#plan9

@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!!!