And that would be great, if anyone used it.

LLMs are specifically good at a task like this because they can extract content from any webpage, regardless of it supports whatever standard that no one implements

IMO it makes for better content. I'm not logging in to a microblogging app so I can read thoughtful, longform content, actually it's exactly the opposite.

By enforcing a character limit you only allow a certain type of post to be made

I prefer it because it forces distillation to core ideas, consumable quickly. Busy people have too little time to read too much verbiage.

And there is a mutually understood degree of nuance. There is no space to consider every route of uncertainty or qualify every statement. You can say "the Earth is round" instead of "most of us agree that the Earth very very likely exists and is very likely to be round".

> By enforcing a character limit you only allow a certain type of post to be made

Yes, the one where all nuance and detail is lost after being trimmed to death so it can exist under the arbitrary limit and is much easier to misunderstand because the author couldn't put all of their thoughts in writing.

It does help with engagement though.

I think that the breakdown of public discourse in the US in the last 15ish years is directly attributable to Twitter. When the main mode of engagement with others in politics is to drop 140-char hot takes, it shouldn't be surprising people hate each other. The world would genuinely be a much better place, in my opinion, if Twitter or its like had never existed.

On a side note: a platform can (potentially) provide a filter that will show user only posts shorter than length L1. Or longer than L1.

>IMO it makes for better content.

Sorry but this even sounds wrong. You can write an eternal masterpiece in any form. Short story, a poem, a novel, an anecdote even.

In fact shorter form is more challenging. You have less room for a mistake. And lets be honest: most people are terrible writers|composers|painters etc.

This is one of the reasons you see threads and services that can present you threads in a more convenient form.

Coins are simply worse than bills. They're too thick for something you'd be keeping mainly in your wallet or pocket.

Coins are easier to count than bills. They are thick enough that you never confuse two coins for one, even when they are stuck together. And they are also more convenient in your pocket, because you don't have to fold or otherwise organize them.

Dollar bills are usually in terrible condition. Folded corners, creases, dirt. Ten singles take up more space in my wallet than just about anything else I'd put in there.

I'd rather have ten coins. They'll easily fit in the bottom of my pocket, and when I pull out change there's likely to be a useful amount of money in it.

> Dollar bills are usually in terrible condition

Do you get yours from selling drugs? Mine are usually fine, very rarely in 'terrible' condition.

Unfortunately, yes. Drugs are well-known to be the only product for which cash is an acceptable form of payment. The utility of hard currency really took a hit when all the hookers moved to Venmo.

If you look at the source code in any of the mirrors people have linked, you'll find that the "clean" one that was taken down today does not have Google Analytics.

That’s not the issue. It’s that it tracks in other ways.

Okay, for some reason they took down that one but the original (but not maintained) fork is gone. Fascinating...

Why would that kill it? Have you ever tried to compile a browser?

no browser is fully built with rust, and that is why.

You can change your preferred color scheme temporarily in dev tools

I believe it's called concrete because of brutalist architecture and how it's almost always made with concrete

NSFW content is disabled by default and you can't ever see it unless you go out of your way to enable it.

Public keys are completely meaningless to an average user. They mean nothing and thus there's no reason to keep them consistent. Not to mention it's impossible to type or say them

I was using micro. I still love it, but the syntax highlighting for ruby is very messed up

I started using this because my favorite editor (micro) has very poor syntax highlighting for ruby. It's a very specific use case but it's quite nice and I'm considering switching to modeless vim

You claim that you forget Vim keybindings, but then you have this on your about page:

   email: echo soaper.:.disroot.:.org | sed 's/.:./@/; s/.:././'

We all have limited capacity to learn stuff. If I didn't already know Vim, there's very little chance I'd have the motivation/time/energy to learn it for the first time now.

What’s that have to do with Vim keybindings in particular?

I was just saying that if one can remember sed syntax, Vim's should be easy to follow.

You don't need to memorize the syntax to have a script.

No joke: I wouldn’t have a programming career if remembering syntax were a requirement.

The author might just have copied that sed expression form someone else.

Or looked it up once and probably now forgotten it.

Also regex expressions are not vi expresions and have wider applications so author might use them regularly.

So nothing here suggest that the author can remember vi.

Why not just use an editor that’s really good at it then? Given you don’t prioritize portability.