Notices by bhtooefr (bhtooefr@snack.social)

@clarity although, now the rich use debt as a tool to accumulate more wealth (and, because they’re rich, they get extremely favorable terms on that debt)

so, tax the rich in addition to all of that

@ATLeagle @mekkaokereke there is a lot of me that wants to build modern versions of this and sell them

“oh, kei trucks are unsafe because they don’t meet FMVSS? well, how about this? this does meet FMVSS, yet is significantly less safe.”

(actually, technically, it fails to meet FMVSS in one way: the headlights are too far apart to be legal as a motorcycle, I believe. but, a modern version could trivially fix that.)

@mike would you say that you store your DS parts there?

@Polychrome you assume the dumb fridge will get 30 years of support 🙃

(higher-end modern dumb fridges are not known for their reliability in the US)

The kittens are confused by the #Mavica.

(late #caturday post - instance went down right as I was trying to upload the image)

my take on Gemini, Gopher, et. al.: just write HTML and mostly stick to features in HTML 2.0 as described in the RFCs (1866, 1867, 1942, 1980 (OK you can probably skip this one, imagemaps were always silly and questionable for accessibility), and 2070.)

don’t like the proliferation of JavaScript on the modern web? nobody’s forcing you to put a <script> tag in, just don’t write one. don’t like the crimes that can be committed with CSS, and believe that stylesheets should be the user’s choice, not yours? nobody’s forcing you to put a <link rel="stylesheet"> in.

you can even use good HTML5 features like srcset, and just stick to features present in HTML2 otherwise, old browsers will just ignore it. follow design guides from before the Web 2.0 era, where your website was supposed to “gracefully degrade” - don’t require new features if you use them, and then the most potato of browsers can access your site.

and, sure, those potato browsers can’t access the rest of the modern web, but they can easily access sites of people who follow these guidelines… and so can modern browsers.

IMO, be the change that you want to see in the world that everyone actually uses, instead of creating your own world that will always be a tiny niche.

(refined version of a take in reply to someone else’s private thread, written for public consumption)