~b @torresjrjr@qoto.org

> The Web was Never Decentralized

Interesting history and deconstruction of the Web for a '99er.

https://medium.com/design-warp/the-web-was-never-decentralized-bb066138c88

#find

@luke
The orderly dissolution of the United States into its component parts has been a blessing for the human race
http://catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html

@freemo
I can't remember some of my other ideas, so for now I vote for "fully private groups", which sounds great.

@luke
Remember blind? https://tools.suckless.org/blind/

Last commit was in 2017. rip

@sir #gemini
Just read through the spec. I love it's simplicity and minimalism. I embrace something like this.

The kineto proxy is especially enjoyable to browse on mobile.
https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/kineto/

There will always be spirited netizens who treat their websites like a canvas with CSS as their paint, but I can see a niche where minimalist Gemini fits snugly. More please.

If and when I run my own server, I'll be sure announce gemini://torresjrjr.com

@freemo
When I was 16, our local newspaper came to our school to interview us newly graduated students. We answered some quick questions and never gave it a second thought.

The next+ day, my friend got a hold of the newspaper, and sure enough, there was a dedicated section about us. It even featured my friends name. He began to read, but realised something was off. There were quotes he never uttered. "I... never said that... wtf".

A small newspaper made up quotes supposedly by us, just to fill a blank square. From that day on, my trust in the media and even history has only gone far down. If I hear something, I always just give it a day.

@digital_carver @vim I always make portability a principle for most things, especially with vim since I frequently git clone my vimrc onto foreign machines. So OS level mods are out of the question for me.

@digital_carver @vim

:noremap! kj <ESC>

There's simply no other way.

@freemo Oh, right. I see he made a *new* toot with the direct reply and mention. Got confused with his old one https://fosstodon.org/@brandon/105127003909323170

Gonna take some time to getting used to. Very cool though.

Oh, I thought I was going crazy. @freemo it's you who's boosting toots, right? I didn't know you could/would access group accounts.

@freemo @brandon @vim @vimtips
Oh wow. Very interesting UI and dynamic! I think I love it.

I tried emacs again.

My pinky: "nope, please stop, no".

Maybe when my ZSA Moonlander comes in. Maybe.

@freemo No worries. Great work with the new features btw! It's good to experiment.

@freemo I see. Is there a way to "fix" it? idk if it's you who's patching these features in or just plugins or something.

btw, I use a vim-keybinding-for-browser-plugin (https://github.com/gdh1995/vimium-c), which also doesn't show me any "clickable" links.

@freemo hmm, the quote UI doesn't have a dedicated button/link/way to see the original post in its own context.

Telegram is becoming the Emacs of Android/iOS, which is inevitable given the nature of those platforms. Theoretically non-unix-y bloatware, practically a gem of software. It's hard to hate on Telegram when they do so well.

Prompted by their latest release. https://telegram.org/blog/pinned-messages-locations-playlists

@cadey
My pair is arriving soon. Is it worth it? By how much?