You ever think to yourself βbut I am just one person, what can I do to make a difference?β
It turns out that βwear an inflatable frog costume and go downtownβ is actually a really reasonable answer.
#portland #portlandfrog #uspol
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You ever think to yourself βbut I am just one person, what can I do to make a difference?β
It turns out that βwear an inflatable frog costume and go downtownβ is actually a really reasonable answer.
#portland #portlandfrog #uspol
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Stolen from a pirate website?
15.10.2025 11:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'm surprised that there wasn't more noise around the license change of #Liquibase from Apache License 2.0 to Functional Source License (FSL) in Liquibase 5.0.0.
https://github.com/liquibase/liquibase/releases/tag/v5.0.0
Is just nobody using it anymore? π
#Java #OSS #licensing
"Open core is just a trial version and a proprietary version" (paraphrase), Frank Karlitschek, NextCloud #ato2025 #ato
13.10.2025 14:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A photo of five inflatable costumes worn by five Portland residents. Among the characters represented are a panda, some kind of lizard, and a unicorn. Text follows. LA: We will fight you. Chicago: We will fight you. Portland: We will make you endure week after week of improv theater.
Lifted (gently) from Reddit this morning. #PDX
12.10.2025 15:06 β π 10 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0Suno & Udio Sound Fair Use Alarm in Yout vs. RIAA YouTube-Ripper Appeal
https://torrentfreak.com/suno-udio-wade-into-youtube-ripper-circumvention-lawsuit-appeal-251008/
Background image features a variety of people putting their hands into the center. A white box with the Side with Love logo is superimposed over it, with text that reads: "Our faith demands we demilitarize all communities. We must work with one another to build pockets of safety through organizing and mutual aid." There is a small round white heart in an orange circle at the bottom of the quote.
09.10.2025 20:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The #European #standards being developed to allow compliance with the Cyber Resilience Act have unusually high participation from #OpenSource community members. As a result many of the draft standards are being developed in markdown and are available for public review in ETSI's Gitlab instance [β¦]
07.10.2025 17:27 β π 1 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0Oy Google, which is it? (PS, AI was right)
03.10.2025 15:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The @EUCommission would like to hear your views on the governance and sustainability of critical open source software. The survey closes October 5th.
https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/FOSSEPS_Governance_and_Sustainability_Survey
#OpenSource #Governance #Sustainability
Nominet opens $500,000 fund for open source projects
https://domainincite.com/31364-nominet-opens-500000-fund-for-open-source-projects #foss #OpenSource
If a government tells you that you canβt call it authoritarian, itβs authoritarian.
25.09.2025 17:22 β π 35620 π 8720 π¬ 1029 π 356Piracy Over-Blocking Victims Turn to the Blockchain Hoping to Make LaLiga Pay
https://torrentfreak.com/piracy-blocking-victims-empowered-by-platform-which-aims-to-make-laliga-pay-250922/
Oklahomaβs big βTV nudesβ scandal wasβ¦ a Jackie Chan movie on a Samsung streaming service
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/09/oklahomas-big-tv-nudes-scandal-was-a-jackie-chan-movie-on-a-samsung-streaming-service/
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:u2zs2typsklaohqmfyxiunvy/post/3lykxkyffcc2v
11.09.2025 14:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Untold Saga Of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/10/the-untold-saga-of-what-happened-when-doge-stormed-social-security/
/4 SCOTUS has lost the presumption of regularity -- the mandate of the legal heavens -- through its shadow docket actions, which by invoking SCOTUS' equitable discretionary powers have obliterated the pretext that SCOTUS is merely calling balls and strikes, merely calling lines where they see them.
09.09.2025 18:19 β π 2318 π 426 π¬ 10 π 26Supreme Court Rules 6-3 That Fundamental Interests Of United States Of America Would Be Irreparably Harmed If It Race-Based Harassment And Detention By Masked Thugs Were Even Temporarily Halted
08.09.2025 17:16 β π 8399 π 2677 π¬ 352 π 192@copyrightlately Shouldn't the allocation between publisher and author be a matter of the interpretation of the publishing contract, not a matter for the court? If the publisher doesn't have these rights (but what rights are they?), why should they get anything?
08.09.2025 07:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@ephemeromorph GTK used to stand for GIMP Toolkit. GObject originated as GtkObject. GObject Introspection is abbreviated GIR (I think?). Soβ¦ GIR ostensibly expands to:
GNU's Not Uniplexed Information Computing Systems Image Manipulation Program Toolkit Object Introspection.
GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program.
GNU stands for GNU's Not Unix.
UNIX stands for Uniplexed Information Computing System ('unics').
Therefore, GIMP's full name is GNU's Not Uniplexed Information Computing Systems Image Manipulation Program.
Here comes some IP fun! As if these kinds of deals aren't complicated enough for only one artist, and here antagonistic ones at that
https://boingboing.net/2025/09/04/exhausted-by-malicious-associations-morrissey-sells-stake-in-the-smiths.html
Not sure why this isn't getting more press - issued on a Friday of a long weekend? "Judge Strikes Down California Deepfake Law as Unconstitutional" https://www.dailyjournal.com/article/387319-judge-strikes-down-california-deepfake-law-as-unconstitutional Decision at [β¦]
01.09.2025 04:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Original post: https://mathstodon.xyz/@mathgrrl/114885729941050524
From: @mathgrrl
https://mathstodon.xyz/@mathgrrl/114885729941050524
From Book Bans To Internet Bans: Wyoming Lets Parents Control The Whole Stateβs Access To The Internet
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/28/from-book-bans-to-internet-bans-wyoming-lets-parents-control-the-whole-states-access-to-the-internet/
A cat sitting and looking at the camera in the wall-mounted cat bed made out of painting.
Now the cat is looking in the other direction.
Now the cat is laying on the bed.
Photo of the cat bed from the other angle, this time without the cat.
17.08.2025 06:45 β π 9 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0HELLO! DID YOU LEAVE A PRINTER HERE THIS MORNING? (Monday, July 3) I GOT IT WORKING AND PRINTED THIS BUT I CAN'T USE SOME OF THE FEATURES UNTIL YOU REMOVE IT FROM YOUR HP ACCOUNT. CAN YOU PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO LOGIN AND REMOVE THE PRINTER FROM YOUR ACCOUNT. hpsmart.com THANK YOU AND HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY! Written in marker: Done! Enjoy :)
12.08.2025 13:59 β π 30 π 66 π¬ 6 π 0"Double B moment" π
From: @kjhealy
https://mastodon.social/@kjhealy/114990301650917094