The factory must grow rule.

Then I have no idea. (Is it even TTT at this point?)

Gotta agree with Lena, your art is great.

If the grid expands up, O loses; with the right moves they would tie instead.

If the grid expands down, O and X tie. With the right move O could ensure a win instead.

Either way they’re really bad at Tic-Tac-Toe. But at least they were nice enough to not force someone to draw an O on their own leg, drawing an X is easier.

I hope so, too. Their current situation isn’t currently the best (a lot of them went away in the late 10s, simply because people were using them less); I’m kind of hoping to see a revival, but that’s at the mercy of the STF, so I can’t completely rule out that the situation will evolve exactly like in the UK. It’s “let’s wait and see”, you know?

I’m also wondering the impact of that on chatrooms, that used to be extremely popular here.

When something similar happened in the UK, it was pretty much exclusively smaller/niche forums, run by volunteers and donations, that went offline.

[Warning, IANAL] I am really not sure if the experience is transposable for two reasons:

1. UK follows Saxon tribal law, while Brazil follows Roman civil law. I am not sure but I believe the former requires both sides to dig up precedents, and that puts a heavier burden on the smaller side of a legal litigation. While in the later, if you show “ackshyually in that older case the defendant was deemed guilty”, all the judge will say is “so? What is written is what matters; if the defendant violated the law or not.”.
2. The Americas in general are notorious for sloppy law enforcement. Specially Brazil. Doubly so when both parties are random nobodies.

So there’s still a huge room for smaller forums to survive, or even thrive. It all depends on how the STF enforces it. For example it might take into account that a team of volunteers has less liability because their ability to remove random junk from the internet is lower than some megacorpo from the middle of nowhere.

Additionally, it might be possible the legislative screeches at the judiciary, and releases some additional law that does practically the same as that article 19, except it doesn’t leave room for the judiciary to claim it’s unconstitutional. Because, like, as I said the judiciary is a bit too powerful, but the other powers still can fight back, specially the legislative.

For context:

There’s an older law called Marco Civil da Internet (roughly “internet civil framework”), from 2014. The Article 19 of that law boils down to “if a third party posts content that violates the law in an internet service, the service provider isn’t legally responsible, unless there’s a specific judicial order telling it to remove it.”

So. The new law gets rid of that article, claiming it’s unconstitutional. In effect, this means service providers (mostly social media) need to proactively remove illegal content, even without judicial order.

I kind of like the direction this is going, but it raises three concerns:

1. False positives becoming more common.
2. The burden will be considerably bigger for smaller platforms than bigger ones.
3. It gives the STF yet another tool for vendetta. The judiciary is already a bit too strong in comparison with the other two powers, and this decision only feeds the beast further.

On a lighter side, regardless of #2, I predict a lower impact in the Fediverse than in centralised social media.

I’m glad your day is better because of my shit-edit :)

I tried. Dunno if I should make a sword-shaped hole in the fault or add a “no swords allowed!” sign. (If I got this right you’re mocking oddly combative users, right? There’s always rules to be nice… and they get ignored.)

;_;7

🤣

Like this?

So he’s shaped like his wife’s poops‽

That fucking comic, why did you have to remind me?

Sorry. I think my brain became mush after reading too much Junji Ito. Pic related:

You come out the other side as if you went through the no poop challenge.

Normalmente digo “yerba mate” en inglés, para evitar confusiones, o preguntas como “ah, pero cual la diferenza entre yerba i erva?”. Ya en portugués llamo de chimarrão o mate. (Hago lo mismo con dulce de leche vs. doce de leite)

Alerta roja, alerta roja, skullgrid y bdonvr estan triangulando mi escondrijo! 🤣 (…soy de Paraná.)

…damn! Oh well I’m heating a bit more water anyway.

I’m glad it doesn’t mention empty yerba mate gourds or thermos, I’m too lazy to go to the kitchen right now.

The stick in question is off-site; it sees the PC once per month, then it gets back to the drawer in another room. And regardless of its fate, if I had a flood or fire affecting my PC, in the second store of a brick house, odds are that I’d have far more pressing matters than the data.