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The way the article makes it sound is, if individual employees download OracleJDK while on the company network, and use it for small personal scripts or automation, then that might be enough to trigger Oracle to act.

If your company is large enough, then enough employees may have done that to make you a reasonable target for litigation if you don’t work something out with Oracle. And Oracle is an expert at litigation.

I think that the best defense for a large company would be to IP block all Oracle domains and periodically scan employee laptops for any Oracle products (especially JDK and VirtualBox guest additions) and delete them.

You really have to treat anything that Oracle touches as malware if you want to protect yourself.

Seems like a puzzle platformer with dress-up and other “comfy” features. Could be interesting.

CrossCode. It’s a 2D ARPG with a good story and well-designed world with puzzles, exploration, and combat.

In one episode of GameChanger, the host mentions a few others that they weren’t aware of when the intro text was written: Taskmaster (which is awesome) and Ellen’s Game of Games.

I know for sure that there is a mastodon client for Emacs, but of course that uses a different protocol and wouldn’t work for lemmy: https://codeberg.org/martianh/mastodon.el

Oh, the non-citizen voting stuff. Yeah, that’s kinda weird. It does seem like every instance so far has been for local or specifically school-board elections. Ballotpedia has a comprehensive article on it: https://ballotpedia.org/Laws_permitting_noncitizens_to_vote_in_the_United_States

I think my personal viewpoint is as follows:

1. It is probably reasonable for legal resident aliens who have lived in a school district for 30 days and who have a child in the public school system to vote in school board elections.

2. I don’t know what to think about legal resident aliens being able to vote in local municipal elections. I live in NYC (which attempted to enable this option, but it was struck down in court as violating the state constitution) and this would significantly alter the voting landscape of the city. I’ll have to think about it more.

3. I don’t think that undocumented resident aliens should be able to vote in any elections.

4. I don’t think that legal or undocumented resident aliens should be able to vote in state elections.

And of course the right to vote in federal elections has been explicitly reserved to US citizens by congress.

I did some research into this out of curiosity. It turns out that the 30 day requirement for local and state elections was decided by the Supreme Court in Dunn v. Blumstein (1972) as an application of the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment, on the basis that states already allowed long-time residents to register to vote up to 30 days before an election and that restricting new residents from doing so was arbitrary.

That seems like pretty solid precedent and I would expect that this rule will never change, barring exceptional Supreme Court shenanigans.

Source: https://ir.law.fsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1928&context=lr

Good point, fixed

This also happened with the crew of the Ever Given for months, after it was dislodged from the Suez Canal: https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/06/09/ever-given-suez-crew-stuck-shipping/

As someone who has two packs of that in his pantry right now, that stuff is awesome.

They actually did do something similar to this but with beer. They extracted ancient yeast DNA from 45mya that was preserved in amber and used it to brew beer.

https://underthejenfluence.beer/urcontent/2017/3/6/i-tried-it-45-million-year-old-yeast-beer

Unfortunately no longer available, which is quite the shame since I really want to try it lol.

I just gave PlantUML + the C4 Plugin a try and generally liked it, thank you for the rec!

It seems like a good tool although it inherits all the joys and pains of automatic graph layout.

I think I’ll keep it in my arsenal for detailed diagrams that can handle being a little aesthetically wonky.

I hadn’t heard of C4 before and it seems like a solid idea.

The Target app is the best that I’ve seen for customers. It won’t plan your route, but you can search for items and it will tell you the aisle, location within the aisle, and stock level for any item at your local store.

My spiciest anime hot take is that the Netflix adaption of Death Note was actually pretty good.

The problem was that anyone who liked the anime would hate it and vice versa, so it had no audience.

But if you disliked the anime, then I highly recommend checking out the Netflix adaption.

It answers the question “what if Light were cringe”.

The lil’ horns are kinda cute

Gotta say, I didn’t expect devil Robot.

Today, I wanted to make a module for my AwesomeWM status bar

It’s great when simple tools let you extend them like this. It may be kinda hacky sometimes but oftentimes a small, tightly-scoped extension that you develop for yourself can give you a lot of value.

Canonically, the True Power (of the Dark One) was granted only to those who served him, whereas the One Power was open to all channelers. This makes a “One Power” subscription very funny to me.

No matter where you go, everyone’s connected.