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QueerCoded Learn to Code Workshop

<p>QueerMunity, Saturday, May 3 at 01:00 PM CDT</p><ul><li><p>Learn to Code</p></li><li><p>Find Community</p></li><li><p>Get to Know your Computer</p></li><li><p>Build your own Website / Software<br><br></p></li></ul>

https://calendar.layerze.ro/event/queercoded-learn-to-code-workshop-1

Cyberia Congress

<p>online, Sunday, April 27 at 12:00 PM CDT</p><p>Second Congress of Cyberia for 2025</p>

https://calendar.layerze.ro/event/cyberia-congress

omfg the font used in this famous anti-piracy campaign used a pirated commercial font.

source: https://fedi.rib.gay/notes/a6xqityngfubsz0f

Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font used nin the infamous "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign was actually designed by Just van Rossum, whose brother, Guido, created the Python programming language (bsky.app/profile/melissa.news/post/3ln7hx5rhcj2v)

She also pointed out that the font had been cloned and released illegally for free under the name "XBAND Rough". Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded (web.archive.org/web/20051223202935/http://www.piracyisacrime.com:80/press/pdfs/150605_8PP_brochure.pdf).

So I chucked it into FontForge and yep, turns out the campaign used a pirated font the entire time!

patient status: deceased
cause of death: [object Object]

this is the correct attitude for open source projects. free software is political.

https://forum.yunohost.org/t/am-i-hacked-or-is-this-something-new/36203/14

#WokeUpLikeThis🪲

Hello, world! We are Bunk Computer Cooperative -- a worker-owned technology #coop in Western North Carolina. We're building local computing infrastructure that's of and for Western #northcarolina

We're still getting off the ground, but we've been hard at work the last eight months and we're ready to introduce ourselves. We wrote an #introduction blog post that you can read at the link in our bio, and we'd be thrilled if you did! Boosts Appreciated!

Yours in bits and bytes,
Bunk Cooperators

@gitea lol jesus christ, people's deployments of their forges are being ddosed constantly by llms nicking their shit, and you're leaning into ai?? read the room

today I set all the git repositories on my personal forgejo server to private because llm crawlers were thrashing my server

when you ask chatgpt a silly question to see the silly answer, or prompt midjourney or whatever for a funny image, or use copilot or claude to vibe code, you are complicit in this