josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org

@esheep That's basically the idea of _Her Story_:

https://wikiless.tiekoetter.com/wiki/Her_Story_%28video_game%29?lang=en

@amoroso Interestingly, everything he points out as negative is a positive to me, but maybe that is because I used, and still use, Usenet very differently.

To me, organisation in groups, great. No centralised moderation, great. Text-oriented format with separate binary groups, absolutely great. No likes and dislikes (i.e., no clout chasers) and no character limits facilitating misinterpretations. Just people freely speaking their minds.

Usenet is a protocol perfectly designed for open discussion. When webforums appeared, I knew we were going backwards.

@Edent

@jimmyhoke «It is impossible to separate a cube into _two_ cubes.»

@urusan

@dieulast
> I assume that you prefer writings that are most commonly associated with the lost generation.

I had never thought about that, but it may be true. Two of my favourite (female) writers are Dorothy Parker and Jean Rhys. I'm also a fan of Stefan Zweig.

> I haven't read "The Pillow Book" yet, but I did thoroughly enjoy reading J.L Borges who helped with its translation.

If you can't read Heian-era Japanese, I highly recommend Meredith McKinney's English translation for _The Pillow Book_. And if you enjoyed Borges, I think you will love Roberto Bolaño's novels, especially _2666_, if you haven't read it yet.

> I thoroughly appreciate authors that provide me with a fresh perspective on things both old and new, or an additional framework which I can use to more thoroughly comprehend things, especially in matters that pertain to choice and responsibility

That's pretty interesting. I'm usually drawn to storytellers, and that includes non-fiction writers, too. Hence my love for Nietzsche and the old Greek philosophers.

@privacybrowser
> The question now is, which should be the default state, enabled or disabled?

Set your own preference as default. After all, it's your program. As long as I'll have the option to change it, I'll be happy.

@privacybrowser Thanks! That was much easier than I made it out to be.

@privacybrowser Why does the focus move out of the form anyway? I'm supposed to be editing, not navigating. If I wanted to move out of it (to fill another form element, for instance), I'd use the TAB key. I thought that was The Natural Way™.

@privacybrowser Oh, another issue I found: copying link URLs doesn't work if you try to paste them on console with shift+insert. Again, you need to use the mouse for that.

@privacybrowser By the way, I wanted to clone its git repository, but couldn't figure out the right URL. Can you share it? (It's ok if you don't want to for whatever reason.)

@privacybrowser Hi, I was trying to read the content, so a regular scroll would be the way to go, I think. Instead, every time I pushed the down arrow, I moved from one link to the next. On Mastodon's web UI that gets frustrating fast. Same result if you try to use the space bar, by the way.

For moving through links exclusively I use the tab key in my own developments. I don't know how other people do it.

The textarea thing was also very frustrating, because there's no easy way to return to where you were. If you try to move back up, it just selects the whole element and you have to use the mouse if you want to keep editing.

Juegazo. Tiene la dificultad justa: es exigente sin ser frustrante. Y la mecánica es muy sencilla (de aprender, no de dominar).

I've been using @privacybrowser for PC and I have to admit that I find it really hard to get used to its Lynx-inspired style of page navigation. I hate jumping from link to link when using the cursor keys. (Or falling off of a textarea element when editing a post, like it happened to me just now.)

Other than that it's pretty cool.

@dieulast I don't know how to respond to that, because my favourite books in that regard most likely just reinforced the worldview I already had. _Crime and Punishment_ would probably be a fitting answer, but I've been thinking about it a lot lately, so maybe that's why it came to mind now.

I prefer to speak of books whose authors sparked a sense of kinship in me. Among those would be Sei Shonagon's _The Pillow Book_, Pío Baroja's _El Árbol de la Ciencia_, Juan Rulfo's _Pedro Páramo_, F. Scott Fitzgerald's _The Great Gatsby_ or Ernesto Sabato's _Sobre héroes y tumbas_.

As for non-fiction, mostly anything by Nietzsche and Cioran.

And don't even get me started on Linux ‘users’ who chose Debian-based distributions. Fucking idiots.

“What about those who use desktop-oriented distros, like Mint and that other one whose name you can't remember right now?” I have only one word for you: POSER.

“BTW, I use Arch.” I can't hear you. You're muted.

“I don't use Linux. I use *BSD/Plan9/TempleOS, etc.” You think you're better than me? Fuck you!

For some reason, the people I dislike the most are the ones that, superficially, seem the most like me.

For example, do you love #books? Me too! Problem is, you love the wrong books and you even have the wrong opinions about them. Being a fan of glorified fanfiction does not make you a bibliophile. If you like #movies or #music, GOTO 10.

Are you a #leftist? Really? Me too! Except you're not really a leftist, but a liberal at most. You enjoy capitalism and even take advantage of it. You probably vote Democrat (or your country's equivalent) and still wear a mask. You're a sellout and a fake.

“No, no, no. I really _hate_ the capitalist system. Seriously.” Yeah, I bet you do, but something tells me capitalism rejected you first the minute it saw you (and/or smelled you). You must be one of those idiots that think that being gay counts as a legitimate anti-establishment position. Also, Ucranian flag.

tl; dr: I have no friends.