volt4ire 🌹 @volt4ire@mastodon.social

nope you were right the first time

Republicans just introduced a "privacy protection" bill backed by Google and Facebook that's meant to preempt state legislation like California's and future regulation under a progressive administration https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190116/08345541403/2019-push-bad-faith-loophole-filled-privacy-legislation-begins.shtml

Presented without comment (no but in all seriousness this is an awesome single-serving site that displays upcoming local snow fall) https://howmuchsnowamigoingtoget.com/

The last DerbyCon? @HOPEconf@twitter.com did it first! https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/01/15/0453256/derbycon-will-hold-its-last-infosec-conference-in-september-this-year

quick someone photoshop this except as Baudrillard's McSimulacrum (via VersoBooks@birdsite)

@aral 🙋🙋

This is so clever: a SCP vulnerability that uses terminal control characters to hide the names of malicious files being downloaded https://thehackernews.com/2019/01/scp-software-vulnerabilities.html

I wonder if Ivanka Trump leading the search for the new World Bank president will turn out like that time Cheney lead the search for Bush's vice presidential running mate https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/ivanka-trump-world-bank-president.html

OH: 'Creative works are not "protected" by copyright – they're *restricted* by copyright' #WikipediaDay

For its first four years, Wikipedia's homepage (which now asks you to select your language) only presented two options: English and "Everything else" -@CarwilBJ@twitter.com #WikipediaDay

SuperTuxKart now has networking support 😺😺 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=SuperTuxKart-0.10-Beta

I fucking love the East Village http://evgrieve.com/2019/01/thursdays-parting-shot.html

(see this thread for background https://twitter.com/conniechan/status/1083748071777812481)

RT 🔒 the reason that China's social networks aren't ruled by advertising is China has always rigorously protected their local markets. the Great Firewall was more about protecting domestic industries than censorship, which empirically has never been as effective as people say

This is the most Axios dot com statement ever https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-codebook-ef123e7e-3916-44ad-b7c6-2161441fd374.html?chunk=0#story0

Early contender for Photoshop of the year: "It's Bernie, Bitch" https://thebaffler.com/all-tomorrows-parties/its-bernie-bitch-frost

Nethack is so old it even predates the GPL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetHack#NetHack_General_Public_License