Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font used nin the infamous "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign was actually designed by Just van Rossum, whose brother, Guido, created the Python programming language (bsky.app/profile/melissa.news/post/3ln7hx5rhcj2v)
She also pointed out that the font had been cloned and released illegally for free under the name "XBAND Rough". Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded (web.archive.org/web/20051223202935/http://www.piracyisacrime.com:80/press/pdfs/150605_8PP_brochure.pdf).
So I chucked it into FontForge and yep, turns out the campaign used a pirated font the entire time!
@Mek101 PS3 Linux, by default, couldn't use the GPU. When people did get it unlocked, they figured they could use the really slow (path to the) GPU's 256 MiB of RAM as swap (for the 256MiB CPU RAM)
chat we have misskeypub i repeat we have misskeypub this is not a drill
@mkljczk z tego samego powodu, z którego akceptują całą resztę facebooka - utknęli tam i zostali przyzwyczajeni do beznadziejnej jakości pod każdym względem
@jrose there are only two kinds of pointers: those formed by code written by me, which always point to an object within its lifetime and, if not pointers to const, are unique; and those formed by other code written by various of criminals, which point at objects outside of their lifetime, alias while being mutable, and are otherwise Heretical, and are passed deviously into my components in order to defame my person and defile my works before God
I think I've finally realized that a weird thing about the terminal is that a lot of things just are not actually documented in any reasonable way? Like if you want to know more about `Ctrl+C` and you use `zsh` for example, the only official documentation I can really find is `man termios` or man stty
realistically in practice I think most people do not read "official documentation" for stuff like this, it's easier to rely on friendly coworkers / blog posts / stack overflow
@suetanvil @CodingItWrong AI is freeing people from creative work like photo cameras freed painters from creative work. It's eliminating the less creative parts and leaving in the more creative ones.
AI can fulfill a "draw a dog with a pumpkin on its head" request, not "design a monument for the 100th anniversary of our independence" one.
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