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by lal 5y ago
It was a private conversation which Amjad himself stated he intended to turn into a public lawsuit. There should be no expectation of privacy here.
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by lal 5y ago
someone else on the internet writing a function does not make the c programming language more complicated. c's (lack of) library namespacing, which is responsible for this confusion, is, frankly, one of those valid critiques, but this
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by lal 5y ago
I don't think any of this is close to fair. "C is simple" and "it takes some work to do stuff in C sometimes" aren't mutually exclusive, in fact the former necessarily implies the latter. C is simple, which mea
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by lal 6y ago
you can have images and they don't always display as anything. the author of the user agent decides how they are displayed. you could in-line them if you wanted to, but only a few clients do that at the moment. there are no hints to th
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by lal 6y ago
as an early gemini convert this is one of the reasons I wish solderpunk would split the gemini protocol and text/gemini mimetype specs. gemini can serve more than text/gemini (e.g. markdown as you suggest), so embedding the text&#
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by lal 6y ago
i don't know if you understand what you're saying?? are you suggesting the binary content of a png file be inserted into the text-readable markup for a document? this doesn't make any sense. in-line images are linking to ot
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by lal 6y ago
the markup might be clean but it's pretty ugly and network inefficient because it's full of boilerplate that is only required because html also supports 1000 times more nonsense than this site uses, so you have to type <p>&l
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by lal 6y ago
in terms of semantics it is almost entirely dissimilar except that it's line-oriented. instead of having any of the content type fields or whatever which enforce half of gopher's grammar, links are just "=> gemini:/&#
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by lal 6y ago
the screen refreshed every time you browsed to new content or did something that required accessing new content, as one would intuitively expect
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by lal 6y ago
gemini doesn't at the moment have any formalized systems for client-side scripting, effectively eliminating the need for that, and most of the gemini community seems pretty opposed to ever implementing such a thing, so it doesn't
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by lal 6y ago
This is more intended to be a comfier gopher than a less-shitty http. Most of its early adherents are ex-phloggers attracted to its features relative to gopher, not ex-webbers attracted to its lack of client-side scripting or whatever. The
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by lal 6y ago
Think of it more as a beefed-up Gopher than a pared-down web.
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by lal 7y ago
Fortunately the article is wrong because the signers are almost all either: 1) long-retired and out of the game entirely, 2) not trained in the field or qualified at all, or 3) known quacks who have peddled this kind of thing for years, or
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by lal 7y ago
I can think of very few science cranks I've ever seen who didn't have some kind of data. That means nothing. Data isn't a magical, pure, and perfect substance that emerges from the aether.
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by lal 7y ago
The maintainer says they have to pay for rent. Whether advertising in your open source project is good or not, wanting money to pay your landlord for rent isn't rent-seeking just because you saw the word rent in it. I'm assuming y
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by lal 7y ago
I had a 2017 mbp, two months in, the left hook thing on the J keycap broke. It still stayed on for the most part so I was fine. The minus key was next, but both hooks broke so it just loosely flapped and fell off if the laptop was tipped. I
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by lal 7y ago
But Apple needs Netflix far more than Apple needs whatever you think it would gain by losing Netflix.
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by lal 7y ago
It hasn't been established whether this has "accomplished" anything at all or if it's a false positive. That's what's being discussed in the Twitter thread.