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2026-04-18
Warner Bros. Flags Its Own Website as a Piracy Portal
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2026-04-18
When Bots go Bad — Automated DMCA Takedown Problems
Within a few days we heard back from the (understandably unhappy) site owner, who explained that they were in fact the copyright holder. The takedown notification was issued by an agency working on his behalf, and their bot had mistakenly targeted the original author’s site.
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2026-04-18
Star Trek Fan Blog Triggers New Entry in Automattic’s DMCA “Hall of Shame”
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2026-04-18
Various Licenses and Comments about Them - GNU Project
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2026-04-18
Licenses & Standards | Open Source Initiative
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2026-04-18
The Open Source Definition | Open Source Initiative
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2026-04-18
Judge dismisses Vizio's call for summary judgment
The Order echoes SFC arguments in court that the claim is not preempted by copyright law and that consumers like SFC have standing to enforce the GPL as third-party beneficiaries to the GPL — without any action by copyright holders of copylefted code.
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2026-04-18
List of formerly open-source or free software - Wikipedia
Very much a list of shame, except for the continuation forks
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2026-04-18
The [Original] BSD License Problem
"[…]the license used for BSD until 1999 had a special problem — the “obnoxious BSD advertising clause.” It said that every advertisement mentioning the software must include a particular sentence[…]"
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2026-04-18
Debian, Berkeley DB, and AGPLv3
Or effectively why most of the free software world keeps on using BerkleyDB 5.x instead of the later versions under AGPLv3+proprietary
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2026-04-18
SCALE — The life and times of the AGPL
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2026-04-18
SPDX License List | Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX)
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2026-04-18
in this post, i rant about licensing
Roughly afio IANAL license, with also state of FSF-Approved distros (which is mere reactive policy rather than proactive with audits)
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2026-04-18
The long, sordid tale of Sun RPC, abbreviated somewhat, to protect the guily and the irresponsible.
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2026-04-18
Gentoo Python Guide
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2026-04-18
Railway Routing
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2026-04-18
Open Infrastructure Map
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2026-04-18
overpass turbo
Allows to filter OpenStreetMap data via the Overpass Query Language, including a wizard for simpler usage. Source Code at https://github.com/tyrasd/overpass-turbo
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2026-04-18
Light pollution map
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2026-04-18
Association des Professeurs de Mathématiques de l’Enseignement Public
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2026-04-18
Postgres EXPLAIN Visulizer (pev)
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2026-04-18
OpenUsenet — home of Diablo NNTP server
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2026-04-18
State of the UBports installer, or command line
For the Fairphone 2 but probably useful for others
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2026-04-18
The GUI should be better. A lot better. — Ross Scott
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2026-04-18
The XY Problem (Asking Y instead of X)
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2026-04-18
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
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2026-04-18
LitePub
Profile of ActivityPub used by Pleroma et al.
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2026-04-18
openings.moe
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2026-04-18
AniDB
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2026-04-18
Baka-Updates Manga / MangaUpdates
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2026-04-18
DeepL Translate
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2026-04-18
Fédération FDN
Federation of Non-Profit Internet Service Providers
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2026-04-18
The CADT Model
The "Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers" model, or "CADT" for short
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2026-04-18
Some reasons for Go to not make system calls through the standard C library
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2026-04-18
The Unix C library API can only be reliably used from C
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2026-04-18
MPlayer samples collection
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2026-04-18
Gemini is Useless
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2026-04-18
Electronics Simulator
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2026-04-18
js/ui — Subscribe touchpad gesture handlers to only touchpad events [performance]
Well known as "Moving the mouse no longer involves JavaScript"
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2026-04-18
Every Fucking Bootstrap Website Ever
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2026-04-18
Subtitles - download movie and TV Series subtitles
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2026-04-18
Kids can't use computers... and this is why it should worry you
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2026-04-18
Les gamins ne savent pas utiliser les ordinateurs… Voici pourquoi ça devrait vous inquiéter.
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2026-04-18
Kids who grew up with search engines could change STEM education forever - The Verge
Aka post-2000 kids have become so dependent on search features and smartphones, they can't use an actual computer with a tree-based filesystem
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2026-04-18
The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
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2026-04-18
DRM-Free Guide
This guide lists any suppliers of digital media provide files free of DRM and do not require the use of proprietary software.
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2026-04-18
Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation)
Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation)
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2026-04-18
Adequacy decisions
"How the EU determines if a non-EU country has an adequate level of data protection." Which includes a list of the countries recognised so far.
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2026-04-18
What You Miss By Only Checking GitHub
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2026-04-18
Code examples that accompany various MDN DOM and Web API documentation pages
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2026-04-18
WebRTC Test Landing Page
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2026-04-18
Transfert.net
«Transfert fut, [de 1999] jusqu’en mai 2002, l’un des principaux médias francophones consacrés à l’impact des nouvelles technologies.»
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2026-04-18
Let's Package jQuery — A Javascript Packaging Dystopian Novella
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2026-04-18
User Generated Content and the Fediverse — A Legal Primer
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2026-04-18
Hololive Fan Wiki
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2026-04-18
EvaWiki - An Evangelion Wiki - EvaGeeks.org
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2026-04-18
Compiler Explorer
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2026-04-18
Dumb Password Rules
A compilation of 285+ sites with dumb password rules
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2026-04-18
Wikipédia:Pastiches
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2026-04-18
Romanian orphans
In October 1966, Ceaușescu banned abortion and contraception and brought in one of the world's harshest anti-abortion laws, leading to a large spike in the number of Romanian infants abandoned to the country's orphanages.
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2026-04-18
Folklore — Do It
User testing sometimes has surprising results
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2026-04-18
Vous arrive-t-il d'infliger de l'aide ？ - Julie Quillé - MiXiT 2018
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2026-04-18
List of public invidious instances
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2026-04-18
RegisterProtocolHandler Enhancing the Federated Web | Mozilla Web Development
Wherein Mozilla knew what they should have done for the Fediverse back in 2010 but only did something so half-assed that it's unusable in practice.
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2026-04-18
Screenshots from developers — 2002 vs. 2015
"In 2002 I asked a number of developers/Unix people for screenshots of their desktops. I recently republished them, and, seeing the interest this generated, I thought it’d be fun to ask the same people* again 13 years later. To my delight I managed to reach many of them."
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2026-04-18
Initialiser une Kobo sans compte
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2026-04-18
Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) Project
The Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) provides key building blocks for software to support the world's languages, with the largest and most extensive standard repository of locale data available.
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2026-04-18
Qu'est-ce qu'un riche? | Grise Bouille
Chacun aura sans doute sa définition, mais je vous propose la mienne — un riche, c’est quelqu’un qui n’a pas besoin de travailler pour vivre
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2026-04-18
Camarades Patrons! - Journal Fakir
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2026-04-18
Sex Workers Took Refuge in Crypto. Now It’s Failing Them | Wired
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2026-04-18
An Empirical Study & Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs
Wherein humans are consistently worse at solving captchas than machine-learning bots
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2026-04-18
why not matrix?
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2026-04-18
Computers are an inherently oppressive technology
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2026-04-18
Web-based cryptography is always snake oil
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2026-04-18
Maybe you don't need Rust and WASM to speed up your JS
Article explaining how you could still improve source-map@0.6.0 very signicantly even compared to right after it's usage of Rust
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2026-04-18
🚨🚨 That's a lot of YAML 🚨🚨
"A silly emotional rant about the state of devops tooling/the infrastructure sector in 2018. #noyaml.com"
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2026-04-18
Rails' remote code execution vulnerability explained | Code Climate
(Article from 2013) Wherein automatic decoding of HTTP request bodies combined with YAML full-automatic footgun of representing native objects allowed to get full code execution in Rails applications.
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2026-04-18
Most UI Applications are Broken Real-time Applications
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2026-04-18
148624 - Tooltips persist in foreground when Firefox is in background
2023-10-08 — Finally closed after 21 years
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2026-04-18
Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist
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2026-04-18
Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from the Linux community
Spoiler — Windows users fail at reporting bugs
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2026-04-18
BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable
It removes ads, videos, and suggested content, leaving you with a clean page that doesn't slow down your device or use up your data.
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2026-04-18
Matrix Bridge Temporary Shutdown, a Retrospective
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2026-04-18
My $500M Mars Rover Mistake — A Failure Story — Chris Lewicki
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2026-04-18
Waze App — Netherlands Is The Best Country to Drive in
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2026-04-18
Semantic satiation
psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener
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2026-04-18
Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents
Where in 2015 it was discovered that Xerox WorkCentre photocopiers were replacing numbers in documents due to lossy pattern-based image compression.
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2026-04-18
Why you can’t trust CPUID - Chips and Cheese
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2026-04-18
Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance
For context — This domain was registered for fun
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2026-04-18
Some of the UK’s phone number infrastructure relies on Yahoo Groups, which is shutting down
This is 100 percent true, but don’t be worried — they use the group as an email list
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2026-04-18
Pickup Artist
Wherein someone gets roasted for negging (manipulation technique).
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2026-04-18
Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up
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2026-04-18
Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster - Adam Drake
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2026-04-18
Think you've mastered the art of server performance? Think again.
Poul-Henning Kamp, of FreeBSD and Varnish, explaining how binary-heaps do not work well on modern machines with Virtual Memory, and describing how to do it better with B-heaps
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2026-04-18
24 % des ménages détiennent 68 % des logements possédés par des particuliers — France, portrait social | INSEE
Une petite note — L'article parle de possession quand il s'agit de titres de propriété (et non de possession pour parler de propriété d'usage comme la location).
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2026-04-18
Stop Killing Games
"Dedicated to real-world action on ending the practice of publishers destroying videogames they have sold to customers" notably The Crew from Ubisoft
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2026-04-18
Nous n'avons pas numérisé.
"Nous, qui faisons des solutions numériques, nous n'avons pas compris que parfois, le papier fonctionne mieux que le numérique."
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2026-04-18
NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth
Where they changed Voyager 1 memory layout to account for a portion of memory being corrupted
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2026-04-18
On Human Bots
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2026-04-18
Notes from a 1984 trip to Xerox PARC
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