R.L. Dane 
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90% of websites are used to feed you with text and pictures but, for some reason, they insist doing it in the most complicated possible way, which requires you to upgrade your browser regularly. If your job involves giving user text through multiple layers of javascript or to get data about users thanks to the aforementioned javascript, you are part of the problem (this is a fact, not a judgement. We all need to feed our kids). If you write code which, as some point, involves a browser but you really believe that it’s more than just giving text and pictures, then think again, you probably don’t understand what you are doing.
Birsevda
gary@briankrebs make it long and fiery like catherine the great would, otherwise it won't stand out #sit on it #polemic
New #blog post: A Time-Traveler's Guide to Affordable Computing
https://rldane.space/a-time-travelers-guide-to-affordable-computing.html
1467 words
Ok, I heard some fair complaints about my schlocky previous post, and this one is much more serious. Ok, what am I saying?? It's straight-up sci-fi comedy with a retrocomputing subject matter, but I took it seriously.
Initially, I was inspired by CJ's wonderful blost about his transition from being a long-term mac user to now daily-driving Linux, and wanted to share my own experiences as a long-term Mac user over nearly two decades, with a decade and a half separating the two times. But then my internal Sotolf mental processes went off and reminded me of how elitist and anti-common-person / anti-consumer / anti-human Apple was, and I went in a very different direction.
I hope y'all enjoy the humor. :D
Minor #CW: some of the humor is of a USPOL nature. It's very light, humor and presentation-wise, but the implications are pretty dark, if you take it seriously (which you're not intended or likely inclined to!)
cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn
(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#rlDaneWriting #blost #humor #humour #retrocomputing #TimeTravel #ScienceFiction #Polemic #USPOL
@TarkabarkaHolgy
I think most things labeled under deconstruction(ism) were originally invented by a toddler.
#MicDrop #polemic #NotSorry XD
I think most things labeled under deconstruction(ism) were originally invented by a toddler.
#MicDrop #polemic #NotSorry XD
Richard PierceSubstack exclusive. Written For Another Purpose. https://open.substack.com/pub/tettig/p/written-for-another-purpose?r=cywqq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true #SpokenWord #Polemic #Poetry #Politics #CostOfLiving
New #blog post: Responding to @thelinuxcast's Vitriolic Diatribe (humor)
https://rldane.space/responding-to-the-linux-casts-vitriolic-diatribe.html
1484 words
cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @twizzay @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @solusspider @clayton
(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request)
#rlDaneWriting #blost #linux #humor #LinuxPol #LinPol #sarcasm #polemic #FauxPolemic
WIST Quotations Has Moved!But every writer, especially every novelist, has a “message”, whether he admits it or not, and the minutest details of his work are influenced by it. All art is propaganda. Neither Dickens himself nor the majority of Victorian novelists would have thought of denying this. On the other hand, not all propaganda is art.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1939), “Charles Dickens,” sec. 5, Inside the Whale (1940-03-11)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/6852/
#quote #quotes #quotation #art #message #polemic #propaganda #subtext #writing
fear is not a Weltanschauungdespite their endless claims of being naturally superior, competent, logical and gifted, the men patriarchy excretes persist—lacking as they do even the minimum skills required to look after themselves—in being uniquely unqualified to make them.