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Call in the firemen, Library Journal wants to burn some books

Hands down the stupidest thing I’ve seen so far this year, and it’ll be hard to beat no matter what kind of idiocy arises from leftist politics this summer. <sarcasm> Kudos to Library Journal for declaring book collections as racist. I can’t wait to see them start piling up old classics in front of library branches and burning them. </sarcasm>

Fortunately, even on crazy SJW-run Twitter, most…

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#book burning #books #everything is racist #libraries #racism #SJWs

Maybe itch.io isn't as good as I thought it was...

Maybe itch.io isn’t as good as I thought it was…

Source: https://twitter.com/moonscript/status/1004448157776793600

So this is one of the people behind itch.io, which I originally believed had a hands-off policy on the content of games on their service. Given that at least a quarter of games on itch.io are full of adult content (up and including incest and pedophilia both consensual and forced) and many more are of extremely low quality, it’s…

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#censorship #itch.io #Steam

The end of game censorship on Steam -- really?

The end of game censorship on Steam — really?

After all the outrage, after all the hullabaloo, Steam is going to stop censoring and removing games on their platform unless they contain actual illegal content. Right? Sounds great, but I don’t really believe it.

It’s a great principle they’re trying to establish, and I wish the folks at Valve luck in their efforts to improve their processes around this. But the jurisdictional issues of law…

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#censorship #Steam

Updating a Git branch without first checking it out

Updating a Git branch without first checking it out #gitpull #programming

If you work with multiple developers all pushing and pulling into a single remote Git repository, you know about outdated branches. Regular pull-and-rebase operations can become quite annoying. What’s worse is when you add feature branches into the mix, though. If you need to rebase feature branches before merging, keeping your main branchup to date can be painful. However, it doesn’t have to be!

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Bill C-16 - What's the Big Deal?

Bill C-16 – What’s the Big Deal?

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Some idea of my politics

I quit Anime North.

I posted this over on WrongThink.net yesterday, but today found out that the comments (which I needed to use due to WrongThink’s post size limit) aren’t visible to non-users of the service. So I’ll try again here so that everyone can actually get to read what I had written. I’ve attended #AnimeNorth every year since 2001 and staffed since 2005. This year, I’ll be doing neither. Last summer, I…

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#Anime North #defamation #SJWs

THIS HITLER NONSENSE …

Pivoting Caesar Cipher: a toy encryption algorithm

As a fun little exercise, I decided I wanted to come up with an encryption algorithm. I don’t know if anyone’s bothered developing a similar system, although I wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest if what I’ve come up with here was already done centuries ago.

In this exercise, I’ve come up with a variation on the classic Caesar cipher (also known as ROT-13), where we shift characters a certain…

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#crypto #cryptology #encryption

Dear #YouTube, As Creators & Fans of YouTube, we ask you this; When it comes to DMCAs, where's the fair use? #WTFU http://thndr.me/AKXXyn

The localization of #FireEmblemFates is rife with cut content and censorship. #ChallengeOurFates #TorrentialDownpour http://thndr.me/tR0WFE

Turning ideas into great blog posts

Do you ever find yourself starting a blog post and have no idea of what to write? You have a topic you want to write about, but you just can’t get the words out.

I’m going to share with you a useful workflow for going from concept to a great blog post in six steps. By following this flow, you’ll spend less time wondering how to craft your posts, and more time creating content people want to read.

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#blogging #Social media #writing

Turning ideas into great blog posts

Do you ever find yourself starting a blog post and have no idea of what to write? You have a topic you want to write about, but you just can’t get the words out.

I’m going to share with you a useful workflow for going from concept to a great blog post in six steps. By following this flow, you’ll spend less time wondering how to craft your posts, and more time creating content people want to read.

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#blogging #Social media #Writing