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Yea, I think the first artwork was probably just an ape being amused by the fingerprints left on something by a dirty hand.

As someone periodically into genealogy, I would love to see the everyday life of my ancestors, how their material conditions and lifestyle changed over the centuries.

Occasionally it blows my mind to think about that my ancestors lived through all those historical eras I learned about. They were always there, going about their life somewhere while the large events happened around/elsewhere.

Also on the flip side, when looking at some Roman ruins in Budapest the other day, that those stones really have been there for ~1900 years. Like just imagining medieval/Renaissance people living around them, what did they think of them? I usually think of history as distinct periods, but (at least in Europe) people of most eras lived in/on the works of earlier civilisations.

I’m amazed that this is a thing xD

The Hungarian adjective “ügyes”. It’s used to describe someone when they do something ably/skillfully/cleverly. (Doesn’t necessarily imply a learned ability, can be innate.) It usually implies an activity involving manual dexterity, but can also be used for mental problem-solving.

When used as an exclamation, it basically means “Well done!”

Meglehetősen = rather?

like when used as an adjective “this is rather large”

We have “uzsonna” for this in Hungarian, but it’s mostly just young kids who have this meal :)

Wales doesn’t have a prime minister.

The BBC barely feels neutral, has mostly leaned right over the past decade.

The only major left-leaning non-tabloid one I can think of is the Guardian.

The only one I know for sure is The Guardian.

Is there a “not” missing? The Guardian is left leaning except their transphobia.

Call grandma more frequently, you have less than 3 years to chat with her :(

(I miss her)

fuck I haven’t heard of this, I wish he stayed off. I only think of him when I have to tick that childish pineapple checkbox on wordpress.org. I would be much more reassured if Wordpress was in a mature adult’s hands.

And yeah, when you give a company license to do whatever they want with your data, “whatever they want” includes AI.

I think an important point is that with the decline of Pinterest’s popularity, most of their data was probably acquired many years before genAI became mainstream. (Like I think I only used it around 2008-2010.) So most users probably never imagined their data could be used for training like this in the future.

I used Ecosia for a few months last year, but it really struggled with more niche topics and searches in Hungarian. Also it kept re-enabling the AI search every other day, no matter how many times I disabled it. So in the end I switched to noai.duckduckgo.

yeah, this is what usually makes me redo the search with google (and/or liberally use double quotes)

Not enforced by my work, but Photoshop is honestly the least painful to replace. I’m having a lot more trouble finding fully featured alternative to InDesign and Illustrator. Scribus looks pretty rough and Inkscape has an unintuitive UI and no proper CMYK support.

Need Adobe software for work. Want to play online games that have anti-cheat. Also like to run mods in my games.

I have a shitty old laptop for travelling that I’ll try to install Linux on this weekend, since I only need Firefox on that.

yeah this may be an actual use case

Hmm thanks, but yea a word editor would probably be missing a ton of layout and image features. The closest I’ve found was Scribus but it seems pretty rough.

Yes, I tried Inkscape, but sadly found its UI very unintuitive. Also bc it only works with SVG files, it doesn’t properly support CMYK colours.

I know of Krita, but I mostly use Photoshop for image editing, not painting. (And it’s the one of the three I use the rarest and has the most alternatives, so my main pain points are the other two, as long as the three programs work well together. (Which is another weakness in FLOSS software, they don’t tend to come in “suites”. Not to say that Adobe apps don’t have a ton of little inconsistencies and idiosyncrasies, but at least they can smoothly work with each other’s files.)

My main concern would be how to prevent tampering with archived pages - the owner of the second most popular site after Wayback Machine, archive.is, has been known to modify the content of archived pages for petty personal reasons. And without the sanctity of archives, the whole exercise loses its value as proof of records of the past.

software with 1:1 feature parity with Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop (except genAI crap)