📢 New Essay: The Boring Internet

[virkon42@det.social]

@tg I am really glad, that there is the ascii view. I pretty much hate this animation.

[botolo86@mstdn.social]

@tg you forgot the BBS systems. Some of them are still there and quite active.

[janeishly@beige.party]

@nickchomey @tg @ska You could always use the UK English style instead, which is a spaced en dash (Alt+0150). As a translator, that's what I now default to (having been told in no uncertain terms when I submitted one of my very first projects that my previous habit, of using hyphens, was unacceptable!)

[naturtrueb@norden.social]

@tg Just sent a note to myself for later use of your text - by e-mail.

[jake4480@c.im]

@tg HELL yes. Been working on a piece about this myself, collecting up articles and such for it, like this one! Great piece -

[karlheinzhaslip@climatejustice.social]

@tg @ska Not this that is my fav there - the tell is that llms do it randomly without any reason to think or talk about "this" while people use it in context of a larger discourse to differentiate and navigate reader expectations.

[hoi_pollois@toad.social]

@tg So nice. Thanks for this.

[fasnix@fe.disroot.org]

@Hinnerk
Isn't that why gemini:// nowadays exists?

@tg @johl

[hinnerk@mastodon.social]

@fasnix @tg @johl Wich comes with a trunk of security issues on it‘s own. Biggest question: Does it only exist or will it also be used?

[fasnix@fe.disroot.org]

@Hinnerk
I'm not a technician or programmer, that's why I have to ask what kind of security issues it has?

As far as I can tell, it is being used, however very niche.
(I love that I can read the TAZ on it every day.)

@tg @johl

[bestiaexmachina@metalhead.club]

@tg Wonderfully written. Thank you!

[n_dimension@infosec.exchange]

@tg

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[fluffyfuzz@mastodon.social]

@tg Awesome read! Loved it and i agree wholeheartedly.
It wasn't uncommon for my group to talk about online culture (as do chronically online individuals) and one point that came up often was how spaces online were centralized and squished together.
People who were into cats and those who were into dogs now had to co-live together for better or for worse instead of having their spaces each. I used cats and dogs for this but this applies to a lot of topics.

[cowman@thecanadian.social]

@sr_rolando @tg ah, the design drove me batty. There is zero need I can see for such scroll-fuckery, which also broke reader-view.

[sr_rolando@fnordon.de]

@CowMan You did see the link to https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet/ascii right there on the page, didn’t you? @tg

[hsza@social.tudbut.de]

@tg ok wow this page is a javascript crime. worse than normal text would be for no reason

[cowman@thecanadian.social]

@sr_rolando @tg ohhhhhhh I did not.. ️

Well, really wish I hadn't missed that. Yes much nicer

[ephemeromorph@topspicy.social]

@tg Thank you! I enjoyed reading that.

[nickchomey@mastodon.social]

@janeishly @tg @ska thanks, I was unaware that UK preferred en dash! But as far as I'm concerned, en and em dash are the same thing. Lazy hyphens are the way forward! (I don't write anything "professionally" - if I did, I'd probably be more willing to use en or em)

[kranzkrone@quasselkopf.de]

@tg
I strongly disagree, because first the terminology Internet describes the borderline structure and in my opinion not the layers on top of it.

Secondly, this so-called Internet is a vast and almost infinite space, literally in the name.

Third, there are so many layers of or in this Internet that are split into other layers in itself and so on. When one gets filled up or mutilated beyond repair, another one takes over or else.

Long story short, there is no "the internet" but many different flavors/variations of this concept, running on top of hardware that spanning the globe across cultures and borders alike.

Internet was and is what you and people in general make of it.

#Internet #society #technology #digital
@bestiaexmachina