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I read that one in five mammals is a bat. There are five people in my family, so one of us must be a bat…Sarah, Robert, John, Screechy McNightwing, and Colin.
I’m thinking it’s Colin.
@amoroso My thoughts:
- They mix up Markdown with the general term lightweight #markup language (as if #Markdown is the only #LML syntax)
- They ignore all other markup syntax examples such as (La)TeX, HTML, ...
- great screenshots of Word for DOS upwards 👍
- the title should be "#WYSIWYG vs. LML" (instead of the Word vs. Markdown story)
- no mentioning of other LML examples
Well it looks, as if we're settling for a mediocre standard again.
Related: https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/
If you like #markup languages and related technologies, we have a Discord server where you'd be extremely welcome.
We discuss development of markup technologies, teaching and learning, theoretical stuff, and general tech. We'd love to see you, whether your interest is in #XML, #DigitalHumanities, #LaTeX, #JSON, #Markdown... We should use our collective experience to improve each of our technologies.
(I also just love chatting with other markup geeks!)
If you'd like a server invite, lmk.
chrome developers: we are thinking of dropping support for rendering RSS feeds as something other than garbage code. does anyone have any reasons not to do this?
developers from many different backgrounds: yes, I rely on normal people being able to understand RSS for my business. dropping support will be disastrous for me because I can't rely on people to have some random extension installed.
chrome devs: OK well we're probably going to do it anyway because we can't be bothered to support web standards. uwu google is only a teensy wee company uwu
Commercial surveillance allows companies to "optimize" their products to be *nearly* so enshtitified that we quit them, but not quite, maximizing the value they can shift from us to them.
To be free people, we don't merely need to be ungovernable.
We need to *become unoptomizable*.
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But companies also do this to their workers, something Veena Dubal calls "algorthmic wage discrimination":
https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/algorithmic-wage-discrimination/#fishers-of-men
For example, the apps that hospitals use to hire contract nurses first buy their recent financial information from an unregulated data-broker, checking to see whether the nurse has a lot of credit-card debt, because if you owe a lot on your Visa, the app can offer you a lower hourly wage and you'll still take the shift:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/18/loose-flapping-ends/#luigi-has-a-point
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You might not have heard that the major browser vendors have decided to remove support for XSLT in the browser. If you have heard, you might not care. But you definitely should care. It's another move against the open web, as @oblomov
has written https://sociale.network/@oblomov/115013173410007379
Major companies have All The Money to throw at "AI" features nobody asked for, but have relied on an unpaid open-source developer for decades for XSLT support. The browser vendors are not your friends.
I've pushed the #XSLT integration in my website one major step further: the text-based activity pseudo-sparklines I used to have have now been replaced with actual #sparklines. Here's my write-up on the experience: https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/sparkling-wok-4/ You can enjoy them all of them in action on the homepage at https://wok.oblomov.eu/ I highly recommend looking into the power of XSLT, if not else to piss off the corporate-controlled WHATWG.
rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually
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