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@JohnPhilpin A critical component of all web browsers is the browser engine. That’s the part responsible for rendering the actual webpage, turning HTML code into text, images, buttons, and so on. For example, Firefox uses the Gecko engine, while Chrome and Edge both use Blink.

On iOS, the only browser engine allowed is WebKit (which powers Safari). So when you install, for example, Firefox on your iOS device, you won’t get Firefox with the Gecko engine; you get Firefox with the WebKit engine. Or, if you will, you get Safari with a different skin.

So even if it looks like you have a choice of browser on iOS, you really don’t. At least not when it comes to the engine. The core part is always WebKit – which Apple controls.

@odd Yeah, it makes sense, and there’s actually such a plug-in already: Paginate settings. The thing is, some themes ignore this setting. Even built-in ones, like Cactus. Maybe we should go through all the official themes, @manton, and make sure they respect the paginate setting? And encourage third-party theme developers to do the same.

@pratik That’s how Safari on Mac currently works, so you have to wait for Apple to change that or use another browser. There are rumors that Safari 17 can remember your choice, but I don’t have the beta available on this machine to test whether that’s true.

@heyloura I’m dipping my toe into the pond right now and everything about the experience is lovely. 🐸 Now, let’s see what happens when I hit Send Reply.

@crlzff Oh, no, I might fall down this hole. The AYAB project looks 👌 and there are machines available on eBay. 😱

@heyloura Haha, I saw your comments going away in real-time and thought that must be you experimenting with your web app. 😋 Is this a home-cooked meal just for you or something I can play around with? It looks great!

@heyloura Or, like this, if you style the summary element to look like a button and the form element to look like a dialog box.

> <details>
> <summary>Delete</summary>
> <form action=”/delete-something”>
> Are you sure?
> <button>Yes, delete something</button>
> </form>
> </details>

@heyloura If you’re okay with not having a dialog box, maybe something like this?

> <form action=”/delete-something”>
> <label>
> <input type=“checkbox” required> I’m super-duper sure I want to do this.
> </label>
> <button>Delete</button>
> </form>

@heyloura Do you mean, like, “you have to check this box where you grant me your soul before submitting this form”?

@manton Yeah, the domain thing is probably going to be a much bigger challenge than keeping data and servers alive. What happens if your TLD ceases to exist? .oz and .su are no longer with us, for example. And your blog’s content might not break your registrar’s terms of service today, but what about tomorrow? Or fifty years from now? And what about future laws? Your blog might be legal today, but not in a decade.

Will Automattic register a new domain for you if the old one is lost? Will they rewrite your blog’s content to comply with future laws? It’s an interesting challenge!

@hjalm I don’t own an iPad, but on iOS I can use the built-in search to look up words. In Settings → General → Dictionary, I see the New Oxford American Dictionary, Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus, and more. Is that not a thing on iPadOS?

@petebrown @rcrackley Aha, that’s probably it; I don’t have kids. That’s why I don’t see the need for a printer. 😅

@rcrackley Huh, is one supposed to have a printer? 😊 What are people using them for nowadays?

@jean Yes, some entries won’t count as neither screenshot nor photo. New grounds, indeed. 😊 But I’m a total newbie to image generation, so you can hopefully identify my fakes if you want to keep them off the curated collection.

And if I go ahead with this, I will be transparent about which images are fakes once people have had a chance to guess.

@sim0ne Yeah, it’s quite a challenge to find DRM-free ebooks, but they are out there. I wish there was a one-stop shop, like Libro.fm for audiobooks. Some stores, like Kobo, offer DRM-free downloads when publishers allow. Here’s one example, scroll down on that page and you will see Download options: EPUB 3 (DRM-Free). It might be worth visiting the author’s website as well. Cory Doctorow, for example, offers DRM-free downloads.

When reading classic literature, remember to check sites like Standard Ebooks and Project Gutenberg. If the book is old enough to be public domain, you will almost certainly find DRM-free downloads there.

The original author of DeDRM stopped maintaining the plug-in a while back but there’s a fork available in active development. It worked fine for me the last time I needed to remove DRM protection from a book, but that was back in March. So I don’t know for sure that it would work today.

@amit One concern might be the risk of being exploited by big tech and loose out on opportunities, money, or social status in the future. Or all three.

Being a part of the open web and sharing stuff for free can come with huge benefits. Take yours truly as an example: I’ve published texts, open source software, tutorials, video guides, and more online for 25+ years.

Through all these years, humans have found my work, liked it and reached out with job offerings, speaker request, and friendly chats. I’ve gotten a lot of value from my web presence, both socially and monetarily.

Venture capital backed startups, large language models, and robots crawling the web won’t reach out with opportunities, quote your work or give you money. Heck, they won’t even reach out for a friendly chat. 😊 They will just benefit from your free labor and go about their day.

I’m privileged enough to not care too much about that myself, but I can see why some have concerns and feel threatened. They are worried about a future where, instead of reaching out to the human whose work we appreciate, we will reach for a generative model and ask it to emulate said humans work instead.

Then there’s probably a chunk of humans out there not thinking about the effects on economic and labor at all. They just don’t want anything to do with “AI”.

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