Post #1868187

2026-05-01 06:00 UTC

@rl_dane@polymaths.social ha. I like that vision too. localfirst. text-bias. terminals, CLIs, shells. Markdown. decentralized. p2p. e2ee. no surveillance supported, allowed or even possible. middle finger to the rentier & grifter class. anti-AI caltrops the norm. return to compute efficiency (where every pixel, character, cycle and bit is precious and not to be wasted -- unless its for sake of funny cat videos, and even that the only exception. ok also dogs in costumes. no other exceptions. maybe a re-binge of Firefly. literally no other exceptions, however. unless Minecraft has new skins avail. again: last possible exception. the important point is to *aspire* to be a vegan even while mouth stuffed with fresh bacon.)

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@rl_dane@polymaths.social 2026-05-01 12:29

@synlogic4242@social.vivaldi.net > localfirst. I wonder if people know how to have fun with a computer without social media, let alone without the web in general, let alone without the internet in general. Some of the most fun I've had recently was dinking around with #Plan9 with nothing more than a bunch of manpages and the occasional web lookup via #Mothra (a web browser who's capabilities closely match #Dillo — very web 1.0) Shameless plug(s): https://rldane.space/i-loved-computers-before-the-internet-was-a-thing.html https://rldane.space/web-10-is-unironically-going-great.html > text-bias. terminals, CLIs, shells. I love the fact that plain text has more or less won. Markdown. JSON. XML, umm, yeah. XD > Markdown. MARK the FRICK [DOWWWWWWWWN] I was literally writing Uni class notes in MS Word until I discovered Markdown (not until after abandoning grad school, sadly). When I learned about it, I was like, "This is a UNIX system, I know thi—" *COUGH* I mean, "This is basically just #WikkaWiki or early #TiddlyWiki markdown! I already know this!!" And I've loved it ever since, like 7 years, now. > decentralized. p2p. e2ee. no surveillance supported, allowed or even possible. The glazed-eyed look when I tell people that their security cameras could be e2ee'd, that they didn't have to give some creepy corpo a 24/7 view into their kids bedrooms. Mein gott > middle finger to the rentier & grifter class. Thank God for the #fediverse for teaching me terms like "grifter," "rent-seeking," and the like. Y'all have ruined this Texas boy 🤣 I was talking to my aunt a few months ago, and this totally white lady raised by conservative Christians said, "Man, capitalism just ruins everything!" My immediate response: "DEAR GOD, [NAME], THEY HAVE RUINED YOU!!!" 😂 > anti-AI caltrops the norm. YAS. I wanna see TONS of anti-AI honeypots ;) There needs to be a service called amislopornot.com that lets you punch in a git repo URL and tells you if there's any agents.md, claude, or copilot contributions. #Fedi, make this happen! 😆 > return to compute efficiency (where every pixel, character, cycle and bit is precious and not to be wasted -- unless its for sake of funny cat videos, and even that the only exception. ok also dogs in costumes. no other exceptions. maybe a re-binge of Firefly. literally no other exceptions, however. unless Minecraft has new skins avail. again: last possible exception. Make .GIF for still images again. It was never meant to be used for animations. 😥 The fact that you can effortlessly convert an animated GIF to mp4 in like a few seconds with ffmpeg, shave off no less than half the storage with no perceptible loss of quality (on a highly dithered image, to boot!) really tells you it's just not meant for that. > the important point is to aspire to be a vegan even while mouth stuffed with fresh bacon.) This is the last sentence that EVER needs be writ. Literature is now declared COMPLETE. I have a B.S. in Literary Studies, I have the auttorritaah!!!

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