Notices by Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe)

I fairly recently migrated the entire family to Protonmail in order to get away from Google.

But just as I was getting everything running smoothly, now Protonmail is taking a plunge down the enshittification rabbithole. First it was ai garbage, and now it's bitcoin. As @davidgerard said in his recent blog post, they do email wrll. How about continuing to do so?

As I'm getting older I'm having less and less patience for this garbage. Despite having pre-paid for the family plan for 2 years, I will not stay on a service that has decided to commit to enhittifying their product line. What should I switch to? At this point, cost isn't really a problem.

@codewiz Where do you live now?

Message to banks: If you use the word "wealth" in your marketing, I am very unlikely to want to be your customer.

I'm pretty middle-class, but apparently not the target for their marketing.

@codewiz @colin_brosseau @patrick I wish there was a keyboard with more keys available to buy. I really just want more keys to the left of the regular part of the keyboard, as well as more bucky bits.

Why do no one make these?

@patrick @codewiz I'm reading that post, and I would very much like to know what behaviour he's complaining about.

@patrick @codewiz I mean, xemacs is no longer developed, so I would be surprised if it had advocates.

@codewiz This is the time where someone (not me, obviously. I use it, but would never try to convince others to do it) replies with Emacs. They would explain how much more efficient it is once you get used to it.

@antijingoist @fribbledom @zens Perhaps there should be a terminfo field that indicates that accessible options are preferred. Then anyone wanting that could set TERM to this special terminal and programs such as gum could adjust its settings to make it easier to use with a braille terminal for example.

@AutumnMeowMeow @antijingoist @fribbledom @zens that could be an alternative indeed. If you you want to go that route, then one could define an entire extension protocol that allows a terminal to render things in an accessible manner.

But how does da1 work? I don't see it defined in terminfo, so you're suggesting hardcoding an extension to xterm?

Is there a self-hosted open source web-based application that is similar to MS Access?

If I want to create a small database of information that multiple people can update and/or search, what options are there?

I could build something from scratch of course, but I would like to avoid that.

@thomasfuchs sure there is. What if I want to have my biases confirmed, and actually want to keep my opinions in the face of evidence to the contrary? I can't go to science so I need something different, and that's the other side.

So I was registering to an online event, and these were my choices for my seniority. Apparently they're not very interested in regular working people.

So I was reading a discussion somewhere (perhaps here) where someone was explaining that "web 2.0" was the "social web". Then it struck me that a lot of people don't even remember when this term was introduced, so to them this sounds like a very likely explanation.

The Web 2.0 term was introduced to differentiate the old page based browsing where everything was links and form submissions, to the dynamic web pages based on XMLHTTPRequest, allowing developers to write actual applications on the web. This is referred to as SPA (single page application) these days.

Social media didn't have anything to do with it, and it existed before the introduction of web 2.0. Of course after SPA's became a thing, social media sites started doing it as well, but it wasn't dependent on it. Early social media sites definitely didn't have any SPA functionality.

Mastodon, why is it so hard to find the place to click if you want to expand a thread from a post which has nothing but a picture?