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The quality is very impressive! Congrats on the launch.

Thank you, appreciate it!

Author here. I appreciate your honesty; this is indeed a curious observation. I, too, have found myself patter-matching personalities by titles of their works, design styles of their blogs, etc. I sometimes would even feel some sort of resistance when I started to discover that my patter-matching was off the mark.

I’ve noticed this a lot, too, and made this drawing as a joke: https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/

I love that graph! So many occurrences of "that's me" or "I know somebody exactly like that".

Oh, you put me on your graph!

"Weird Dude Who Writes Raw HTML"

My most recent example:

https://kozubik.com/items/wago_audio/


Just a small word of unasked-for-advice... consider compressing your images further! Even ignoring bandwidth concerns, a 1.3MB image takes a while to paint :)

*scnr:

ooof.. this chart is making my day, not because of it's content, but it's presentation. Apparently it only works if you have very different scales for x and y axis. As you have the same metrics on both of them (number of posts), it only worked if like x axis is from 1 to 10 while y axis is either log or from 1 to 100 or so. Or you choose a differnt metric for the x axis, like "share of posts about blog setups".


My thoughts exactly! Originally I wanted to also add a 2nd vertical axis on the right to signify "share of posts about blog setups".

Can I use this image on my blog?

I will off course link to you site. It’s to illustrate a point about my blogspot blog haha…

I’ve been looking to switch over to something else. But I’ve been actively blogging since 2006 and I haven’t found a good enough way and platform to switch over to.


>I’ve been looking to switch over to something else. But I’ve been actively blogging since 2006 and I haven’t found a good enough way and platform to switch over to.

Would you consider participating in a private beta of https://exotext.com/, a simple blogging platform I'm building? (example blog: https://rakhim.exotext.com/)

If so, please send me an email: hello at rakhim.org


Of course, go ahead! Please, share a link to your blog, I'm gonna add it to minifeed.net :)

(I'll update my website soon and will make the licensing clearer.)


I'm in the "old-ass blogger.com site" category, with posts going back to '05.

Literally just posted my newly hogoized site that dates back to 2003 THIS MORNING. :)

This is hilarious, and so true

NLnet is a great initiative. Among the numerous projects they have supported is Marginalia [1] search engine.

1. https://www.marginalia.nu/


"NLnet is a great initiative"

Originally, NLNet was *private money* given by the founders of a dutch ISP¨.

Now that this private money run out, they made a partnership with the European Commission, which is *public money* and comes with more strings attached.


That all sounds like it's meant to sound sinister, but why? Private individuals sometimes fund great initiatives, as do public organisations. What's your concern?

Both have their ups and downs, but broadly speaking, private money tends to be a lot more flexible and risk-liberal, whereas public money can be like having the worst aspects of the ignorant absentee CEOs-golf-buddy manager and the micromanaging hands-on desperate-to-prove-himself CEOs-nephew manager.

Public money is eventually traced back to some elected official who has absolutely nothing to do with technology but is also very emotionally-invested in showing to the constituents that the money isn't being wasted - to the point where spending the money on something useless but concrete ("ergonomic" coffee mugs) might be deemed preferable to a long-term investment that falls on the wrong side of a term-limit.

Again, public money can be fine and completely no-strings sometimes (and, conversely, private charitable contributions can sometimes end up with plenty of strings too), but there's certainly reasons to point out the differences.


Mastodon is another one (ActivityPub / Feediverse)

https://nlnet.nl/project/Mastodon/


This is pretty mesmerizing, and I loved playing with it, but posting it for the 3rd day in a row is probably not the best idea.


Thank you! Sorry, I am done posting about it now.


Check out Doppler for iOS https://brushedtype.co/doppler/

It was interesting to notice that not all short words are necessarily simple. Words like "void", "iota", "mass", or "veer".

Thanks to Javascript, I know void.

Thanks to Go, I know iota.


Thanks to Java, I know pain.

The question is: Do you know the words or do you know the meaning in the context of the article?

They demonstrate they know 'veer' (off topic) without saying 'veer'.

Now I feel old. I know void from K&R C and iota from APL

It could be in some settings menu two clicks away from the main screen.

By the same logic you may have Greek friends visiting some time, so for that reason the welcome screen should always provide an option to switch to Greek content. No need to set up a special account, it’s already there.


There is a difference if a Greek watches an English show and a child watches an adult show.


yes, because those are equally common occurrences!


I wonder when people would start writing more like AI simply because they would be exposed to so many AI-written articles.


This has certainly happened with me; the documents I write at my workplace often ends up the following the style of <heading> <paragraph> <4-6 bullet points>, which is also the pattern AI slop follows.


The problem with ai is that it always follows the same pattern. You wrote like that for a work document but you wouldn’t use the same structure for a blog article.

I wonder if one could tell an AI to “don't use the typical sectional document structure, free yourself!” to generate different-looking content.


I might have false negatives, of course, but I'm doing my best to manually curate and collect human-written blogs in my blog directory and search engine https://minifeed.net/


Maybe I should start curating one of these too. I still have hope for the human-driven internet!


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