Just looked at some projects on Github and saw that the site no longer advertises a standard git command to copy for repo cloning. Now they encourage the use of 'Github CLI' with the syntax of 'gh repo clone'.No doubt it's a wrapper around git that will slowly gain features that git won't add because there is no need for them.
They are no longer a 'git hub', they are a 'repo space'.
All leading to the classic, Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
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I genuinely feel sorry for any of my friends who are still playing Magic: The Gathering. Wizards of the Coast/Hasbro has been losing the community's faith for a while, mostly due to shoddy game balance, but today they delivered a one-two punch of announcements that really drive home how little they care about the game's health, compared to opportunities for short-term profits.
That's not a mocking form of pity, either. I genuinely mean it; I'm sorry for those who love this game more than the company running it.
Republicans: Forcing former prisoners to pay their fines just to be able to vote is not a poll tax, what are you talking about! It's not like a poll tax!Also republicans: please investigate bloomberg for giving money to voters to pay our definitely not a poll tax
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been brought to my attention that ‘yarr me hearties’ is a gender neutral form of address and i'm into it
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hi y’all, i work for a healthcare org in the u.s. and i wanted to share what the current conversation is internally around covid.the vaccine will not be signaling the end of social distancing. only 1/3rd of americans polled currently say they would get the vaccine, and the FDA is going to pass the first vaccine that hits the 50% effectiveness mark.
these numbers do not indicate that we will be able to “beat” the virus w/ a vaccine.
"If people's basic needs were met through socialism, nobody would ever choose to work!"Kid, there's people who saved up their entire lives to retire, and never have to work again
Who then choose to spend their retirement doing unpaid menial labor for the public library
People generally WANT to work, to feel accomplished from Doing Stuff
They just want to get to do work they choose to do willingly, for reasonable amounts of time, without the threat of starvation looming over them
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"In short, federation distributes governance and cost, and can allow us to tackle challenges that we couldn’t overcome without it. The free software community needs to rally behind federation, because no one else will. For all of the reasons which make it worth doing, it is not rewarding for corporations. They would much rather build walled gardens and centralize, centralize, centralize — it’s more profitable!"drewdevault.com/2020/09/20/The…
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Now would be a great time to get off the fedi and start a new show or book
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I wrote a thing! This time, it's about the false binary choices we feel like we have to make, and imagining a third option.
And copyright. Look, it gets there in the end.
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Refusal looks like millions of people using nonviolent tools to delegitimize the coup by demonstrating, resisting orders, and shutting down the country until democracy prevails.
This is a useful website for the nightmare scenario. We're a month and a half out--it's definitely time to start making actual plans for the coup attempt that's nearly guaranteed.
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«We cannot have a society in which, if two people wish to communicate, the only way that can happen is if it's financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them.»— Jaron Lanier
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I haven't read anything this delightfully cheeky in a long time.
This was funny to read and also quite informative
tl; dr: Don't post your boardingpass on social media
mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-…
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RT @KiwixOffline@twitter.comCool project from Wakoma: the Nimble - a rapidly deployable, wireless mesh network. Tons of stuff, and completely offline:
wakoma.co/nimble/
I don't really like the term "tribalism"... instead I try to use "sportsballing", because I think it makes it clearer when referring to arbitrary fanatical grouping. "Go team X... we hate team Y!"
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The solution to the control of hosted software over our infrastructure is quite simple: we have to decentralize the power. Just like freedom of press can be achieved by giving people the tools to print and distribute underground pamphlets, we can give people their freedom of software back by teaching them to control their own server.
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Surveillance capitalism is the same as climate change, but for data:- Some people have been warning about its consequences for years
- Most people don't care because they don't feel concerned, they can't see it affecting them
- A few companies are making a lot of damage with the help of governments
- When we will face the consequences it will be too late
- We can still do something about it, and the sooner the better
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We learned yesterday of the death of fellow worker, activist, and anthropologist @davidgraeber. Graeber has written numerous books on direct action and anti-capitalist theory. He also coined the phrase, “We are the 99%” during OWS. Rest in power, fellow worker.
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in reply to Hypolite Petovan • •First, the release of their most recent set, Zendikar Rising, brought with it an overpowered card (Omnath, Locus of Creation) that is dominating the Standard scene. WotC issued a ban to hamper that deck, but it targeted a card that, though powerful and arguably in need of a ban, was not Omnath. To many in the community, this feels like confirmation of a policy: print overpowered cards to sell packs, but don't ban them until later. Overpowered cards get a pass while they're still selling product.
The second is the announcement of original cards in the new "Secret Lair x The Walking Dead" product. Secret Lair is a series of limited-edition cards, available only for a short time and then never reprinted. Befo
... show moreFirst, the release of their most recent set, Zendikar Rising, brought with it an overpowered card (Omnath, Locus of Creation) that is dominating the Standard scene. WotC issued a ban to hamper that deck, but it targeted a card that, though powerful and arguably in need of a ban, was not Omnath. To many in the community, this feels like confirmation of a policy: print overpowered cards to sell packs, but don't ban them until later. Overpowered cards get a pass while they're still selling product.
The second is the announcement of original cards in the new "Secret Lair x The Walking Dead" product. Secret Lair is a series of limited-edition cards, available only for a short time and then never reprinted. Before the TWD set, Secret Lair cards had always been reprints--Secret Lair was just a cute way to get cards with unique art. If you missed one, bummer, but you were only missing out on aesthetics, not functionality. This TWD product changes that and includes at least two original cards (1 - 2), both named for characters in the show, and both printed with black borders (meaning they're automatically tournament-legal in certain formats).
WotC could choose to make "functional reprints" of these cards in the future, printing cards that are identical except for the name. Except that under Magic's typical deckbuilding rules, you can have up to 4 cards of a single name in your deck, so this would still put owners of this Secret Lair product at an advantage.
Also, it's just so tacky to have original cards named for characters from this entirely separate fictional universe.
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in reply to Spencer • • •Thank you for the elaboration (and the links!), interesting power dynamics. As for the Secret Lair x TWD cards, the rule text margins look wrong, they feel like custom cards people create for fun to me.
I never played competitively so I don't think this kind of news would have affected me even at the height of my cardboard collection frenzy in high school, but yeah, I can see how both these decisions would aggravate engaged customers.
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