You… you shut up. 🥲

“It’s tempting to say we’re stepping into a new world where all forms of media cannot be trusted,”…

Yes, we are and it’s shit for the human mind to have to constantly do a double take on everything to make sure it’s actually real.

“but in fact, we’re being given further proof of what was always the case: Recorded media has no intrinsic truthfulness, and we’ve always judged the credibility of information from the reputation of the messenger.”

Sure subjectivity, biases, and other factors skew things, that’s a thing. But I’m sorry, “Any information humanity has ever preserved in any format is worthless.”, is quite the fucking claim.

Been using Bear Blog for a few years now and it’s been very cool as a small static blog platform.

No excess menus, no ad junk. An enjoyable experience all around.

The ability to filter comments actively as you mark them off as completed is magnificent.

You mark a comment, it hides itself. Neat and tidy, fantastic.

Why doesn’t Adobe do this, you ask? Who the fuck knows. Especially since you used to be able to in Acrobat.

Why? Were people complaining it was too helpful?

Adobe sucks but InDesign is still pretty much the standard; it begrudgingly does a pretty good job.

Affinity Publisher is coming along nicely though. And yeah Scribus is not too bad either.

Word being a word processor also sucks at document layout. Most software that isn’t made for laying out documents suck at it, but people all try. My god do they try…

Excel is okay as long as it stays in its lane.

It is not okay if you’ve ever worked in a printshop or do graphic design and people send in newsletters or brochures or some shit done within Excel.

Excel is many things; it is not fit to layout documents. Blegh.

I don’t know what’s sadder the giant Safeway sandwiches going from $9.99 to $13.99 or my mortgage about to go up like 200 goddamn dollars…

But where else do I get my malt vinegar fix?

Not to flagrantly self promote but that’s what I did with neocities. Used it as a static linktree alternative:

https://thepjn.neocities.org/

(Again, provided as an example, not “look at me”.)

Neocities : https://neocities.org/

Interesting. Will give it a look. Thanks!

Ha! Jokes on you, I’m not 38 until… next week. Guck!

(I meant to type “fuck” but “guck” works just as well.)

Yeah. Surely they’ll listen, one of these years… 🤪 Might be a while yet now that they’ve got their fancy new “AI” toys to play with.

Always looking for an alternative…

Beans… I was afraid of that, had hoped my search skills were just letting me down. Thanks though!

Like you go through a teleporter like in The Fly and come out sans junk? I’m down! … (5-10 years after it’s first released.)

“We put ChatGPT into this hammer!”

“Why?”

“FIRST!”

Coordinated inauthentic behaviour.

Yaaay! Max Payne! Hopefully they remaster all the janky community made Matrix mods too! 🤪

Illegal! Illegal Xmas! Booo!