My partner's late mother, just a couple of years ago: "If there weren't advertisements, how would we know what to buy?"
@EUCommission As a former US online retailer who shipped to the EU, this seems reasonable.
Less reasonable was when the tariff on a shipment of maybe half a dozen t-shirts to Norway (I think) almost doubled the final charge, and the customer had to have it returned because she couldn't justify the expense. (I gave her a full refund for the items and the shipping.)
Maybe the rules have changed since then? This would have been sometime around 2000...
@dbattistella Also, as far as I know, none of the inventors of the plow considered it "intellectual property".
Inventing stuff is great; hiring people to invent stuff, claiming those inventions as your property, and then using them to get obscenely rich by controlling who else gets to use it is... an entirely different thing.
@fullywoolly @troublewithwords
Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit calling people Shirley. ✈️
@fullywoolly @troublewithwords
Shirley Surely by now someone has mentioned... https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/goose%20egg
@rnd An awful lot of protest music from the late 1960s and early 1970s applies today, with few or zero changes. :-/
@claralistensprechen3rd I figured people would follow the thread...
...but ok, if it's SOP to include the tag even in self-replies, then I shall Do That Thing ^.^
@claralistensprechen3rd
Kiki's HVAC Delivery Service
Nausicaa of the Giant Floor Fan of the Winds
Howl's Air-Conditioned Castle
@dee I've also managed, on at least one occasion, to guide an LLM to the correct answer (after it answered incorrectly) without ever saying "you're wrong" or telling it the correct answer.
So there's that, at least.
from: https://bsky.app/profile/gothgreenwitch.bsky.social/post/3mplsg7gelc2j
Just saw that Chequered In has put their All Fonts Pack on sale. This is the one with 1200+ fonts for unlimited personal/commercial use licensing. It's marked down to $19 USD, from $190. (Buying the licenses individually would be ~$18k.) So maybe jump on this:
https://ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pack/devlog/1571081/90-off-1200-fonts-in-the-summer-sale
New fonts are occasionally added to the pack as updates as well. So it's not a static set.
Is everything in there wildly useful? No. But on balance there's some pretty great fonts in the pack. Scare Arms, for example - what I used for The River Devours the Moon's cover - is from there.
I have a pretty hefty collection of physical media, and yet it seemed clear to me years ago that lack of space was going to mean that many people would be leaning heavily into stored digital media.
This is one more of those things where technology means we can survive with a lot less, which in turn means people (especially younger ones) are expected to be able to survive with a lot less.
I see it as a kind of generational shrinkflation. :-/
I almost mentioned Delphi -- but for some reason I never could get into it, and then VB6 basically adopted the paradigm... which I guess means that Delphi literally was the future of programming.
VBA (especially in MS Access) probably deserves a footnote, too.
apps. people. starter kits. one place.
fediverse onboarding has been broken for too long, and it doesn't have to be.
the new https://fediverse.info ships soon.
boost and spread the word 😘
