What is bad about full quotes?
What is bad about with full text search?
What is bad about full quotes?
What is bad about with full text search?
It is worse than that. The program may be the right solution to the wrong problem, or completely wrong, or terribly inefficient, or overly complicated...
But that is BAD, VERY BAD! So the Fediverse is split into a myriad platforms -- and hence communities -- with incompatible features.
That may be great for the computer nerds who will join a dozen platforms just to revel in the features. It is terrible for those who only want a platform to communicate with other people...
But what happens when a message with fancy formatting/threading/etc is read by someone from a server that does not support such features?
But that is my point. Email and Usenet had a standard message format (ascii text, unfortunately, because that was before Unicode). Every valid server was supposed to issue only compliant messages and properly display any compliant message. This does not seem to be the case in the Fediverse, is it?
@valhalla @jupiter_rowland @cstross
Does your message above have any such markups? I don't see any -- just plain text, with no italics or bold.
@bitnik @jupiter_rowland @valhalla @jakob @cstross
In this regard (apart from interaction model), ActivityPub is more like old FTP, rather than SMTP+MIME, NNTP, the WWW, and the "social networks".
That is, AP does not try to ensure that a message sent by a user from a compliant server can be read faithfully (apart from non-semantic layout and looks) by recipients in every other server. Because the sender may use a message format that the receiver can't properly handle.
Is this correct?
@bitnik @jupiter_rowland @valhalla @jakob @cstross
Perusing the description in this link, https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ it seems to me that ActivityPub is a standard protocol for the exchange of FILES, leaving their interpretation entirely to users; rather than a protocol for exchange of MESSAGES (including blogposts, articles, etc) -- that is, textual/visual/auditory artifacts, possibly with embedded or attached files. Is this correct.? >>
@bitnik @jupiter_rowland @valhalla @jakob @cstross
Yes, but that is still not good. Within ActivityPub, one cannot write a *message* that, a priori, is known to be correctly readable by any of the intended recipients -- unless it is a short (< 500 bytes) text in plain ascii, with no italics, boldface, or other markup, and no embedded images... >>
@bitnik @jupiter_rowland @valhalla @jakob @cstross
>> For the ActivityPub network to be a better alternative to social networks, or even to WWW, the ActivityPub standard should specify a *message* format -- such as HTML 3.0 -- that is rich enough for modern expectations (embedded images and hyperlinks, tables, etc.), but that every compliant implementation is required to handle and display properly, on any minimally powerful platform.
@bitnik @jupiter_rowland @valhalla @jakob @cstross
Sorry. I have been using ">>" to indicate continuation in threads. A habit I carried over from the bird⌫⌫⌫⌫dogecoin site. My mastodon instance limits posts to 500 bytes.
Would "?>" be the proper way here?
@jakob @valhalla @jupiter_rowland @cstross @bitnik @eshep
I wish someone had warned me of that 4 months ago, when I joined through mas.to. Oh well.
But the problem is not what kind of text **I** can read and write. It is **lack of interoperability**. It is the fact that, no matter in which server I am hosted, I cannot be sure that everyone who gets my posts will be able to read them correctly -- unless I write only 500 chars of plain ascii.
UTC is one of those egregious screw-ups that only an international committee can make.
The powdered wigs at the Greeenwich Observatory were adamant that "noon" should be when the sun crossed their petty little meridian. But once the second came to be defined by atomic clocks, the irregular rotation of the Earth made that event wander by several seconds away from atomic 12:00:00. So the wigs convinced the IAU to insert or remove "leap seconds" in some days >>
>> so as to keep UTC 12:00:00 close to their meridian crossing.
But those leap seconds are irregular and unpredictable. Computers must keep a table to know which days had "23:59:60" showing on the clock, and which days jumped from "23:59:58" straight to "00:00:00". A table that must be updated whenever the IAU decides to add another one of those crocks.
The leap seconds make it impossible to compute a date N seconds in the future.. >>
If Homo sapiens was an intelligent species, it would have long junked UTC for ATI -- which is the same date/time calendar, except for the leap seconds.
Several languages that have only one native "numeric" type, like javascript and excel, use double-precision floats to represent it. >>
Using doubles for money is safe PROVIDED (1) one understands floating point really well, (2) all money amounts are stored as cents, not dollars, (3) amounts never exceed 2^50 cents, which is about 2 trillion USD, and (4) operations that may create fractions of cents are explicitly rounded.
Unfortunately most people who compute with money don't even know the difference between integers and floats...
@fencoul @rcbevans @duckwhistle @westtexasjesus
You should beware that the word "#Socialism" has a different meaning in the US than in the rest of the world, including the UK. In the US it has been turned into a synonym of "#Communism". Elsewhere it has a much broader meaning, roughly what "#LIberalism" means in the US. It includes all instances of "#SocialDemocracy".
Unfortunately I found that out only after many hot and unnecessary tweet wars...
@lxo Não esqueça de contá-los.
It is expected to contain every FINITE sequence of digits.
It cannot contain every INFINITE sequence of digits, because such a sequence would have to be all digits of Pi after a certain position. The number of of such positions is aleph-0 (the cardnality of integer numbers) while the number of distinct infinite sequences is aleph-1 (the cardinality of real numbers).
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