Regular reminder that if you do this with your webapps, you're a part of the problem, and any attempts to reason with me on that will be met with laughter and image macros.
Ok, I should be sleeping right now, but what's happening is SO FUCKING CRAZY.
Long story short: WPEngine is suing Matt Mullenweg, Automattic and the WordPress foundation for slandering them. In return, Matt is suing them for trademark violation.
But, BUT, WPEngine has fired their first shot. And what a shot it is, friends:
Stunningly, Automattic’s CEO Matthew Mullenweg threatened that if WP Engine did not agree to pay Automattic – his for-profit entity – a very large sum of money before his September 20th keynote address at the WordCamp US Convention, he was going to embark on a self-described “scorched earth nuclear approach” toward WP Engine within the WordPress community and beyond. When his outrageous financial demands were not met, Mr. Mullenweg carried out his threats by making repeated false claims disparaging WP Engine to its employees, its customers, and the world. Mr. Mullenweg has carried out this wrongful campaign against WP Engine in multiple outlets, including via his keynote address, across several public platforms like X,YouTube, and even on the Wordpress.org site, and through the WordPress Admin panel for all WordPress users, including directly targeting WP Engine customers in their own private WordPress instances used to run their online businesses
During calls on September 17th and 19th, for instance, Automattic CFO Mark Davies told a WP Engine board member that Automattic would “go to war” if WP Engine did not agree to pay its competitor Automattic a significant percentage of its gross revenues – tens of millions of dollars in fact – on an ongoing basis. Mr. Davies suggested the payment ostensibly would be for a “license” to use certain trademarks like WordPress, even though WP Engine needs no such license. WP Engine’s uses of those marks to describe its services – as all companies in this space do – are fair uses under settled trademark law and consistent with WordPress’ own guidelines. Automattic’s CFO insisted that WP Engine provide its response to this demand immediately and later, on the day of the keynote, followed up with an email reiterating a claimed need for WP Engine to concede to the demands “before Matt makes his WCUS keynote at 3:45 p.m. PDT today.”
In parallel and throughout September 19 and 20, Mr. Mullenweg embarked on a series of harassing text messages and calls to WP Engine’s board member and also its CEO, threatening that if WP Engine did not agree to pay up prior to the start of Mr. Mullenweg’s livestreamed keynote address at 3:45pm on September 20, he would go “nuclear” on WP Engine, including by smearing its name, disparaging its directors and corporate officers, and banning WP Engine from WordPress community events.
They... they have text message captures. In the pdf. Matt Mullenweg was trying to extort them ... by text messages. They seem to have the entire thing in the writting.
In the final minutes leading up to his keynote address, Mr. Mullenweg sent one last missive: a photo of the WordCamp audience waiting to hear his speech, with the message that he could shift gears and turn his talk into “just a Q&A” if WP Engine agreed to pay up
They finish requesting Automattic to "preserve, and not destroy, any and all documents or information in their possession, custody, or control that may be relevant to any dispute between WP Engine and Automattic". They are going to war, big time.
All this crap is just because they refuse to pay his protection money. And the guy has been stupid enough to put everything in writting.
35% of #bisexual men in a relationship *with another man* have never told that partner about their bisexuality. And only the minority of us are very or fairly open about our #bisexuality to our male partners. That's from ILGA Europe. The norm is for us bi #men to be quiet about our bisexuality, even in same-gender relationships. #Gay men, you can think about that one during #BiVisibilityDay.
If China can do these evil things with their proprietary cars, then so can U.S. and Japanese cars.
Make the rule fair: ban proprietary cars.
(But it's not about being fair, it's about the U.S. wanting to preserve the ability to use domestic cars for spying, while preventing other countries from having that ability.)
If you squint, a cafe and a food truck might qualify as shops? Lots of people sleeping in their campers on the parking lot across the street. Is the day ferry cheaper or why didn’t the sleep on the boat?)
There is a direct service from the port in Harwich to London, but they didn’t sell advance tickets for it and it doesn’t have first class. So a quick three minute change at the lovely, quiet junction station of Manningtree it is.
London Liverpool Street. I need to be at Waterloo in four hours and have not the faintest idea what to do. I guess I’ll just start walking and see what comes up.
There’s some sort of wayfinding marathon going on. People in running gear with paper maps all over the place. They are too quick to read what it says on their starting number label.
If you visit a big city, consider not doing museums and sights but just wander around. This is so much easier now with maps on the phone – you can plot routes through cute back alleys rather than always walking along crowded main streets. But you get to see the city, breathe the city, and get a glimpse into living the city.
Why is it called “Southampton Airport (Parkway)” if the airport is right be the station? I thought “parkway” was the euphemism for a station away from anywhere useful?
The Boat is reporting to travel from Zeebrugge to Southampton but is currently 30 or so miles south of Dorchester heading west? Are they chasing a nice sunset over Devon?
Good morning from a sunny Southampton where I now have five hours to kill. Let’s start with the statue of Isaac Watts, inventor of the … gravitational steam engine, maybe?
German word of the day: Fotowolke. Lit: photo cloud, the cloud the moves in front of the sun seconds before the train you’ve been waiting hours for passes on an otherwise scorchingly sunny day.
Boarding was fairly airline-y except that the security checks were staffed with pensioners for some reason and nobody is in a hurry. Someone misread my boarding pass and send me down priority lane, so it was all done in no time at all.
Ahoy from 3158 nautical miles later and the other side of the Atlantic. Quite sad to leave the ship, really (and not because I’ve been stuck in US immigration for hours now).
If you fancy crossing the Atlantic by ship but have your doubts about the whole cruise aspect of the voyage, don’t worry about that. Cunard sure do their thing with the dress code and the Gala dinners and the theatre performances and all of it, but they also make very sure you don’t have to take part. And the ship is big enough to always find a quiet corner for yourself.
But stepping outside at any time and seeing nothing but the endlessness of the ocean for days is quite the experience.
Since I couldn’t get a decent picture in Southampton, I took the ferry to Governors Island in New York. Here she is, then, the world’s only remaining ocean liner.
Grand Central Terminal may be grand, but Grand Central Platforms are cramped, dark, hot, and noisy. Which isn’t helped by these diesels sitting there not quite idling (presumably to keep the train’s aircon running).
But back to walking. I’m only down to 42nd street – it’s a long way to the tip of Manhattan at South Ferry. Well more than 42 blocks, in fact. There are plenty more streets south of 1st street but they are older than the grid and have names.
Turkey is promoting itself as a partner in sustainable development by driving gas-powered trucks with LED billboards through the already grid-locked streets of Manhattan. You can’t make this stuff up.
Ah, so US is going to ban connected cars. A good measure actually, and the rationale is conclusive. But why stop at those from China? Connected cars are a security and privacy nightmare, regardless of the country.
NGI Assure, the program aimed at improving trust in our digital society, successfully concluded after its 4 year run.
[1]152 teams contributed to a more trustworthy & secure internet with their Free and Open Source projects. Thank you all!
We've made a book showcasing all the projects which you can download from the link below. There are also paper copies, so ask for those when you see us IRL.
XMPP because Discord is evil, IRC doesn't do what I need, and Matrix is slow and buggy. All XMPP needs is a good client, and because I'm on Linux, I can use @dino (wish it was cross-platform, but that feels like asking for too much)
Of course I also use Matrix because that's what everyone else uses, but that doesn't mean I can't be annoyed with it
20 years of Canonical #Ubuntu #Linuxubuntu.com/20years Long-time Linux user here, currently on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Daily driver for managing VMs, K8S, Docker, etc. on AWS and other providers. Ubuntu is a great intro to Linux, with a rich dev experience. Congrats to Canonical. Keep it up the good work.
I remember when my university mate told me about weird Debian based distro which should be delivered to him for free, via post, on a CD...
We, Debian folks, tended to look from above, but started to accept it over time as viable alternative, especially if we wanted to get some newbie on board.
I made two podcasts from the files of the MMORPG I play, Mist World, with the new Google Overview tool of NotebookLM. Listen to them: eurpod.com/mist_podcast.mp3 eurpod.com/mist_podcast2.mp3 Both are a bit different. In my opinion, the second is worse, the more technical data and help I fed it. Oh and that stuff about gender mentioned in the first podcast? It's an AI halucination since nothing about it it gets mentioned in the docs. Kind of funny as it's a classic bias almost.
Maybe 3rd time will be the charm on this Google Podcast stuff after work I can try it further. Next time I'm not directly uploading files. The fact that it saw file names and put them in the recording like that, well, I don't like. More importantly, I can't figure out a way to remove sources, so now I'm stuck and have to make a new notebook fully. I think anyway. The UX needs polish for sure.
Erinnert ihr euch an die @correctiv_org -Recherche zum Geheimtreffen von Potsdam? Sie wurde nur durch die Unterstützung von tausenden Spenderinnen und Spendern möglich. CORRECTIV ist weiter auf Unterstützung angewiesen um noch effektiver rechtsextreme Netzwerke zu enthüllen. Wer kann, spendet hier: startnext.com/correctiv
Ich liebe mein encrypt.to-Formular. Habe durch keine Maßnahme so viele verschlüsselte Mails bekommen wie dadurch. Eigentlich sollten alle Kontaktformulare für Seelsorger:innen so gebaut sein (jaja, man wird ja wohl noch träumen dürfen).
I disagree with this guy that you can't describe images from WhatsApp. You open the message, find View Photo, and instead of tapping it, invoke Describe Image. It is very simple, and I suggest he didn't know how to do it.
!["If Al is truly smarter than us and tells us that [humans] should die, then I think we should die," he said, looking out to the crowd from center stage. "So many of you feel imminently replaceable."
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