"We're an information economy. They teach you that in school. What they don't tell you is that it's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. Fragments that can be retrieved, amplified..." - from "Johnny Mnemonic" by William Gibson
I can hear it now. In 6 years, people are gonna tell me Microsoft is a kind and benevolent company because look at how when they bought Github, Gitlab also benefited from all the fallout.
Just like, ya know, Bill Gates is a pioneer of Home Computing because he got a computer in every home by way of a monopoly, and Steve Jobs is a visionary because he imposed his proprietary rigidity on generations til people bought into it.
For anyone who has never read this important document. -
http://www.textfiles.com/anarchy/MISCHIEF/doa8.txt
Yes! Works best with Shakespeare or Bible quotes!😂
Anyone else here remember this old trick?
I love how I can consider something like Open Metalcast to be part of my identity and something that I rarely shut up about and yet there are folks whom I consider to be friends who still don't know that I do a podcast.
Well, I just discovered the ps2pdf command bundled with ghostscript and oh my gosh, my PDFs are so much smaller now.
Now if only there were a never-fail, simple, automagic `pdf2epub` command....
