Notices by Danny O'B (mala@mastodon.social), page 2

TIL: If you hit Ctrl-M in Firefox, it mutes the current web page.

hello mastodon if you like free speech and you don't like nazis, you can sit down next to me: https://www.metafilter.com/172343/Young-Angry-White-Men#7317234

i have concluded that MediaWiki markup actively resists memorisation. It is a free concept, unbindable by human minds.

This is horribly true lesson (and fascinated by how its continual truth is so viscerally anger-making in some people — including me) http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail

Anyway, to point out some of the #plan9 philosophy here, and perhaps see its subversion in context: https://youtu.be/XvDZLjaCJuw?t=3m17s Here we see K&R, Lorinda Cherry, et al, talking about the principles of simplicity, community and composability at the heart of UNIX™

at the EFF party today, John Gilmore
mentioned this “flip over the UI to see the code” idea was in HyperLook, the app builder tool for NeWS, the GUI that lost out to XWindows: http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/hyperlook/

You’re very clever young man—but it’s FORTH all the way down
https://mastodon.social/media/U5KXYordJVbGQFaQS1k

I have met and chatted with pretty much the most extreme people you know within the online political discourse, and they've all been pretty okay and reasonable in real life. This either means there are strong incentives to appear reasonable in the offline world, or strong incentives to appear unreasonable online. I suspect it's a mix of both.

I dunno man, San Francisco’s not that bad:
https://mastodon.social/media/73UZnkLKsR8cx33O1w4

it's been weird in this whole W3C battle, that so many of the behind-the-scenes arguments in favor of EME that have been made to me have been how outdated copyright is, and how DRM needs to be improved, and so many of my behind-the-scenes counter-arguments are about the law threatening perfectly reasonable actions, and innocent people going to jail.