Notices by shape-memory ally (martensitingale@anti.energy)

which is worse: nyt articles or orangesite comment threads about them

tired: writing a standards-compliant web browser, which costs on the order of hundreds of millions of dollars

wired: writing tools to browse the web so people don't have to, using open-source libraries and breaking w3c rules and robots.txt (because user-agents are not robots)

@djsundog if you yell loud enough can it also turn their lights on

@elomatreb @djsundog
tired: inventing writing
wired: inventing copyrighting

@cosine the stock answer is "ubuntu" but on top of the way ubuntu disrespects and sells out its users and the community (amazon thing, ads in motd, not playing nice with upstream, Mir, etc.) it doesn't actually solve the problems that have long plagued attempts to "make Linux 'friendly'".

I think a software setup for folks w/o computer knowledge should focus on mitigating the impact of mistakes and on facilitating letting technical friends help them with problems

@djsundog @kibi more clothing should use magnets! fashion is still living in the pre-lodestone era!

@djsundog for ppl who don't spotify there's https://match.audio/

@enkiv2 excuse where does Big Money fit into all this