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1 day agoThat’s like saying victims of deepfake porn benefit because they get to watch themselves having sex. Nope, not buying it.
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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4·3 days agoNo worries. Given the season, surely it’s the recurring Bahhum bug.
Probably true. I don’t see anything like that in the article, though?
So what I take away after a quick skim on xmas eve is… this is an attempt at one app for all (or big parts) of the fediverse?
I think this is the most mature and versatile one? Bookwyrm is nice for what it does, but it’s only books.
Semantics. If person A is protected by privacy rights in her jurisdiction, but her data is scraped by project B from one where such rights conveniently aren’t legally respected, A should still be able to expect some way of injunction.
Yeah, terrific use for a mini PC. Will some self hosters and home labbers spit bile at the thought? Probably. It’s a matter of personal requirements.
Basically, like you say, most mini PCs are quiet, power efficient, and just carry that bit more oomph than a SBC.
For context, Rock Paper Shotgun is a gaming site, which is why the reviewer focuses so heavily on game performance on different mini PCs. Unsurprisingly, the answer to the title isn’t an unequivocal “yes”, but some of the little lunch boxes fare quite well despite their limited specs.
A more accurate title would be “Should gamers bother with mini PCs,” but given their audience that would be superfluous 🙂 I think mini PC gaming will continue to be a niche interest, but there are certainly other and probably better uses for the tiny computers.
Yeah, the only threat to Big Tech is that they might sink a lot of money into training material they’d have to give away later. But releasing the material into the Public Domain is not exactly an improvement for the people whose data and work has been used without consent or payment.
“Congratulations, your rights are still being violated, but now the data is free to use for everyone”.
4·6 days agoI guess White’s Web3 is going just great updates hurt some butts? I mean, it can’t be fun to be up to your neck in an elaborate scam and have somebody keep showing you receipts proving that you’re in fact up to your neck in an elaborate scam.
If I understand correctly, OP is after the non-Russian Pale Moon browser start page, not the project home page.
3·8 days agoOoh, that is salty! Will give it a try next time the family isn’t around to turn up their noses at my kitchen experiments.
Yeah, Nutella… I think it was the banana+pizza search query that sent me into crêpe-adjacent dessert territory.
I’m genuinely curious, can’t find many banana pizza recipes that aren’t smeared with nutella as well. I assume this is a white pizza base since you mention mascarpone? Then banana topping with a sprinkle of grated hard cheese?
3·8 days agowhy now exactly?
Oh, there’s a huge push to use Copilot in the entire Microsoft office suite now. My workplace is going all in on the damn thing, and I’m sure LibreOffice are also trying to nap some users as the next Windows version looms.
Tell me more, I’m a glutton for punishment.
Probably to position themselves in relation to Microsoft offerings eager to siphon as much user data as possible for their own ratty “AI” and passing the rest off to third parties?
Good to know, I’ll brace myself for disappointment when I try out Docker next 😄
Oh, I tested YNH for a while on a local server, and I wiped the whole thing when I saw the mess it made of my file system. I must have a deeper need to know where everything goes than the urge for convenience 😄
I was eyeing microblogpub for a while, but now that development has stalled I’m coming around to GTS as well — should I ever self host a single user fedi instance.
Uh huh, yep. Also, will definitely not be putting any audiobook readers out of a job.
Any time you need to remind users to “use this tool responsibly”, you know very well that’s not going to happen.