Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

I think capitalism made us take a wrong turn when this is how a pack of just small towels is marketed.

Also in the announcements (at top of your home timeline in the Web interface).

Computer Fairies folks, we're not rushing the turnover. We will have to schedule some outages in order for me to take over the hosting and bill-paying responsibility, but I'll be sure to let you know over on @admin when and for how long.

I think we shouldn't need supercomputers at either end of the link, let alone both, just to look at cat photos.

"But Ariel, why not just use a popular blog app instead?"

Two root reasons. First, the server has to be a containerized virtual hypercomputer instead of a basic Web server, limiting hosting options.

Second, JavaScript basically reinventing HTML, which means I have to use an inconveniently expensive browser to download an app every page instead of using CLI tools & a lightning-fast Web browser.

I could, but that's a lot of work as well as really overthinking the plumbing. Groff is stuck on HTML4 and XHTML, which means I'd have to stick a sed or awk script on the end of the pipeline. If I'm going to get typesetting involved, it's better to start with an LML & translate that instead.

The most important device in the universe, every universe [YT, 8:55]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phPp5oYnps0

LB: I'm interested in any answers y'all have, too.

I wonder if I could use troff to make a modern-feeling HTML5 blog. I wonder how customizable groff_www macros are.

Also, it apparently took Discord around 50 hours to do anything meaningful about the server hijack.