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Called me out with that first sentence


Same. Plus I have an USB barcode scanner somewhere :D


I wish I had an excuse to actually need this much uptime at home. It's not the hardest thing to jump over to my phone as hotspot the very few times I need it to work.


Is this going to cause another outage?


I think you've kind of hit on the more successful point here, which is that you should be keeping things focused in a sufficiently focused area to have better success and not necessarily needing more context.


Wow... never really realized people actually used these things and didn't just chuck them after opening their RAM>


This was a great reminder that there is so much hardware that continues to have software made for it


The video title is more apt: you don't need a framework. If you're building any kind of interactivity or want to style the site past the basic styles, you absolutely need more than HTML.


Nearly 100% of critical online services can be rendered in a good enough fashion as noscript/basic (x)html, as most were a few years back.


Yes, you can get away with a lot with just the basic elements and leave javascript out. You're still going to need CSS if you want to go beyond what the browser provides you.


Even CSS is optional, a "semantic 2D HTML document" is enough. You will get a nice layout until the browser does handle a table level of even one depth (and you usually can manage with browsers flattening the table).

Navigation among those "semantic 2D HTML documents" was thought thru already: https://webaim.org/techniques/tables/

That should be enforced by regulation on "critical" (USA: utility?) online services.

It means many could develop reasonably an alternative _REAL-LIFE_ browser to interact with those online services (this is strategic control, and allows money to go where it is actually needed instead of those toxic web javascript abominations, and this word is fair, not nice, but _FAIR_).

If something has to replace noscript/basic (x)html, it should be as simple, or more simple, and as stable in time. It must be worth it: namely "cleaner".

We could compromise with something "javascript": I guess that would be a dynamic 2D RGB canvas with very basic and few drawing primitives (mostly vector based with a glyph renderer) and OS services (probably event based), but I don't believe anybody could come up with that thing and hold it stable and simple enough for much time before the toxic people get their way with it: embrace and extend until control is taken over or until it is unusable and destroyed if control take over failed.


Is the 51 friends a hard limit or just a funny quip?


It's a hard limit to help people focus on their closest connections and catchup with their daily routine updates rather than following someone famous, that's why there is no follow, just friends, that too up to 51 only for now :)


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