Never did much graphics stuff, but GoT and Joe Dempsie’s face has inspired all sorts of hitherto unexpected displays of fannishness. Being a FLOSS loyalist, I’ve been playing...
Fonts on the web are essentially vector-based graphics. That's why you can display them at 12px or 120px and they remain crisp and relatively sharp-edged.
A custom org link type for pdf-tools
Exciting British collectives such as Broadside Hacks and Shovel Dance Collective are embracing ancient traditions to create an ultra-inclusive form of folk
The tech boss’s overtures were possibly made with one eye on favourable regulation, but doesn’t he know what happens when you swim with sharks?
Bringing more Japanese films to the world. The Japan Foundation, an independent administrative institution, not only provides information about Japanese Film Festivals (JFF) around the world, but also promotes the appeal of Japanese films.
Dans un entretien, Mariano Pensotti, artiste invité du Festival, s’interrogeait sur les « personnes qui venaient voir nos spectacles » : « De quelle classe sociale sont-elles issues ? » Oh ! le vilain mot. Il n’y a pas de classes sociales en France : nous sommes tous des Français, les médias ou les politiciens …
Compact discs provided the soundtrack to his life. Then came streaming and he couldn’t get rid of them fast enough. As CDs enjoy a renaissance, our writer looks back at what he lost
Windows Operating With Emacs Enhancements, Allows Emacs-like commands and keybinds in Windows and is based on EWOW -- Emacs Way of Operating Windows - captainflasmr/wowee
𝖯𝗈𝗄é𝗆𝗈𝗇 𝖠𝖽𝗏𝖾𝗇𝗍𝗎𝗋𝖾𝗌 + 𝗏𝖺𝗋𝗂𝗈𝗎𝗌 𝖯𝗈𝗄é𝗆𝗈𝗇 1/?
If we want the kind of fair, functioning state Britain saw post-1945, we need to take on the economic powers that wrecked it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
The long read: In 2024, libraries are unofficial creches, homeless shelters, language schools and asylum support providers – filling the gaps left by a state that has reneged on its responsibilities
This morning, I opened a PDF to find Acrobat giving me an AI-generated summary of it. Since I frequently deal with unpublished manuscripts and other confidential documents for clients, I can’t have them processed by generative AI tools (and I don’t want my PDFs being read by LLMs either). So…
Self-hosted music scrobble database to create personal listening statistics and charts - krateng/maloja
The end of the all-powerful social networks seems inconceivable, but the disintegration of the Soviet giant once did too