Apparently I am mentioned (just once) in the Epstein Files.

[cavyherd@wandering.shop]

@cstross

I am somehow feeling disinclined to click on that link. Is this how the web page displays on your side?

[draxil@social.linux.pizza]

@cstross nice to be included?

[jozeldenrust@social.sdfeu.org]

@cavyherd
There isn't any real age check, you're just asked whether you're over 18 years old. The DoJ probably don't want to be held responsible if kids visit the site and read material that's inappropriate for minors.
@cstross

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@cavyherd Yes, it is indeed the DoJ (I didn't get any active age verification, just a "click here to say you are over 18".)

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@draxil No, it really isn't!

[cavyherd@wandering.shop]

@cstross

Ah, okay. That's at least reasonable, given the context of the web page.

[gbargoud@masto.nyc]

RE: https://masto.nyc/@gbargoud/116003310894666297

@cstross

There is one person who was included in the files in a positive way, because he decided to CC Epstein on an email he wrote saying Epstein should be throttled

[jdebp@mastodon.scot]

@cstross

You would have had your full name and unredacted e-mail address if only you had licenced some free/open source software. (-:

https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/116007537194276014

#EpsteinFiles #CopyrightLicences

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@JdeBP I have no idea what you're trying to say.

[urbandjent@metalhead.club]

@cstross A mention in the Epstein Files? Guess that means you're famous now 🤪👍

[specialcase@mstdn.social]

@cstross I was going to reply "Were they discussing how to use Norse death-magic to summon the Aesir?" and now I realized I spent the last 10+ years thinking you wrote Thor Meets Captain America. I hang my head in shame.

[jdebp@mastodon.scot]

@cstross

As I pointed out in that post, there's a whole bunch of well-known people in the software world in there simply by dint of their names being attached to the copyright licences of various pieces of free/open source softwares. (Hyperlink to document in that post.)

And unlike in other cases, the USADOJ people didn't go through that document and black out the e-mail addresses.

#EpsteinFiles #CopyrightLicences

[jdebp@mastodon.scot]

@cstross

I found it by having the idea of putting #OpenBSD into the search field.

Other people have already found the (redacted!) copy of the Bourne Again shell GNU reference manual and man page that are in there; and I had been wondering what the most bizarre software thing might be in there.

There's also a copy of Kevin Gallagher's instructions for EDT for GNU #emacs in there; with M. Gallagher's e-mail address redacted.

https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/116007091737561503

#EpsteinFiles

[jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com]

@UrbanDjent @cstross

I'm sure Charlie was satisfied with being 'notable enough' to have a Wikipedia page.

[urbandjent@metalhead.club]

@jackwilliambell @cstross Anybody can make a Wikipedia page, but it's something else entirely to get name-dropped in the Fantasy Island Files 😎

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@jackwilliambell @UrbanDjent

Being notable for Wikipedia values of notable: good.

Being notable for Epstein values of notable: doubleplus-ungood.

[jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com]

@UrbanDjent @cstross

When someone outs themselves as not knowing how Wikipedia works.

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@UrbanDjent @jackwilliambell It's not Fantasy Island; it's Rape Island.

[urbandjent@metalhead.club]

@jackwilliambell @cstross When some rando buts in on somebody else's non-funny non-joke and answers on behalf of the OP.

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@UrbanDjent @jackwilliambell When *someone the OP knows* turns up and is mistaken for an interloper, you mean. Now kindly fuck off.