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  • Yes. I think we’re missing each other pinpointing details while meaning the same. Every browser has it’s defaut or “standard” style, nowadays even adapting to the system theme and trying to guess if to use day or night settings etc. Nevertheless it won’t break lines in a reasonable way, won’t deal with footnotes in an acceptable way and either break the layout of pure text pages or the layout of illustrated pages. HTML5 makes these specific things somewhat better as it allows realtively advanced document structure but nevertheless, a few lines of CSS to reflect at least the prinipial character of the document are unlikely to hurt anyone in a worse way than a one-style-fits-all layout for everything will hurt tha vast majority.






  • Oh, come on. You really want some at least readable output. Things like image borders, consistently positioned images/diagrams, line breaks and page borders. Some whitespace and indentations, too. You just can’t read a couple of pages full of unformatted raw text without massive eye fatigue. I’m all for dumping JS and excessive frameworks, I’d prefer well-formed XHTML over any of that clients-side scripted crap, but totally rejecting CSS is pointless zealotry.




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    Boring. 1999 called, they want their good, old Linux rant back. Seriously, I have heard every sentence of that before. Ten times and I have argued against all of it just as many times. Respect to everyone who still does but I have come to the conlusion that it’s just waste of time. Whenever I’m hearing these meticulous lists of complaints I know they’re not written by anyone who looks for solutions but just loves to complain and tell other people how stupid they are. That’s a lot more satisfying than feeling technically incompetent. You could just restart your system and be a happy Microslave ever after. There’s no need to bring down reasonable people who have kernels to compile and cryptic configuration files to edit on theiir green on black Tectronix terminals. Hahaha. Ha. Ha.



  • The new German government argues that it is entitled to do this because Germany is land-locked

    WTF? I am pretty sure that last time I looked, there was the north sea sitting at the northwestern rim of the country. Directly there where the land ends. One might fall in and drown if there were not all the signs reading “Swimming strictly verboten! Es wird scharf geschossen! Der Bundesgeneralbademeister.”. Or similar. Maybe no signs, but definitely the norrth sea. In the northeast the situation is basically the same, just less dramatic because the baltic sea is just knee-deep at its’ deepest point. Whatever, I am positively certain that Germany is not landlocked. I also doubt that the German government really said it was. It’s just too obvious, even for a novice chancellor’s apprentice like Merz.


  • This and only this is a valid case of cultural appropriation. Acquiring copyright for work in the public domain and denying legitimate use. Having a hairstyle somebody else does not like has nothing to do with it. Nor does an artist’s ethnicity, surface color or sexual orientattion. These are just pretexts for self-declared “defenders of the faith” to discriminate arbitrarily agains whoever they want.



  • I miss the days when the OS community found -often painful- ways to deal with excentric or even toxic and erratic developers. That definitely had more class than conformist mobs celebrating each character assassination of somebody disagreeing. Not that I’d support any anti-vax bullshit or bigotry, I just dislike mobs of holier-than-thous. Because they aren’t holy or as “good” as they think they are. IMO they’re just the sort of people waiting for a reason to get their torches and pitchforks. I don’t think that’s any better, morally, or less intolerant than having unhinged opinions.