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- shortname
- Keet
- pronouns
- they/them
- species
- some kind of pony thing?
I 💖 @orrery
I 🕹️ retrogaming
I 🔊 chiptunes
I 🦄 ponies
I ☁️ cannabis
I � Unicode
and yes to 🤖 but #nobot
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All right, it's not exactly a lie, but it invites the question, "Valued at what?" I know it's non-zero, since their website doesn't let me turn off advertising emails (savings opportunities!) and it shows ads for Experian credit monitoring so I'm worth at least some ad revenue.
<sarcasm> Gee, if they're having to erode customer trust just to get some extra cash on the side, the health insurance industry but be really struggling to stay profitable. </sarcasm>
My "health" insurance provider knows my name, so when they send me an e-mail that starts with "Dear Valued Customer," I know they are lying.
Makin' fonts on the cheap!
@xinjinmeng @Owlor I've used FontForge for several projects. Symbol and "alien" fonts for puzzle events, fonts to simulate old dot-matrix type, Cleaning up FontStruct exports, especially since (unless they've fixed it in the last half-year) the way FontStruct chooses vertical metrics is kinda crap. Also, I once used it to replace the titling numerals in a font with its existing-in-the-same-font-but-utterly-unused "old-style" set. (Roboto Serif, for the Rainfurrest cyberpunk-themed year.) Your description of the software is spot-on! As in, it's unstable enough that I have to draw everything in a different program then import it, 'cause drawing in FontForge (Windows build) is a guaranteed crash.
I used Calligraphr (or similar?) once forever ago and I've used the results in a couple projects, but I've made some changes to how I write, so it might be worth another go....
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Reminder to all the Magic players out there that I do in fact make pay what you can art deco style pronoun pins so if you want a period appropriate pronoun pin for drafting or whatever I've got you covered. https://shop.sevenishmagpies.com/category/pay-what-you-can
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mexpol
Mexico has decided to nationalize its lithium supply.
Chat room ≠ documentation.
@starkatt @SuricrasiaOnline Discord is the bane of my existence for precisely this reason. It's particularly cruel for folks who have anxiety around entering unfamiliar spaces, or difficulty sorting through other folks' random-ass conversations trying to find the necessary snippets of information.
@mawr Yaaaaaaaay! I hope this comes through for you. :)
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@behold3r in france they say 80 blaze it
@Owlor I cut my teeth on bitmap fonts, which are way easier to get to an acceptably usable and decent-looking state. (For those of us who like bitmap fonts, anyhow.)
Has anyone introduced you to FontStruct yet? https://fontstruct.com/ – build vector fonts like Lego, and not just square ones.
@Owlor You're not alone. Heck, I've _made_ fonts and there's a lot that's still super confusing!
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Okay, now this is cool. @alan_hook@twitter.com has rigged up two fisheye cameras, a mask, and a low-latency RasPi VR rig to allow humans to see the world like horses do, to "help propagate interspecies understanding and empathy". And I just kind of want this, for Reasons.
Vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAYW7ZkB_Q0
Site: https://www.equineeyes.co.uk/
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horrible linux pun
Sure, you can put Arch's and Fedora's package managers side by side and argue back and forth about which one is better. I just don't think that's an apt comparison
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Does anyone I know work at a nonprofit foundation?
I'm trying to figure out resume speak for those workplaces
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The only US history I ever remember is the really unlikely sounding stuff
- San Francisco Egg War
- Boston Molasses Flood
- Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
- United States v. 11 1/4 Dozen Packages of Articles Labeled in Part Mrs. Moffat's Shoo-Fly Powders for Drunkenness
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GoToSocial, a lightweight Mastodon-compatible server
I may have to give GoToSocial a spin, just to see how portable and easy it actually is. Still early days, but it seems to be shaping up very well as an alternative to the giant jenga tower of Mastodon.
A couple points from feature list which caught my eye, too:
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GoToSocial offers public/unlisted/friends-only/mutuals-only/and direct posts (slide in DMs! -- with consent).
It also allows you to customize how people interact with your posts:
+ Local-only posts.
+ Rebloggable/boostable toggle.
+ 'Likeable' toggle.
+ 'Replyable' toggle.
+ Customizability for admins
Lots of config options for admins to play around with, including:
Easily-adjustable post length.
Media upload size settings.
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and
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GoToSocial doesn't apply a one-size-fits-all approach to federation. Who your server federates with should be up to you.
+ 'Normal' federation; discover new servers.
+ Allowlist-only federation; choose which servers you talk to.
+ Zero federation; keep your server private.
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And one feature Mastodon itself will never be able to boast:
"GoToSocial plays nice with lower-powered machines like Raspberry Pi, old laptops and tiny $5/month VPSes."
https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial
The latest 0.3 alpha release, Stimky Sloth, just came out, adding profiles:
- shortname
- Keet
- pronouns
- they/them
- species
- some kind of pony thing?
I 💖 @orrery
I 🕹️ retrogaming
I 🔊 chiptunes
I 🦄 ponies
I ☁️ cannabis
I � Unicode
and yes to 🤖 but #nobot
avatar art by Dana Simpson (danasimpson.com)
Joined Apr 2017
