@Mapache

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Trickster god. Snarky progressive curmudgeon. Swears in four languages. I stand with 🏳️‍⚧️ & 🇺🇦.
I know it’s not exactly the point but like… Someone just rented an excavator and… drove it to the White House? And someone else said “Great, the excavator’s here” and was like “Just rip down that wall, don’t worry about the windows or anything, just maximum ripping please.”

Google ending support for USENET.

https://support.google.com/groups/answer/11036538

@tess I feel like drastically reinterpreted is the only feasible path. Private citizens aren’t allowed to own nuclear warheads, so there clearly is some limit to the armaments allowed under current interpretations, and we need to move that legal opinion over so it doesn’t cover weapons capable of killing large numbers of people in moments.
The winners of this year's "Small World" micro-photo competition are out. I'm especially intrigued by this astonishing shot: a struck match, caught at the exact moment of ignition.
(It ended up in second place, go figure.) #science #photography
https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2023-photomicrography-competition
2023 Photomicrography Competition

View the winning entries from the 2023 Photomicrography Competition

Nikon’s Small World
@cstross oh I know, the conclusion section is also very funny. I just like the out of context title.
"Randomized controlled trial"

I wish hard

#gamedev

putting a pronoun picker in your game is not only the right thing to do it makes the worst people in humanity have huge meltdowns basically for free so i can only say i recommend it highly
Well this is fucking clever - hide a malicious powershell script inside a license file, assuming (correctly) that no one EVER looks inside a license file. #DEFCON31 (from Andrew Brandt' War Stories presentation)

Film studios: Pirating films is bad because it prevents all the hardworking people who make these films from being paid.

Also film studios: Streaming is good because it prevents all the hardworking people who made these films from being paid, except us.

LOL avast matey, I'm in the clearrrrrrr.