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John Deere just told the copyright office that only corporations can own property, humans can only license it http://boingboing.net/2017/04/22/drm-eschatology.html
Just gonna throw this out here - any Ruby gem for relatively quick & accurate language detection that you know of?

Chapter 3 of Cory Doctorow's new novel, Walkaway, which is being released later this month. The links for the excerpts of the first two chapters are on the page, or you can click the link to Cory's page for them, and other great things he's written.

http://www.tor.com/2017/04/17/excerpts-cory-doctorow-walkaway-chapter-3/

This verifies a connection to my Keybase account, which also links to my GitHub and Twitter accounts, it's signed using the key listed on zeonfederated.com, which was my domain for many years and uses SSL.
So, here's my #mastodon toot #search engine PoC: https://cler.ical.ist

hi all! i have a thing to share with you! my new instance is ready and it is a little different...

toots on this instance are ephemeral; they disappear after a while (between 5 minutes and an hour) depending on the current phase of the moon.

https://ephemeral.glitch.social

something glitchy, something witchy...

feel free to boost

let's
break
this
software!!!

I made an instance previewer, so you can see the local/federated feeds of an instance without signing up: http://www.unmung.com/mastoview?url=xoxo.zone&view=federated
Didn't really get into #doctorwho tonight and can't quite put my finger on why.

Ah the inevitable "no *you're* doing it wrong" phase of FOSS projects.

My thoughts? I like instances that set tone by blocking the ones they won't work with. I like instances that show full throttle shitposting from wherever because sometimes there's a nugget in the crap.

That's why I have accounts on multiple instances.

It's super cool how quickly Danny from the EFF jumped on this issue to inject some legal sanity: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/1847#issuecomment-294305367

(re. pawoo.net and content caching)