Tristan Partin @tristan957@mastodon.social

Got a promotion to Thunderbird Product & BizDev Manager!

When I joined Thunderbird was at $700k annual revenue and the project was considered (un)dead.

Now we're at ~$3m annual revenue, we have 15 full-time ppl - and the product is rapidly improving!

I look forward to creating the best communication tool on the planet.

Future looks bright! 🚀

@deavmi Blocked you.

got 4800 servers in an abandoned warehouse by the docks, all instantiating java.net.URL and putting them into a hashtable

I don’t normally promote “piracy” since I prefer to use Free Software, but I think the situation with GTA3 is very messed up.

I personally purchased TES: Morrowind with the intention of playing it using OpenMW. I really like the idea of Free Software implementations of games, even if they use copyrighted assets (In the case of OpenMW, the assets can only legally be acquired by purchasing the game).

I made a personal mirror of re3, which is a Free reverse engineering project of GTA3, with the intention of someday purchasing the game to play. Not long after I made my mirror, the re3 project was attacked by a bogus DMCA, and taken off of GitHub.

I have just made my clone of re3 available over IPFS. It can be downloaded like so:

git clone http://Qmf787bxzmbquZp4Q2SvRVvJVuNSM1UwYQUcp7wDqt6QVq.ipfs.localhost:8080 re3

GTA3 (and other early GTA games) were taken off of Steam, and other storefronts. All this was done to artificially eliminate competition - even among their own previous products - for their recent “remaster” of the old GTA games.

Now that GTA3 is no longer available to legally purchase in its original form, I believe it is perfectly justified to download from alternative sources (colloquially known as pirating). I hope people find this mirror of re3 useful for playing the game.

. #GTA #GTA3 #GitHub #DMCA

The stuff going into Nightly Thunderbird is really amazing. I encourage folks to use Thunderbird Nightly or Beta (if you want to avoid more bugs). You'll see amazing updates this cycle.

@iron_bug foss is worse than proprieatary, we finally got there guys, every time, without fail

I wonder how much of humanity would be on board with petitioning the Human Rights Council to make backstories to recipes on recipe web pages a crime against humanity.

This is the single greatest triumph of technology over itself, boost if you agree.