hot take about the hot take: it’s about marriage, not about having babies.

I stopped watching after the Head & Shoulders commercial

I was taking about icon packs. I didn’t know about the Memphis designers, thanks for the nice write-up

Windows/BeOS/MacOS 6 to 9

Every era is defined by the tools we had at hand during that process. While Memphis is basically pixel art, Y2K was defined by the gradient and mask tools on Photoshop, and Aero was a victim of skewmorphic design trends pushed by the commodity of 3D tooling. Flat design took prevalence because raster-based products felt weird when seen on retina displays.

I wonder how design will be affected when AI tools become the norm.

How to Train Your Dragon

I still get that knot on my throat in the first flight sequence, that movie is perfect for me. I want to feel it like it was the first time.

Cats would be the ultimate streamers, they get to do nothing but laying on their gaming chair bed and get showered with money.

“Welcome to the ASMR Cat Purring channel, I’m your host, Mr. Mittens”

but that would make beds the other way around in some countries

and the partner still prefers Netflix, because they hate to think what they want to watch

oh, didn’t notice that the implicit assumptions stopped at “meeting an alien race”

there were many ways to use the internet before browsers, applications talked with other applications, people joined BBSs, but you could argue that eventually, you’d like to access text or media in a repeatable manner, you’d like to be able to point to those resources in the least steps possible (some way of universally locate a resource…), those resources will end up being referenced by other resources and you’d eventually end up with the web.

the web is a side-effect of the internet

Ferret > Badger > Bear

I’d be interesting to see what’s the cut for each service, like, is it really that advantageous to get your crowds to subscribe via Patron instead of getting a Twitch subscription?

well, it does say that it was approved by the VA union, so maybe it’s something good?

if it’s royalty based and they get paid everytime they have someone use their voice model to say something, by all means, pay them.

I’m of no help and just curious, what are you trying to accomplish that the built-in manager can’t do??

I don’t want to sound like a pessimist but the Internet has never been the open grass field that the OP paint. Everytime you connect to the Internet, you’re connecting to a server that some entity is providing, through a connection that another entity has set up. Even this Lemmy instance is paid by somebody’s pocket. Servers and network infrastructure have always represented cost to providers. Maybe in times of olde when AOL and others offered services attached to their core service, we had services that were directly paid by the fee we paid for the connection. The owner of this Lemmy instance don’t see a dime of what you pay you ISP.

I know this is not at the core of this discussion, but if content is something that entities find valuable and somehow, the owner of this instance can directly receive monetary incentive from me to keep posting these inadequate long texts, by all means, I’m happy to be part of training data. I type this while I’m bored as hell and need my upvote-provided dopamine hit. I will be the grass on the field.

Do you have an NFT of your credentials?