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Comment ALA 10 most banned books (Score 0) 142

https://www.ala.org/advocacy/b... ALA 10 most banned books: Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe Reasons: Banned, challenged, and restricted for LGBTQIA+ content, and because it was considered to have sexually explicit images Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison Reasons: Banned and challenged for LGBTQIA+ content and because it was considered to be sexually explicit All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson Reasons: Banned and challenged for LGBTQIA+ content, profanity, and because it was considered to be sexually explicit Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez Reasons: Banned, challenged, and restricted for depictions of abuse and because it was considered to be sexually explicit The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Reasons: Banned and challenged for profanity, violence, and because it was thought to promote an anti-police message and indoctrination of a social agenda The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Reasons: Banned and challenged for profanity, sexual references and use of a derogatory term Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews Reasons: Banned and challenged because it was considered sexually explicit and degrading to women The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Reasons: Banned and challenged because it depicts child sexual abuse and was considered sexually explicit This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson Reasons: Banned, challenged, relocated, and restricted for providing sexual education and LGBTQIA+ content. Beyond Magenta by Susan Kuklin Reasons: Banned and challenged for LGBTQIA+ content and because it was considered to be sexually explicit.

Comment Instructions to pull the easter egg up (Score 2) 46

Instructions to pull the easter egg up: Select Game 2 or Game 3. Get the Bridge Find the maze north of the Black Castle. Look for the room that is flickering -- the flicker is due to the extra item hidden in the room related to the Easter egg. In the flickering maze, use the bridge to get to access the chamber in the bottom/middle of the room. Go to the lower right corner of the small chamber and you'll pick up a single pixel. Carry the pixel to the room just above the Catacombs, located exactly one screen down, and one screen right from the Yellow Castle. Note: The pixel will be invisible unless you rub along a southern border. Drop the pixel in this room with a barrier on the right side. Retrieve two more objects (Key, Sword, Chalice) and drop them in the room. Once there are three objects in the room including the pixel, you can walk through the rightmost wall to view the Easter egg.

Submission + - SPAM: From the blog of Daniel Stenberg

puddingebola writes: On Friday January 21, 2022 I received this email. I tweeted about it and it took off like crazy.

The email comes from a fortune-500 multi-billion dollar company that apparently might be using a product that contains my code, or maybe they have customers who do. Who knows?

My guess is that they do this for some compliance reasons and they “forgot” that their open source components are not automatically provided by “partners” they can just demand this information from.

I answered the email very briefly and said I will be happy to answer with details as soon as we have a support contract signed.

I think maybe this serves as a good example of the open source pyramid and users in the upper layers not at all thinking of how the lower layers are maintained. Building a house without a care about the ground the house stands on.

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Submission + - NVIDIA's ARM acquisition is no go (bloomberg.com)

Artem S. Tashkinov writes: Nvidia Corp. is quietly preparing to abandon its purchase of Arm Ltd. from SoftBank Group Corp. after making little to no progress in winning approval for the $40 billion chip deal, according to people familiar with the matter. Nvidia has told partners that it doesn’t expect the transaction to close, according to one person, who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private. SoftBank, meanwhile, is stepping up preparations for an Arm initial public offering as an alternative to the Nvidia takeover, another person said.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Do you test your webpages with Microsoft Edge? 1

shanen writes: If you're doing any webpage programming for money, then I'm pretty sure you are paid to support Edge, too. Probably even required to test it. So this question is really directed to the relative amateur programmers among us. As I think about the topic from my overly philosophic perspective, I even considered asking "Do you feel pressured or even blackmailed to support MS Edge?"

Context seems called for, but as often happens, mine is messy. I have an ancient PERL/CGI system. The server is not under my control, but after 15 years of pretty good service, recently it has become flaky. It is a messy and crufty system that deserves a page-one rewrite, but who wants to do that these days? (Answer: Better and more industrious programmers than yours truly.) So my latest old-tool approach is to resort to JavaScript. I have (too) often used a kludgy approach with moderately complicated data structures embedded in JS files that are loaded on the fly, but... Prevert [sic] that I am, I'm considering the straightforward (for twisted values of straight) approach of doing the same thing with 800 KB of data. Sort of a page-zero rewrite, but with a focus on eliminating a bug in one of the messy regexes. Should work well enough for big computers with unlimited data, but quite probably a strain for my older smartphone. Since it's mostly for my own use, I don't care at all about Edge, but it got me to thinking and led to this question.

Now about the "There's no such thing as a stupid question" thing. My last accepted Ask Slashdot question was trying really hard for stupid. Though it triggered a pretty long discussion it was of limited interest and I feel sort of obliged to apologize for it. Especially since the question was mostly answered in the first comment and I should have figured it out on my own, too. Will it help to blame Microsoft again? (As I type into a Windows 10 box (in spite of having plenty of other OSes available on various boxen around here).)

Comment Past age (Score 2) 84

Is it as good as Bananamp running in Windows 93? Probably not. I have some old mp3s somewhere, maybe I'll download this to play them. Or maybe Foobar 2000. I dunno, it's a streaming world now.

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