Tom Kurtz, who co-invented BASIC—probably the piece of software that has meant the most to me—has died at age 96. When it turned 50 ten years ago, I wrote a VERY long article about why it was so important, and I’m very grateful that he helped with it. RIP. https://time.com/69316/basic/
my thought is that right now it's all or nothing in terms of when you use a "CW" your post will be hidden
if instead people can choose that only certain topics are default hidden and the rest aren't, then there's a lot less "but i don't want to hide this" stigma against using a subject line
not sure if this has been thought about before or if some other flavour of activitypub does it this way but i wonder if "CW"s would be better utilised if they were treated as email subject line and only defaulted to closed if a word in your custom blacklist appeared on it
i think that would push people to describe the content of posts much more if they're not implied to be opt-in, though this would also need a defacto "standardisation" of subjects, for example "uspol" vs "us politics"
>looking for an image
>ask the webserver if their .png image is actually png or renamed webp
>it doesn't understand
>pull out illustrated diagram explaing what is an actual png and what is a webp renamed to have png extension
>it laughs and says “it’s a good image, browser”
>make http request
>it's renamed webp
user: "i'm trying to follow the documentation but it must be out of date since none of these options appear in the newest release"
maintainer: "PRs welcome"
can any #flossbros #fossbros out there explain to me how a user is supposed to document a system they're trying to find documentation on in the first place
it's a little disheartening when all of your friends agreeing to "i miss [old thing]" isn't followed by all of your friends moving to use the version of [old thing] that is still widely available because the status quo of large corporations running our online lives for us is so impossible to break away from
scourge of the fediverse, retired computer fairies founder (2017-2021), drone #6502, official amiga mascot, begrudgingly making a return to the fediverse to upset those who told us to leave. i've been here longer than you.
https://pronoun.gdn/byte?or=it, robot, check system link above, meat shell is 30yo, no minors thanks
HRT: 15/11/2015
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