similar experience led me to start learning Latin: once travelled to an other country within Europe and the priest in the companion asked directions from a local in Latin.
i already mentioned it in other Dillo-related posts, but i can not repeat enough: Dillo was the browser enabled me to view the web at all on my first old 486 PC, packed in Damn Small Linux.
dark chocolate is "étcsokoládé" literally edible-chocolate in Hungarian.
i heared the throat-cleaning "Negró" candy (marketed by a chimney sweeper man with soot-covered face) was usually which hurt English-speaking people's self-deprecating sensitivities.
does the post office and postmen are responsible to police kids' snail mails?
where does this "perfect surveillance" idea come from? i teach my children how to get acquaintances; first in more direct, more supervised way, later let them more and more self-driving. like anything else in parenting, eg. bicycle. but i guess urbanization diminished that skill as well. no need for "perfect surveillance"; no parent wants it. it's not only easier to pass on basic principles, but also makes supervision gradually less neccessary over time.
> parents have in fact full control of snail mail
what? children using e-messaging can just as do snail mails completely on their own (of course they don´t but it's not about going back to analogue world but to form the digital world on the same principles).
well, i can imagine in highly urbanized environment, where children are forbidden to go outside, but locked down together with family even making them more isolated, and trusting them "to the phone" to cope with the daily frustration, may easily lead to a situation where phone usage and e-messaging is completely unattended and undisclosed by and with parents, while posting an evelope is at a level of expertise for them.
parents ability to be in control of e-messaging is as much as of snail mails.
what is so hard to teach children not to e-messaging with strangers just like not to snail-mailing with strangers? also the parents should be able to join the conversation just like in the analogue world. call me backward but i dont want to outsource parenting neither to government nor to remote businneses.
yes, Alt+drag (it's always meta, not meta4, by default on systems i use) has been and still is a killer feature to me. on desktops which does not support it, like windows, i feel like my hands were tied.
> typing on a line, backspacing all the way to the start and then typing ~ also sends a literal tilde
for the younger readers, yes, because in terminal echo mode, "backspacing" does not clear your terminal line buffer, those characters backspaced are already sent on the line. if you ever seen a misconfigured terminal, it hints what's going on, like:
user@host$ ls ~/^?^?^?^?^?~/a.out
^? is backspace's control char.
that is ssh watches what you type, not what is on the screen (terminal).
either it optimizes and dont try to connect or does not recognize as never accessible and does try to connect – both are better than accitentally fetching something from a web service running on localhost.
> The main header JS starts using range requests to first load the real HTML, and then it watches requests for resources; the resources have been rewritten to be deliberately broken 404 errors (requesting from localhost, to avoid polluting any server logs)
what if a web server on localhost happens to handle the request? why not request from a guaranteed unaccessable place like http://0.0.0.0/ or http://localhost:0/ (port zero)