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Yes, I'm aware. The problem with anchors is that the author has to take care to make them both unique and human-readable across the whole document. The problem with URL text fragme…

Citations. Until we can cite specific passages in HTML as quickly, easily and readably as we can cite pages in paged media, HTML will remain a second class citizen for serious scho…

I don’t need it with me all the time; I‘d prefer to just log in to a website on a real computer! But you can’t do this in the EU in practice without a banking app on a phone, or so…

Right, I suppose this is theoretically possible here too (I'm in Austria), though I haven't looked into it that carefully, because all the options here seem to cost more than my cu…

Sure, the world is a better place with fewer serfs in it, but what exactly is of "higher value" than being a research mathematician? It's already a profession that consists essenti…

I love the idea and wish I could get something like this in Europe. The main reason I "need" a smartphone over here is that EU banking regulations make it nearly impossible to do o…

Presumably the 40mb of data is not from Wikipedia, but the Javascript tracking code bundle needed to turn it into a doomscrollable social media feed. ;) By those standards, I think…

I have been working on implementing iCalendar/RFC5545 in Emacs Lisp. I recently submitted a large patch and hope it will be merged in the next couple of months: https://mail.gnu.or…

Indeed! A once per day human-curated news aggregation feed used to be called a "newspaper". You can still get them in some places, I believe.

Yes, that's what's going on: job titles are typically gendered in German, which leads to job ads being written in an awkward way to express gender neutrality. For example, "enginee…

The distinction between "first order" and "second order" is in the first instance a distinction at the level of formal languages . A second order language has more complicated synt…

> Usability issues of dispersed content include:... > Increased cognitive load > Difficulty building a conceptual model for the page This completely agrees with my own experience. …

I've had tinnitus for about two years. Like you, I just kind of noticed it upon waking up one day. I don't know what caused it but it seems to be related to stress, posture, and sl…

I also read the Dawn of Everything and wanted to recommend it here. The first chapter drew me in immediately: reading the native American critiques of the culture of European settl…

There was also a cost in human life. I saw a photo exhibition [1] about the construction of the Bay Bridge once, containing many beautiful shots from the point of view of the worke…

But my whole point was that they wouldn't be hosting content. The users would be hosting it themselves, on their local computers, serving it via their browser. Mozilla would just h…

Totally! Unfortunately, last I heard, Beaker was dead: https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/discussions/1944 https://atek.cloud/blog/hello-world This is a great idea, but the bi…

I agree with most of this vision, think these values are important, and would love to see Mozilla realize them. Given the values outlined here, I was sad to see that Mozilla doesn'…

Public transportation does enable drinking. That is one reason why young people move to, and like to live in, cities with public transportation. But there are still huge, important…