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What to do about spam in general? Use reader-oriented tools. (2002)

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After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other word? A word contains its opposite in itself. Take ‘good’, for instance. If you have a word like ‘good’, what need is there for a word like ‘bad’? ‘Ungood’ will do just as well—better, because it’s an exact opposite, which the other is not. Or again, if you want a stronger version of ‘good’, what sense is there in having a whole string of vague useless words like ‘excellent’ and ‘splendid’ and all the rest of them? ‘Plusgood’ covers the meaning, or ‘doubleplusgood’ if you want something stronger still.

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To the edit, you mean like, I don't know, referring to a unique date, key, and/or title? Yeah, that's simply impossible to do or manage in plaintext. Impossible.

I would direct you to Melvil Dewey, but I don't think you'd get the reference.

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Sorry, if you can't read between the lines at even this point, I doubt being explicit would help.

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Hint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc4ROCJYbm0

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I'm sorry your disability prevents you from using keywords or tags, or urls to link to external resources. This must be absolutely crippling for you. I can't imagine how you made it here now given your condition.

Have you encountered newspapers or physical newsletters, by chance? I do believe you'd have an aneurysm.

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From TFA:

2021-10-22 - Search ===================

#feature

Another thing that's useful is to be able to find things on a site. How do I find that post I remember reading that talked about skipping over all the sourdough?

Lo and behold, blog.txt has powerful fulltext search: your computer's built in search engine is much better than most blog search engines. Just hit CTRL+F and type "skipping over all the sourdough". Because it's all one page, you can find anything almost instantly, just using your browser's page search.

Or you can skip the web browser altogether, and read my blog as it was meant to be read -- in Vim:

vim https://www.curiositry.com/blog.txt

This gives you the power of Regex search. Use responsibly.

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Really, extending the todo.txt todo-list format (http://todotxt.org) to being a blog platform is as simple as having a heredoc style delimiter for each post. Then of course, you're just recreatin org-mode from first principles.

Social media is also merely the exchange of plain text and media files.

If only we had a simple and free platform that had the following features:

   * Supports multiple simultaneous users
   * Has simple user and group access control
   * Treats everything as a sharable file
   * Easy for admins to securely deploy out of the box
   * Easy for users to securely connect out of the box
   * Uses few enough resources that it can be ran on effectively any computer, no matter how powerful.

If only we had such a mythical system, we could decentralize the net. If.

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"You are a philosopher, Thrasymachus, I replied, and well know that if you ask a person what numbers make up twelve, taking care to prohibit him whom you ask from answering twice six, or three times four, or six times two, or four times three, ‘for this sort of nonsense will not do for me,’—then obviously, if that is your way of putting the question, no one can answer you. But suppose that he were to retort, ‘Thrasymachus, what do you mean? If one of these numbers which you interdict be the true answer to the question, am I falsely to say some other number which is not the right one?—is that your meaning?’—How would you answer him?"

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Pretty much. This is the next generation version of "This is extremely dangerous to our democracy"^1 level of collusion to push narratives.

1 - https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZggCipbiHwE

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https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam

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I use adblock on openwrt with a basic script to write to and revert the whitelist, and to restart dnsmasq. I use qutebrowser and made whitelisting a hints shortcut.

There's almost certainly a better system, but this works for me.

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As someone with more time, I prefer to maintain a massive whitelist for my router. Daily websites receive permanent privileges, incidental websites (such as peguero.xyz) receive temporary privileges (e.g. allow traffic for the next minute), everything else is dropped.

I don't have to worry about what chicanery advertising companies are up to when they can't reach me even if they tried.

"So the fourth herd of deer took up residence where the poison-grass sower & his followers couldn’t go and—having taken up residence there—ate food without venturing unwarily into the poison-grass sown by the poison-grass sower. By eating food without venturing unwarily into the poison-grass sown by the poison-grass sower, they didn’t become intoxicated. Not being intoxicated, they didn’t become heedless. When they weren’t heedless, the poison-grass sower wasn’t able to do with them as he liked on account of that poison-grass."

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I too am unskilled at navigating unfamiliar codebases and demand clifnotes because my time as a user is more valuable than yours as a programmer. these gift horses are AWFUL

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Individuals who prefer legible, honest signalling and understanding to doing double-work for ignorant, ungrateful people. Yeah, it's a mystery.

In short: "Programs are meant to be read by humans, and only incidentally for computers to execute."

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https://archive.is/MZfa3

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https://archive.is/X7fr3