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You may have seen or heard the news about @dolphin / Valve / Nintendo from a few hours ago. If not, read e.g. pcgamer.com/nintendo-sends-val from the amazing @wes.

Unfortunately pretty much everyone has been getting the legal details wrong, incl. Dolphin themselves on their blog (now fixed).

Quick thread with my personal summary of the situation.

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i did a funny

allegedly nintendo only DMCA'd dolphin from steam due to it's inclusion of the wii common key

so here's a flag that represents the wii's common key, in hexadecimal form :)

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alert! ⚠️ a tiny kitn has been detected in your computer system!

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You know, actually, if you were to come up with the ability to go back in time, you could really have some fun by going back in time, killing, say, Andrew Jackson, then going forward well past any human lifetime and getting yourself thrown in jail for assassinating a president over 100 years prior. (Well, I say "fun". You'd be stuck in jail for assassinating a president. But it would make a fun story in a history book.)

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Okay, so I did some looking and it turns out there is no statute of limitations on presidential assassination, so if you were actually the one on the grassy knoll, I'd maybe keep that fact quiet and just keep pretending it was Oswald.

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"I mean, I'm pretty sure the statute of limitations for the assassination of John F. Kennedy has already passed, so..."

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I should point out that this is very much a unique thing. None of the others advertise working on AIX. A few say Linux, but none say AIX. Why is this available on AIX? Which hospital (system) are they advertising towards?

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I was looking through a lab magazine's comparison of lab information systems and, uh, was not expecting to find this:

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USPol, Trans Rights 

Yesterday, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey had a site put up to narc on trans people in Missouri (and likely out of state, too):

ago.mo.gov/file-a-complaint/tr

However, the site doesn't do any kind of bot filtering, data validation, or even location validation (so long as you use a VPN and switch locations up!).

With that, class... UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WHATSOEVER SHOULD YOU USE THE FOLLOWING SCRIPT TO FLOOD THE SITE WITH FALSE INFORMATION!! That would be very, very naughty!! 😈😈😈

github.com/boiled-water-tsar/e

#HackThePlanet #BashTheFash #TransRightsAreHumanRights🏳️‍⚧️

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"Well, okay, you can shit at work but you'll have to use the patient restroom that we disabled the lock on."

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"Sorry, you're no longer allowed to shit at work. You've exceeded the radiation dose limit for the year."

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So, I'm enjoying my stint here at the cancer center and all, the patients are nice and all that fun stuff, but, like, did they have to put the staff bathroom right next to the X-ray room?! Every time I hear the noise it makes, I start to wonder just how much of a dose of radiation I'm getting. Who'd have thought I'd need a dosimeter just to use the restroom...

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I need tech nerds online to understand something:

LMGTFY was only meant to be used for things that actually give you quick results when you Google them, something that is less and less common these days with how bad Google is, and was never the case for obscure niche answers.

RTFM requires there to be a manual with the answers in the first place.

If these conditions aren't met then you're just showing you're an asshole that doesn't know the answer.

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