, for the love of all that is holy, don't disable pasting into password fields.

We all want to use more secure passwords, but if for some reason our password manager doesn't work with your site or app, having to 10-finger a long password is annoying.

🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒

#️⃣CatSalad

Broke: western medieval artists were just bad at painting
Woke: western medieval artists purposefully stylized their art to help convey their message
Bespoke:

(Bolts awake) “rat avatar” is a palindrome

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.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malicious-pypi-packages-create-cloudflare-tunnels-to-bypass-firewalls/

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

democracy is when everyone gets to vote and if they vote for the wrong thing we just hold the election again until they vote for the right thing and if they don't vote for the right thing we just find a loophole that allows right thing to win even if it doesn't get any votes

Academia in a nutshell.

"The manga is already very fun on its own, so at first, we had (Erika) Yoshida, who was in charge of series composition, focus on filling in the gaps between panels in a way that was logical and realistic. But as we progressed in writing the script, we came to realize that realism was not the only way to express the charms of the work. So in order to depict the energy of its comedic scenes and express the emotions of adolescent drama, we use methods and approaches exclusive to animation, as well as adding supplementary gags for connecting scenes with help from the manga staff."

THANK YOU

@fluffy @Grandtheftautism @Terry Disputed elections have been happening for a long time. 1984 was the last US election I am aware of where the losing side accepted defeat.

In 1980 the Democrats made claims of media manipulation and the spoiler candidate

1988 - Lee Atwater and the whole Willie Horton thing plus Fox News emerging as a player

1992 - Republicans claim Ross Perot was run as a spoiler

1996 - Questions about fund raising practices by the Republicans against the DNC, also more Perot

2000 - The whole hanging chads/selected not elected thing

2004 - Both sides raised questions on results

2008 - Generally thought to be tricks in a number of states, although accepted Obama won

2012 - as 2008 above

2016 - The whole Russia hacked the election nonsense by Democrats

2020 - massive voter fraud in key states, stop the steal and J6 BS

I doubt the system will let election be held in 2024