Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Pictured: The last computer display on which it was appropriate to put avatars and user-interface elements in circles.

In Groundbreaking Decision, Feds Say Hacking DRM to Fix Your Electronics Is Legal: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xw9bwd/1201-exemptions-right-to-repair

This victory only serves to highlight how evil DRM is and how terrible a law the DMCA actually is.

I mean, good on her for finally figuring out the Republicans lied (Trump most bald-faced of all), but everyone and her mother tried to tell her this two years ago.

What WaPo wrote: "'I was wrong' to back Trump, Caitlyn Jenner writes for The Post. 'He has ignored our humanity' and used transgender people as pawns."

What I read: "Woman who endorsed, backed, & voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party cries, 'I never thought they would eat *our* faces!'"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/caitlyn-jenner-i-thought-trump-would-help-the-lgbtq-community-i-was-wrong/2018/10/25/3c4cd61e-d86a-11e8-83a2-d1c3da28d6b6_story.html

# pkg install hs-pandoc

Number of packages to be installed: 151

The process will require 4 GiB more space.
762 MiB to be downloaded.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]:

I forgot to link to Deo's tweet: https://twitter.com/DeoTasDevil/status/1055142034506477573

Reminder: More terrorism attacks in the US have been carried out by home-grown right-wing extremists than by Islamic terrorists & actual left-wing extremists combined. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/domestic-terrorism-white-supremacists-islamist-extremists_us_594c46e4e4b0da2c731a84df

RT @DeoTasDevil@twitter.com: So someone mailed bombs to George Soros, the Obama family, the Clintons, and a CNN offices in NYC (addressed to former CIA Director John Brennan, an MSNBC contributor).

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Wanna tell me again that we should fear "the violent Left" and ignore the abundant right wing violence?

GA sued a guy for publishing & distributing copies of the state's law code, crying copyright infringement. The US Court of Appeals just told GA that it can't copyright the law. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/appeals-court-tells-georgia-state-code-cant-be-copyrighted

#FreeBSD tip: If you need to re-read the message a package dumped when it was installed or upgraded, run:

pkg info -D <package-name>

or:

pkg info --pkg-message <package-name>

I'm not too worried, but I put updating off because of my previous bad experience with VirtualBox's kernel modules. (I headed that off by uninstalling them.)

I want to read the upgrade instructions on a separate tablet, but the only one I have atm runs Windows 10. I haven't turned it on in three days, which means it's critically out of date & would tie up the 'Net for two hours downloading & installing updates.

How I wanted to spend my evening: finding the right lightweight markup language.

How I actually spent my evening: trying to install pandoc, waiting for it and it's 1/2 GB of dependencies to download (thanks, texlive!), only to have it crap out because I'm too out of date.

Every website designer and their customers should be forbidden from accessing mock-ups, betas, and live trials at faster than 14.4 Kbps over the cheapest modems and a loose pair of twisted salt-n-pepper wires.

If it works at literal dial-up speeds, then it works at gigabit speeds. Vice versa is rarely true.

Sci-fi robot uprising movies made us afraid that computers would turn against us in order to kill us with violent force.

It happened in reality, in the form of the "Internet of Things," but they turned against us in order to kill us with monopolized advertisements instead.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/business/media/fever-advertisements-medicine-clorox.html