Nate Cull (.social)Text files are the cockroaches of the modern information ecosystem.
They might not look pretty and they scare kids, but they are SUPER well adapted and functional and they'll survive almost anything short of total hard disk failure.
Martin Schmitt@natecull What's a text file?
@unixtippse terrifying monsters from the Before Time
@natecull That's a remarkably insecure answer to an innocent troll question. We don't even have to talk about non-7bit characters, multibyte or right-to-left languages. There's not even a commonly accepted standard for line breaks. Are text files well adapted to anything, or to nothing at all?
kekcoin@unixtippse @natecull Actually, there IS a commonly accepted standard for line breaks. In fact, there are multiple.
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Mara@natecull yes, exactly
no amount of format churn or deprecation will make text files unreadable
pretty much the only files from the 90's I can still do anything with are text files
no amount of format churn or deprecation will make text files unreadable
pretty much the only files from the 90's I can still do anything with are text files
Rysiekúr (old account)@natecull and pure text files are pretty much the only thing that could potentially survive the inevitable collapse of this civilization; everything else that needs specific pieces of software to read it, will go quietly into the night.
rocky1138@rysiek which character encoding? 😂
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The older I get, the more file extensions are reduced to a helpful suggestion to vim.
The older I get, the more file extensions are reduced to a helpful suggestion to vim.
Jon Atack@natecull Agreed!
.txt FTW
mcimasz@natecull they will survive all web changes :]
rubah@natecull they scare kids, eh...?
@natecull hell, you can print them to analog media and extract them again
You could *handwrite* them
cal@natecull i do all my personal notes and checklists on my desktop with txt files. simplicity is beauty.
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I love this post so much I smile every time I see it in my feed :)
I love this post so much I smile every time I see it in my feed :)