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Blurry Moon@sun@shitposter.world boosted:
@ShinKaonio@toot.blue (2026-08-22 09:00:38)
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Blurry Moon@sun@shitposter.world (2026-08-22 09:17:47)
@zonk delivering the male
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@hfaust@shitposter.world (2026-08-22 09:12:57)
I can't believe "Death Note: The Musical" is real and not a joke.
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@nimrod@shitposter.world (2026-08-22 09:15:21)
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Blurry Moon@sun@shitposter.world (2026-08-22 09:16:32)
@feld @kirby @n_dimension @stark I will say it is fair to say if the god damn documents were just made public none of this would have happened. but at almost every step he did the thing that made everything worse. obviously him dying is incredibly bad outcome
nimrod@nimrod@shitposter.world (2026-08-22 09:15:21)
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Only 3 Easy Payments of $19.95@feld@friedcheese.us (2026-08-22 09:14:37)
@sun @kirby @n_dimension @stark yeah but the Feds always play this game. They try to scare you shitless so you take a bad plea deal when in reality most of the charges would have been dropped and he would have received a starkly reduced sentence, maybe without even serving time
His own lawyer fucked up by not making this clear enough to him
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Blurry Moon@sun@shitposter.world (2026-08-22 09:12:58)
@kirby @feld @n_dimension @stark also however he got insane charges because he rejected a plea. the plea system is a terrible system but he could have predicted this would happen
H. Faust@hfaust@shitposter.world (2026-08-22 09:12:57)
I can't believe "Death Note: The Musical" is real and not a joke.
zonk :fatteratte:@zonk@shitposter.world (2026-08-22 09:12:55)
he inform on my delivery until i United States Postal Service®
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Blurry Moon@sun@shitposter.world (2026-08-22 09:12:06)
@kirby @feld @n_dimension @stark he didn't deserve aggressive prosecution at all. also, MIT pretended they weren't heavily involved in this but they were, they pretended it was all an aggressive federal prosecutor
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Kirby@kirby@fanimations.club (2026-08-22 09:11:00)
@sun @feld @n_dimension @stark I don't think the scraping of court documents from one source warranted the wrath of the data cartels though. The dude fucking died under their pressure. We haven't seen the blood of politicians for allowing them to let people scrape the entire damn internet at scale without consequence.
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@Hyperhidrosis@shitposter.world (2026-08-22 09:04:18)
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Blurry Moon@sun@shitposter.world (2026-08-22 09:06:22)
@feld @n_dimension @stark imagine how much water his scraper was using
King of Small D :verified_flashing: @Hyperhidrosis@shitposter.world (2026-08-22 09:04:18)
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Only 3 Easy Payments of $19.95@feld@friedcheese.us (2026-08-22 09:02:38)
@sun @n_dimension @stark yep it's in the PDF I linked. He crashed their servers and took the whole system down he was hitting it so hard
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Blurry Moon@sun@shitposter.world (2026-08-22 09:02:06)
@feld @n_dimension @stark Swartz was scraping so fast it was causing availability problems for on-campus legitimate users, that was how he got caught and a big factor in why they went after him. If you think about it it's very similar to (legitimate) complaints about aggressive AI scrapers knocking out sites and raising maintenance costs.
kaonio@ShinKaonio@toot.blue (2026-08-22 09:00:38)
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Only 3 Easy Payments of $19.95@feld@friedcheese.us (2026-08-22 08:58:38)
@stark @n_dimension yes, that's exactly the point. He was violating the ToS of JSTOR.
Aaron felt that all of these research papers behind paywalls / university logins should be public domain. So he was downloading a copy of everything to publish it openly. Which was very much illegal as he did not own the rights to that research.
Was much of this research at least partially funded with taxpayer dollars and should be open to the public? Yeah, and that would be nice, but that's not how things are. We've got to pass laws to change that. You can't just steal and publish the data and expect the entire system will throw up their hands and accept this as the new norm.
I am very sympathetic to Snowden for uncovering crimes against Americans and getting us that classified information. Government should not be able to hide crimes against its own citizens as classified information.
Absolutely zero sympathy for Aaron for trying to be a hero though.
https://swartz-report.mit.edu/docs/report-to-the-president.pdf
Wiki Workers United@wwu@social.wikiworkersunited.org (2026-08-22 08:53:35)
“Spending donor funds to fight worker unionization does not advance our mission of bringing the world's knowledge to all people, the mission I've spent years working at the Foundation to pursue.” -- Wikimedia worker, name withheld
[1] https://http.cat/451
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aei :neofox_upside_down: @aei@pleroma.envs.net (2026-08-22 08:51:27)
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G@stark@mastodon.mit.edu (2026-08-22 08:47:43)
@feld @n_dimension a that just begs the question. Was there a violation of the terms of service? Was there a theft?
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Blurry Moon@sun@shitposter.world (2026-08-22 08:44:54)
@coolboymew @ooignignoktoo @rain I have a couple Keychrons and I love them. No problems. Heard good things about the 8bitdo except the configuration software is windows only, no big deal though. These days I'll only buy a QMK or Via configurable keyboard though
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@mame_brot@mk.absturztau.be (2026-08-22 08:30:15)
your perspectives are very dirty :blobcat_fu_yabai:
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cool_boy_mew@coolboymew@shitposter.world (2026-08-22 08:43:24)
@sun @ooignignoktoo @rain complete newbie at mechanical keyboards, could never just buy one and just settle on one. What if I didn't like it?
I finally bit the bullet and bought that 8bitdo retro mechanical keyboard a while back. No regrets, still works perfectly. More common for mouses, but for keyboards, I don't know a lot that has 3 different connections that you can just switch on a whim on top of having a built in battery
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Blurry Moon@sun@shitposter.world (2026-08-22 08:41:46)
@daphailwhale sonic maps use a weird system designed to ram giant maps onto the tiny sega genesis, I'm still figuring out how it works. Very interesting from a design perspective too
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FailureBiWinning's Mean :bean_blu: Machine@daphailwhale@shitposter.world (2026-08-22 08:40:50)
@sun I've been wanting to get level maps working in something for a while now, but I'm mostly content with just doing the artwork... though, given that this set is just reskinned Labyrinth Zone, it could probably be hacked into a Sonic 1 ROM with relative ease.
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Blurry Moon@sun@shitposter.world (2026-08-22 08:38:35)
@daphailwhale got it. I've been playing around trying to make orignal, working maps
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FailureBiWinning's Mean :bean_blu: Machine@daphailwhale@shitposter.world (2026-08-22 08:38:07)
@sun Nope. This was all slapped together in paint.net (like pretty much all my pixel work).
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Blurry Moon@sun@shitposter.world (2026-08-22 08:37:14)
@daphailwhale are you using that Sonic program to build maps from the building blocks?
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