marimo @a@asentientbot.ca
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It’s not always DNS. Recently it has been a single bit in an HDMI PHY’s register. Or a single bit in a Mach-O header flag.
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I'd go a step further: if something has no commercial value, preventing people from using, sharing, modifying, or expressing it should be illegal.
Not just copyrighted things. Also any DRM protecting something no longer for sale or that doesn't receive updates or support.
Locked bootloader on a ten year old phone? Illegal. Locked down jtag pins and bootrom on an always-online device after the services are turned down? Illegal. Class action suits up the wazoo.
It should be illegal to withhold from the commons.
https://kolektiva.social/users/psychoalpastor/statuses/110975866059142715
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my body is a machine that turns blue wikipedia links into purple wikipedia links
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Tech startups these days all start out with a name that sounds like misspelling of a verb like Thiinkst or Prosspr and after they grow and merge a bunch, they rebrand to the most generic words like "One" or "Yes".
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Interesting article on the Web Environment Integrity thing, as well as why the basic logic behind it is very probably harmful: https://httptoolkit.com/blog/apple-private-access-tokens-attestation/
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in many ways, the samsung smart fridge was the first foldable
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.DS_Store?
Store Ds nuts
Store Ds nuts
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i love macos why do apple have to be like that
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There is no point in even having the #Reddit IPO now. The CEO has been getting publicly owned all week.
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This is insane. If you don’t know him, @christianselig built and continues to evolve Apollo, my favorite Reddit app, one I use every single day.
Looks like Reddit is about to put Christian (and all indie Reddit devs) out of business by massively raising their API pricing.
Sound familiar?
https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/
tech companies putting GPT into things like that girl writing "dear diary, i just learned my first curse word: it is bitch" and starting the next day's entry "dear diary bitch"
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capitalism makes using the computer not fun
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FYI if your girlfriend isn't replying to texts right now
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no idea if this will convey the message i'm trying to convey but preservation != piracy, even if they can be associated in a lot of cases
you can preserve something but not pirate it (e.g. preserving old versions of game builds without bastardising the files to run w/o Steam), you can pirate something but not truly preserve it (like publishing versions of the game with the files and executables hacked up and functionality outright removed for whatever reason)
i think this will play at Apple R744 (Mumbai) opening idk https://web.archive.org/web/20230409052119if_/https://rmm-edge.apple.com/public/fd_3840x2160_saketin_gates_ambient_v2_2f227047_9013_4f58_a987_e89c6b0f9b6e_96592-96594.mov?accessKey=1681021132_30cb0fa38580c153_/public/_WJFwmifDBvVkvJAidcRL1JDpumQ5GhX5qwQDGrVC8Kr6O5gfvec9WM9Em19nVC6t
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The estimable Freedom of the Press Foundation explains why the action Congress is pushing against TikTok is a grossly broad attack on everyone's freedom of speech.
Think about when (not if) a rogue government abuses the absurdly broad language of the proposed law.
I don't like TikTok and I loathe the Chinese regime, but this is the absolutely wrong way to deal with the genuine issues.
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my favourite fact of life is that no matter how badly you fuck up "spongebob" in the discord gif picker that fucker's always gonna show up
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This is a reminder to use https://www.movetodon.org one more time before the watertight doors on the Titanic close
