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@bonifartius

IMO the main problem with XML is that it required a little more thought and conceptual understanding than so many programmers were used to, so it was misused, and between the effort and misuse due to the effort, the result was the hate for XML.

Take the core question of tag vs attribute. It takes a little conceptual thought to think about which to use when.

And then you see badly implemented XML where some developer decided the "wrong" way. And your eyes bleed to see it :)

It's like seeing a badly designed SQL table with garbage crammed into fields that obviously should have been different columns in the table.

The difference is that at least the SQL would be internal, but XML tended to inflict itself on others.

@mia

Wow! I just realized that it is possible to post to a Lemmy group from your existing Mastodon account:

vijayprema.com/using-lemmy-fro

Summary:
First line of post is the title
A link or image will be attached to the post
Mention the group in your post on the last line in the usual Mastodon way, i.e. (at)lisp{at)lemmy.ml

This way, you don't need a separate account on Lemmy and can use your favourite Mastodon client: Emacs.

@ramin_hal9001

@egnun mal abgesehn davon das es twitter ohne den schlimmen kapitalismus nicht gegeben hätte.

genossenschaften eine großartige freiwillige organisationsform. wenn man das mittels gewalt durchsetzen will wie nuss und andere würste sich hier erträumen macht mans kaputt.

und vielleicht sind manche leute ja auch zufrieden damit nicht die verpflichtungen von eigentümerschaft zu haben. gibts auch.
@resieguen @sabinenuss @istuetzle

don't bitch about systemd, quit using systemd distributions. shimple as!

57 years ago on October 20, 1966, Patrick Volkerding was born.
Volkerding is best known as the founder and creator of Slackware, one of the earliest Linux distributions.

Slackware, introduced in 1993, quickly gained recognition for its simplicity and adherence to the Unix philosophy. While other Linux distributions embraced modern package management systems, Slackware maintained a more traditional approach

#Tech #TechHistory #Linux #Slackware

@SinclairSpeccy Happy birthday, @volkerdi!

Thank you for dedicating more than half of your life to making us slackers less grumpy when using our computers.

@DierotePille die grosse frage ist ja ob sie immer noch kinder betatschen wollen. vermutlich ja.

@mia
> [...] activitystreams borrows it's extension system from json-ld, an overcomplicated serialization format for RDF, which is just worse XML

:100a:

i never understood all the hate for xml, if used correctly and with sane tools it's very nice to use. doesn't happen often though. all attempts of inventing similar things for json seem to only have replicated the bad parts.

@apophis @mia you want to prevent others from talking to each other if the topic is you.

People think Hamas radicalises Palestinians. Lived experience of suffering, fear, loss, poverty and pain is what will make those kids hate Israel. Not Hamas

Ladies, don't forget to check on your men when they are being too quiet in the man cave...

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