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  • most fonts are very much not free, but in a “rights” sense rather than in a “standards” sense. since fonts are works of art rather than technical designs, open source licenses don’t really apply. when printing a book you typically select a font and buy a license for that font that only allows you to use it, not modify it.

    in fact, most of the web is built with proprietary fonts that keep being used in spite of their licenses because the alternative would break everything.











  • no, it’s literally all in service of sending notifications. but there’s a lot involved. android doesn’t have a way to receive them natively for example, you need to go through google’s services. so ntfy has to emulate the firebase api. then there’s the “exactly once” requirement, which is basically the two generals problem turned up to eleven because every platform syncs differently and you need some way to store messages that are in the process of transmitting. then there’s the matter of punching through NAT, so you need a STUN/TURN setup on the server.

    and that’s on top of the fact that every platform requires different build options, manifests, certificates, etc.




  • cultural as in the most culturally similar or as in geographically closest? because if we go on similarity then denmark and scotland should be on your list, at number 1 and 4 respectively. and norway has basically nothing in common with russia.

    it’s a fun but potentially extremely broad question; if you feel culturally russian, would your neighbors be all 14 of its bordering countries from finland to north korea?