Notices by Erin 💽✨ (erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net), page 10

:drgn_think: The GPL is not actually a free license because you’re not allowed to modify it

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

Version 3, 29 June 2007

Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. https://fsf.org/

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.

OH: “Why is Zitrone Heiße Getränke packaged like a condom”

please do not pour hot lemon drink on you dick.

Apparently “My postal vote arrived too late for it to be possible for me to mail it back” is not a valid reason to switch voting method

Love too be disenfranchised by postal service incompetence

TIL: Scaleways’ instance metadata service requires your source port for the HTTP request be <1024 and

1. This is actually a big security improvement over everyone else’s because now your instance metadata (potentially containing secrets or credentials) is only accessible by root on the VM and not by any random process, and
2. This is just about the only valid use of the root port restriction I’ve seen since 1990

@james I guess a nice advantage of my last address in the UK being a very very safe labour seat is I don’t really have to think about tactical voting this time…

@natty Windows releases have a 10 year support lifecycle

(just thinking about the implications of that statement makes me shrivel up into a wrinkly prune)

I work for a French company, which means I get reminded yearly about the existence of the concept of the Solidarity Day, and I do not understand how the French people not only allowed the government to take away one of their public holidays a year (which will vary based upon employer) and replace it with a day where you have to work, but to go as far as to replace it with a day where you have to work but do not get paid for doing so :afloofLoad:

@lanodan @clacke @iceloops @sun its sad to think of the projects which got approached and invited to the ActivityPub process and decided not to get involved and which have slid into irrelevance

Its understandanle; I think even most of us assumed it would be an XKCD-927 situation; and yet it was sad to watch as they marched stubbornly towards obscurity