DDG going hard with horseshoe theory

It would be a poor dictionary that excluded such a widely used word as “discombobulated.”

Jitsi, for sure

Good luck with it!

I have it but I have never really had much reason to use it over iphone + content blockers + DDG search.

I guess it’d be helpful for syncing bookmarks with desktops where I use firefox, but I don’t really worry about that, and as for passwords, I’ve got Bitwarden for that.

Go with your instincts on trying Haiku and come back and tell us all what it’s like :)

Harsh!

Just to be clear, which firefish server did you join?

I just checked out the main server (firefish.social) and there wasn’t any transphobic content in the “Global” or “Local” section.

I’m wondering if you ended up on a really toxic right-wing fediverse instance, that happens to use Firefish as its software, and so the Firefish main site stupidly/ignorantly listed it as a possible place to sign up. If that’s the case they need to get rid of it.

Misskey is from Japan. Firefish is from some English speaker, I don’t know if they’re USian or English or what

The zero effort way to go would be to start out with a private wiki on tiddlyhost. If you decide you need to go further in self hosting it’s easy to do, but you might as well just get started without effort and make sure you enjoy using TW.

My only complaint with tiddlyhost is that when I switch computers it tends to log the old computer out and I have to re-log in.

Thank you so much for this, this is amazing

Most of mine I just move around with Syncthing and I use either the Firefox saving plugin (Timimi) or the iOS app Quine, to view/edit them.

One of them I host on Tiddlyhost, a tiddlywiki hosting service. https://tiddlyhost.com/

The modern Tiddlywiki, TW5, can be run as a node app instead of a single file. Like, you can decompose an existing single-file wiki into a node app, or you can save the node app as a single-file tiddlywiki, seamlessly. So you can just run the node app behind nginx. That leaves open the problem of privacy though – you could handle that through http basic auth in the nginx server. https://tiddlywiki.com/static/TiddlyWiki%2520on%2520Node.js.html

There’s also a whiz-bang super-cool thing called “TWBob” which is a webapp which can host multiple tiddlywikis and do authenticated multi-user editing (!). I’ve used it in the past where I had a wiki I needed multiple people to be able to see and edit in real time. https://github.com/OokTech/TW5-Bob

Do you know whether your tiddlywiki is tiddlywiki “classic” (as the original is now called) or tiddlywiki 5? That makes a difference, classic doesn’t have nearly as many options as 5.

Lol no I’m not buying cryptocurrency so I can give or receive microdollars for tweets

Nostr? Isn’t that just for crypto bros, Nazis, and Jack Dorseys?

I checked it out once and the chats I dropped into were all about people giving each other “sats” (nanobitcoins) and there were also some far-right weirdos.

Conceptually it seems kinda neat but if somebody says they’re a big fan of nostr I’m gonna wonder about them

I mean, you’re going to get screwed by those same greedy billionaires if you invest anything of yourself and your community in it and it enters the next enshittification stage.

Which it probably is on its way to doing.

But in the meantime… wheee!

Services still in the first stage of the enshittification cycle are always fun to use

I finally bailed on it this year.

I have this suspicion that it might survive even this though, it’s been through so much over the years

I work all day in a large codebase which is entirely space-indented, and I must say the amount of time I’ve spent backspacing through indented spaces in order to get to the right indentation level, or moving individually through indented space characters with the arrow keys, adds up to less than a minute a month. So while that may be “a reason” to prefer tabs, it isn’t much of them, at least, not if you use a good editor. It just doesn’t matter.

If you want to understand the issues more thoroughly, internet hero Jamie Zawinski wrote a treatise on it 23 years ago, and not much has changed since then.

https://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html

My observation is that space-using people tend to be like “OK if tabs make you happy, I guess you can do that, I’m going to keep using spaces, which I prefer because of (reason X Y and Z).” And tabs-using people tend to be like I WILL NOW LECTURE YOU ON WHY TABS ARE OBJECTIVELY SUPERIOR AND I WILL NEVER STOP. I CAN’T BE BARGAINED WITH, I CAN’T BE REASONED WITH, I DON’T FEEL PITY OR REMORSE OR FEAR. AND I ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT STOP, EVER, UNTIL YOU ARE DEAD.

Most programmers’ editors automatically indent the line appropriately without having to hit either the space key or the tab key, and if you do hit the tab key it usually just inserts enough tabs or spaces (whichever you configure it for) to take it in one level of indentation. Programmers depend on hyper smart specialized editors.

I agree and will take it further. We don’t even need to posit a change in the meaning of the word, we need only assume that when people use the word literally, they do not mean the word “literally” literally, they mean it figuratively.

Who says you have to use the word “literally” literally? You don’t have to say the word “loudly” loudly!

Good boundaries, respect