Christine Lemmer-Webber made an excellent blog post ~6 months ago titled How Decentralized is Bluesky really?

Give that a read.

if they had access to Windows-based software (Blender, Unreal Engine, 3D slicing software, etc.,).

All of those applications that you mentioned run on Linux too. Maybe check if everything you want to use runs on Linux and then you don’t need to sell your students’ souls on their behalf.

You’re telling me that someone who has been teaching for 10 years uses the abbreviation “s2g”?

Fuck am I that old?

You should probably let RealVNC know, because they don’t seem to have got your memo.

Does it link to the Google policy that they say that it violates? Are you certain the archive is clean and doesn’t actually contain an executable malware?

If you’re not sure, you could upload the book to VirusTotal and have it scanned.

All pirates drink water. What is water doing to stop piracy?

Something a lot like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpBAFOmdNgU

Trying to monetize the piracy of your users. That’s a bold business strategy.

Look, I know a lot of people could be using the sharing feature to share material that is in the public domain or that they own the copyright to, but let’s be honest: most of that sharing would be considered an “unlicensed public performance” by the MAFIAA.

Who is “we”?

Kudos for being publicly visible and not getting disappeared by the copyright mafia.

Mastodon for personal use: not so much as replies don’t federate with main tweet.

Didn’t this get fixed very recently? I think it can fetch all replies at the time of loading the thread now.

That’s great, but was it a smart idea to register a domain name in a TLD whose root nameserver is Verisign (an American company)?

If you’re not cycling a pedal-powered generator to run your system then is it really self-hosted? My servers only use organic transistors grown in my zen garden.

EU is making a new law which makes your IP the same as (something similar to) your social security number and they say piracy is going to receive a huge blow.

Sounds like an April Fools joke.

What’s mandos? I don’t find anything useful when searching for it.

Would this be useful as a more general scraping tool for eg. turning a news site into an RSS feed, or downloading all episodes of a podcast etc? Are there already tools fulfilling this purpose for more general scraping tasks, or does this offer a unique innovation in that area?

Most recent episode is 17th Jan. Did they stop?

Substack is Geocities for the Tumblr generation.

I think the way to make it work is to have each instance represent a “world” and you only have stats and equipment within a world. Then when you cross over to another instance you are now subject to that instance’s ruleset.

It wouldn’t be so much a federated MMO but more like a large variety of games connected geographically (in the virtual sense).

I’m trying to figure out what that looks like. So you mean they’re just peer to peer? I’d be interested to see one of those, sounds cool.