Notices by h (h@social.coop), page 14

@bob OS file systems are already pretty semantic, come to think of it.
It's really all the rubbish stacked on top that obscures matters.

IPFS, Dat, or local filesystem, there's no good reason why everything can't be semantic (and non-web)

@bob For example, the output of 'ls -al > ls.xtxt'
could be an extended text file, with not only the readable text output, but also the metadata for each file listed, in a stream separate from the text/plain output.

So this is not only relevant to the semantic "web", but all the semantic things.

@bob I have some code I wrote some months ago. It's really trivial.

The only problem with multiplexed text files is that they're not text/plain but text/extended, so they don't play very well with standard unix tools.
So I started to write a few equivalent tools to test the concept.
(muxt, demuxt, and muxcat)

Eventually those can be made simple drop-in replacements for the normal unix tools.

I should be picking it up again soon.

@bob Unfortunately multiplexed text means that some new tooling is needed.
But it's so trivial to implement that I think that may be a sound trade-off.

@bob Some people have expressed their distaste for markdown. (for similar reasons that I really dislike markup)

I think multiplexed text is a better way to go because it helps to separate the content from the concerns of hyperlinking and styling.

@HTHR "cerer" may not be better, but possibly close.
(from sorcerer, or sorceress)

@ghost I would argue that the distraction economy is actually more beneficial to those who don't make very good things.
The makers of good things are busy making things good, not polishing their sales pitches, so they're at disadvantage compared to those who don't have to invest the time making things better. They only have to make the pitch better.

So it goes for other good things like audiobooks.

@ghost You're absolutely right, and it's sad but most people rarely get past the marketing pitch. Part of the problem with the distraction economy, people have too many distracting things targeting their heads and it's hard to tell what's useful or convenient without making a conscious effort to find out.
So even people who make good things need to shout louder if they want to get an audience, even if it's deserved attention.

@ajroach42 @bob (As you may know, the most famous former user of the Sinclair QL is Linus Torvalds)

@bob @ajroach42 Hehehe, it's ironic, yes the keyboard was terrible. A friend had an Atari 800XL which had a great keyboard, but where I lived the ZX Spectrum reigned supreme in terms of community and software availability.
The Sinclair QL, and the +3 were only marginally better.

@ajroach42 ZX Spectrum (of course)
In various ways, including this Instructables guide.

- http://www.instructables.com/id/ZX-Spectrum-Wired-USB-Keyboard-Part-1/

- http://blog.tynemouthsoftware.co.uk/2013/05/zx-spectrum-usb-keyboard.html

- https://hackaday.com/2014/07/31/zx-spectrum-turned-into-a-usb-keyboard/