jaidedctrl

jaidedctrl wrote (edited )

Reply to Coding Is for Everyone—as Long as You Speak English by Moonside

yes, this!

I've been thinking for a while that we should switch from plain-plaintext to a sort of meta-plaintext. it could store multiple values in the same position; different text would be shown in your text-editor depending on the language, and it'd be converted to plain-plaintext when editing finishes (or programs would support this multi-lang meta-plaintext, or it'd be handled by the kernel/FS drivers somehow).

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I.E., person A sees "<body>", person B sees "<korpo>", but both values are stored in the file at the index 1234. Indexes should be used for phrases (AKA meanings)-- "if true then {add 1 2 3}" would be one index, let's say 3. There can be many different values per index (for multi-lang)-- there might be an esperanto index at 3, too, "se vera do {adici 1 2 3}". The particular index displayed would be determined by your language, or the one you specify.

Since there are multiple values for the same index, they'd all have "key" used to access it-- the french might be "fr", chinese "zh", etc. And since indexes are directly related to meaning, people would need to manually specify when a "block" ends and begins-- a simple keybinding in text-editors could ease that a lot. Some additional add-ons for visualizing the different blocks would make it easier to move blocks around in the file, etc.

There also ought to be a key designated as the default for each file-- "en" is safe, for compatibility levels.

If this is implemented on the system-library-side, core functions for opening files and reading data streams should accept an additional argument-- key. If the key isn't specified, then the default key is assumed, and the functions only pass along a data-stream (or what have you) with the file of default indexes. Thus compatibility with old programs that don't understand meta-plaintext etc is preserved. Or something like that.

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jaidedctrl wrote

Reply to comment by twovests in How to get started with hosting my own site? by twovests

hypothetically-- if you wanna host it out of your apartment (the best way tbh) you'll need reverse-dns, but most ISPs' (ime) webmasters won't give you a reverse-dns record unless you pay for the "business tier" service.
it's absolutely ridiculous.
sometimes, though, they'll set it up for free on a regular tier, if they're nice.

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jaidedctrl wrote (edited )

Reply to I really don't contrapoints and feel like she's a really unhealthy influence on a lot of trans people by lovelylinkle

I mean, I think her stuff is pretty good. She has good production quality, writing, is pretty funny, and also makes pretty good points most of the time. Though "Apocalypse" was pretty egregious ("society doesn't need to change that much!").

A lot of people take issue with Aesthetic, but even as a trans girl I like it. She portrays both sides to that bit really well (though it seemed like she sided slightly more with Justine... which I can't say I dislike, lol). Some people call it truscum-y, but there really wasn't anything so problematic in it. Justine's view isn't nice, but it's just about how the world is and how trans people generally have to adapt to it. The dichotomy between reality and aesthetic definitely is a problem, and defines trans people's existence, like she said.

IDK, I might be getting something wrong.

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