Ignoring all this drama.

But I've always found Paul to be a good guy, who was helpful and honest and provided a great product. Teensy is a great platform, and it's too bad these other players will have a negative impact on it.

How hard would it be to extend this to support bulk export of Apple Notes?

That's a great idea! Could you open an issue-or better so, PR—for this? I've had some additional backlog ideas.

Those who know how to fix the messes made by AI today will replace those who don't tomorrow.

Agreed. Prince also has a lot of good features for headers, footers, page numbering, etc, that make it very powerful.

It's not like Imgur didn't finance with ads. They did that for a long time. Dunno if it paid the bills. The latest kerfuffle is because they were bought and the new owners fired all the moderators in favor of "AI moderation."

If you're not part of a group that will suffer under a white-supremecist theocracy they look very similar.

If you're part of a group that will, there is a visible difference.

Picking the lesser evil is actually a good thing if you can reduce harm. It doesn't solve the problem of it being a lesser evil, but it may make space to change that.

Any idea how long Experts should take to import/index data? I pointed an expert at a big directory of source files on a M4 iMac with 32G RAM, and it pinned a CPU at 100% for 24 hours but was not finished.

A single file seems to finish quickly, but folders (even with just a few files) seem to be very slow.

Never ask ol' Chesterfield about his fence.

Ahem, "blow some my way"! For fence-related matters Chesterton is the person to ask.

They're now owned by "copyright trolls".

They hit up a company I know because their web-crawler found a PDF that someone generated using their library over a decade ago.

https://beemanmuchmore.com/software-licensing-trolls-apryse-...

I'd avoid it.

Yeah, it's basically dying and living on old fame. We had to buy a license a few years ago for a customer who needed support for some things that PDFBox did not support, Of course it's not just a license, you have to buy multiple licenses for production, development and so on. It was okay until we hit a bug, iText could not read some form fields correctly and was basically changing the PDF contents on save. We opened a support ticket with all the details, sample files and code to reproduce. The ticket stayed open for a year. After a year they asked us to pay for more support. We showed them the open ticket and never heard from them again.

Of course, the Space Shuttle (and SLS, for that matter), are bad designs and inefficient not because NASA teams design them that way, but because of the way Congress funds things. They add mandates, and require the contracts to be spread across lots of organizations and states to "budget proof" the projects.

For example, NASA's original space plane was a much better design that the shuttle, but they were forced to make it a joint project with the Air Force to get budget. The different requirements added up, and eventually we got the system we've all seen.