#trilema | 2019-05-15

this is potentially interesting ; goes to check... first matching line in the log is

02:36

185.154.72.12 - - [04/May/2019:20:59:39 -0400] "GET /o-hai-let-me-wanna-be.php?id=www.billporter.info/2013/11/20/last-minute-haunted-house-automation-with-arduino/ HTTP/1.1" 200 58866 "https://7ooo.ru/forum/" "Re-re Studio (+http://re-re.ru/)"

02:37

how does one end up with 9757647 loglines in half a month ? like fuckingthis, 99% of the web is pure vomit.

02:38

bitcoinrabbithole.org/writings/ok-so-what-is-bitcoin-disrupting/ imagine that shit, and then http://archive.is/IqhDe#selection-605.1-607.13 (fancy that wonder, i'm the #1 author, with 6 "works" to nic carter's 5.)

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02:39

and then there's inept bullshit from redditswikisfacebooks etc, 0 effort nonsense of the most superficial sort possible. and so the fuck on.

~ 7 hours 41 minutes ~

10:20

mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform's serv log fwiw loox ~exactly like this.

10:32

in other noose, loox like ben_vulpes fixed his logbot (e.g. http://logs.bvulpes.com/asciilifeform worx ) . ty ben_vulpes .

~ 1 hours 38 minutes ~

12:10

win.

12:14

feedbot

http://qntra.net/2019/05/adobe-threatens-users-of-old-software-versions-with-litigation-potential/ << Qntra -- Adobe Threatens Users Of Old Software Versions With Litigation Potential

12:25

^ lulzily, for coupla yrs nao, they dun even ~sell~ the proggies, but moved to 'subscription' chumpatron

12:25

a111

Logged on 2016-12-05 16:47 asciilifeform: in other lulz, very far away, 'Autodesk will stop the sale of perpetual licences of all its software on January 31st, 2017. The purchase of new licences by both new and existing customers will only be available by subscription after that date. ... Why is Autodesk transitioning to subscription licences? Subscription licences offer customers a lower entry price, greater choice of tools and the ability to pay-as-you-go. With its shift a

12:34

someone srsly uses adobe ?

12:35

at one time i tried to find out who. apparently in world of printing (i.e. where 'colour calibrations' etc) it is monopoly, the presses for last decade or so demand adobism

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12:37

also supposedly monopoly on proggy that eats 'raw' inputs from various heavy (40+mpixel) industrial camera

12:37

classic microshit-style format lock-in.

12:38

that world of printing was ~dead cca 2000.

12:38

twenty years ago

12:39

like number of other dead things, it's zombiein' along, nobody put stake in its heart just yet

12:40

near as i can tell, adobe et al sustained by advert 'industry'. if errybody involved contracted mysterious virus and keeled over tonight, wouldn't be soon enuff imho.

12:42

I suspect most of their customers are marketers or the sortof ESL marketing victim who imagines he has to pay Adobe to be "creative" despite anti-producing

12:42

as it is, asciilifeform's snailmailbox has to be emptied daily of superbly colour-calibrated spamola liquishit.

12:43

only with adobeolade, apparently, can the mcd 'freedom fried' be painted the just-so shade of yellow.

12:44

*fries

12:45

BingoBoingo: there's prolly a population of 'aspirational' wankers who 'i want same proggy as used to make 'time magazine' 'you, person of the year' pic' etc

12:46

Right, the ESL marketing victims

12:46

"creatives"

12:46

entirely even possible that they add up to moar dough than the advercrap etc

12:47

Puede ser

12:55

iirc adobe also 'market leader' in the 'retouch undesirable people out of photos / put obama in' , aka 'news' , tooling.

12:58

i guess.

12:58

i tell you i don't see it.

12:58

but anyways.

12:59

lobbes

http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-15#1913507 << baked into the universities as well. I remember when I was in school they had entire multi-semester courses in the "Graphic Design" track for adobeolade; "Adobe Photoshop Intro", "Adobe Photoshop Advanced" etc..

12:59

a111

Logged on 2019-05-15 16:35 asciilifeform: at one time i tried to find out who. apparently in world of printing (i.e. where 'colour calibrations' etc) it is monopoly, the presses for last decade or so demand adobism

13:00

lobbes

they'd also, of course, offer "student discounts" on the "educational versions"

13:00

lobbes

lulzy indeed

13:05

a, now that may be it.

13:05