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Comment · 1 month ago
Those phrases soften what happens too much.
Comment · 3 months ago
Reminds me of E. W. Dijkstra's digitized hand-written manuscripts:
Comment · 7 months ago
Sometimes a pop-up appears that I blindly accept because I happen to be typing something with spaces. Wish that button was protected somehow.
Comment · 2 years ago
The pickup idea sounds similar to how newsgroups work.
Comment · 2 years ago
Also these:
* https://text.npr.org/ * https://lite.cnn.com/
But I think sites should be made more accessible/simpler to begin with, rather than having a competing implementation.
Comment · 3 years ago
I loved that game. Played it on my 8086 with CGA graphics in the early 1990s.
Check this out:
> Chopper Commando, a DOS game written by Mark Currie using Turbo Pascal in 1990
Comment · 3 years ago
This is so cool! Thanks for sharing.
Taxonomies are inherently limited -- I love this portion of the talk "Everything is Miscellaneous" about Melvil Dewey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3wOhXsjPYM&t=1206s
Surely some things fit equally well in more than one category.
Have you considered asking for best two or three categories, and placing the episodes in multiple locations? Or would that be too noisy?
Comment · 3 years ago
This thread is amazing.. thank you both for sharing!
Comment · 3 years ago
The comments are mind blowing. I really didn't expect the theory to have so much confirmation in other languages.
Comment · 4 years ago
> have our PERSONAL aggregator
That's the dream, isn't it.
So if there are 100 people whose messages you willingly watch, how do you discover new people? (Maybe you do so organically when they mention them?)
And if you _do_ allow yourself to taste from the firehose of unfiltered messages, a single personal list of users/messages wouldn't scale and you have the classic spam problem. Do you share your rules with others (and form an aggregation like https://www.dnsbl.info/)?
Curious what you think about https://atproto.com/:
Algorithmic choice
Control how you see the world through an open market of algorithms.Comment · 4 years ago
> Thanks for posting this. Everything old is new again.
Right? It was such a good time :-) You're welcome.
> why usenet couldn't be a viable social media platform
I wonder if identity plays a role here. Centralizing points (likes, retweets, etc) drives people to work on getting attention with their posts, to drive engagement, but also invites troublemakers and controversy.
Comment · 4 years ago
How was poster identity handled in Usenet/NNTP? From what I remember, it was just a "From:" header and spoofing was easy. Or was there more to it? (Maybe because most posters wrote to their local server which require auth, you could see which server the message originated from and decide if the sender's address matched the server address...? It's been so long.)
If not, then Twitter, Mastodon, etc. all seem to have a somewhat strong notion of identity.
Comment · 4 years ago
Is this a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September?