Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

Fedi via Teletext has to be one of the best ideas I've had in a while

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FUCK YOUR LICENSE

You may not reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works from this work.

You may not view, access, or use this work in any way. You may not download, install, or execute the software described or contained in this work.

You are not allowed.

The author of this software denies ever creating it. This software doesn't exist, and is a figment of your imagination. You are insane.

If you are seeing this notice, you are doing so without permission. Just seeing these words means you're a pirate. Arrrrrrrr.

If you attempt to reproduce, distribute, create derivative works from, view, access, modify, download, install, or execute this software in any way, you are in violation of this license and are probably in violation of some bullshit laws that some officious prick of a lawmaker decided on without your consent or knowledge.

Fuck you and fuck your license.

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!

nanophone ❌
microphone ✅
milliphone ❌
phone ✅
kilophone ❌
megaphone ✅
gigaphone ❌

chat we have misskeypub i repeat we have misskeypub this is not a drill

https://github.com/misskey-dev/xq

I am so old I still remember folks that refused to use compilers, or higher level languages, because writing code by hand is better.
Now I see folks refusing to use AI/LLMs
Oh, humans, scenery changes, but you never change

Half of all new "hits" I hear on the radio are older famous songs with the vocals replaced by some wannabe pop star singing about dancing. If this is the state of the industry, then no wonder they're afraid of AI. It's literally more creative.

Wizards and daemons, both considered powerful entities throughout history, have now been largely reduced to clerical duties in the software world