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by mro_name 5y ago
maybe a thicker quill from a larger goose?
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by mro_name 5y ago
lol, or even plain muteness.
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by mro_name 5y ago
serious question: who of you actually used plain text (not even markdown) for all texts and notes for say a month? And who changed back, why and for what occasions?
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by mro_name 5y ago
indeed, why not use real plain text – not markdown. Homer was able to write the fall of troy and Shakespeare Hamlet without bold text. So what can't one express without?
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by mro_name 5y ago
> based off of ignorance what ignorance?
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by mro_name 5y ago
There's quite some cargo cult – e.g. jwt and oauth2 often appear like that, when a simpler design is discarded because 'that's the way'. If you can design a system without accounts (shortly here on HN), you won't mi
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by mro_name 5y ago
I had exactly the same experience with a .name domain two decades ago. You'll explain every single time you mention it. And I thought short domains are cool and abbreviated the name to 3 letters. Today I only communicate the full <f
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by mro_name 5y ago
in meatspace a lot of things work without logging in – use cash, buy a hammer, make phonecalls from public booths, take a train etc. Actually showing your id was once rare and still is. In the 80s in UK a lot of people did well completely
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by mro_name 5y ago
My mother made all her calls from a public phone box (Rural Bavaria in the 80s). Having your own phone number was as unusual then as a domain might be for some today. Spread the word and show it!
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by mro_name 5y ago
"Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In" by Roger Fisher and William Ury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_to_Yes:_Negotiating_Ag...
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by mro_name 5y ago
The time has come to replace <enter whatever you dislike just now>
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by mro_name 5y ago
shutting down datacenters is a neat idea. Know https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is... ?
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by mro_name 5y ago
I find 'frugal' align very well with 'convival'. It stresses the relation of creator and tool and demands the tool to serve and not dominate or hide the task at hand but foster freedom and happiness. Also of interest: Pe
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by mro_name 5y ago
hold my beer: nationwide all-day cell outage at German Telekom https://heise.de/-6518123
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by mro_name 5y ago
doing reliable phone calls (even during power outage). Was no problem up until the 90ies (in germany).
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by mro_name 5y ago
to find a post office. In Germany, 99% are closed and the remaining ones are either banks in disguise or telco kiosks selling stamps.
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by mro_name 5y ago
Oh, it still is - you just have to put up with looking ridiculous. Like https://demo.mro.name/geohash.cgi P.S.: And you always had to do it right and mind the system boundaries. https://xkcd.com/327/
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by mro_name 5y ago
Thx, stupid me, it's indieweb.org/POSSE. Fixed above, too.
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by mro_name 5y ago
> This content was incredibly time intensive to create why did she trash the origins? And please, do indieweb.org/POSSE - look at PeerTube and maybe distribute copies via YT but never exclusively or even rely on them as an archive.
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by mro_name 5y ago
being able to pipe dune through opam would be cool – write human stuff to stderr and opam input to stdout. And then run e.g. $ dune runtest | opam dune and opam would have to agree on how to talk with each other, however.
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by mro_name 5y ago
maybe reuse is inferior to re-implement. Moderately re-inventing wheels may be beneficial. What may be a threshold?
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by mro_name 5y ago
humans started their first 300k years as nomads – storing was just impossible and decrufing happened by itself when moving along. So maybe that's why we're not good at it yet.
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by mro_name 5y ago
They were the market leader for PC operating systems since they entered the market with MS-Dos and managed to preserve that monopoly after the transition from TUI to GUI. And later they expanded into applications as we know today and built
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by mro_name 5y ago
you don't believe accountants care about anything but the market leader, do you?
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by mro_name 5y ago
it was the only thing they could get. No wonder it looked magic.
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by mro_name 5y ago
I think it's much more profane - Microsoft didn't understand what the real world needed, they just leveraged a monopoly (that IBM let them establish) to frame what a computer looks and feels. They shaped the world to their liking
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by mro_name 5y ago
Ascii makes copper fiber! Or the way round: website obesitiy crisis[1] makes fiber copper! [1] https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
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by mro_name 5y ago
the lines rarely are the issue but the copper-cable length from home to the DSLAM: Less cable-meters mean less reachable households per DSLAM. And the DSLAM costs - both hardware and maintenance. Regardless if 2 or 20 customers connect. So
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by mro_name 5y ago
that's exactly what it started with and developed stepwise from then. Look at Gottlieb Daimler's motor-carriage of 1886: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb_Daimler#/media/Datei:...
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by mro_name 5y ago
"Talent borrows, genius steals" being attributed to Oscar Wilde but being possibly stolen as well :-) At least Goethe (the german shakespeare if you will) said quite the same in the 18th century.

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