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I think they were more references the human readability of HTTP/1.0 in general instead of binary encoded data.

eadmund 2y ago
> I think they were more references the human readability of HTTP/1.0 in general instead of binary encoded data. Yup! You’re exactly right. I honestly thought that was obvious in context. There’s something just right about being able to manually connect to a web server and run queries against it, with very little in the way of tooling to do so. Technically, of course, both telnet(1) and nc(1) are tools, and even one’s TCP/IP stack and OS are, too, which is why I write ‘very little.’ It’s a heck of a lot fewer tools, and more general tools, than JSON-over-HTTP or RTP prober. And — please — do not refer to me as ‘they.’ I am not a collective, but rather a human being. I find being referred to as ‘they’ to be profoundly offensive.
- wang_li 2y ago
  Prior to recent years, the singular they was more often used as the generic pronoun. I'm old. No offense was intended. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
- try_the_bass 2y ago
  > And — please — do not refer to me as ‘they.’ I am not a collective, but rather a human being. I find being referred to as ‘they’ to be profoundly offensive. I can't seriously believe you're not trolling with this. The use of singular "they" to refer to an individual of unknown gender has been a thing for literally centuries. Some people, like me, grew up on the Internet assuming every person they interacted with was male by default, because it was a statically sound assumption. We would then use the right pronoun if corrected (unless we thought you might be a G.I.R.L.) Some people, like the person you're ostensibly trolling, do not make this assumption, and just use the singular, gender-neutral "they", which is arguably the nicer, more humane approach anyway. Being offended by such an approach just smacks of trying to "own the libs", or just otherwise bring contrarian for the sake of it. Neither involves being genuinely offended by anything, and is instead a transparent piece of performative posturing. Please don't bring that here.

> I think they were more references the human readability of HTTP/1.0 in general instead of binary encoded data. Yup! You’re exactly right. I honestly thought that was obvious in context. There’s something just right about being able to manually connect to a web server and run queries against it, with very little in the way of tooling to do so. Technically, of course, both telnet(1) and nc(1) are tools, and even one’s TCP/IP stack and OS are, too, which is why I write ‘very little.’ It’s a heck of a lot fewer tools, and more general tools, than JSON-over-HTTP or RTP prober. And — please — do not refer to me as ‘they.’ I am not a collective, but rather a human being. I find being referred to as ‘they’ to be profoundly offensive.

wang_li 2y ago
Prior to recent years, the singular they was more often used as the generic pronoun. I'm old. No offense was intended. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
try_the_bass 2y ago
> And — please — do not refer to me as ‘they.’ I am not a collective, but rather a human being. I find being referred to as ‘they’ to be profoundly offensive. I can't seriously believe you're not trolling with this. The use of singular "they" to refer to an individual of unknown gender has been a thing for literally centuries. Some people, like me, grew up on the Internet assuming every person they interacted with was male by default, because it was a statically sound assumption. We would then use the right pronoun if corrected (unless we thought you might be a G.I.R.L.) Some people, like the person you're ostensibly trolling, do not make this assumption, and just use the singular, gender-neutral "they", which is arguably the nicer, more humane approach anyway. Being offended by such an approach just smacks of trying to "own the libs", or just otherwise bring contrarian for the sake of it. Neither involves being genuinely offended by anything, and is instead a transparent piece of performative posturing. Please don't bring that here.