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4 days agoI repressed that. Most of what I remember from that book is about the killer robot dog that is really a Good Boy. Also, never to buy a set of VR glasses from Mark Zuckerberg.
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I used to make comics. I know that because strangers would look at my work and immediately share their most excruciatingly banal experiences with me:
— that time a motorised wheelchair cut in front of them in the line at the supermarket;
— when the dentist pulled the wrong tooth and they tried to get a discount;
— eating off an apple and finding half a worm in it;
every anecdote rounded of with a triumphant “You should make a comic about that!”
Then I would take my 300 pages graphic novel out of their hands, both of us knowing full well they weren’t going to buy it, and I’d smile politely, “Yeah, sure. Someday.”
“Don’t try to cheat me out of my royalties when you publish it,” they would guffaw and walk away to grant comics creator status onto their next victim.
Nowadays I make work that feels even more truly like comics to me than that almost twenty years old graphic novel. Collage-y, abstract stuff that breaks all the rules just begging to be broken. Linear narrative is ashes settling in my trails, montage stretched thin and warping in new, interesting directions.
I teach comics techniques at a university level based in my current work. I even make an infrequent podcast talking to other avantgarde artists about their work in the same field.
Still, sometimes at night my subconscious whispers the truth in my ear: Nobody ever insists I turn their inane bullshit nonevents into comics these days, and while I am a happier, more balanced person as a result of that, I guess that means I don’t make comics any longer after all.
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Huh. So the future we’re living in is Minority report but instead of precog copaganda it’s petty commercial entities excluding you on the basis of old tweets.
Plume isn’t currently actively maintained, unfortunately. It’s right below the fold of the page you linked 😞
As for customisability, I think writefreely has some different themes to choose from, they’re just hidden away in the docs or on github.
42·8 days agoThe European public sector could choose any stable Linux distro, with any DE. Now, somebody proposed a branded “EU OS” so you know what the non-techies in charge are going to go for.
Pardon my cynicism, but to me that branding seems opportunist and suspicious in itself. Let the suits at least ask their sysadmins what would be the better setup.
8·13 days agoSo basically what Drew DeVault wrote about the other day I guess?
2·14 days agoSame with Ghost, but Docker may be a bit too involved for non-techies.
They’re both android, but without the Google services tacked on. The question is, how will the Android Open Source project fare if Google is forced to divest from it? And where does that leave the ungoogled ROMs?
“Great people on both sides,” as a very stable genius put it 🙄
Either way, this is probably OT for an open source thread…
Fair enough. I’m still smarting from that election result, all the way across the pond.
On the other side, I don’t count people as “great” who can’t be bothered voting against bigoted authoritarianism. But different strokes, I’m sure.
The majority of Americans are great people
They’re not the majority if they can’t win an election — just sayin’.
Advertisers can stake their PRE [crypto tokens] to a keyword, and whichever advertiser stakes the most tokens will have its ads displayed when a user searches on the term selected. Advertisers confer the most external value on PRE, so their success is very important to the ecosystem.
So crypto currency and advertising? Hard pass.
Same. I think that’s a much needed Mbin feature waiting to be implemented?
The most customizable DE will always be “any WM” 😄
In October 2024, he offered to donate $1 billion to Wikipedia to change the name to “Dickipedia.”
I think we have found the root of the issue. Nothing bothers Musk as much as being told he can’t buy something and slap a childish name on it.
After all, it’s not your location history. It’s Microsoft’s history of where you’ve been. You never monetised it anyway.
But probably only the useful content.
As much as I understand the drive to make Windows bearable with some better software than Microsoft supplies, I just can’t muster the suspension of disbelief to grok the words “windows” and “awesome” next to each other.
Keep fighting the good fight!
(I’m trying to be encouraging, but obviously finding a baseline decent mail or other tech provider shouldn’t have to be a “fight” …)
Ah, makes sense!
Nope. The actual
purposefunctionality seems unclear to me.Edited.