Notices by D:\side\ (dside@mastodon.ml)

@lizzy I think at some point the sturggle becomes entertaining enough to press on. And it can be difficult to distinguish whether they're genuinely looking for an answer still or at that point just messing with the machine just to see what will happen. With streamers being in large part entertainers the line is probably very blurred.

I was pointed at a similar example recently where ChatGPT very confidently lied about its own generated images and its supposed inner workings, and the host just… believed it? Despite confidently catching it lie minutes before? And the worst part is I don't think it was for entertainment, they seem to be drawing or at least delivering conclusions with a straight face.

https://youtu.be/160F8F8mXlo

@jimcarroll hm, that indeed looks like success.
So the file probably exists somewhere, but its location is not on PATH.

Based on my understanding of rbenv, the `bundle` name should point to rbenv's shim script in $HOME/.rbenv/shims – is that directory present on PATH?

@jimcarroll hm, "Installing Ruby" section includes a command `gem install bundler --no-document` that should make the `bundle` command available. Could it be that you accidentally skipped it? Or that it failed somehow?

@drq one reason I can think of is newcomers being *scared* of said box, after being conditioned by numerous jokes (some of them pretty cruel) about the destructive commands.

And command naming doesn't help, making most commands look like arcane language of random letters mashed together (Pacman being probably the worst offenders among package managers in particular) and not even readable *aliases* available by default. It's ergonomic for day-to-day manual use to someone already familiar with it all, but approachability suffers as a result.

And don't get me started on VT-100 still holding on to dear life of ruining the consistency of textual inputs between itself and the rest of GUIs. Like, copying actually *interrupts* ongoing work? Right-click is *paste*? «Dafuq?»

@drq yes, hotkeys. It's like command line crystallized around hotkeys.

Hotkeys are *shortcuts*. You still gotta have discoverable (and shareable!) longer routes to make software easy to pick up, and right now they all go through documentation. Every concept you're forcing a user to learn *discourages* them. There might be "gentle encouragement" externally, like one's paycheck contingent on doing whatever the guide is about, but curious strangers are lost right there.

Command palettes have existed since at least 2013 (probably even longer, it's the year of the first release of Sublime Text 2 that had this feature). They are keyed by human-readable explanations and advertise shortcuts right there in search results. Auto completion with documentation in annotations is close, but can we perhaps normalize making shareable forms of commands serve as their own documentation, with longer-form flags and command names? With the way CLIs designed right now it's actually impossible!

@drq no we didn't.

If you want to help the user get shit done give them a script[1] without explaining the steps in it whatsoever. That's how `curl $URL | sudo sh` installation methods have become the norm.

But it goes deeper.

When you don't teach a person the components involved in whatever it is you're telling them to do you're normalizing the attitude "I have no idea what I'm doin' but ok", condemning them to nasty troubleshooting sessions when the guide becomes out of date. And it will, it's a matter of time.

And I hear what you're saying, you don't want users reading documentation and learning every single variation of every component involved because the information they *need* is buried in the middle of waves of extraneous stuff they have no use for.

Because apparently there are no points on the documentation spectrum in between "an arcane spell" and "a hefty spell tome you have to read fully". What happened to "sensible defaults"?

[1]: https://garden.dside.ru/put-the-info-where-you-need-it#the-right-format

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@freemo it mostly comes down to the circumstances they live in. What they do, what their local communities expect.

Consider something more clear-cut and outside of mental health: myopia, near-sightedness. A condition with which one's eyes have a much closer focal range, meaning they see things worse from afar, but also better up close. Not just as close as people without it — even closer. Meaning that with a comparable retina a myopic can clearly discern much finer details. Kind of a superpower, right? If they do lots of work on a tiny scale it would seem like it.

And yet, street signs, menu posters in restaurants, numbers on the public transport and tons of other things are *a lot* harder to see, to the point of them being entirely nonfunctional, which reflects on the user – forcing unto them alternatives or aids (glasses, smartphones and their cameras, other people) through difficulties integrating into society.

Different lifestyles have different compositions of these components.

@utkorose в целом, примерно то, что по ссылке и так написано.

Кроме, может быть, того, что децентрализация там пока только на бумаге, фактических узлов кроме "официальных" пока нет, за сим от обычных централизованных сетей он пока никак не отличается.

Выглядит это, если честно, как попытка оттянуть часть дискурса децентрализованных соцсетей на себя, отвлекая внимание от реально работающих решений. Но это уже на грани конспирологии и серьёзно воспринимать не следует.

Шарясь по интернетам, наткнулся на термопринтер (привет @drq) под размер А4. Поскольку у меня случаются ситуации, когда где-то далеко от дома надо напечатать какой-то документ, а негде или непонятно где или стоит диких денег. А варианты с картриджами, по очевидным причинам, напрягают.

Но памятуя, что почти все виденные мной ранее термопринтеры печатают на узкой ленте, для чеков или около того, я было забеспокоился, а смогу ли я найти для него бумагу.

Ну я и вбил в поиск "термобумага 210мм".
И понял, что я феерический идиот.
Конечно, смогу. Факсы же.

Что ж, заказал. Пойдёт в мой переносной офис.

И я несколько удивлён, что эта ниша так слабо представлена. Ведь факсы в основном не поддерживают печать произвольного содержимого с компьютера (без костылей типа подключения через модем, и даже это я только теоретически предполагаю), но бумага терпит, а габариты и масса у таких принтеров могут быть крошечные. Идеально, когда нужно полу-регулярно печатать какие-то документы, не? Хм.

Итак, термопринтер приехал. Первые впечатления:

1. Печать на размере бумаги "под содержимое" неожиданно проблемна. То ли софт тупой, то ли я, то ли мы оба. В приложении со смартфона можно это делать для документов (у которых соотношение сторон типично стандартное), но не для картинок (у которых соотношение сторон… всякое). С компьютера – вообще не понял.
2. Длинные веб-страницы и документы в целом можно печатать как свитки, если убрать поля. Это забавно. Правда, завёрнуты они получаются содержимым наружу, неканон. Интересно, можно ли печатать на обратной стороне термобумаги?
3. Он именно то, чего я хотел – документы печатает *прекрасно*. Да и на картинках неплох. Профиль цветопередачи, видимо, с приколом, и принтеру лучше удаётся контраст, если отправлять документ цветным, а не ч/б.

Не стыдно теперь и модель назвать: PeriPage A40.

🖨️ О, апгрейд приехал. Если его можно так назвать. Ну, он расширяет область применения устройства, так что считаю, что да, можно.

@atomicpoet a borderline conspiracy theory I'm wondering about is whether Nostr was created solely to prevent the development efforts in decentralized social media from gathering around ActivityPub. In a "divide and conquer" kind of way.

@vas3k искусственные проблемы требуют искусственных решений :blobcatfingerguns: