@55bca1bf holding public discussions about a software project in a disaster service like Discord makes it less free.
Still technical free-as-in-RMS because to RMS discussion and documentation are irrelevant to whether software is free or not.
But forcing me to use a proprietary service where the client has mystery meat navigation for the global "which project am I on" nav bar makes me not participate in the project.
@55bca1bf@Dr. NEETzsche, GED I'm guessing that for a lot of project types, if you use Hyperscript and/or HTMX, you can see a lot more of your actual content and program logic on one screen in an easier to read encoding, compared to HTML+JavaScript.
I mean the actual logic and not boilerplate stuff.
@55bca1bf I hope this kind of thing catches on.
It took over 20 years, but we have managed to soft-fork JavaScript into a subset that is orthogonal to "this looks like a stack based virtual machine", and then it got really forked off to a stack based virtual machine for all your zero-install coding needs, which everyone has deployed already in their browser.
And now, we add languages to the UI layer that make better sense for UI scripting.
Today I learned a new word for a "I'm just going to go full ADD and never get anything done" dark pattern.
https://ui-patterns.com/patterns/coachmarks
Coachmarks are when you know what you want to do in a program, and instead of being allowed to get to the task, you have to click/tap targets all over the screen to acknowledge unrelated help information.
Microsoft Teams does this every phone call. It picks a random element of the phone call screen and puts a fucking blue balloon on it telling you that it's there.
@55bca1bf@3e6503cb@6d6ec790 omfg. The "add to cart" button is DANCING.
I would NEVER do anything on a site like that, let alone actually buy something.
@449841af is that like people who make rugs having a tradition that it's never done unless at least one stitch is wrong? Something about humility vs perfection.
@6b9ab581@aba3e4c9 All of the windows and sub-windows on a desktop know if they have focus right now or don't have focus.
But if you run a browser in a desktop inside of a virtual machine, everything running in the virtual machine doesn't know that the VM client window has lost focus -- there's no protocol for passing that message around.
Simplest way to do what you ask, without programming, is to run a desktop Linux OS in a VM with the target web page thinking it's "focused" when it's not.
@6e4b1411 I expect I'll be having this conversation in stores a lot:
> Don't you see the sign? Put a mask on.
>> For about a year and a half you left the sign up and didn't enforce it. "Masks required" is meaningless without a date, now.
@74178bce with the Proton Mail client -- what about "show me the plaintext version of this email"? Assuming that feature exists, does it help with your issue?
@edd2f0dd ROFL @ "Ring" pet collar!
Does anyone involved in this story know that you can just put several lines of text in the QR code itself (if it's printed precisely enough)? No dead links needed!
Name and phone number on one side, TEXT QR code on the other side.
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