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Every time I catch sight of "1 Jan" in a status/menu bar, for the briefest of moments I think whatever device has had some kind of Problem with its RTC
Morning Fediverse!
Morning Fediverse!
I cannot contain my hype for the #EmeraldDragon English translation that was released for the #PCEngine CD.
Emerald Dragon is one of a handful of games that I resigned myself to never being able to play and experience in English. Sometimes you just need to give it a couple of decades. 😂
Here is my original copy that I mentioned previously along with the original strategy guide. Dust jacket intact!
Translation can be located at https://stargood.org/trans/emdr.php
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Hi #39c3 !
This year at #MoiN we tried something new and offered a lot of different interactive activities as well as a chill out beach area :)
* Building Fidget Toys
* Building Name Tags
* Upcycle Bottle Caps
* Silent Disco
* Inspect Bugs (Insects) under a Microscope
* Side Quest Generator
* Beach
Feel free to leave feedback in the comments :) Did you enjoy it?
(You can select multiple options in the poll :)
@wlanaLana ooh, to learn only after. Seems like I missed a lot. Did enjoy the cold breeze on the beach, didn't even get a single jellyfish bite!
深夜のだれも起きてねぇときにあげる
瑞士 Valais 邦警方星期四下午宣佈，Crans-Montana 鎮酒吧火災「約40人」死亡，115人受傷
較重要的後續發展是慘劇經過：最初傳出發生爆炸後出現大火，但當局調查及傳媒訪問目擊者的資料都顯示，應該是先有火，然後才有爆炸
Bandschleifer, aber als Drill Instructor für Musiker
Die Videos vom #39c3 zu sehen ist ein bisschen wie ein Fediverse-Klassentreffen. Cory Doctorow, Arne Semsrott und Helena Steinhaus hab ich schon. Es vermittelt mir das Gefühl, mit meinem Rechtsempfinden nicht alleine zu sein.
Tut richtig gut, Menschen mit moralischem Kompass auf der Bühne schlaue Dinge sagen zu hören 😍
Bandschleifer, aber als Drill Instructor für Musiker
service toot: remember to remove the AAA batteries from your DECT to avoid a corrosive surprise. #39c3
Die Videos vom #39c3 zu sehen ist ein bisschen wie ein Fediverse-Klassentreffen. Cory Doctorow, Arne Semsrott und Helena Steinhaus hab ich schon. Es vermittelt mir das Gefühl, mit meinem Rechtsempfinden nicht alleine zu sein.
Tut richtig gut, Menschen mit moralischem Kompass auf der Bühne schlaue Dinge sagen zu hören 😍
half-baked concept: eff dash
California residents now have a real tool against the data broker industry.
The state has launched DROP, a single portal to demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers in one request, for free.
To start: https://consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov/
The nonprofit research group Epoch AI is tracking the physical imprint of the technology that’s changing the world.
https://www.404media.co/researchers-are-hunting-america-for-hidden-datacenters/
9 days after Inauguration Day, 404 Media wrote about how this declassified World War II-era government guide to sabotaging fascism became one of the most popular open source books on the internet.
One of our top stories this year. Happie holidays <3 https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/
This year was a busy year!
This year I wrote 28 articles for Privacy Guides, created 4 designs for our new merch store, started a new project you will soon hear more about, all while still working on my own projects as well. It was a busy year, but it was a good year.
May the next one bring even more new projects and community growth!
There will be many hard battles for privacy rights to fight in 2026. But together, there is nothing we cannot accomplish ✊💛
It's public domain day!
So today and for the rest of the month, I'm going to be highlighting films and other things that have newly entered the public domain in this thread.
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We will be making the full export of infobeamer.c3voc.de for #39c3 available shortly.
This will include everything (regardless of the set time limit) that was confirmed, but then never deleted.
If you submitted a slide and don't want it to be included in the export, please make sure to delete it until 2026-01-03 10:00 CET.
넥슨재팬은 상장 회사로서 ESG 관련 자율공시와 관련해 집게손가락과 관련해, 그리고 마비노기 웨카 경매장과 관련한 직권 사용자 연령 등급 변경에 대해서 주주에게 책임감 있게 답변할 의무가 있습니다.
두 문제 모두 넥슨 이사회에 설치된, 회사의 준법 의무를 감시하는 컴플라이언스 기구가 제대로 작동하지 않는 상황을 의심하게 합니다. 2023년에도, 2025년에도 제대로 작동하지 않았고, 두 문제 모두 일시적, 장기적 주주의 이익을 침해할 여지가 있습니다.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fb73sz2bajxgbtefpbjaqj46/post/3mbdyoq37r227
Frage an die Tech-Bubble: Am Sonntag ist der erste digitale Unabhängigkeitstag - #DID oder #DUT . Auch das Archiv Soziale Bewegungen hat sich überlegt, wo wir uns von Techgiganten lösen können. Viel bleibt nicht mehr - die gesamte Infrastruktur basiert bei uns auf Open source Lösungen. Aber einen Cloud-Service nutzen wir noch: GitHub - inzwischen in der Hand von Microsoft. Wohin sollen wir wechseln? Natürlich können wir unsere repositories lokal hosten, was keine große Mühe machen würde. Damit wären sie aber nicht mehr allgemein zugänglich - und vielleicht finden ja doch irgendwelche Menschen unseren Code nützlich. Wohin also wechseln? SourceForge? Immerhin kein Konzern, aber trotzdem in Kalifornien. Gibt es Alternativen?
Hospitals reducing services due to lack of fuel
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights has announced that several hospitals and health facilities in the enclave have been forced to reduce services or cease operations due to an Israeli blockade on fuel.
@tomTom Casavant it did work. I was honestly pretty shocked by that game though...has me rethinking whether Indiana should be the favorite to win it all
@pluralisticCory Doctorow being on fire at #39c3. Join a #union!
Child freezes to death in Nuseirat camp
A young girl has died in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza due to extreme cold inside displacement tents, as winter temperatures worsen and families remain without proper shelter or heating.
She has been identified as Malak Rami Ghoneim.
Correct use of the cooker range hood by Haru.
내가 스스로를 과대평가하는가 싶을 때 항상 떠올리는 니체의 <이 사람을 보라>
Python Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
Link: https://mkennedy.codes/posts/python-numbers-every-programmer-should-know/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46454470
https://feddit.org/post/23708740
And it involved dancing naked around a bonfire while the full moon was shining.Iirc.🤔
Bread
#poll
How about a little fridge or no fridge poll thread? Feel free to boost and play along. I will name a thing and we will vote on where it should be kept. Fridge or no fridge.
I realise eggs will polarise nations. But let's give it a go....
#poll #PleaseBoost
Let's start with ketchup, tomato sauce.
How about a little fridge or no fridge poll thread? Feel free to boost and play along. I will name a thing and we will vote on where it should be kept. Fridge or no fridge.
I realise eggs will polarise nations. But let's give it a go....
#poll #PleaseBoost
Let's start with ketchup, tomato sauce.
TIL: ArcaOS: a modern 32-bit OS/2 successor that works on current hardware, includes a lot of software compatibility layers like Odin to run Win32 applications, kLIBC to run Linux applications and OpenJDK to run Java applications.
And it's closed source and proprietary.
And it costs $139 for personal use.
More here: https://www.arcanoae.com
I genuinely wonder if there's a market and a consumer for this OS. Who might use it? Is OS/2 Warp is still in production? In some critical infrastructure maybe? Banks? Governments?
It's certainly not a hobbyist and enthusiast OS.
You can even trade up your existing OS/2 support subscription to ArcaOS support subscription.
It's such a blast from the past!
#ArcaOS #OS2 #OS2Warp #OS2Warp4
If I could ask just one thing of 2026:
Let it be the year of widespread radical resistance to "#GenAI".
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
Aren't we, technically, celebrating a revolution?
Alle aufgezeichneten Talks vom #39c3 finden sich hier https://media.ccc.de/tags/39c3
Meine persönlichen Hilights:
- Fossile Industrie liebt KI
- Power cycles statt Burnout, wie Einflussnahme nicht verpufft
- „KI“, Digitalisierung und Longevity als Fix für ein kaputtes Gesundheitssystem?
- Brennende Wälder und Kommentarspalten
- The Heartbreak Machine: Nazis in the Echo Chamber
- Klar, das Känguru...
- persist, resist, stitch
Ich hab bei Weitem nicht alles gesehen...
Trans communities warned for years about the NYT's transphobia, but the specifics of how this was ordered were often shrouded behind corporate hierarchy. No more. Sweeney lays out specifically how the highest ranks of the NYT rigged coverage in favor of anti-trans bigots.
Happy New Year from all of us at Privacy Guides 💛
This year was a busy year!
This year I wrote 28 articles for Privacy Guides, created 4 designs for our new merch store, started a new project you will soon hear more about, all while still working on my own projects as well. It was a busy year, but it was a good year.
May the next one bring even more new projects and community growth!
There will be many hard battles for privacy rights to fight in 2026. But together, there is nothing we cannot accomplish ✊💛
GPLv2 affirmation…
I don’t generally post here as people have probably noticed, but here’s a pdf of a recent court ruling, and this turns out to be the easiest way for me to link to a copy of it, since I don’t really maintain any web presence normally and I don’t want to post pdf’s to the kernel mailing lists or anything like that.
And the reason I want to post about it, is that it basically validates my long-held views that the GPLv2 is about making source code available, not controlling the access to the hardware that it runs on.
The court case itself is a mess of two bad parties: Vizio and the SFC. Both of them look horribly bad in court - for different reasons.
Vizio used Linux in their TVs without originally making the source code available, and that was obviously not ok.
And the Software Freedom Conservancy then tries to make the argument that the license forces you to make your installation keys etc available, even though that is not the case, and the reason why the kernel is very much GPLv2 only. The people involved know that very well, but have argued otherwise in court.
End result: both parties have acted badly. But at least Vizio did fix their behavior, even if it apparently took this lawsuit to do so. I can’t say the same about the SFC.
Please, SFC - stop using the kernel for your bogus legal arguments where you try to expand the GPLv2 to be something it isn’t. You just look like a bunch of incompetent a**holes.
The only party that looks competent here is the judge, which in this ruling says
Plaintiff contends the phrases, “machine-readable” and “scripts used to control compilation and installation” support their assertion in response to special interrogatory no. 4 that Defendant should “deliver files such that a person of ordinary skill can compile the source code into a functional executable and install it onto the same device, such that all features of the original program are retained, without undue difficulty.”
The language of the Agreements is unambiguous. It does not impose the duty which is the subject of this motion.
Read as a whole, the Agreements require Vizio to make the source code available in such a manner that the source code can be readily obtained and modified by Plaintiff or other third parties. While source code is defined to include “the scripts used to control compilation and installation,” this does not mean that Vizio must allow users to reinstall the software, modified or otherwise, back onto its smart TVs in a manner that preserves all features of the original program and/or ensures the smart TVs continue to function properly. Rather, in the context of the Agreements, the disputed language means that Vizio must provide the source code in a manner that allows the source code to be obtained and revised by Plaintiff or others for use in other applications.
In other words, Vizio must ensure the ability of users to copy, change/modify, and distribute the source code, including using the code in other free programs consistent with the Preamble and Terms and Conditions of the Agreements. However, nothing in the language of the Agreements requires Vizio to allow modified source code to be reinstalled on its devices while ensuring the devices remain operable after the source code is modified. If this was the intent of the Agreements, the Agreements could have been readily modified to state that users must be permitted to modify and reinstall modified software on products which use the program while ensuring the products continue to function. The absence of such language is dispositive and there is no basis to find that such a term was implied here. Therefore, the motion is granted.
IOW, this makes it clear that yes, you have to make source code available, but no, the GPLv2 does not in any way force you to then open up your hardware.
My intention - and the GPLv2 - is clear: the kernel copyright licence covers the software, and does not extend to the hardware it runs on. The same way the kernel copyright license does not extend to user space programs that run on it.
@torvaldsLinus Torvalds
Always good to hear from you, Linus.
Though I have to say:
I was hoping for a Christmas greeting — not a reminder that some people still don’t understand GPLv2 in 2025.
TL;DR (IMHO):
The GPLv2 is about making source code available.
It is not about forcing vendors to open their hardware or provide installation keys.
You must be able to:
- copy
- modify
- redistribute the code
including using it elsewhere.
You are not entitled to reinstall modified software on the original device and expect it to keep working.
Open source software is not a backdoor mandate for open hardware.
If that had been the intent, the license would have said so.
It didn’t.
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