Corn Woman 🌽 @WomanCorn@schelling.pt

Shot in the dark here: did you, or anyone you know, work at the #Harvard Office of Information Technology (#OIT) circa 1997-98, AKA When Everyone Quit At Once over the summer? (Before or after the quitting is fine.)

If so... I have some questions which you are probably no longer legally enjoined from answering! 🤣

remember when we all panicked about threads?

that shit's never gonna federate, is it

Discovery: It is currently impossible in Google Image Search to search for "Underware", the 1995 Macintosh extension that animated your desktop image. It searches for "underwear" instead. It does ask "Did you mean: 'Underwear?'" but it no longer gives an option to say no.

Searching "Underware" in quotes does not help. Searching "Underware mac" gives you about 50% results related to Underware for Macintosh and 50% pictures of underwear.

Flag of the day:

The only solution to the male loneliness epidemic is a mandatory foxgirl for every man.

Now if you think this is ridiculous and unreal, the alternative is to explore the decay of the social structures that once gave every other person the opportunity to create a social net that allow them to feel safe and to create healthy and long lasting bonds.

So, back to the foxgirls.

Today was ... interesting. If you followed me for the past months over on the shitbird site, you might have seen a bunch of angry German words, lots of graphs, and the occassional news paper, radio, or TV snippet with yours truely. Let me explain.

In Austria, inflation is way above the EU average. There's no end in sight. This is especially true for basic needs like energy and food.

Our government stated in May that they'd build a food price database together with the big grocery chains. But..

I didn't realise just how absolutely bizarre and honestly petty these reasons for blocking other instances were.

This is worse than letting little children run their own instances and bullying other children for the minor of differences.

Periodic reminder that the only planet where 100% of Linux systems have working audio is Mars.

Big, wonky win for #FairUse in US #copyright:

https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/5A2E1191A4B2D49785258A28004F2532/$file/22-7063-2016393.pdf

TLDR: If a tech standard becomes part of a legal standard, you can share it freely online without fear of liability for infringement.

“Many private organizations develop and copyright suggested technical standards ... We hold that the non-commercial dissemination of such standards, as incorporated by reference into law, constitutes fair use and thus cannot support liability for copyright infringement.

are pro-biotic or anti-biotic

"Ladies and gentlemen."
- Tired
- Binary
- Exclusionary

"Gentles all!"
- Shakespearean
- Inclusive
- Hard to argue with

"Yo, fuckups!"
- Even more inclusive
- Attention-grabbing
- Far too accurate

I shared this privately before, but I just got the okay to share it in public. The Bluegrass Archive is online with a website and everything. This is a MASSIVE trove of legal live #bluegrass recordings from earliest days right up to now, which you can download and listen to for free. It is one of the greatest achievements of the fan-driven #music archiving community I've ever seen. I contributed a small number of filesets out of the thousands here. #music

https://bluegrassarchive.com/

15 year old me (circa 1979) had NO IDEA where this was going to end up when he first invented the Githyanki for a D&D campaign then submitted them to Don Turnbull for the Fiend Factory column in White Dwarf (which begat the Fiend Folio, and the rest is history) ...

This is real. I just took this screenshot.

#Google #AI #ChatGPT #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMs #LLM

@brewsterkahle The Dream Was Universal Access To Knowledge. The