I use the RSS feed reader in Thunderbird to have a local copy of things. If I don't check my email on my laptop twice a day, I tend to lose Slashdot feed items because the Slashdot RSS feed keeps less than a day's worth of items. For example, I only checked my Thunderbird RSS feed on 2025-08-04 once early in the morning and lost about half a day's worth of Slashdot feed items by the time I checked it the next day.

I did not see a mention of that short feed limit here: https://slashdot.org/faq/feeds...

What software could I set up somewhere so that I always have access to a complete local set of Slashdot RSS items? Ideally I think I'd like something so I could maybe have copies on a home server (Linux) which is usually-but-not-always running, my laptop (Linux), and perhaps even a remote server (Linux) to help with local outages -- and then perhaps somehow use a tool to bring all the feed items together now and then.

On a tangent, there are also occasional days when Slashdot's RSS feed seems to get stuck with the older feed items being hours old (when there are newer items on the site). Usually it fixes itself in less than day, although a few weeks ago I emailed Slashdot support when it had been stuck for over a day, and then it started working soon after. I know Slashdot briefly suspends RSS feed access if you check it too often (something made more likely by the short feed duration) -- but I don't think that was the issue there. Nothing much I probably can do about that other Slashdot feed issues though, but maybe people here have some insight into that anyway.

With respect to Call of Duty games: Yes. Games supporting Xbox Live on the original Xbox console are no longer playable online. Games for PlayStation 2 had a trend of closing even earlier with DNAS error -103 "This software title is not in service."

And with respect to recent games: The publisher of the game Concord closed its sole server less than a month after release.

And with respect to recent games that rely on Windows security technologies: Players of Marvel Rivals on Linux and macOS got banned from the game's sole server for a century until server administrators had to reverse the bans manually. If you want more examples, I can provide them by searching DuckDuckGo for linux games ban site:slashdot.org.

I suspect that grandparent means that the concept of an "unsupported platform" is itself anticompetitive. I certainly believe it is. If a paying licensee can technically make a computer program work on a particular platform, it ought not to be the publisher's privilege to arbitrarily ban said licensee for using said program on said platform.

I work for Retrotainment Games, and we sell pixel art games for about $10 to $15 on Steam* or $60 on cartridge.

* Disclaimer: A paid download on Steam or a major game console's download store is not a sale of a copy as defined in the Uniform Commercial Code.

Probably the same phenomenon as when a publisher's system confuses Steam Deck users who do not cheat with cheaters.

This invites a lawyer to find a client with a disability who can't use a website because it blocks the assistive browser extension on which the client relies. Together, they sue the browser publisher and website operator under Americans with Disabilities Act or foreign counterparts.

Some website publishers have threatened publishers of ad-blocking software pursuant to the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), or other similar legislation. See "A Copyright Claim Was Reportedly Used to Stop Ad Blocking, But It’s Complicated" by Rhett Jones for details.

It depends. Does the Perplexity agent faithfully relay the personalized messages from sponsors that would have otherwise been presented adjacent to the information on the website?

Part of the problem is that there's no way to pay "journalists" as a whole. Because of electronic payment networks' fees per transaction, online newspapers have to sell a monthly subscription, not a single issue they way they would with cash in a vending machine. And a subscription to NYT includes zero articles from WaPo or WSJ. This means readers get sucked into the ideological bubble of the one publication that happens to be part of their subscription plan.

I concede that I have not viewed incest-themed video games, as sexually explicit works do not appeal to me. However, US law classifies a video game as an audiovisual work, little different from a motion picture. I'm aware of more than one film adaptation of Lolita, a novel by Vladimir Nabokov depicting sexual abuse of a minor. I'm not aware of any statute or regulation that disqualifies a work of authorship from having "artistic value" solely because it is interactive. Could you give me something to cite about categorical exclusion of interactive audiovisual works from having "serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value" per the Miller test?

The conviction was reversed and remanded. From Wikipedia's article "Miller v. California, section "Opinion of the Court":

The result of the ruling was that the Supreme Court overturned Miller's criminal conviction and remanded the case back to the California Superior Court for reconsideration of whether Miller had committed a misdemeanor.[5]

[5] Beverly G. Miller, Miller v. California: A Cold Shower for the First Amendment , 48 St. John's L. Rev. 568 (1974).

From the opinion of the Court, 413 U.S. 15 (1973):

The judgment of the Appellate Department of the Superior Court, Orange County, California, is vacated and the case remanded to that court for further proceedings not inconsistent with the First Amendment standards established by this opinion.

Could you give me something to cite about Miller's conviction having been upheld on remand?

I quoted the part of the Miller test on which authors and publishers would most likely rely in a defense. The Miller test is not like the fair use test in the copyright statute (17 USC 107), in which the judge is expected to weigh the factors against one another. A work has to meet all three parts of the Miller test to be obscene.

This is where we disagree on how the opinion of the Court ought to be interpreted.

Including the DNS transaction, the public IP address of the server, and the SNI field of ClientHello?

I've noticed that a lot of these US-based PCB fabs that offer manufacturing have a limited selection of board thicknesses, such as 1.6 mm and little else. That doesn't help if you're interfacing with another device that needs a 1.2 mm thick PCB, such as a Nintendo Entertainment System Control Deck.

The law specifically requires "age discrimination" through the concept of a "status offense." My country recognizes age as a protected class only in very limited cases, mostly those involving employment of people over 40.

Because not enough Americans have called their Representative in support of H.R. 987 and their Senators in support of S. 401. These bills, collectively the "Fair Access to Banking Act", would do much as you suggest.

Or at least this was the case until Visa bought Authorize.net.

Laws banning depictions of incest are unconstitutional under Miller v. California if said depictions have serious artistic value. This is true under both current state law and the proposed interstate definition of obscenity.

True. Regulators would need to pick a GUI API stack as the baseline for interoperability, much as regulators picked POSIX.1 stack back in the day. I'd even be fine with a regulation that requires an OS publisher to support "either X11 or Wayland" because applications meant for one can run in the other through XWayland or Weston, as can apps made for the subset of Win32 supported by Winelib.