But will it be better than pregnancy test doom or the doom-like game entirely embedded in a QR code ?
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We generally had the reasonable rule that property ends at dead. Intellectual property extending beyond the grave is corporatist 21st century bullshit. In the past all writing got quickly into the public domain like it should. Depending on country within in at least 25 years of the publishing date to the authors dead. Project Gutenberg reflects the law and reasonable practice to allow writing to go into the public domain.
This is a bluesky screenshot, not a twitter screenshot. This is to show, where I reposted this from.
If you can tariff penguin island you could also tariff polars, which isn’t slow.
Code Didn’t Break — They Did
merari42OPto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•The devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.”20·23 days agoText encoding ‘standards’ were clearly the devil’s work, handed down to humanity to sow chaos and suffering.
Well the Synthesizer is a sound of the Future. The sound of the future
Lead paint, delicious but deadly
merari42to Games@sh.itjust.works•Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pagesEnglish107·2 months agoThis 80s metal band is making real music without synthesizers!
The Omen of the Blind Hound:
Émile felt a chill. “A blind beagle revealed our tricolor,” he whispered. The Prodigiae’s voice echoed in the dim chamber: “An omen urging France to stand alone; alliances will falter.”
…TO BE CONTINUED IN THE COMMENTS…
merari42to politics •Author of Upcoming Elon Musk Biography Says ‘There Is No Evidence’ Billionaire Has Any ‘Intellectual Achievements’173·2 months agoNa, that is just historically inaccurate. The original Macintosh team collected their stories/memoires at folklore.org, which give you a pretty good overview of his talents. He was really mercurial and Woz was the better engineer, but played a really important role in the vision/design of computers as we know them today. In the original Mac team others did the engineering and Jobs never claimed to be and engineering type of person, but he had a good feel on the importance of design, clear visual metaphors and good interaction design and pushed the team relentlessly into that direction.
merari42OPto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•I want a programming language that supports German style composite words2·2 months agoIt did depend a little bit, what kind of machine/production line he was working on. Before he retired, he worked for an automation engineering company and had different projects in other EU countries, and tried to be understandable for people in those places. He once even coded some Siemens control panel for an aluminum oven loading robot in the czech republic and tried to translate everything to czech with a dictionary (to have the panel info available in czech,english and German). He did of course speak to the foreman of the workers to get it correct.
merari42to News•Trump cuts threaten a ‘generation of scientists’ as many weigh leaving US32·2 months agoIf Europeans wouldn’t sleep on this opportunity, we could massively improve our science recruiting. Related scientific paper of what getting the fired scientists from an autocracy can do to your science system: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.104.10.3222
merari42OPto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•I want a programming language that supports German style composite words3·2 months agoMy dad used that a lot to program Siemens Step5 and Step7 PLCs. I think it was German but names were 8 chars since this was straight from the 80s. When he fixed old machines or updated them with new PLCs he had to do full rewrites a few times because nothing was documented in old school machinery.
Upgraded every old MacBook (2009pro, 2015 pro) I had with bigger harddrives and did small repairs with ifixit instructions. But you notice they get less repairable over time. The 2009 thing was built like a tank and you could upgrade ram, replace a broken GPU and this thing over all felt very repairable. I still works but isn’t that useful any more 16 years after release. 2015 was way less repairable.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (also had a decent tie-in point and click adventure game in 1989)
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