MrVandemar

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PHP Through a Screen Reader: Small Syntax Choices That Matter(thephp.foundation)
2 points by MrVandemar 4mo ago|0 comments
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by MrVandemar 4mo ago
> military is being used for bad things Seems that sending a bunch of people with guns/bombs/etc to another country is almost always bad. The military doing good things like ... um ... helping out during natural disasters or ge
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by MrVandemar 4mo ago
> last major source of instability in the region. Are you forgetting the bad neighbor that keeps attacking most of its other neighbors, even while under ceasefire agreements? And then moving onto the land and saying "this is ours, t
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by MrVandemar 5mo ago
Linux has this myth of being "community software", and if it really, truly is, then it should have better accessibility than Microsoft Windows. As far as I can tell from following various people on Mastodon, reading blogs like thi
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by MrVandemar 5mo ago
Can't argue with the success of Markdown. It's still a lousy "spec", and, again, I often see people wishing for a Markdown web browser, but I don't see anyone implementing such a thing. You'd think it would be
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by MrVandemar 5mo ago
There's a difference between push and pull for images. If you have to manually click a link to an image, and it's advertising, then there's a loss of trust with the rest of the links on the page. If the page includes adverts
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by MrVandemar 5mo ago
Markdown? Terrible "spec". Browsers already support XML. You can spin up a HTML-but-restricted XML grammar (with extra stuff even, like footnotes and stuff) and a CSS file in maybe half an hour, and it'll render in your brows
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by MrVandemar 5mo ago
Sooner or later "inline images" == "advertising". And "tracking pixels". Keeping them separate was a smart move, and entirely consistent with the underlying philosophy.
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by MrVandemar 5mo ago
Marginalia is almost already this. It flags sites that have advertising, javascript, etc. meaning that you can easily avoid those.
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by MrVandemar 5mo ago
Gemini is cool for many reasons, but it fails in being able to encode complex documents, or use semantically or visually useful structures common to many documents. There is: - No metadata. - No emphasis. - No citations. - No way to mark up
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The Audience Nobody Saw(fromthelittoral.substack.com)
2 points by MrVandemar 5mo ago|1 comments
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by MrVandemar 6mo ago
Very interesting. I've never had occasion to learn Lua, but it seems like it can do some neat things. I really like the JSON-esque template language there.
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by MrVandemar 6mo ago
They're dead for more than 20 years. Both of them.
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by MrVandemar 7mo ago
That is an unjustified over-generalisation. HTML markup is pretty readable (except when it becomes soup) and I read and write raw HTML documents all the time. I like it better than markdown. It's even more readable in a code editor tha
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by MrVandemar 7mo ago
April Fools Day shit. Why is this on the front page? It's all noise, no signal. And it's late too.
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by MrVandemar 8mo ago
You're absolutely right!
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by MrVandemar 8mo ago
Maybe we will know, but meanwhile thousands of developers are a long down way the rabbit-hole signposted "the psychology of prior investment".
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How the Atlas Network is shaping your life, even if you've never heard of it(abc.net.au)
22 points by MrVandemar 9mo ago|2 comments
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by MrVandemar 9mo ago
Not just Charlie Brown. The entire cast of the comic. * Charlie Brown will never talk to the Red Haired Girl. His kites will always be eaten by a tree. He'll never win a baseball game. He'll never kick the football. He has abomina
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by MrVandemar 9mo ago
> Most if not all of those kids who were called names and isolated in some way found ways to break out of their pigeon hole: Social exclusion is psychologically damaging, and often is directed at people who are ND, LGBTQI+, introverted,
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by MrVandemar 9mo ago
For clarification, "Kingdom Hall" is "Jehovah's Witnesses". You know, the people who knock on your door and you pretend you're not home, because having a conversation with one of these people is about as fun as
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by MrVandemar 9mo ago
There's a loophole. All dog owners are allowed to strike up conversations with other dog owners about their dogs. That's only if you like dogs, I guess.
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by MrVandemar 9mo ago
It's called "Love Bombing" and it's almost always a precursor to abuse and/or exploitation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_bombing
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by MrVandemar 9mo ago
National Service means largely: * Giving people guns and teaching them to kill * Teaching people to blindly follow orders barked at them by an authority figure * Enormous potential for mental health problems, including bullying, abuse and s
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by MrVandemar 9mo ago
Really digging this!
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by MrVandemar 9mo ago
Nice use of XML/XSL in the browser. You know, that thing that they are trying to kill.
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by MrVandemar 9mo ago
Or maybe Web (1979) by John Wyndham.
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by MrVandemar 10mo ago
If you have a population that want rising material living standards, that's easy too. Any increase in living standards should be balanced against a concomitant decrease in population. Resource usage (meaning pollution, waste, energy pr
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by MrVandemar 10mo ago
> The amount of power an individual has today is vastly more than any other moment in the past, and that will only continue to increase. This power transfer has occurred in 3 layers. Nah, not really. None of that stuff is where the real
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by MrVandemar 10mo ago
How to fix "the internet" is a largely insurmountable problem. It is a particular specimen of "The Tragedy of the Commons" in many ways. One approach is to simply disappear into a parallel universe designed to somewhat r

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