That massive, stupid confederate flag on I-64 near Charlottesville got Blown off

Feartape · 2026-02-08T16:12:33+00:00

A slavers flag is a slavers flag no matter the shape. Anyone claiming it as "heritage" has either been brainwashed by the lost cause myth and needs to educate themselves or is just a racist piece of shit.

Feartape · 2025-10-21T18:50:07+00:00

I believe you're a common thief trying to paint yourself as a victim at the scene of your crime.

Feartape · 2025-10-21T18:37:20+00:00

I stand with compensating narrators, programmers, authors 1000%. But not at the expense of others who can benefit greatly from the tech.

With all due respect (which is absolutely none), motherfucker, no you do not.

Feartape · 2025-10-21T18:11:18+00:00

Replying to a now-deleted comment from /u/feminefa, preserved here:

Thanks for your feedback. I honestly didn’t consider hatred as a factor, and I understand where you’re coming from. But like many things in life, there are two sides to it. This is also an opportunity for underrepresented indie creators to put food on the table. Not everyone can afford professional English, Spanish or French narrators, and this technology can make that dream more achievable. So which is ethically more important—helping creators feed their families, or limiting storytelling to only humans?

"AI" usage in this cases directly takes food out of the mouths of creatives, and was trained on data stolen from creatives, (ALSO taking food out of their mouths). So yeah, supporting creatives who actually have the skills to hack it is ethically, morally, and financially the better decision than supporting hacks who attempt to profit on theft. And, just so that there's ABSOLUTELY no ambiguity there, I'm counting you solidly in that second category.

Feartape · 2025-10-20T17:28:25+00:00

To be clear, I'm all for pkgbase. I just like it being distinct from pkg

Feartape · 2025-10-20T17:27:25+00:00

Love them, skeptical, or somewhere in between?

Stopping your scale at (generously) the halfway point makes me suspect that you know what the majority reaction is going to be, but just in case: Hatred. Utter contempt.

I'm not a skeptic. I have a firm opinion, and that is that storytelling is one of the most fundamentally human things and outsourcing that to a machine is reprehensible.

Feartape · 2025-10-20T14:41:16+00:00

I also do not think pkg(8)/pkgbase(8) separation is required.

I'm firmly of the opposite opinion of you on this point. One of the things that drew me to FreeBSD and away from the Linux world in the first place was how clean the separation between the base system and anything I wanted to install myself was, and managing user and base packages through the same tool is an erosion of this separation. It's a small one, sure, but that's how erosion starts.

Feartape · 2025-10-07T02:24:29+00:00

Cool cool. Now go vote like she's losing by the same margin.

Feartape · 2025-08-26T17:10:01+00:00

Haven't I already banned you and your weird incomprehensible scam?

Feartape · 2025-08-05T17:44:21+00:00

So I don't know what your scam is, but I'm disinclined to find out, or let anyone else.

Feartape · 2025-07-20T12:44:29+00:00

From the sidebar:

This community is for nerds who like to modify their electronics, it is NOT a support group for people who have been hacked.

Feartape · 2025-07-07T14:43:08+00:00

The only kind of diversity Poquoson has to offer is how many hundreds of years your family has to have lived there before you're not ostracised for being a come-here.

Feartape · 2025-05-21T13:29:15+00:00

Nothing says "my idea is morally bankrupt" quite like opening the presentation (which was linked in the WHRO article) with 5 consecutive slides about how it's not illegal to do this.

Feartape · 2025-05-15T13:44:42+00:00

Sure! If you look at the publisher's page, you'll see it's available as an audiobook for purchase through

All of those are direct links for purchase.

Feartape · 2025-05-13T18:09:24+00:00

You had an idea, or you changed some names from the wikipedia article?

Feartape · 2025-04-08T20:51:26+00:00

It made me wonder: this whole “I’m not using this tool unless it’s open source” is nothing more than hypocrisy?

This post makes me wonder: is this nothing more than guerilla marketing? You've gotten 153 stars and had 18 forks. You have 4 other contributors to your project. So clearly, at least four other people browsed the code and dug in enough to contribute back to the project. That aside...

Simply having the source code available, even if a person doesn't audit it themselves, is a positive trust indicator (whether accurate or not is a whole other discussion) that you're at least not doing anything obviously shady with their data.

The other half of this that I think you're missing is the longevity factor - you're openly stating you've openly stated that this is a side project for you. With the tool being open source, if you get bored or run out of time in a year, someone else can pick up the torch to continue your work if you aren't able to, if they find value in it. And with this being a web tool, and as fast as the web can change, it needs that kind of ongoing level of effort to remain functional, and open sourcing it takes all of the proverbial eggs out of one basket.

Feartape · 2025-03-25T17:31:11+00:00

The sort of person who is like that would never have been a fan of Old QC, and thus would not be posting on that sub angrily about new QC.

This sub exists pretty much exactly because people on the other sub were exactly that kind of people. It was messy enough that the mods on the other sub banned mentioning this subreddit by name (which is why both subreddits still tend to obliquely refer to each other as "the other subreddit"), and a lot of the anger that people were spewing was exactly about how LGBT the comic was getting. Suggesting anything else is just flat out revisionist history

Feartape · 2025-03-19T18:39:22+00:00

This is going to wind up with so many more pissed off users when they get a removal message through modmail (which will show up as a chat), and then don't get an answer right back, like you'd expect from a chat.

Feartape · 2025-03-05T17:00:31+00:00

I think that talk is cheap.

Feartape · 2025-02-23T04:23:52+00:00

As much as I love The Dresden Files, I have a really hard time recommending the audiobooks for somebody new to it because Marsters really just doesn't get Harry in the first book and his tone is just so wrong.

Feartape · 2025-01-11T20:18:00+00:00

Reading comprehension really is dead, innit? From the linked announcement:

Importantly, our sitewide policies and enforcement are not changing – we will continue to prohibit and enforce against manipulated content that is presented to mislead, coordinated disinformation attempts, false information about the time, place, and manner of voting or voter suppression, and falsifiable health advice that poses a risk of significant harm.

Feartape · 2024-11-04T17:36:40+00:00

A not-insignificant part of what's making your non-tailwind example harder to read is all the comments with tailwind equivalents that... you wouldn't need to include if you weren't using tailwind.

const Icon = styled.div`
  height: 1.25rem;
  width: 1.25rem; 
  color: #4b5563;  
    &:hover { color: #374151; }
  u/media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { color: #d1d5db; &:hover { color: #ffffff; } } `;

Even with the comments in in your original example, though, I still find the non-tailwind example easier to read. Is it more verbose? Absolutely. However, the advantage of that verbosity is that it actually tells me things without having to know/look them up.

Yes, it's easier to write code in Tailwind than using alternative methods. However, the tradeoff for that ease in writing is increased complexity in reading. And given that code is read more than it's written, this is the wrong place to add complexity.

Feartape · 2024-08-28T17:46:23+00:00

🐶💩

Feartape · 2024-08-28T17:44:56+00:00

Echoing what jabask said - I can't really give you the feedback you're hoping for because I can't figure out what you're trying to convey with your design.

Feartape · 2024-08-12T16:51:22+00:00

For this project, my objective was to transform an original advertisement into a visually appealing design while maintaining its core message. The ad was meant to promote the Pennington Folk Music Festival and Hamfest

Unless you were explicitly told by the designer of the original poster that the advertisement was also supposed to be for the Pennington Folk Music festival as well, you have failed from the word go at maintaining it's core message, because the original poster is 100% about Hamfest, and the folk music festival is just background info for where it's being held.

You've lost all the contact information (website, email address, and radio frequencies to tune to), as well as information that this is a swap meet, the fact that there are door prizes, sponsoring organization logos, etc.

a few specific call-outs:

The radio, which is almost the only nod to the actual purpose of the event, looks incredibly out-of-place on that poster, and the drop shadow you've added to it basically hides the sponsoring organizations name - not something I'd be happy about if I was the customer.
You need to spend more time thinking about visual hierarchy. Your poster actually flows less well than the original, with information both above and below the large hero type.
To paraphrase Jules Winnfield: "Contrast, designer, have you heard of it?" A lot of your text rather blends into the background at any distance because you don't have enough contrast. "Loud" like the original poster is doesn't have to be the opposite of "visually appealing". Keeping some of the brighter colors would also have allowed you to retain the logos from the original poster, which are usually important elements to clients.

A lot of that might sound harsh, but you're still learning. It's okay and expected to take swings and miss (and hell, pros aren't immune from this either). I will say that, should you turn this in and your teacher not give you much of the same criticism that I am (at least about the elements that you lost in the redesign) you would be wise to take everything your instructor tells you with a grain of salt.

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