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Tim Bray

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Web geek and environmentalist with a camera at the bottom left corner of Canada. He/him. These posts are coming from a member-owned cooperative: https://cosocial.info My posts are searchable and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/

Tim Bray 8mo ago

Beautifully written like everything from Laurie Penny: https://observer.co.uk/news/first-person/article/laurie-penny-autism

Replying to

Anil Dash

Has anybody written about the near-ubiquitous online trend of bowdlerizing text, either to avoid being penalized by the algorithm (real or imagined) or to avoid content being searchable by others? We have people who communicate about "s*x" instead of "sex" and... that's probably a very bad thing.

Tim Bray 1y ago

nostr:npub1t8u7s2z2e8j5gdup94s7kjyjxqle03hekumc3kmd0ppermdwsqrsgac7sk Let's assume that Fedi will get algorithms; the difference is that they won't have to cater to the sensibilities of advertisers, I assume. And thus should be able to avoid this silliness?

Tim Bray 2y ago

Turns out that a lot of US legislation is available in semantically marked up XML, and while it’s typically used to produce PDF and paper, most browsers can style it just fine with CSS. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ2/uslm/PLAW-118publ2.xml

Tim Bray 2y ago

I gave up trying to explain to normal people why, when we interchange documents, the names of the files I send back to them never have any spaces in them.