The Stochastic Game

Ramblings of General Geekery

This list of Adobe software alternatives maintained by XdanielArt is going around again! It’s very well done and useful, but remember these alternatives are not necessarily viable. E.g. Affinity Photo/Publisher are great but will only get you 80% there, and none of the Lightroom alternatives are good IMO.

An infographic with way too many bits of text and icons to be reproduced here. Ask XdanielArt for a text version maybe?

Last week-end, the good fluffy boy met a bunch of new weird animals. He was NOT impressed, and immediately alerted me of the danger.


Having a dog means potentially doing a 2 hour hike with a bag of dog diarrhea at your belt


I enjoyed the Barbie movie but originally found its message to be pretty ham-fisted (beyond the shock of a movie about Mattel dolls even having a message to begin with). But this excellent video essay points at Barbie actually being too subtle for some… plus lots of other good and insightful stuff.


To all the people pronouncing “GIF” with a hard “G” because it stands for “Graphical”: I wish you good luck for pronouncing “LASER”.


Since last time I looked at personal finance software years ago, it looks like they all migrated their handling of banking credentials to something called “Plaid” which asks for your bank password, phone number, and date of birth and I’m like NO FUCKING WAY