Notices by Chancerubbage (chancerubbage@mastodon.social), page 6

@arstechnica I am uncertain, but I almost recall some precedent about some FCC restriction not having any teeth because it was not broadcast, but cable only.

I could easily see Fox giving up over the air broadcast as a sacrifice.

@arstechnica I had so many type 1 fonts in the 90s. When OS X came around, there wasn’t even a way to knowingly manage them. It stole my mojo.

It wasn’t just the move from press to web that threw a spanner in the works of many graphic design careers; it was eradication of habit.

@arstechnica my workplace has a Muzak channel that is ‘nothing but covers’ by ‘not the original artist’ I’ve been trying to figure out how this is saving someone money as it happens. Perhaps I should have been seeing it as priming the market for a wave of deepfakes and ai renditions. If the label publisher owns it 100 percent, they get the whole slice of pie.

@arstechnica I’ve always said my first robot would be a knolling robot, that simply separates and sorts