a purely financial decision

🤨 … riiiiiiiiight …

Remember: even in the most repressive autocracies, the leaders realised that jesters serve a purpose. Because if people can’t joke about how shitty things are at the present, they might see that as a sign that things are pretty bad, actually.

If the comedy is mucked with, that’s a sure sign that the politicians are getting a tad bit touchy.

Local photo shops (yes, this city has a few) all sell albums and have print services and I think one of them even develops films (weekly, not really in a hour).

We also used to have a service where you could mail in film rolls and they develop and print and scan them. (Ran into a few floppies and CDs from them recently. Nostalgia blast.) They’re still in business! Though they just offer “Download our photo album design software and turn your photos into epic printed albums (or whatever)” sort of services.

(Ironically, read this post just as I was scanning 35mm negatives)

“We’re gonna see some serious shit. …Wait, this is a bit too serious.”

I’m in Finland. Over here every summer there’s always some streets that are being repaved or major public service buildings that gets closed due to “renovations”. Ha, I know that’s just a government cover-up. They don’t want us to know about the looting gangs who apparently have access to stealth technology!

I’m like, oh honey, we used to be able to do all this stuff. We had software for this. We had services in the web. Actually, I think we still do - hold on…

*looking at the national public transport route planning site*

*vague gesturing* this is peak technology and none of the AI bros have apparently heard of this shit, because they don’t use public transport.

The Web used to cater to the niche services, until Big Tech rolled in, and now they try to replace it with patently inferior solutions.

Unfortunately, Super Mario Bros. isn’t exactly a turtle-friendly game. If you took advice from a turtle game, you’d go “oh it’s just a little water. turtles could walk through that easily.”

People will no longer laugh at the term “military intelligence” for the obvious irony. Now, they’ll say “remember when the military tried to use artificial intelligence? ha ha what a disaster”

I was there when gmail was invented
Was there during the invitation period
Someone picked my preferred name
I ended up with a kinda dumb name
Didn’t matter much, because my primary email is a redirect, anyway, and gmail still lets me use those (kudos to them)
Google came up with Google Code (and other services) where your public gmail address is your identity
Nope, fuck off
Glad they died. Shame Github got eaten by Microsoft, but, eh…
Google hasn’t really been good at letting people specify their identity, ever since
Yes, this is also a transgender user story, why do you ask?

Reminds me how several years back, the Calibre ebook reader software added a feature called “Polish ebooks”.

I thought it’d automatically add some random Andrzej Sapkowski and Stanisław Lem titles to my library. Nope, it was just a feature to clean up messy document conversions, apparently.

Well, technically, Twitter has employees, so in very strict sense, they’re “manned”. However, thanks to these weird incomprehensible things called “current legislation” and “capitalism”, no employee is in fact personally responsible for the fuckups. And neither is the company as a whole! …Isn’t this great?

I didn’t like talking to other people in 1995, and I sure as hell aren’t going to start enjoying it now.

I keep Character Map™ at hand in Windows® just for random punctuation and stuff ©. gucharmap or something similar in Linux.

In word processors I’ve set up automatic formatting so that double minus (--) turns to en dash (–) and triple minus (---) turns to em dash (—).

Well elements are elements. All of them are just protons and neutrons and electrons at the end of the day. They have different properties but all of them behave by the same rules.

But there’s some big differences between the various kinds of bodies orbiting the Sun and how they’re orbiting the Sun. Big asteroids were considered planets, until we discovered there’s a shitload of them and they’re all in roughly the same area. When it turned out Pluto is basically in the same situation and there’s a lot more of the transneptunian objects, it was pretty clear that Pluto isn’t special. If you compare it to planets it’s pretty weird. But I think it’s good that they created the dwarf planet classification because that also elevated Ceres back, hell yeah.

Yeah, that company has red flags.

Red flag number 1: the contents of the note

Red flag number 2: using duct tape to attach the note to the wall. Hints at a huge managerial Skill Issue.