Notices by royal (royal@theres.life), page 3

Why don't we have standard Terms of Service that are used and reused everywhere?
I'm imagining a small number of flavors of ToS, not owned by the service providers that have us click through, but owned by trusted nonprofits and public service agencies and reused by service providers.

I'm thinking of Creative Commons-like agreements, but business agreements about providing a service, not just about licensing creative works.

Then, have the company that's implementing it customize the ToS by filling in a few fields at the start: their corporate name and address, how to contact their ombudsman, list of officers, something like that.

#intellectualProperty #intellectualPropertyLaw #clickThrough #TOS #termsofuse #licensing #saas #paas #softwareLicensing #software

@youronlyone There are malls outside Metro Manila too. I find Robinsons Place Iloilo confusing despite a logical layout (it's a cross). Looks good on paper but tougher once inside, for me.

@big_diggity I want to see the answers here!

@fu @Aslanmane @ned Please go find those people and have a word with them. Nobody here is arguing with you about the idea that there are bad landlords. I think we all agree.

We should also all agree that charity is necessary. If you don't, well. Your words may profit nothing.

@Aslanmane and @ned , I can't speak for @fu , but I want to recognize while there is plenty of reason to resent exploitative landlords, I trust that is not the situation with you and yours. Landlords can be fair to their tenants, even partners with them; they can take care of and improve their properties and make things better for their communities, not worse. May charity prevail.

@ned @Aslanmane @fu You may want to reconsider whether your suggestion that all landlords are exploitative is fair to the millions of landlords you don't know. Maybe that's been your limited experience. I have a feeling that isn't the last word.

I have tried so many #monospaced #fonts, but I keep coming back to #Inconsolata as pleasant and readable. Latest I tried was the #Monaspace family, but the block "@" sign did them in for me. (Really interesting otherwise though!)

https://github.com/githubnext/monaspace#monaspace

#privacy #Google #YouTube

https://mashable.com/article/google-ordered-to-hand-over-viewer-data-privacy-concerns

I ❤️ Chickpeas
#legumes #food #Chickpeas #Lent

Is #GoogleEarth having a #LeapDay moment?

@fuat2mb What would make any UI "look like... GNU" unless one were copying GNOME? I don't think they're directly copying GNOME, though there are bound to be some similarities.

Who's the target customer for #system76 and #pop_os / #popos ?

I ask because, well, PopOS 24.04 is going to include the new COSMIC desktop environment... and I'm curious whom they're building it for.

No product can be everything for everybody, right?

#cosmic #linuxDesktop #desktopEnvironments #cosmicDE #cosmicDesktop #Linux

Writers of Unix history: please write books that get printed on paper.
I love your articles. I can get lost in them. Decades from now, maybe a few short years, they will be irretrievable. We will lose our history if we don't record it as real-world objects.

#Unix #history #theRegister #books #hardCopies #deadTrees #retroComputing #historians #paper #paperBooks #articles
https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/16/what_is_unix/

Absolutely ❤️ this series of toots by @fedora

Thanks @SlashNevSlashDull !

https://theres.life/tags/FedoraLoveFS

#foss #linux #fedora #valentinesDay #gratitude #love #FedoraLoveFS

We have a lot of ripe #avocados. I don't want to turn them all into #guacamole or shakes. Nor just spread on toast. What else can I do with them where the avocado is the star of the show? #cooking

Oh, this is exquisite.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/air-canada-must-honor-refund-policy-invented-by-airlines-chatbot/

You are dust, and to dust you shall return.

HP does not serve its customers; HP's customers serve it.

#printers #hp

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/19/hps_ceo_spells_it_out/

Yes, it is okay to take communion while wearing braces.

PSA: the Ninja blender/food processor blades are the sharpest things on the planet. I've cut myself to the quick three times, drawing blood twice.

I should dull them in the dishwasher just to avoid any further incidents.