so is corbet the same kind of fucker that'll complain "everything is so political nowadays"? it seems like they are
froztbyte
I, too, have done the “all communication is manipulative”, but in the same way as one would do a bar trick:
all communication is manipulative, for any words I say/write that you perceive instantly manipulate (as in the physical manner / modifying state) your thoughts, and this is done so without you requesting I do so
it’s a handy stunt with which to drive an argument about a few parts of communication, rhetoric, etc. because it gives a kinda good handle on some meta without getting too deep into things
(although there was one of my friends who really, really hated the framing)
lemmy’s own post-formatting code
oh but see, it has at least 2-if-you-squint representations of things (and possibly more? it's been a while since I read the code). it's got "raw", which represents semi sorta whatever the user input
iirc it broadly takes that for a local render (as in on the site frontend)
and then it also makes a $something for the thing it sends out over ActivityPub
I do want to make it clear that I'm not carrying water for lemmy here, fwiw. this'd be a legit cool thing to add to things (whether the spape it took was "renders latex locally, and ships images remote" or whatever). just saying it might be hairy
I'd pipe up and go "uhhh hey prof, aren't you being paid to, like, impart knowledge?"
(I should note that I have an extremely deficient fucks pool, and do not mind pissing off fuckwits. but I understand it's not always viable to do)
yeah lemmy's got some real weirdo choices
off the cuff, this feels like a "don't cross the streams' thing
(there is that webfont or whatever thing for html latex, but having looked under the hood on lemmy's post handling I uhhhhhhh yeah)
neat idea though, maybe that should be a thing that philthy can do better
the terrible tryfecta
jesus fucking christ do you even understand where you're posting? how are you this goddamn oblivious?
you do not, under any circumstances, have to "give it to them"
there is no requirement to carry water for this awful shit
do not surprisedpikachu when someone calls out your weird posts
my my, those boots sure must be tasty
objectionally calculated numbers
fwiw this link didn't jump me to a specific reply (if you meant to highlight a particular one)