Well, we will know things will have gotten real bad when they start approaching sex offenders for fertility studies in an Operation Paperclip type arrangement

Fun fact, the url in the original ad redirects to this video because the MPA couldn’t be bothered with the domain renewal

www.piracyisacrime.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Wouldn't_Steal_a_Car

Sounds like a pretty average day in the Linux community

BRICS: For some reason, we’re going to make a money laundering collective for dictatorships and be shocked when people call us up on it and we’ll blame the EU

Well, let me start with this gorilla they called Harambe…

This worked out great for Lenin and Stalin who just skipped the middle step and outlawed the church, then put their statues everywhere

Idiot, you’re supposed to double down on the bullshit not delete it like a coward, especially from a place no one cares about

Please down vote this post, it is a press release from a ultra right wing xenophobic Australian political party

I remember this being discussed at length on various forums at the time (the legality, questions about what would happen if it all fell into the sea.) but as with so much of the Internet, it appears to have been largely lost. Luckily I was not imagining things this time and did find a couple of references.

Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and the world’s smallest nation | Ars Technica

The Pirate Bay Wants to Buy Sealand * TorrentFreak

Remember when they tried to buy Sealand?

Your reminder that Nintendo 64 games on the Nintendo Switch are using an open source emulator that Nintendo has not contributed to or endorsed in anyway, and is believed to be using game ROMs collected by preservationists.

Brocollini is a licensed trademark

Relevant xkcd

Isn’t this better to understand about what the program is trying to do, which a user really only has a passing influence on

For me, it’s the blog posts, written with a level of arrogance and condescension that they are “fixing” the limitations of TCP\IP and if you aren’t using them, you’re making the Web worse for everyone

I had a look cause you made me curious… It’s just hippies. “Disassociating from the system will destroy it” “I’m sick of furry porn re-enforcing capitalist ideals” “The only reason you’re not a Marxist is that you didn’t really ‘listen’ when you were in college. Wait is Marxism the bad one?”

I love Ground News as a concept, but I always feel suss using anything which is promoted in sponsorship deal by YouTubers.

Is there anything I should know about them as an organisation? I feel by design if they were to have biases or open to manipulation that it would be really obvious…

I was meaning more in the “trusting Google” sense, how is this different to trusting VeriSign?

Can someone explain to me how this is different to the trust system used by SSL Certificates?

get_iplayer or yt-dlp should be able to pull from the relevant UK VOD service