@david_ross and @gemlog contributed to @tindall 's "Locking Down Firefox" article. I did nearly everything suggested here for my #Firefox #browser since. https://leotindall.com/tutorial/locking-down-firefox/ #hardening #privatebrowsing
@cosullivan @david_ross thanks christina. I'd forgotten to install a couple of those when I moved back to ff from palemoon last week. And I never did have the random user agent one. Good stuff! Just my font list is a dead give away.
@cosullivan I have a file with like 6,800 ttf fonts. I wrote a robot nearly 20 years ago for a little girl. Made her very happy! :-)
@cosullivan OK, more like 14-15 years ago...
@cosullivan https://gemlog.ca/mastodonshare/fonts6800.tar.bz2 and a first nations font I found later for a guy taking a course.
https://gemlog.ca/mastodonshare/absechra.ttf
@xmanmonk
I have more even...
@cosullivan @xmanmonk They aren't organized (ala bot remember?) so you'd be well advised to browse using a desktop that previews fonts...
@cosullivan @gemlog Having worked in print shops as a kid and doing lots of typesetting, etc., I have a lust for fonts.
@xmanmonk My parents had a home business. I developed strong opinions of serif vs. sans serif (I like serif) gemlog@mastodonten.de
@cosullivan I think serif is generally easier to read.
@cosullivan @xmanmonk Always exceptions to everything, but the most basic rule I know is serif for body text as it is easier to read and sans-serif for headlines and titles.
The web and microsoft do not follow that advice, obviously.
@gemlog @cosullivan No one follows rules :)
@xmanmonk @cosullivan xmanmonk: ignores type setting rules. A true rebel!!
@gemlog @cosullivan I do. The biggest fight I ever had with a publisher was over fonts. I insisted on them using an open-source font that I had. I even had written permission of the designer to use it. I finally won :) The second biggest fight was over the title.
@cosullivan @xmanmonk Have a look through the archive I posted to you guys. With so many I'm SURE you'd find a close match.
@cosullivan @gemlog Ooh, those would be cool.
@xmanmonk @gemlog "The Good Bad Man" font, written about in The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/07/a-font-that-speaks-for-silent-film/374197/
@xmanmonk @cosullivan Along with other stuff, I worked on AB Dick stuff. Years later (and years ago now) I ran an AB Dick 360 a couple of days a week for colour and b&w.
@gemlog @cosullivan Ah, the 360 was the work horse of printing for so long! Beautiful and clunky machine, like a Volkswagen! Loved it. And yeah, we did color on it, too, which really tests your skills lining up targets!
@xmanmonk @cosullivan Every week for a year or so. Usually just two colour, but sometimes full colour. Registration was a bit finicky, but not horrible.
@gemlog @cosullivan Yeah, I always thought the registration was tricky. My first time using direct-to-press registration, I nearly creamed :)
@xmanmonk @cosullivan Most weeks were just 2 colour and I'd go in for ~4 hrs and print the black one day and then go in and print the colour the next day.
We only ran some full colour pages and the cover a few times a year, which took more time of course.
@gemlog @cosullivan For a while there, I was trying to learn Inuktitut. It's one hell of a difficult language.
@xmanmonk @cosullivan No one around me speaks it. That's more north even than me.
@gemlog Jeez, mine too. I thought I went on a font download rampage but can't find the .zip files now...