Is this for real?

According to this news piece, #Chechnya is placing a #ban on slow or fast music. And 120bpm is already too fast for them: all music should “correspond to a tempo of 80 to 116 beats per minute”.

I’m tempted to organize a to-be-banned music compilation now…

https://news.sky.com/story/chechnya-bans-music-that-is-too-fast-or-too-slow-13110266

0 days have passed since I last had to rename a .jpeg file into .jpg in order to upload it somewhere :netscape_anim:​

“the European Union (EU) proposed an amendment to the Electronic Identification, Authentication and Trust Services (eIDAS) Regulation that would change provisions related to Qualified Website Authentication Certificates (QWACs). The proposal could empower governments to compel browsers to validate specific Certificate Authorities (CAs) that may or may not comply with industry best practices for ensuring security online”

https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2021/internet-impact-brief-mandated-browser-root-certificates-in-the-eu-eidas-regulation/

Origami, ThanatoSchizO’s last album, was released on this date, twelve years ago.

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Lembrete anual: em Portugal o limiar de pobreza são 554€/mês, e o valor da pensão social de velhice é de 213.91€/mês.

Greta Thunberg released after brief detention at German mine protest, police say.

My “Spotify Wrap” of 2022 is that I didn’t use Spotify during the year. 🥳✌️

Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books

@prologic@twtxt.net, are there any plans to add the ability of full text search on yarn pods? Is this something I should open an issue/feature request for?

Thinking about reviving (#xi7nivq) - the idea of managing bashblog comments with twtxt instead of leading people to Twitter.

One of the things that attracts me about the “twtxt social network” is how radically decentralized it is. Not only each user is its own node (maintaining its own text file feed), there’s no limits to the protocols used to access each feed. Sure, most of the feeds are probably being served over http or https, but there are feeds being served over gopher, and I bet some of them over ftp/ftps. But it doesn’t have to be that way - feeds can be distributed in any modern equivalent to the sneakernet, you can save yours in a usb stick or a floppy disk, hand it over by hand or send it via postal mail; you can distributed them on a mailing list, on the usernet… The limit is your imagination.
This reflection made me realize that there’s no reason to wait for secushare, twtxt feeds can already be used, shared, maintained and spread on GNUnet, taking this social media platform to the GNU Internet.

Sometimes I get terrified for some moments with the naïvity of the greedy. As an example, when people advocate AI-generated stuff can/should be copyrightable, under the expectation that they’ll be making some money from that, without realizing about the impact of the repercussions of what they propose, also to themselves…

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Worms 2 was released a quarter of century ago. A game I’ve played countless hours, many of them with a Moonspell CD on the drive, which would make the game play songs from it (specially “Opium”).