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Have you seen this person? She is wanted in 19 states for illegal fan art of your favourite animes. If you see her, please do not approach her as she is armed with a graded pencil set and she may attempt to draw the world around her.

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I have registered a domain name. I won't link it yet because I need to build the website. I intend to warn people about the split happening within GNU, warn people against the surging influence of 1984 source, and warn people against the danger of CoCs in free software projects.

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AT&T hid an arbitration clause in a mountain of dense legalese that it forces its customers to sign. So a judge dismissed our lawsuit against AT&T’s invasion of location privacy. We need a legislative fix. eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/forc

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The Tor Project is hiring a Junior Systems Administrator! Please retweet and share this opportunity with your networks.
torproject.org/about/jobs/juni

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Under the U.S. copyright laws, reverse engineering software or hardware you legitimately obtained is perfectly legal, UNLESS the software EULA says "no RE", which is legally enforceable and overrides your fair-use rights, as the courts has repeatedly ruled.

Then what prevents a hardware vendor or a chipmaker from doing the same thing? Why hasn't every chipmaker started to sell chips with EULA attached at this point? "Take a photo and we'll sue you out of existence..."

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The ad industry is moving away from the anonymous profiling that cookies enabled, and is planning to demand email addresses and other personally-identifiable information instead. This would be a step backward for users.
eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/afte

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We know you have been waiting patiently, but the wait is finally over.

Manjaro ARM 21.04 has just been released, with a slew of new images for your devices!

#pbp
#rpi4
@PINE64
#odroid

forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-ar

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Using, re-using, and re-implementing software interfaces is the industry standard. EFF will keep fighting to make sure it stays that way. eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/vict

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Looking better than initially. I might buy one when the software is more matured

Sneak Peek of the Next PureOS Release on the Librem 5 – Purism
puri.sm/posts/sneak-peek-of-th

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webshit weekly strikes again: "It turns out that basically none of the original reasons Hackernews started using Signal apply any more, but since they convinced their idiot friends to start using it, they're all stuck with it anyway."

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34% of WFH workers say they’d rather quit than return to full-time office work

And if they do need to come back to the office, even part-time, employees said they expect some changes. For example, they’d want their employer to cover their commuting costs, and also provide some form of childcare.

psychnewsdaily.com/a-third-of-

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what's up with some instances not showing their posts when you click the external link button? Is that on purpose? I've also seen some instances that hide that button so you can only see posts from their instance if that's where you're browsing from.
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