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Interesting! My biggest reaction is I don't use Emacs. Is Emacs a requirement? You're right that Org adds features but it also shrinks the pool of people who will try this.

See also https://github.com/buckket/twtxt https://indieweb.org/twtxt

Well, my lens tends to be geopolitical rather than economic. Privacy isn't some axiomatic metric for me. I just decide if someone is an ally and I am willing to put up with the cos…

Yeah, every day brings choices. I tend to allow a first party js from every small site, and that covers Anubis and the even more egregious use case of Mastodon instances. Needing 1…

Absolutely. I have no complaint with their actual change to the terms of service. I've had an account with them for years, and I stopped hosting new repos there a year or two ago, …

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I still use NoScript. I actually started in 2018. I will turn on 1 or 2 js sites for a respectable looking page, but blank screens and captchas are a good signal to bounce, or occa…

Show me a successful "steady, quiet, plodding" person from the outside, and I'll show you someone who "doesn't know how to rest" and continually makes "fresh mistakes" on the insid…

Hmm, now I'm wondering if paste should save the clipboard contents before so undo can restore them. But no. Your text editor is a cottage surrounded by an outdoors it doesn't contr…

Yeah I've seen both approaches. Either teams do their own QA or we have a dedicated function. Depends on the domain to some extent. Both can work. But I don't hear people saying st…

"Stop blaming QA.." What year is it?! Does anyone still blame QA?! If so, please consult the calendar and enter the 21st century!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A... outlaws circumvention of DRM.

Thank you for not using AI! Good article, +1.

You mixed up Light and Dark. Creator-knows-best bondage-and-discipline is the Dark side. Trusting people with power is the Light side.

This sounds like what I use search for when reading an ebook..

The uncertainty is part of the problem. Funny that even authors are not sure :) I can't tell on https://www.amazon.com/Immortal-Remains-Lee-Hauser-ebook/dp/... that it's DRM-free. …

Might they be made partially of meat? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Cyborg_Manifesto

I wonder if the author has ever played Diplomacy. You have to fight the perennial sense that you have nothing and can be replaced. All your opponents have to do is band together ag…