trashHeap @trashHeap@anticapitalist.party

the LGBT standard was refreshed to LGBTQ and most recently LGBTQIA, but you may see the following proprietary extensions in older equipment:

LGBT+
LGBT-X
mini-LGBT
LGBT-HD
LGBT 2000
LGBT for Workgroups
i.LGBT
ASUS® LGBTQ Boost™
LGBTQ.11ac
μLGBTQ (embedded only)
LGBTQ Creative Cloud

"Steam is banning sex games with young-looking characters"

Nothing else that's shitty about Steam was a deal-breaker for Gamers™, but this absolutely will be. Lolllllllll

The FCC released new data on U.S. broadband access, and (surprise!): the future looks bad https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/new-fcc-data-indicates-future-broadband-access-most-americans-will-be-monopoly

ICANN Will approve .blackfriday as a TLD but they won't allow .union

"Peter Parker, also known as the popular super hero 'spiderman', is roughtly 16-17 years old, meaning he was either born in either 2001 or 2002. Contrary to popular belief, this places him firmly in the 'Gen Z' category, eather than the millennial category that many place him in. By extrapolating this information, we can conclude that Peter Parker not only knows what a furry is, but constantly has to grapple with the fact that his spider-centric identity is, in fact, his fursona. In this essay I will-"

This is why pure dystopian fiction doesnt' work anymore:

"Harvard is using its $39 billion endowment to snap up massive amounts of rights to aquifers all over California, making a dark bet on water scarcity to profit off forthcoming mega-droughts"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/harvard-quietly-amasses-california-vineyardsand-the-water-underneath-1544456396

#WhatIf chiminey sweeps *were* lucky as lucky could be? #chimchimcheree

Call me #Netflix.

Let women carry swords in public

This book "Big and Small Computing" (by @enkiv2—https://www.amazon.com/dp/1718167423) is really speaking to me.

« Build a better world in a pocket of cyberspace, and build it with your friends. Start a revolution in the style of bolo’bolo — by building an alternative to the monoculture and letting people visit. Taking over the world is neither necessary nor desirable: anyone who likes your system can adopt it on their own. »

Idea: Create a "LiteWeb" standard that is a restricted subset of HTML5 and CSS3, removing all behaviors that can be used to implement Turing completeness or that are difficult for a browser to render.

Have two modes for the standard: LiteWeb Transitional, which allows the full HTML5+CSS3+JavaScript suite, but must support graceful degradation on LiteWeb and pre-HTML5 browsers, and LiteWeb Strict, which is what it says on the tin (but still must gracefully degrade to pre-HTML5 browsers).