Oh I did think the F in FOSS was about the price. Good to know!

I can vouch for Foundry VTT being really nice to use, overall.

It’s not free though, so I’m not sure it falls under the FOSS label.

I don’t think there really can be a long term solution for this sort of thing. I think we just have to block and such as they pop up, defederate if a threshold is crossed. I dunno.

Cash has an identifier on it, but unlike a check that identifier doesn’t identify you.

That’s what I was thinking. Wasn’t that the point?

Like most FOSS projects… they’re awful at promoting what they actually do on their website front page, instead focusing on FOSS buzzwords. It’s unfortunately a thing.

It’s vector art. You can design all sorts of things. App layouts, website design, logo design, basically anything that is visual and will need to scale up and down without loss of detail.

I feel the same about Krita. I used it for about a year of hobbyist drawing, and I just never could get comfortable using it.

Clip Studio Paint came out with 3.0, and after some deliberation I decided to pay for the update. Felt like coming home. I’ve done more art in two weeks than I’ve done in nearly a year of using Krita.

I tried to read Foucault in grad school. His writing is just the worst, like it’s intentionally trying to be difficult to read and understand. When other people describe Foucault’s ideas to me, they seem cool. Wish I could actually understand the original stuff though.

Maybe I’m just an idiot, I dunno.

“what’s the Judge Rotenburg Center?” looks it up “Jesus”

Man I grew up in the age of forums, and I never got the hang of em. Just felt like the design goals were wasted negative space and the purposeful inability to know who is responding to whom.

There’s a lot of forum fans, so there must be some appeal, but fuck me if I can ascertain what that might be.

I never did any IRC, though I wonder if I’d known it at the time if I might’ve gotten into it.

True.

But the point is the lock-in is similar from a social perspective, just hardened even further by tying the messaging platform to specific hardware.

“Hey let’s use XYZ instead of iMessage” and “hey let’s use XYZ instead of WhatsApp” will be met with the same typical resistance to any sort of change. But in the case of iMessage, there’s added elitism and othering due to Apple’s using iMessage as a lock-in to their hardware.

I think the big difference in the US is that iMessage was leagues ahead of SMS well before there were any good, popular 3rd party mobile messaging apps. iPhones also dominated here, and still do, largely due to that early market dominance.

I suppose community building, detached from geography, is bound to be done primarily by highly motivated advocates.

Maybe that’s pessimistic, I dunno.

The only thing that applies to me here is the new SAVE IDR plan. But hey, it still lowers my monthly payment a little bit AND let’s payments actually go to principal instead of just shaving off interest. It’s not nothing.

I would still like to see full debt relief, but I think that has to be a matter of legislation if I understand correctly. And I’ll take baby steps over nothing at all.

Okay?

yeah, fair enough.

Is that considered tankie? I know it’s pro revolutionary socialism, which is typically what the countries tankies like did to start out.

When I think ‘tankie’ I usually think people who are still pro those countries to the point of denial about genocides and other bad things those countries are doing.

“I saw one post. Most agreed. 100% extreme.”

I ain’t saying you’re wrong, but the route you’re taking there is not exactly valid.

Yeah, I’ve never had an ad like that on a work laptop, ever. A good IT dept will lock down the experience to minimize distractions for business purposes, and lock down features that aren’t appropriate for work.

I may not be any of those things… but turns out I enjoy the humor of all of them greatly!