that was literally going to be my first suggestion before I looked closer and looked their other posts.

It’s wild to see an IP and port with no domain in 2026. Which also screams “An I made this for me” because they may not have any idea regarding the security implications.

🎶 Hit the road, Jack, and don’t ya come back no more no more no more no more 🎶

Tulips, we were talking about tulips.

Thanks, your question helped me find the actual name for them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactile_paving

So this image is from Wikipedia, and the type I am describing is the directional tactile paving. It allows a blind person to follow it like a path because it’s a guideline they can feel with their feet or their cane.

I currently have the theme music from Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind stuck in my head but I’m kind of okay with it.

For the gay eggs among us. SFW (according to Marcus)

(Forgive the joke, I actually really fucking hate that braille is dying in public spaces as well as people no longer knowing what those cane guides in pavement are for)

Best advice that I forgot to include because it’s been a while since I needed VNC for anything. @akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone, please follow @ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone’s advice here!

VNC server on her computer. VNC client on your computer. Make sure password is very strong since you’re opening this to the wider internet. Open a port for VNC to pass through on your moms router (and possibly your own as well), and then connect remotely.

TigerVNC seems to be available for all platforms, including Windows and Linux. TigerVNC includes a server and client. (Client is sometimes called “viewer.”)

https://tigervnc.org/

https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc

Thanks for the clarification, I’m old and sometimes my memory is more fuzzy on those details. But yeah, it’s always been a license, and back then it felt more like ownership because of the honor system.

“Piracy is a service problem.” Truer words have never been spoken.

Let’s be real though, technically software has always lived and died on licensing instead of ownership.

I remember software in the 90s having limits on how many computers you could use an application on (however rarely enforced), and making backup copies of software that you owned (like copying a CD for backup purposes) was a hard fought right when the DMCA was being implemented. But even the backup only helped so much because especially in the last 20 years tech has grown at lightning speed since the introduction of the iPhone in 2007. A CD backup of Office 2003 isn’t really helpful in 2026 anyway.

I’m not arguing this is how it should be. I’m just clarifying that technically this is how it has always been. We’ve never had full rights to do whatever we want with the software we buy. It’s why Free (as in speech, not as in beer) Open Source Software is so important, and why open hardware is so important by extension.

The same companies that rose to dominance using an environment with weak regulation and enforcement while also maintaining that hacker attitude of “routing around bad legislation” have now been using their dominance to make an environment of tight regulation and enforcement, now that they’re at the top. They have spent endless amounts of lobbying money to get this environment to benefit them where you’re locked in via hardware and software to the companies rules on how you use your hardware and software… because the software was never really ours, and now they’re leveraging that to make our hardware not ours either.

The only way out is through. FOSS.

OH! Then he can parody MetaFilter’s own plannedchaos Scott Adams, who lost his ability to speak for about three years.

Tim is going to do that voice so long it’s going to accidentally become his real voice

How will they protect that content being trained for AI models on third party piracy sites where dumps of Patreon subscriber content get published without a paywall. On those sites, there’s no protection.

Like that’s the unfortunate part about a lot of this is a lot of people pay for Patreon access and then just pirate the content out. I’m not against piracy, but I do see the nature of the piracy sites being wide open with no controls or protections from AI scraping that even with Patreon doing this, many are likely to still have their art scraped.

I was writing a top level comment here an hour ago or more and for some reason it didn’t post. Sad.

I just love your normal posts though! I want more of your unique style with your name on it. I don’t usually feel like I have anything worthwhile to say about them, but I always upvote them when I see them!

Please don’t stop with your own unique style, your art deserves to be seen.

Now I want an of operator to exist

I dunno, but everyone seems to hate Ubuntu and while I sort of understand why, snaps aren’t impossible to avoid. Kubuntu even has it as an easy option with their minimal install that doesn’t include snaps at all. Alls I know is people hate on Ubuntu and I just don’t feel like distro hopping and I’ve had stable Ubuntu servers for far longer than I’ve been using it for desktop. I just don’t see a real good reason to switch.

I use Ubuntu to trigger the Arch nerds.