artifex

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[–] artifex@piefed.social 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Still be really nice. It’s usually not too much effort, but is always appreciated, especially by those who need that niceness the most.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 35 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Billions in fines (massively exceeding profits from the operation) and jail time for those knowingly involved or this means zilch.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah but if they did use screen then they could fork multiple shells, detach, log out, log in again and everything would be as they left it.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago

They’re the same picture.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I would have picked one of the many garbage US cars from the "heydey" of the 60s/70s, maybe a Chevette or a Vega. There's no shortage of US lemons to choose from.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Better a little polyethylene than a pork tapeworm larva lodged in my brain, I always say.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There will be a follow up bill called Act to Mandate Aggressive Zero-Exception Bans on Anonymous Login & Secure Networks that makes VPNs, TOR, etc illegal. I think they’re working on it in the UK already.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

Kelly and Zach Weinersmith (of SMBC, Soonish and other fame) wrote about this topic in their recent book A City On Mars (and have we really thought this through?). There’s a non-zero chance that there will hot wars on earth over utterly useless land and resources in space that we either have no chance of using or no need to monopolize.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Duh. The bears live in bear land (arctic as in arctus as in bear). Penguins thus literally live in no bear land (ant-arctic).

[–] artifex@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

oh excellent, thanks! And thanks for reviving a dead thread :)

[–] artifex@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The term "artifex" itself is from a book called Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson (it's set in the same universe as his Snow Crash, which is where the word metaverse is from). In the story it's a kind of honorific/title used to denote someone who has honed their craft and created something really exceptional. I, sadly, have not done that yet, but I am a compulsive maker of things (some of which are kinda ok). I'm currently a manager of people who make things at a software company. As for the logo, I just thought it looked cool, it was a 2-min photoshop job :) (my first few jobs was as an artist/graphic artist).

[–] artifex@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Every “note” paper of mine is maybe 15% notes, 85% doodles. Has been they way since the 2nd grade, many decades ago.

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