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3 days agoFair 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.
haverholm
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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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.
26·16 days agoAfter 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!
As in a folder of text files? Because that’s what I’m doing. Syncing across devices with Syncthing and editing/adding files with whatever markdown editor works best in each platform.
4·1 month agoI’ve tried LocalSend for this, but I usually end up using more reliable ways like Syncthing (not instantly transfered, but at a decent speed) or sending myself the file on Element for Matrix (as good as instantaneous).
Email alternatives I’ve been recommended but not personally tried — please comment if they’re also gone to the dark side somehow:
- Tutanota (already mentioned in another comment)
- Mailbox.org
- Posteo.eu
- Fastmail
For low end dum-dums like me, https://sabre.io/baikal/ is a simpler, but very stable caldav solution. I bet Radicale has more features, but did I mention being low end? 🙂
For a second there I thought you’d genuinely connected all your devices to a service you didn’t know the first thing about 😄
TIL Taildrop is a new(ish?) Tailscale feature that adds airdrop-alike transfer to your tailnet.
1·1 month agoClassicPress is a start, I guess. My thought is more of slashing off all the extraneous bloat that has been added to WP over the last 15 years (but keeping the security updates) and make it a lean little blogging software again. But if course I don’t have the skills to do that myself.
TBF, there is theme support in writefreely, though mostly limited to some colour changes within the very text based aesthetic.
Ideally IMHO, somebody would take the consequence of recent Wordpress drama and just use the code base for a very light install — perhaps with the activitypub plugin baked in, to make it fediverse native.
Nope, and I bet Mark Cuban isn’t really invested in TikTok either way. It’s just a current talking point pivoted to make him feel relevant.
“Great people on both sides,” as a very stable genius put it 🙄
Either way, this is probably OT for an open source thread…