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by vertex-four 6y ago
Binary attachments were somewhat fiddly in Usenet, AIUI? I don't think MIME/8-bit clean support was really consistently there at the time. In Gemini, you'd just serve it as a binary file.
92.
by vertex-four 6y ago
You can read it with a Gemini browser, along with a lot of other content! There's a list of clients at https://gemini.circumlunar.space/clients.html , along with SSH and HTTP bridges.
93.
by vertex-four 6y ago
There is a binary file download feature, the browser can do whatever it wants with binary files, and it's signaled with mime types.
94.
by vertex-four 6y ago
It’s not meant to “get traction” in the Silicon Valley sense of “everyone must use this or there is DOOM”, it’s meant to be useful for the communities that use it. If you open the Gemini link posted below about why just defining a new docty
95.
by vertex-four 6y ago
And then someone adds some privacy violating javascript to their site, and everybody who linked to them before is now pointing their readers right back into the big bad web. The creator of Gemini has a post about this, linked above.
96.
by vertex-four 6y ago
Gemini documents can contain lines that are text or lines that are links - so a menu looks like a list of links, one per line.
97.
by vertex-four 6y ago
Which is great... as long as you knew about that environment variable before you got into this situation in the first place. You're not exactly told about it during the install process or "first steps" guides for any distro I
98.
by vertex-four 6y ago
That vim dumps you into a screen with no guidance and where your keypresses appear to do nothing (or apparently random things!) would be the problem here. It would take very little to have it say "type :help to learn how to use this pr
99.
by vertex-four 6y ago
I have no idea what this site is, but it won't load for me, at all - I just get a spinning circle for a few minutes. Ublock Origin doesn't claim to be blocking anything, so I don't know what's going on.
100.
by vertex-four 6y ago
I'm a reddit user, and I find that it doesn't encourage ongoing discussion, even in the smaller subreddits - a thread is pretty much frozen in stone after a day or two, even if technically people can post there for six months, s
101.
by vertex-four 6y ago
No, people who check in and post a couple times a day or so. The forums I loved (and some I still love, such as various fan forums the rollercoaster community runs), at least, weren't places where there was something new to consume eve
102.
by vertex-four 6y ago
The costs of running a forum of 100-1000 people (like many of the forums you might remember) are basically $5 a month and a bunch of time.
103.
by vertex-four 6y ago
For what it's worth, I've read the statistics, I've read the counterpoints to the statistics, I believe based on them that there is a right-wing violence problem in the US and some other specific places.
104.
by vertex-four 6y ago
A lot of people have been trying "good write-ups" and "high quality statistics" for a long time, it turns out they don't actually change people's minds - people make up their mind before reading the article. Th
105.
by vertex-four 6y ago
I am aware of TERFs, I currently live in a country where they recently managed to convince the Prime Minister to harass us in order to split the opposing party (which has multiple factions and where the primary reason they stay together is
106.
by vertex-four 6y ago
Right, so violence against trans folk is totally left-wing. There's never been anybody encouraging violence against trans folk as part of right-wing ideology. Got it. Many individual acts over time can be worse than a single instance o
107.
by vertex-four 6y ago
OK, how about this: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/06/health/trans-teens-bathro... - right wing policies lead to sexual assault. What about this - https://www.independent.co.uk/news&#x2F
108.
by vertex-four 6y ago
Yes, but it's a lot more distributed. It's people being assaulted in public spaces for being in any way different. It's the bathroom bills encouraging people to assault people in bathrooms based on nothing but perceived trans
109.
by vertex-four 6y ago
There's a reason some portion of the left is pretty intolerant of the current situation - it literally results in violence to people who don't even share their opinions in the first place.
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by vertex-four 6y ago
"Relatively few" usually means a significant employment barrier - you usually have to be making a certain amount of money which is hard to come by at the lower rungs of STEM employment, especially if you're restricted to appl
111.
by vertex-four 6y ago
The US is not the entirety of the countries they reserve to themselves. This process was not decided on as the most efficient by any sort of entity with an interest in public health - it's a private company performing a "goodwill&
112.
by vertex-four 6y ago
It has worked for you - which doesn't necessarily mean it works for everybody - and in fact exercise and group activity are things which are encouraged by doctors in order to treat depression, along with medicine where it would help.
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by vertex-four 6y ago
"Every cell in your body explodes with ecstasy" is not a description of anything which has ever been seen in a human. I'm certain you would be dead if every cell in your body exploded - I know this because I have seen case st
114.
by vertex-four 6y ago
No, antidepressants are not addictive. I stopped taking them after tapering down for a couple of weeks (for safety) and have never had a desire for them again. We have science which shows that they do not have significant addiction potentia
115.
by vertex-four 6y ago
It looks an awful lot like "I know how to cure everybody's depression by Life Hacks and all medical help is worthless", which does not square with my (or many other people's) experiences. Being on antidepressants for a w
116.
by vertex-four 6y ago
There's an argument that files can generally just, not be visible for specific processes using the same tooling that protects other files, but none of the kernels make this particularly easy as far as I can tell.
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by vertex-four 6y ago
"Rewrite it in Rust" is not the only difference between Gecko and Webkit/Blink (which are still similar enough that they might as well be one codebase), and believing so is showing your bias. WebRender, for example, is not
118.
by vertex-four 6y ago
In NL, your local pizza takeaway, kiosk or bar doesn't take anything but the local system ("Maestro", but a different Maestro than anywhere else in the world) anyway.
119.
by vertex-four 6y ago
Right, so the web was a wonderful place when IE6 was the only browser anyone developed for, and for the short period of time when Chrome was the only browser anyone developed for. This definitely didn't affect anyone's ability to
120.
by vertex-four 6y ago
There are at least three implementations of IndexedDB. Two are built on top of SQLite, but are different codebases aside from that, as far as I'm aware - I don't think Mozilla just merged in Webkit's IndexedDB implementation.

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