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by kixiQu 5y ago
I'm a big fan of this piece! For those looking to play around further, there's https://ditherit.com/ and on the command line, good ol' imagemagick comes through with something like convert picture_with_cool_c
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by kixiQu 5y ago
At that point I think the choice gets back to their whole goal of > A client comfortable for daily use which implements every single protocol feature should be a feasible weekend programming project for a single developer. This isn'
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by kixiQu 5y ago
Ah, but just for completeness, despite my own fondness for the idea of a markdown-web, their faq states: > 2.9 Why didn't you just use Markdown instead of defining text/gemini? > The text/gemini markup borrows heavily
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by kixiQu 5y ago
If you're looking for hypocrisy, the project FAQ ( https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi ) says it's supposed to be for people who are: > Opposed to the web's ubiquitous tracking of users > T
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by kixiQu 5y ago
https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi > 2.5 Why not just use a subset of HTTP and HTML? > [...] > The problem is that deciding upon a strictly limited subset of HTTP and HTML, slapping a label on it an
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by kixiQu 5y ago
As an admin and end user, I'm gonna tell you that the most exciting improvement was voice messages, which I am so happy to have again and definitely didn't get as much attention as they deserved. Wish I could buy y'all a
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by kixiQu 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_copyright_law_in_the_... If the difference is awareness (demonstrated) and profiting off it, would a banner ad on the page be enough?
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by kixiQu 5y ago
We do https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/full/10.1289/EHP6335
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Embedded social media posts might now be illegal(maya.land)
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by kixiQu 5y ago
My whole site was inspired by https://marijn.uk/linkroll/ and https://href.cool/ , so while not everything they link to has an associated feed, I gotta shout them out as worth a look. :)
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Fonts already have this power, which is part of why they're so complicated. "contextual alternates" is the term for search
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by kixiQu 5y ago
Handmade directories, like blogrolls, are a sweet spot IME: I keep mine at https://maya.land/blogroll.opml (human or machine-readable) and I've found a huge portion of what's on it via other people's recommen
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by kixiQu 5y ago
Alternately: any of us could be this guy: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/0...
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It's a joke.
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Okay, now factor in that breakthrough infections are more common in the elderly, can still kill (though rarely), and are more likely to happen the more COVID is circulating in the community, which is then a function of the vaccination rate.
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by kixiQu 5y ago
Is there more context here that's missing from the tweet thread? > And now they want to actually take Amazon's principles and claim that they're Rust's. These just... literally... aren't Amazon's principles.
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by kixiQu 5y ago
I mean, sure, but the post content doesn't mention `examplebarelylegal.moe` or `exampleviolenceagainst.gay` or some such domain -- it's just the project's main instance list, which lists only instances intended to be compli
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by kixiQu 5y ago
They've also started setting up community working groups -- the whole thing's coordinated in a Discord server, which is very weird to me, but you can see what they're up to.
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by kixiQu 5y ago
There's a lot of comfy middle ground between "I do not want any medications; I will go home and wrap myself in a linen shroud" and "please break my nonagenarian ribs then barely sustain me in purgatorial discomfort as
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by kixiQu 5y ago
Sure -- but at least with something p2p hooked up to it I can let someone else benefit from my desire to assure my own access.
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by kixiQu 5y ago
This is a very fair answer, and all "permalinks" are lies. At the same time, I wonder if it might not be possible to have snapshots up on, I dunno, IPFS or torrent sites or something such that when the unavoidable happens, not all
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by kixiQu 5y ago
Right, that's https://lemmy.ml
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by kixiQu 5y ago
In this case it's really about the burden of community moderation. It's a fairly impotent restriction, and yet it serves the social function of discouraging a certain sort from making Lemmy their home. Most Reddit alternatives b
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by kixiQu 5y ago
Right, just like how any new system starts off. It's asking about how one might greenfield differently with the OLTP knowledge we have today.
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Sure. There are probably also things they wish they could deprecate, but realistically can't. User expectations they wish they could replace and can't. I think that's the charitable interpretation of things asked for.
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by kixiQu 5y ago
The title seems fair to me. Anything that's actually used has certain commitments it made earlier in its lifecycle from which it now can't deviate, even if later developments made the commitments problematic.
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The author cites two examples of "unnecessary complexity on websites." The first, in the linked post , states > It’s massively over-engineered! But that’s the point: learn, have fun and enjoy slowly hacking away after the kids
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by kixiQu 5y ago
I'm a very techy person and I interact with modals as little as possible, even if that means ignoring a chunk of my screen. I have a probably-unreasonable sense that it's only going to trigger a bunch of JS or something unsafe [1]
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by kixiQu 5y ago
I wonder if you could hack that in with https://github.com/danielo515/TW5-contextPlugin ? I use it for this for backlinks. ETA: https://tiddlywiki.com/static/Customising%2520search%2520res... Yup,
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by kixiQu 5y ago
https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi > Gemini is not intended to replace either Gopher or the web, but to co-exist peacefully alongside them as one more option which people can freely choose to use if it s

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