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TikTok Using DMCA to Take Down Reverse-Engineered Source Code TorrentFreak

Jan 172021

After being launched in the Chinese market in 2016 as “Douyin”, social networking service TikTok has become one of the world’s recognizable app brands. New estimates published this month suggest that TikTok could have as many as a billion monthly users, with around 100 million of those coming from the United States. It’s safe to say the product is already a phenomenon and wildly popular, especially among younger people, but not everyone is happy with…

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2021-01-17 Comments Off

10K September jwz

Jan 172021

Today is day 10,000 of The September That Never Ended.The Internet: Mistakes Were Made.™Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.

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2021-01-17 Comments Off

Modern Retro Computer Terminals jwz

Jan 122021

Oriol Ferrer Mesià: Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.

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2021-01-12 Comments Off

Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping A Bunch Of Old CPUs Phoronix

Jan 112021

With Linux 5.10 having shipped as the latest Long Term Support (LTS) release to be maintained for at least the next five years, a discussion has begun over dropping a number of old and obsolete CPU platform support currently found within the mainline kernel. For many of the architectures being considered for removal they haven’t seen any new commits in years but as is the case once proposals are made for them to be removed…

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2021-01-11 Comments Off

Luca Ferrari: krunner and PostgreSQL Documentation Search Planet PostgreSQL

Jan 112021

How to search directly into the PostgreSQL documentation from your Plasma desktop. krunner and PostgreSQL Documentation Search If you, like me, are addicted to Plasma, the KDE desktop, you probably already know about krunner, an application launcher on steroids. krunner allows you to quickly launch, kill, switch to and manage applications, as well as executed computations and, most notably web searches. In fact, krunner exploits the Konqueror shortcuts for web searches. Konqueror is the default…

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2021-01-11 Comments Off

Assange Ruling Is A Blow Against A Free Press – A Closer Look PopularResistance.Org

Jan 112021

Judge Vanessa Baraitser’s decision to prevent Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States to face trial on espionage-related criminal charges is a partial victory for Assange, his family, and his supporters. Baraitser was not satisfied that US prison authorities would be able to prevent the award-winning journalist from taking his life, given the conditions of solitary confinement and isolation that he would likely face during pre-trial detention and in the event of his conviction. However,…

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2021-01-11 Comments Off

People Are Losing Their Jobs Over The Assault On The Capitol PopularResistance.Org

Jan 112021

Seattle’s police department is investigating two of its officers after finding out they were in Washington, DC, as public and private employees face scrutiny for partaking in the pro-Trump rally-turned-riot at the US Capitol. “The department fully supports all lawful expressions of First Amendment freedom of speech, but the violent mob and events that unfolded at the US Capitol were unlawful and resulted in the death of another police officer,”Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz said…

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2021-01-11 Comments Off

National Popular Vote Plan Bills Introduced in Eight States, So Far Ballot Access News

Jan 102021

Although state legislatures are barely beginning to work, in at least eight states bills have been introduced for the National Popular Vote Plan. They are Florida (HB 39), Kansas (HB 2002), Minnesota (SF 18), Missouri (HB 267), Pennsylvania (HB 2922), South Carolina (HB 3187), Texas (SB 130), and Virginia (SB 1101). Of these eight states, the only one with a Democratic majority in each house of the legislature is Virginia. Virginia also has a Democratic…

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2021-01-10 Comments Off

Amazon Web Services gives Parler 24-hour notice that it will suspend services to the company TechCrunch

Jan 102021

Parler is at risk of disappearing, just as the social media network popular among conservatives was reaching new heights of popularity in the wake of President Donald Trump’s ban from all major tech social platforms. Amazon Web Services, which provides backend cloud services, has informed Parler that it intends to cut ties with the company in the next 24 hours, according to a report in BuzzFeed News. Parler’s application is built on top of AWS infrastructure,…

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2021-01-10 Comments Off

Los Angeles limits ambulance services as COVID-19 infections skyrocket in California and nationwide World Socialist Web Site (en)

Jan 062021

The unfolding nightmare in the city of 4 million people is the direct result of the ongoing drive to reopen schools and non-essential businesses.

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2021-01-06 Comments Off

Nintendo Mass DMCA Takedown Removes Hundreds of Fangames from Game Jolt TorrentFreak

Jan 062021

As one of the most iconic gaming manufacturers in the world, Nintendo has been fighting piracy for decades. The company has an in-house anti-piracy division that signals the latest threats to steer enforcement actions in the right direction. In recent years it’s gone after sites and stores that offer pirated games and has assisted in the criminal prosecution against alleged members of the hacking group Team-Xecutuer. However, the smaller fish are not being ignored either.…

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2021-01-06 Comments Off

Harvard’s Top Astronomer Believes Aliens Tried to Contact Us in 2017 Motherboard

Jan 062021

You may remember in 2017 when a bizarre, blunt-shaped object came whizzing our way in space. It measured approximately half a mile in length and was moving at an irregular pace, getting alien watchers excited. The vast majority of scientists who have studied the object have said ‘Oumuamua, was a natural phenomenon, but the head of Harvard’s Astronomy department just published a book in which he says he believes the giant object was alien in…

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2021-01-06 Comments Off

DOSBox Pure for RetroArch aims to simplify classic MS-DOS gaming Ars Technica

Jan 062021

YouTube user Psyraven—who is apparently Bernard Schilling himself—created this video as an introductory demo for DOSBox Pure. Recently, indie developer Bernard Schilling published a new fork of the DOSBox classic-gaming emulator. If you’re not familiar with DOSBox, it’s a way to play classic MS-DOS games from the 1980s and 1990s on a modern Windows, Mac, or Linux PC. DOSBox Pure is an attempt to simplify and eliminate some of the donkeywork involved in actually loading…

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2021-01-06 Comments Off

No charges filed against officer who shot Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin World Socialist Web Site (en)

Jan 062021

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers, a Democrat, announced Monday the mobilization of 500 National Guard soldiers ahead of the decision to aid the police in the suppression of expected protests.

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2021-01-06 Comments Off

202█ jwz

Jan 022021

Cyriak:Previously, previously, previously, previously.

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2021-01-02 Comments Off

Some Linux/Open-Source Letdowns Last For Years Phoronix

Jan 022021

New Year’s Eve two years ago I wrote about the open-source / Linux letdowns of 2018. It was well received at the time and sparked some interesting discussions so as we celebrate the start of 2021 I figured it would be interesting to look back and see which of those letdowns were since resolved and what ones are remaining…

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2021-01-02 Comments Off

You are invited to… Wikipedia’s 20th birthday party! Wikimedia blog

Jan 022021

Wikipedia is turning 20 years old on Friday, 15 January, 2021! Join us for a global virtual birthday party as we celebrate two decades of Wikipedia and the incredible people who make it possible! Since Wikipedia first began in 2001, it has exemplified the idea that many people working together can build something truly remarkable. Twenty years later, Wikipedia continues to live up to its promise of free and open knowledge by and for humans…

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2021-01-02 Comments Off

Ranked Choice Voting Appears to Have Greatly Increased the Howie Hawkins Vote in Maine Ballot Access News

Dec 272020

Last month, Maine used ranked choice voting for president, the first state ever to do that. Howie Hawkins, the Green Party nominee, polled slightly over 1.00% in Maine last month. That made Maine his best state, by far. His second highest percentage was Hawaii, with .67%, and no other state was higher than .52%. One might say that Maine is always supportive of Green Party presidential nominees, and that is true, but not to that…

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2020-12-27 Comments Off

The Death Penalty’s Other Victims The Intercept

Dec 272020

On the day before the Trump administration killed Brandon Bernard, Shanyce Matthews sat on her deck on the north side of Milwaukee. She wore brown sheepskin boots and a bright green T-shirt printed with the word “Love” in loopy cursive below two photographs. One showed Matthews, elegant and demure in a black and white headscarf. The other showed her partner, Orlando Hall. Hall had been executed less than three weeks earlier, just before midnight on November…

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2020-12-27 Comments Off

Housing Activists Are Fighting Evictions In The Streets PopularResistance.Org

Dec 272020

Philadelphia is facing a housing crisis with little help from the Democratic city council, mayor, or governor. In the city, 5,700 people are currently unhoused. Almost a thousand sleep on the streets on a given night. But more than that, this year has already seen 4,400 evictions filed in Philly courts. Another 2,000 renters are facing the very real threat of eviction and becoming part of the unhoused. This multifaceted crisis of housing is taking place as the…

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2020-12-27 Comments Off

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