Fun fact: While mudita is Pali for “vicarious joy”, it’s also Spanish for “little mute girl”.

If your kids’ school laptops are surveilled, they’re surveilled by someone. Let’s call that someone Joe. Joe is a person who took a low-paying job that lets him surveil your kids. Joe likes his job, because he gets to surveil your kids. He gets to turn on the camera and look in your kids’ room. He gets to read the chat messages your kids send to their classmates.

Your kids would be better off without Joe in their lives. Joe is not a source of security. Joe is not protecting your kids; Joe is a threat to them.

“A story shared by Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, uncovered that the current leaders of Signal, an allegedly ‘secure’ messaging app, are activists used by the US state department for regime change abroad,” Durov wrote on his own Telegram channel.

In fact, the folks running Signal — notably Moxie Marlinspike and Meredith Whittaker — have a long history of effective security & privacy activism. Whittaker was one of the organizers of the Google Walkouts, one of the more effective pieces of tech worker activism in recent history. And Moxie has bumped heads with the US intelligence community more than once, and famously with the Saudis too.

Regulating a money scam that uses art as a token isn’t regulating art, it’s regulating money scams.

Earth’s Mightiest Herpes.

Suing your former customers, now there’s a way to make people want to do business with you!

A law is something that is fundamentally accepted to be true but it cannot be proven.

Counterexamples: The law of sines and law of cosines in trigonometry.

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Once again, copyright maximalists fail to understand the medium they profit from, and propose to destroy it.

The display of hypertext always involves the active participation of both clients and servers. It has never been dictated solely by document authors. A given hypertext document (e.g. a web page) may involve resources drawn from many servers, including ones not under the control of the document’s author. In addition, client behavior may vary from that expected by the document’s author; in matters as minor as the selection of font size, or as major as whether to display images or execute script code. This separation of control is a fundamental feature of the medium, and gives rise to many of the medium’s strengths: for instance, the development of servers, clients, and documents may advance semi-independently, serving different interests.

Users may choose clients that they believe will better serve their needs. In many cases, users have chosen clients that take steps to mitigate the power of advertisers to control the medium: see e.g. the adoption of pop-up blocking (pioneered in Netscape plug-ins and minority browsers like iCab and Opera) and the later adoption of anti-malware technology such as Google Safe Browsing by Firefox and Opera as well as Google’s own Chrome. These choices have strengthened the medium, making it more usable and thus more popular: imagine how unpleasant the web would be today without the pop-up blocking developed 20+ years ago.

I’m too sleepy to slut.

Depends on if you need to know what “qualia” means, or if you need to know what a “Parisian doobjob” is.

This is set to music at the end and beginning of the Alphaville album Afternoons in Utopia.

I quit software but I still grow beans!

All true! And if you want the service to be up 99.99% of the time, you can’t rely on waking someone up to fix it.

Aww, thanks.

Diet is what you eat, not what you buy or what recipes you read on the web.

Clearly this means it’s already ended. An you sure you’re not in an afterlife right now?

Everything is glowing all the time. At human body temperature, you’re glowing mostly in the infrared.

They learned from the poets about metrical feet!

On the other hand, they could be yelling, “Yes! Keep going! You’re the best!” and you’re thinking of just quitting?