Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

It's Friday, and no one can stop me from snacking on Count Chocula at my desk.

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.