Never think of your writing like that. Remember that both Twilight saga and 50 shades of grey exists as best sellers. Your writing is clearly better than that (just from this post!).

Consider something like Smashwords, or even sticking it on Amazon for free/cheap. You may not be the next Tolkien, but you worked on the book, let people read it!

Like some kind of submersible vanity project to visit the Titanic.

I think it’s more likely to just fall down.

If Trump is paying for it, as he claims, it means no-one is actually getting paid. He’s been taken to court repeatedly for stuffing builders, (https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/282933-report-trump-has-refused-to-pay-hundreds-of-workers/) , which means stuff won’t be finished, and he’ll probably cut corners to save a buck or two.

If he thing is still standing in a decade, I’ll be surprised. Even more if it’s still usable.

My guess is if it stays, it will have to be continually repaired, and effectively rebuilt section by section once Trump leaves office.

It’s not a protection racket, it’s a protection dome!:)

As a lost lemming stumbling over this post, I wonder if it would work as a circle in the center of a necklace? I wore mine on a necklace when they stopped fitting on my finger, and I made a pretty chain to attach them too.

There we are. Now all is right with the world.

What would an editor discuss be without those that support Emacs?

I noticed we even got some doom evil advocates! Lemmy truly has come off age!

(Note: as tone is hard on text: I’m genuinely pleased, and agree that the joy of Linux/Unix is it’s variety. Thank you everyone)

The comments on this post went exactly like they have over the past 20 years, with one exception.

Emacs is all but forgoten.

Vim wins.

Vi

And, the last gasp of democracy happens with the stroke of a pen.

Even if Trump is somehow removed from office, it will take a strong person to give up the power gained. The USA can no longer pretend it’s a democracy.

Somewhere, some poor it tech is about to find out just how good those backups were.

Take my updoot you maniac

I’m terribly sorry U.S. this very much reads like a horror story, but it’s also depressingly utterly believable.

All your government belongs to Musk now.

‘Bug fixes only. We are in code freeze’ - the thrill of a decent patch announcement!

You can also turn on your limited free trial which gives you unlimited hearts. I’m fairness to duo, it’s really got at reminding you when the free trial ends and allowing you to go back to standard.

I’ve used the free offer once or twice to cover missing hearts/gems

Cute! Nice to them dating again. A bit of netflix and chill might help them both!

Choose an unclear gender (other, agender, etc) and your data becomes less useful. Marketing campaigns are based on broad categories, like male or female, so choosing neither lowers your data’s value.

Similarly, lie about your education and your employment. Pick a made up job, be a wizard, or a spaceman. Jobs, again, are wide categories, so nonsense jobs, the more niche the better, the less they have to market things to you.

In theory you can do the same with hobbies, but three points of data, even made up data, is sellable somewhere.

Lie, of course, if you can. I’m sure there are more denizens of Hell on Facebook than the real place.

Where possible, choose other.

Oh lookit! Trying to fleece people using your product in good faith backfires.

Who’d have think?/s

Damn, screwed twice by the same Ape…

In the modern world, I’m not sure a blog without advertising is going to work - especially hosted on your own domain.

You will have better luck with substack or koffi, who’s search algorithms will at least suggest related sites - and increase your visibility.

For decent views you are going to need a way of generating audience - that used to be Facebook and Twitter, but Twitter is dead, and Facebook is showing reduced returns of a saturated market. However, reduced is but 0, so it’s still worth throwing up a page.

After that, a public Mastodon profile will help in audience creation, but that’s very much a slow burn, and you’ll have to make sure you #tag properly.

I would be very interested in the list of banned books, and how it would be curated.

For 64gb, you might have to extend the years to be: banned books ever, and then break down that list by reason. Just to fill space you’d end up including dubious books, and you’d need to be clear on where/who/why a book got banned.

A book being ‘banned’ from a pre-school for being ‘not age appropriate’ by some pointless helicopter parent wouldn’t count unless the book was actually age appropriate.

Then you would need a category of ‘banned by author banned’(or similar). Books that were considered age appropriate at the time, but now definitely aren’t. I’m thinking here of the recent removal/editing of Dr Seuss books to remove problematic racial stereotype. Not necessarily banned in their original form, perhaps, but still censored (perhaps, rightly so for the target age).

64GB is a lot of books. You would end up even including ‘The tale of (Darth) Pelagius’

(Pelagius was considered a heretic in the early years of the church, and his writings were banned)