youngNed

> they need more than a sans serif typeface,

Agreed.

So... why are the administration going in the opposite direction?

> Official departmental paperwork shouldn't look clownish.

Oh. It's about looking clownish. Right. OK. Pull up a chair, this might take a while, and we will get to typefaces pretty late on, I'll be honest

Performative? The one that you read about. The one that had a press release, the one that had articles on social media that you are commenting on.

Meaningful? The one that looked into which font was more readable, for the most people

But.... and this is important, it's not funny.

"Here is a thing that makes a slight difference, with no cost, to a small percentage of people"

"Nah, woke. Let's make it worse for them."

There is nothing funny about performative cruelty

There is picture of a cyclist. He is holding a stick.

The cyclist puts the stick between his spokes.

The cyclist lies on the road, cursing the government, for causing this.

When they spelt neighborhood, when the kids rode around the block.

When they said they live in a country where a police force follows kids on bikes

The clues were all there.

I have. I also, crucially, don't live in America.

This article, also crucially, does not relate to America

And cigarettes! What next booze!?

Libertarianism really does hit a wall when it comes to kids, in so many ways, doesn't it?

These are very very isolated outliers amplified by a media hellbent on ragebait.

These all look great, I'm very interested in hearing from anyone who has followed any of these.

How did you find it, what did you get from it?

Quite honestly, it's about time the penny dropped.

Look around you, look at the absolute shit people are believing, the hope that we have any more agency than machines... to use the language of the kids, is cope.

I have never considered myself particularly intelligent, which, I feel puts me at odds with many of HN readership, but I do always try to surround myself with myself with the smartest people I can.

The amount of them that have fallen down the stupidest rabbit holes i have ever seen really makes me think: as a species, we have no agency

Because vast amounts of people find Coldplay entertaining. That doesn't mean it's a good thing.

As a user of a dec vt220 on a college vax vms, I can assure you, that did not happen on all old hardware.

Maybe the real AI was the friends we lost along the way

In a truly depressing thread, this made me laugh.

And think.

Thank you

I did something similar.

I bought a vt510 and hooked it up to my raspberry pi. My intention was to get some kind of VAX VMS OS on there, but as i played around on linux i realised something.

It really really sucks.

I had been dreaming of such a set up since i had been at the centre for computing history[1] and got so much nostalgia for the old DEC VMS setup they had. There is so much emotion brough back from just touching those machines, from the way your muscle memory kicks in as soon as you put your hands over the keyboard.

I was so damn excited for this.

but it was awful, the lag was the big one, but this wasn't from my set-up, this actually was how it was, the previously suppressed memory came back, sat in the computer lab at college, that lag was there - but yeah after years of iterm2, tmux and the advancements in the cli space - going back to vt510 really really sucked.

But it was a pretty horrible experience[2], and really affected me actually, it made me think a lot about nostalgia and how we remember the past.

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[1]https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/

[2] please, these things are relative, it wasn't that bad, it just kinda sucked

It was a Reform politician who championed it in: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-03/0004...

WITH A RAP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ql6tGu9aWg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=r4mRo2M5VMA

That's OK. That was a different time, that was an effort to attract people, for whom, windows was their baseline. Bringing people in like that was not a wrong decision, many people first experience of non windows was gnome, many of those stuck around.

As someone who only has a windows machine to play games, specifically driving sims, I really wish my hardware worked on Linux.

Really depends where you are. But not in a major city, in the UK its not.

Ask me how i know

Alexi Sayle has had numerous shows on the BBC.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000wrsn

I'm genuinely struggling to think of many people in modern politics who identify as communists who would qualify for this, but certainly Ash 'literally a communist' Sarkar is a fairly regular guest on various shows: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dlj3

Irish, we're basically proto-austalis

^^^ what this cunt said

Hi Bhuwan,

Congrats on your product, it looks very professional.

But...

> identifying emerging trends early and quickly creating relevant content.

This does not sound 'good' to me, this sounds like piggy-backing to generate clickbait - have i got this wrong? This sounds like a tool to make better spam.

I find it weird that people don't think of the BBC as a tech company, from their work on microphones way back in the day, to launching iPlayer (before youtube, and launching on christmas day iirc) to regular live streaming of huge events in 4k (something netflix has struggled with). But yet they are never recognised for their engineering.

laughs in Northern Irish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_techniques

> my money is on him being smart

No snark; based on what?

Tell me more about this Indian 'subgroup', this 'low-skill-low-virtue underclass' that's built into your very fabric of society, ingrained in religion, that you don't like.

Tired: Canada should join the eu

Wired: greenland should pacman defence[1] the USA

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man_defense

perhaps a n00b question, but would this work, or is there something similar for apps, specifically android apps?