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First, thank you so much for the work you've done with RSS / Atom. I implemented it (and my own static site compiler) myself from scratch on my own personal sit
by 3pt14159 8y ago
First, thank you so much for the work you've done with RSS / Atom. I implemented it (and my own static site compiler) myself from scratch on my own personal site and it took me very little time. The only little trick was figuring out absolute vs relative paths.
Second, I've been fighting for regulations for over three years and I'm getting somewhere, but I'm also starting to think that we need technical solutions to many of these problems. One of the things I see as a problem is that people always want more, but privacy and security often require less.
For example, old charsets only supported Latin characters. With the introduction of Cyrillic characters many assumptions started breaking.
Each time I try to think through how to make the web / internet simpler I realize that it either requires pushing the complexity onto people unprepared to deal with it—an English speaking daughter may want to copy and paste her Russian mother's Cyrillic name, say—or it fails to handle the use cases we need it to handle.
I know this seems kinda abstract, but do you ever think about that interplay? Are there any insights or anecdotes you find useful?