Notices by Steven Hoefer (troublewithwords@wandering.shop)

This 110 year old kimono factory uses a 40 year-old computer powered by cassette tapes to control its weaving machinery.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zWJZFQHklBg&feature=youtu.be

If you want real world impact of AI, not just handwringing or lols, look at short fiction periodicals. They are being *buried* under zero-effort submissions.

Fiction magazine are labors of love. Absolutely no one has been getting rich doing it. Labors. Of. Love.

And they're being suffocated by chuckleducks who want, what? $8 and their name in lights for a conversation with a chatbot?

Read this from Clarkesworld, which is one of the best and longest running:

http://neil-clarke.com/a-concerning-trend/

Can folks point me to self-published writers who are successful* without being a Very Internet Person or otherwise being Very Highly Visible?

*enough to make even a meager living

Since the searchable internet has died, I'll ask all you beautiful #8bit #pixelart folks: What are your recommendation for pixel drawing apps in the year 2023? Any platform, any license.

#askFediverse #askMastodon

Is there an analogy we can use for something that ages worse than milk?

(They need to get with the times, they should replace "NFT" with "AI")

This was the first result that came up in two difference searches for pixel drawing apps.

@alcinnz I'm not giving up on it, but it is clearly insufficient. I think you touched on a lot of things that are (in part) a result of not looking at the larger context of open source software, and also are (ironically) about gatekeeping ones own fiefdoms.

That "I'm not your supplier" post (linked above) reminded me of this post:

https://martin.kleppmann.com/2021/04/14/goodbye-gpl.html

The tl;dr is that the battle that open source licenses were created to fight was lost when big corps embraced the cloud with both fists.

This lead them to Local First software. https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/

I don't agree with everything presented (or I agree, but for different reasons), but there are some very good things to think about in there.

95% of Docker's use cases disappear if you stop basing your apps around things you find in a dumpster.

https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/not-a-supplier