#5yrsago — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #5yrsago, aggregated by home.social.
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#5yrsago California’s Right to Repair Bill, killed by Big Ag and Apple, has been reintroduced https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/03/18/california-reintroduces-right-to-repair-bill-after-previous-effort-failed
#5yrsago Sponsor of the “Discouraging Frivolous Lawsuits Act” sues Twitter cow-account for $250 million https://lawandcrime.com/crazy/devin-nunes-sues-twitter-and-devin-nunes-mom-for-a-whopping-250-million/
#5yrsago More Than 130 European Businesses Tell the European Parliament: Reject the #CopyrightDirective https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/03/more-130-european-businesses-tell-european-parliament-reject-copyrightdirective
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#5yrsago With days to go until the #CopyrightDirective vote, #Article13’s father admits it requires filters and says he’s OK with killing Youtube https://memex.craphound.com/2019/03/13/with-days-to-go-until-the-copyrightdirective-vote-article13s-father-admits-it-requires-filters-and-says-hes-ok-with-killing-youtube/
#5yrsago Gimlet staff announce unionization plan following Spotify acquisition https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/13/18263957/gimlet-media-union-spotify-recognition-podcasts
#5yrsago McMansion Hell tours the homes of the “meritocratic” one-percenters who allegedly bought their thickwitted kids’ way into top universities in the college admissions scandal https://mcmansionhell.com/post/183417051691/in-honor-of-the-college-admissions-scandal
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#5yrsago Charter slashes network spending by $2B, but makes up for it by charging its customers more https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/01/charter-will-spend-less-on-cable-network-in-2019-but-charge-customers-more/
#5yrsago The #FBI invented a fictitious “#AbortionExtremist” movement, then warned local cops about potential acts of domestic terror from it https://jezebel.com/exclusive-fbi-warned-law-enforcement-agencies-of-threa-1832134408
#5yrsago As Macron and Merkel meet to rescue the #CopyrightDirective, the world’s libraries call for its rejection https://www.ifla.org/news/ifla-joins-the-call-for-deletion-of-articles-11-and-13-in-the-eu-copyright-reform/
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#5yrsago Now EVERYBODY hates the new EU #CopyrightDirective https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/now-everybody-hates-new-eu-copyright-directive
#1yrago #CareInflation: The inflation no one wants to talk about https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/18/wages-for-housework/#low-wage-workers-vs-poor-consumers
#1yrago #EleanorJanega's "Once and Future Sex": The true, weird, horny history of medieval gender and sex https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/17/ren-faire/#going-medieval
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#5yrsago Company behind the #GrenfellTower fire says it could have been put out with a simple fire extinguisher https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/12/grenfell-cladding-firm-arconic-fire-could-have-been-put-out-with-simple-extinguisher
#5yrsago Clash of the corporate titans: Who’s spending what in Europe’s #CopyrightDirective battle https://memex.craphound.com/2018/12/13/clash-of-the-corporate-titans-whos-spending-what-in-europes-copyright-directive-battle/
#1yrago Web apps could de-monopolize mobile devices https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/13/kitbashed/#app-store-tax
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#5yrsago #TaviGevinson is folding up #Rookie, after seven years: part mediapocalypse, part moving on https://www.rookiemag.com/2018/11/editors-letter-86/">https://www.rookiemag.com/2018/11/editors-letter-86/
#5yrsago #PeakIndifference has arrived: a majority of Republicans say climate change is real https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/MonmouthPoll_US_112918/
#5yrsago The EU took the word “filters” out of the #CopyrightDirective, but it’s still all about filters https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/11/yes-eus-new-copyrightdirective-all-about-filters
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#5yrsago Youtube CEO: it will be impossible to comply with the EU’s new #CopyrightDirective (adios, #Despacito!) https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/i-support-goals-of-article-13-i-also/
#5yrsago Italian prosecutors have given up on catching the person who hacked and destroyed #HackingTeam https://www.vice.com/en/article/3k9zzk/hacking-team-hacker-phineas-fisher-has-gotten-away-with-it
#5yrsago Wells Fargo: We can’t be sued for lying to shareholders because it was obvious we were lying https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-wells-puffery-20181109-story.html
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#5yrsago A database of instructions for making different #PaperAirplanes https://www.foldnfly.com/#/1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2
#5yrsago The American right loves forms, paperwork and other bureaucracy https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/10/the-cult-of-the-form
#5yrsago EFF just sent this letter to every official negotiating the EU’s #CopyrightDirective https://memex.craphound.com/2018/10/23/eff-just-sent-this-letter-to-every-official-negotiating-the-eus-copyright-directive/
#5yrsago San Francisco spends $3.1m/year on #homeless #toilets and $65m/year cleaning up poop https://missionlocal.org/2018/10/san-francisco-needs-a-marshall-plan-for-toilets/
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#15yrsago Kids who photograph themselves naked are child pornographers and sex offenders in Ohio https://web.archive.org/web/20081009194301/http://www.newarkadvocate.com/article/20081008/NEWS01/810080302
#15yrsago Reviews of jihadi video-games https://web.archive.org/web/20081011070337/http://arstechnica.com/reviews/games/terrorist-propaganda-games-roundup.ars
#10yrsago #SuperMario fully implemented in #HTML5 https://web.archive.org/web/20131013054247/http://www.fullscreenmario.com/
#10yrsago #ChristopherColumbus: raping, murdering, enslaving, genocidal pedophile https://theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_day
#5yrsago Not just Europe: EU #CopyrightDirective will censor the world’s internet https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/eu-internet-censorship-will-censor-whole-worlds-internet
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#5yrsago Since 2007, #debt-haunted grads have been doing public service to earn #LoanForgiveness, which they won’t get https://www.vice.com/en/article/kz5zew/youre-probably-not-getting-that-loan-forgiveness-youre-counting-on
#5yrsago #MeToo meets the #FightFor15 as #McDonalds workers walk out over sexual harassment https://jacobin.com/2018/09/mcdonalds-strike-metoo-sexual-harassment-organizing
#5yrsago Exploring the ruins of a #ToysRUs, discovering a trove of sensitive employee data https://hackaday.com/2018/09/17/exploring-an-abandoned-toys-r-us/
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#5yrsago Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of the collapse of 2008 and things are much, much worse https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/financial-crisis-ten-year-anniversary-723798/
#5yrsago Father of the catastrophic #CopyrightDirective reveals he didn’t know what he was voting for https://www.breakit.se/artikel/15418/copyright-directive-confusion-revealed-this-was-kind-of-a-mistake
#5yrsago EU’s top court rules against the UK mass surveillance revealed by #EdwardSnowden https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/13/gchq-data-collection-violated-human-rights-strasbourg-court-rules
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#5yrsago All of #PuertoRico loses power https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-maria-puerto-rico-us-news-ap-top-news-hurricanes-f16313a8ccba490c94fd883e43db6bae
#5yrsago #Tesla pulls a #Trump, smears critical press outlet as “extremists” https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/04/tesla-accused-of-improper-worker-safety-reports-calls-news-site-extremist/
#5yrsago Facebook vs regulation: we exist nowhere and everywhere, all at once https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-privacy-eu-exclusive/exclusive-facebook-to-put-1-5-billion-users-out-of-reach-of-new-eu-privacy-law-idUSKBN1HQ00P
#5yrsago The upside of big tech is Russia vs #Telegram, but the downside is #Cloudflare vs #SESTA https://memex.craphound.com/2018/04/19/the-upside-of-big-tech-is-russia-vs-telegram-but-the-downside-is-cloudflare-vs-sesta/
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#10yrsago #Skype’s IP-leaking security bug creates denial-of-service cottage industry https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/03/privacy-101-skype-leaks-your-location/
#5yrsago The oil industry just told a judge that #ClimateChange is undeniably real, but they still found a way to weasel https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/22/17151532/climate-tutorial-san-francisco-oakland-lawsuits-judge-alsup-chevron-exxon
#5yrsago #Seasteading meets the shock doctrine in Puerto Rico, where ethnic cleansing precedes Going Galt https://theintercept.com/2018/03/20/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-recovery/
#1yrago Facebook's #genocide filters are really, really bad https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/23/false-genocide-negative/#metacrap
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