RT @ZweiDouble@twitter.com
🖤🤍💜 It's #AceWeek2022! 🖤🤍💜
Don't mind if I bring this back up! And kind reminder that asexuality in itself is, like many other things, a spectrum! 😁
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ZweiDouble/status/1584353297753776128
@packbat Either mid 2010s or a few weeks ago, depending on whether "used it for actual chat" matters. ALttP randomized co-op uses an IRC server to communicate among players. :)
One of the most frustrating things about wildlife photography is you're entirely at the whims of nature regarding lighting.
Which makes moments like these all the more wonderful. ^_^
The podcast jam we joined just wrapped up! https://itch.io/jam/one-mic-stand
The episodes go up on The Podcast Mines - https://the-podcast-mines.pinecast.co/ - this coming Friday, but they're up on Itch right now if you wanna dig in! Ours is "Laying the Mechanics As We Play" - https://packbat.itch.io/ltmawp - and we're really proud of it: us and our cohost make and play an RPG to create the prologue to a YA creature horror novel.
...but also, y'know what? We're gonna post about the ones we listen to in this thread. :D
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Return of the Custom Symbol Font Troubles.
Remember how LibreOffice was mutating OpenType CFF glyphs on export to PDF? And how saving the font as TTF reduced the precision to where the details became a wibbly mess?
When LaTeX builds a PDF, it reduces the precision of the CFF font to about the level of the TTF.
I give up! I'll use SVG files!
lewd furry trashpost (hyper genitalia)
@LexYeen undesired: ...a Vogon ship?
The hookshot, or as we like to call it...
@fluffy Back when I didn't know how to 100% the game!
. . .
Okay, I still don't. I was never actually that great at it, but I sure had fun trying!
Today's visually startling LibreOffice bug.
On the left, we have a logo from a OpenType font – using PostScript outlines for accuracy – as it appears in LibreOffice.
On the right, we have the results of an export to PDF. And yes, it's still selectable as if it were plain text, and Acrobat insists the font is embedded with Postscript outlines, so... what the heck?
US student debt relief, soft launch
The US federal government has its form for applying for student loan relief up. It's officially marked as a beta launch, ahead of the form's official launch, but the banner promises that 'if you submit an application, it will be processed, and you won't need to resubmit'.
https://studentaid.gov/debt-relief/application
The form is a model of clarity. You need your Law Papers Name, Social Security Number, birth date, phone number and e-mail address.
@silvermoon82 Twenty years of mysterious margin munging? I believe it.
Fortunately, it cleared up on reloading the document. Time to find more weird bugs!
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