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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

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allthingswhumpyandangsty

why taking commissions for fanfics can KILL Archive of Our Own and fanfic culture as a whole

  • okay, so thing is, fanfics are allowed — as in they’re not banned — because nobody is supposed to be profiting off of copyrighted characters.
  • this is why popular site like Archive of Our Own is allowed to be up and running, because no one is supposed to be making money from fanfics.
  • the fact AO3 is allowed to be up and running, unfortunately, can and will most likely change if people start normalizing commissioning fanfics and making profit off of them.
  • because the second those big companies learn people are profiting off of their copyrighted characters, the target they will attack after you (in terms of legal action) is a platform like Archive of Our Own, which will likely ruin it all for everybody and every fandom.
  • imagine Archive of Our Own getting shut down because fanfics were banned because people were profiting off of them. (I know AO3 isn’t only about fanfics, but since it’s mostly known for fanfics, it will most likely get targeted and that will most likely mean it’ll get shut down if worst comes to worst.)
  • honestly. most people write fanfics in their free time for free out of passion and love they have for their favorite characters.
  • people read fanfics for free because that’s their source of happiness.
  • I’m not saying there will be no fanfics left in this world if they really are banned, because people will always find a way. but it WILL be so much harder having to sneak around and find a way to post fanfics without them getting removed at best, the authors getting sued at worst. and it WILL be harder for readers to find your works if we have to censor key words and character names in order to avoid getting caught.
  • it’s so much easier like this, we can freely post fanfics without having to hide and censor key words or worrying about anything.
  • no, I’m not making this post for the sake of those big companies. this post isn’t about “hey, don’t profit off of their characters”. it’s about “hey, don’t risk ruining fanfics culture as a whole for everybody by profiting off of them and putting a platform like Archive of Our Own in jeopardy.”

if you don’t want to live in a fandom without AO3, keep fanfics free.

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allyunabridged

Some of you didn’t live through the stress of the Anne Rice era, and it shows. Fanfic isn’t a profit thing. You want to profit, file off the serial numbers or actually write something original and self-publish. Also, readers, please quit encouraging this BS by offering or agreeing to pay, even for sneak peeks. Writers are much less likely to get away with Patreon than visual artists are. It sucks, but it is what it is.

(As a note, AO3 rules, written by competent lawyers, DO allow for charity works. I’d suggest looking into the rules before participating to make sure the charity drive is complying, though.)

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FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS (2010) ↳ “ I haven’t shown my hand - I’ve shown one card. I’ve given my enemies a single, provocative datum upon which to fixate. They have no idea what other cards I’m holding. It’s a strong hand, believe me - I dealt it to myself.”

#fallout#fallout nv
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transhuman-priestess

We need to lay more blame for "Kids don't know how computers work" at the feet of the people responsible: Google.

Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.

Tech literacy didn't mysteriously vanish, it was fucking murdered for profit.

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One of the first scripts he wrote for the show Night Springs so many years ago. A tense supernatural thriller he called "Dead of Night" about a group trapped in a nightmare world. The episode ended with them all escaping by… by…
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