Well it all comes down to trust eventually, you cannot inspect every single line of code of every programs you want on run on your computer.
Nowadays even Github stars are not worth that much trust because malicious actors can just make fake accounts or buy them.
I'm pretty sure the entire world uses ical files. It's a bit of an annoying format to parse, though. The calendar.txt file format seems to be made for people to interact with it directly through a terminal (which the target audience probably already had open).
You can get an income for your work by many other way than getting it behind a paywall. Like another user said i'd rather download the book and send 10$ to a creator I like than paying a monthly subscription to a "digital library" that will only give crumbles to the author and prevent me from reading my book "offline".
I feel like this defeat the goal of emojis and icons: highlight important informations for our brain to process. This is just an overwhelming amount of emojis for me, but I guess it has its usecases
>A technical problem is that during winter, the temperature of buried devices can drop quickly, creating a possibility that the mechanisms of the mine will cease working due to low temperatures in the winter.[5] Various methods were studied to solve this problem, such as wrapping the bombs in insulating blankets.
One proposal suggested that live chickens would be sealed inside the casing, with a supply of food and water.[6] They would remain alive for approximately a week. Their body heat would apparently have been sufficient to keep the mine's components at a working temperature.
It looks soulless, even more than a the generic "hacker man" picture, at least you could tell these were made by a human. For me its one of the lowest "effort" you could put in a picture. Of course thats entirely subjective but personally I hate it and it doesn't seems like im the only one here.
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