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Notices by Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net), page 84
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electric showers are quite popular where I live. I wonder if people would just leave them running (thus wasting water) if they mined cryptocurrencies
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I wish that was reversible. it's quite warm here today, and it would be pretty cool to have something that absorbed and consumed/converted heat into something more useful. I understand conversion of most forms of energy to heat can be very efficient, but the opposite... not so much :-/ ABC (*) anyone? :-)
(*) air-bit-coinditioners
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and because we do that, those who took over the term "web designers" no longer invite us to the class reunions. which is fine by me ;-D
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I hazard a guess that they don't have to. it's just something they have to state for some regulatory purpose, or to avoid certain liabilities
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me, I right click most often to view page source
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speaking of which... has anyone ever seen white wine that's actually white, as opposed to yellowish or colorless (entirely transparent)?
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/me checks the calender
sorry, I realize now that it's neither dec 28 nor april 1st. my bad
@rysiek and myself and others have got into the habit (informal competition?) of posting unmarked nonsense. sorry you wasted your time on looking it up and correcting it
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you realize my response had nothing whatsoever to do with the mandates, right? it doesn't even get to that point of the misleading and manipulative diagram. whether the conclusion is right or wrong is not relevant to the point I attempted to make, but the emotions about the whole thing seem to be running high and impairing understanding :-(
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remember when web site designers worked really hard to cut down the amount of nonsense on the web page so it would spend fewer server, network and client resources, and would load faster? those were the days. that was before surveillance capitalism took hold, I suppose.
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your apology is valued and accepted, though I did not find your reaction inappropriate, just somewhat confusing
you and I agree that there is a place for both GUI and CLI, indeed, though maybe we don't agree on what cases are best served by them. that's all right. I'd be happy enough if we had both and people could choose. alas, most programs approach it as either/or. I've spoken, mostly in Portuguese, about this notion of a "librenaissance", a library to help programs expose their GUI features programmatically, but I don't think I've written much about it. after all these years, I still think it would be great to have more programs as adaptable and extensible as Emacs, but it never seems to get to the top of my todo stack, and I don't even think I'd do a good job at it if I gave it a shot myself :-( so here am I one more time spreading ideas on the wind hoping they inspire other minds ;-)
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so you don't regex. copying and finding is still faster in a CLI than a GUI, even if the GUI is less worse in this scenario
GUIs are great for learning by exploration, but once you learn the "language" they're designed to express, they become the bottleneck for expressing it if there aren't alternatives. shortcuts are the best way to make this point, but they don't capture everything else one could express and automate with a Turing-complete language that exposed the primitives learned through the GUI
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conflating two nuanced issues (effectiveness and safety) into a single binary all-or-nothing answer? not manipulative or misleading at all, no
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thank you very much!
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you guys realize "film" stands for Footage In Lively Motion, right? it was incredibly prescient, because the term was coined long before moving pictures
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I'd say all of the above, but it takes a lot of relativistic out-of-the-box thinking to go along with (c). or an unbeatable narcissist ;-)
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are you for abolition of tyranny or for enlightened despotism? https://www.fsfla.org/blogs/lxo/pub/against-software-tyranny
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huh. there's no exclusive right to be licensed there. that's a textbook example of unintellectual impropriety: no clue, and not right. can we assume they haven't read rousseau either, and are emulating it guided by nothing but greed?
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12? very senior dogs, then
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too late :-)
Linux is not an operating system!
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it's funny. I've often called them Improper Privileges. but that's problematic because it suggests they're even a thing. and the cognitive weapon that does the damage is precisely this suggestion, that misleads people into making all sorts of incorrect generalizations.
so I've now started talking about the intellectual properties of caffeine, theine and guaranine, in an attempt to disarm the cognitive weapon
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
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