Confederacy of Allied States Announcements Thread [region]

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This is an official announcements thread for the region Confederacy of Allied States.

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This thread is only for important out-of-character announcements. For news from your nation check the IC news thread.

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(Reposted from RMB; this is the post that made the thread.)
Skip down two paragraphs to avoid techie politics.

As you may or may not know I generally support the Free Software Foundation, a charity developing and advocating the use of open source software (although I'm too cowardly to actually jump to GNU/Linux). They have a good introduction here: https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software

I currently use Google Docs and Drive for most, if not all, of my documents. This is problematic (to the FSF) for a number of reasons. I don't mean to make it sound like they're making my decisions for me but their reasoning is sound. Here's an essay on the subject by their founder Richard Stallman, a bit long but not too technical: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does ... serve.html

(Politics ends here.) The end result of all that is that I'm moving from Google Drive & Docs to Syncthing and LibreOffice. LibreOffice is an open-source office suite, comparable to Microsoft Office Home edition. Syncthing is an open-source file synchronizing program, which works exactly the same way as Google Drive except that it is peer-to-peer rather than relying on a centralized server. https://syncthing.net/ https://www.libreoffice.org/

Now, I (stupidly, in hindsight, but that's 20/20) made extensive use of Google Drive's built-in feature to host your images. For example, the T3 logos are made in Draw and hosted on Google Drive. Obviously if I'm not going to be using Drive anymore this is a problem. I'm going to gradually move these images over the next little while (read: few weeks, knowing me ) to my website, vikomprenas.com, so that instead of pointing to drive.google.com/host/whateverbunchofcharactersitis.png they will be at vikomprenas.com/static/images/t3main.png or some other more sensible and myself-controlled name.

Metaphor time: I'm in a dark room (because I can't see where the images are used), so I'm going to set everything on fire so I can see where the fires are and put them out. I'm not even kidding. I'll update the images where I know they are and then delete them one-by-one from Drive and fix what's left.

TL;DR: I'm changing things and I need your help to find all the images I missed. If you spot some weird thing that looks like it's an image but it's not actually one TG me and I'll fix it. Thank you!

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