Pluralistic: Disney lost Roger Rabbit (18 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
 describes copyright Termination of Transfer and how
Termination of Transfer
 helps with terminating transfer. I wonder if software developers might be tempted to terminate the transfer of copyright of some of their code after 35 years? Could be a headache for software companies. 35 years used to seem an incredible lifetime for a piece of software, but I suspect there's quite a lot software of this age still around.
Changed my GitHub profile bio to: "I prefer Codeberg to GitHub these days because of the latter's AI infestation." #codeberg #Github
'[The BBC] should send Donald Trump a four-word reply to his blustering threat to sue the corporation in Florida for $1bn in damages: “See you in court.”'
The four-word message the BBC should send Trump about his $1bn lawsuit
The corporation must show it will not be cowed, unlike American broadcast media, and call the president’s bluff
Just drew a diagram to help me understand some of the complications of a piece of code I'm trying to design (constructing SubReceiverSets from IpcReceiverSets, for anyone who has been following along in my blog). Thank goodness for graphviz - so much neater than my hand-drawn attempt. image
Fascinating stats about those who intend to vote for Reform UK:
the Guardian
Who supports Reform and why? The charts that show who favours Farage’s party
Based on largest poll of supporters, these charts and maps show five distinct groups that could hand Reform a majority
 Analysis:
the Guardian
The real Reform voters have been revealed – it’s a slapdash coalition Farage will struggle to hold together | Aditya Chakrabortty
This is no single bloc marching under one ideology, or even a mass of ‘red-wall’ voters. What unites them is a desire for something different, ...
 If only the Labour government would get its act together and stop mirroring Reform UK attitudes.
After bumping into a fun interview with Linus Torvalds on 20 years of git () I took a look at the first commit of git:
GitHub
Initial revision of "git", the information manager from hell · git/git@e83c516
Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https...
. Nice to see small beginnings for such a successful project. Some of Torvald's commit logs are fun to read too (git log --reverse came in handy) #git