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@dillo

Apologies! No sooner had I published, I realized that #Dillo, which was actually on the list, wasn't included in my tut.... Grrrrr!

So, this particular article wasn't published with the intention of being as ephemeral as a regular, standard #FediPost, but rather, as a cookbook style #HowTo to update occasionally and keeping it rather current.

I'm also considering expanding it with sections for other #Unices & Distros, with each one of the #browsers included again, but in the section for the particular #OS - whether it be #OpenBSD, #Slackware, Etc., and I've been doing a little work on that already.

Anyway, it's almost inconceivable that I published w/o Dillo. I was very tired when I did, and I recall thinking about Dillo when I writing up #Lagrange, since I've always believed that it's a sin to remove such tiny amounts of code to accommodate (Yes I'm talking to you Mozilla!) Gopher:// ftp://, Etc.; and for the more forward thinking folks, extending similar support for gemini:// and arguably others spawned from it that I didn't personally work with since the very beginning like I did with #Gemini, back at #SDF).

But I digress, and I'll get to the point.

Here is the update of my Linux Browser HowTo, Which includes dillo*. It was much too long to include by just appending to the original article by about 5000 characters,lolz, so I took the easy way out - I quote-posted it, lolz

That also implies that I'll have to swap hats a couple of times because some forums forced me to completely rewrite it to support #BBCode, and although the original looks nice in HIVE and on Dev, the Markdown is completely obliterated on Nostr (no graceful degradation there folks) - which I left as is because I think people need to see what not supporting Markdown looks like. I think it looks like shit on masto too, but masto isn't the #Fediverse, and it looks great on most other Fediverse platforms :)

I was getting tired again, but rushing to publish, so I know I misspelled various incarnations of privilege at least 3 different ways, and no, I'm not going to clean that up :p What I think I'm going to have to do though, Is publish the next volume on a proper website with some ActivityPub powered capabilities like WordPress, or Ghost, or WriteFreely / write.as, where I don't have to worry about the length of the article and I can continue to break it into pieces or chapters, etc., as it grows. There's other OSes and Linux distros I'd like to cover, but as you can see at the end, Slackware is going to be rather boring, considering how simple it is to install everything under the sun from source - and that is indeed a beautiful thing.

I hope what I've done today facilitates more people having access to dillo, since it's a good product, but seemingly out of reach for many n00bs, when it really doesn't need to be. Sure, setting up a Debian style repo with keys, etc., at Dillo-Browser.org would be ideal, but this is, after all, FOSS, and you've done so much already, maybe I can lend a hand at that at some point in the future, but....

Truth be told, there really isn't anything much simpler than doing a git clone to perform the initial installation, and simply performing a git pull, followed by the same build sequence later to affect any updates.

You have a wonderful day, and I hope I've helped bring some awareness and hopefully adoption by others of dillo, it really is deserving of that, much moreso than Microsoft Edge, which I also included in my HowTo (but mostly as a disparaging joke).

Kindest regards,

Bradley

#tallship #tut #HowTo #Browser_HowTo #dillo #FOSS

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Hubzilla-Häppchen: Hubzilla-BBcode schreiben mit Typora

You can get my bundle of +20 handmade #Godot cheatsheets for 8$ during the itch summer sale!!

https://itch.io/s/188351/summer-sale-2026

☀️ Have a nice summer!!
#GameDev #GodotEngine #Indie #Shaders #Gdscript #BBCode #Plugin

You can get my bundle of +20 handmade #Godot cheatsheets for 8$ during the itch summer sale!!

https://itch.io/s/188351/summer-sale-2026

☀️ Have a nice summer!!
#GameDev #GodotEngine #Indie #Shaders #Gdscript #BBCode #Plugin

Arthaw

https://spam.tamagothi.de/2026/04/25/arthaw/

Arthaw

https://spam.tamagothi.de/2026/04/25/arthaw/

Pure dystopia that people can't tell the difference between :

1. « AI slop » : "Artificial Intelligence" generated text, or, more precisely, large language model based chatbots text ; and

2. « AI slop » : "(neuro-)Atypical Intelligence" overshared text, or, more precisely, oversharing neurodivergent's largely overthought language's markdowned or BBCoded text.

Post Scriptum.
This post redaction time : 20 minutes.

#AI #NoAI #Chatgpt #LLM #AIslop
#Neurodivergent #NeuroAtypical #NeuroA #ActuallyAutistic #Autism #ADHD #Dystopia #MarkDown #BBCode #EnrichedText #TextEnriched #FormatedText #textformat

Pure dystopia that people can't tell the difference between :

1. « AI slop » : "Artificial Intelligence" generated text, or, more precisely, large language model based chatbots text ; and

2. « AI slop » : "(neuro-)Atypical Intelligence" overshared text, or, more precisely, oversharing neurodivergent's largely overthought language's markdowned or BBCoded text.

Post Scriptum.
This post redaction time : 20 minutes.

#AI #NoAI #Chatgpt #LLM #AIslop
#Neurodivergent #NeuroAtypical #NeuroA #ActuallyAutistic #Autism #ADHD #Dystopia #MarkDown #BBCode #EnrichedText #TextEnriched #FormatedText #textformat

我設計的 smiles #markdown 用法是 ```smiles 開頭的代碼塊，但實際上也需要在行間使用結構式，所以應該再設計一種內聯語法。

`[smiles]cco[/smiles]` 這種風格怎麼樣呀？我也不知道這是什麼風格。啊！gemini 說它是 bbcode 風格。

#bbcode 和 #xml 誰更好呀？但我覺得這兩種都有些麻煩...但短的又擔心和其他語法衝突，例如 latex 的`$`或者內聯代碼。

最好還得支援自定義高亮結構？比如使用者可能會想高亮一部分，而 chemistry api 支援，但如果社交媒體裡卻不支援就很奇怪。

雖然 bbcode 寫起來麻煩，可我覺得它實現這個功能確實是最簡單、最優雅的誒...

```
[smiles highlight="結構"]分子式[/smiles]
```

雖然只打一個單獨的 smiles 很難，但如果一旦需要擴展元信息就會立刻變得很簡單：

• 可以很方便地加屬性，這樣就可以把精心設計的 chemist…

—— Little Gecko Fuyeor, Ф https://fuyeor.com/t/382

Do you know a good #Markdown to #BBCode converter?

🆕 pandoc 3.8.3 🎉

This release adds three new input formats (#Asciidoc, #PPTX, and #XLSX) and one new output format (#BBCode + variants).

It also fixes a number of bugs (including some regressions in 3.8). See the changelog for full details.

Thanks to all who contributed!

https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/tag/3.8.3

#pandoc #release

🆕 pandoc 3.8.3 🎉

This release adds three new input formats (#Asciidoc, #PPTX, and #XLSX) and one new output format (#BBCode + variants).

It also fixes a number of bugs (including some regressions in 3.8). See the changelog for full details.

Thanks to all who contributed!

https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/tag/3.8.3

#pandoc #release

Primeiros vinte minutos no #Friendica

https://gallinier.fr/display/c5083ae5-1268-fc41-85f2-2b7184096587

#terraPreta #permaCulture #permaCultura #permaKultur #fediTips

Some additional notes and observations
@HorcaDobleMango

#carbonActivado tanslates in german into #AktivKohle, that's the stuff you find in high quality filters, including filters for #fishTank's, #aquarium's and filres for drinking water as they have the capabilty to filter out all kind of chemicals from air and water. That's the same effect that carbon creates by storing chemical elements in it's space and structure in the soil for #plants and #microorganisms.

Creating carbon from wood by explosively cooling it down throwing it into water, transforming it into "active carbon" resolves the arduous task of creating carbon in an anaerobic setup, an interesting point because we could come up with some kind of #rocketStove with a continious feeding process, seperating glowing carbon from the rest, letting it somehow roll into a water recipient while using the heat created to warm up our houses in the winter. As of now not solved in this idea is what to do with the water steam that is produced, or even to think about some secondery use for that steam. These "ideas/considerations" are actually the result of:
* There is no waste, only primary materials
* Every element in a system has to fulfill at least two goals

What we couldn't find out into deep till now is a the issue that apparently carbon can be #hydrophobe or #hydrophilic and which process makes it hydrophillic. We guess that this is in part an important detail as the carbon harbors not only chemical elements but also is a kind of apartment building for microorganisms and their are probably different apartments for aerobic and anaerobic microorganisms.
Perhaps in the case of your soil some hydrophobic carbon could be even the better option.

Our question about the kind of soil, in part depending of the region you are from, is due to the observations that carbon to create terra preta is very usefull for old leached soils like those of the #Amazon basin, #SouthAmerica and #Africa in particular, as well as probably for example the sandy soils of #Brandenburg and #Mecklenburg-Vorpommern or regions of Spain, while the benefits in soils like Hessen, Western Germany in general and most likely the whole of central europe aren't that extraordinary, even tho they are most likely always beneficial.

With respect to the profile @permaculture, that is a friendica forum page for the fediVerse.
"Our setup" includes the forum page server https://tupambae.org/ as well as the friendica server https://tupambae.com/ harboring also the forum page profiles @permaculture for english and french and @permakultur for german. If you subsribe to a #forumPage and mention that profile in a inicial post (toot) that post will be reshared by that profile page and send to all it's subscribers!

The dot com server is for single profiles and harbors for example a friendica profile @[email protected]. That profile, besides being a standard account in the fediverse actually mirrors publicacions of this mastodon profile over here, in part examplifying the permaculture principal:
* Every element in a system as to be covered at least by two elements/aspects.

At the same time by using #friendica we have the benefits of all the extras that a fediVerse server software brings to the table for profiles and projects like:
* #imageGallery
* #calendar
* #personalNotes and #privateMessage
* #directory for to sort publications
* no character limite
* enhanced text editing tools like #bbCode and #markdown
* #postPreview

simultanios cross publications:
* by email
* to other platforms like #diaspora, #bluesky and #tumblr

In other words, a friendica server for the fediVerse is not only a perfect choice for "Fachbereichsprofile" of a #university like
@unikassel, something like https://social.uni-kassel.de, it's also extremely usefull for projects and larger articles.

Please keep us updated in particular about this very interesting project of yours, actually the best would be as answers in this very thread, so we can save your content in our setup and spread it into the #fediVerse.
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#Markdown Is a Disaster: Why and What to Do Instead
https://karl-voit.at/2025/08/17/Markdown-disaster/

Here's my article where I summarize the subtle and no so subtle downsides when you choose Markdown for your information instead of a different markup syntax that doesn't come with all the downsides of #MD.

#publicvoit #orgdown #orgmode #LML #pandoc #rst #restructuredtext #asciidoc #Wikitext #BBCode #Creole #Crossmark #Djot #CommonMark #lockin

#Markdown Is a Disaster: Why and What to Do Instead
https://karl-voit.at/2025/08/17/Markdown-disaster/

Here's my article where I summarize the subtle and no so subtle downsides when you choose Markdown for your information instead of a different markup syntax that doesn't come with all the downsides of #MD.

#publicvoit #orgdown #orgmode #LML #pandoc #rst #restructuredtext #asciidoc #Wikitext #BBCode #Creole #Crossmark #Djot #CommonMark #lockin

It is so nice, that the #godot output window is now a richtext label that allows #bbcode .

This also means you can use the same code to show this in the output window or any UI richtext label in your game.

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/ui/bbcode_in_richtextlabel.html

It is so nice, that the #godot output window is now a richtext label that allows #bbcode .

This also means you can use the same code to show this in the output window or any UI richtext label in your game.

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/ui/bbcode_in_richtextlabel.html

So you like #FlatPress as a blogging engine, but don't really warm up to #BBCode?

@Fraenkiman has got you covered! Check out his Parsedown plugin that brings #Markdown to FlatPress: https://wiki.flatpress.org/res:plugins:parsedown

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#foss #blogging

So you like #FlatPress as a blogging engine, but don't really warm up to #BBCode?

@Fraenkiman has got you covered! Check out his Parsedown plugin that brings #Markdown to FlatPress: https://wiki.flatpress.org/res:plugins:parsedown

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#foss #blogging

@jevko I've personally been quite fond of #BBCode. HTML is too unwieldy for things like forum posts, but Markdown is too simplistic and sometimes unintuitive (compare HTML and BBCode's vs. Markdown's handling of links) and can lead to situations where it uses elements that I've meant as plaintext and mis-parses them as formatting indicators.

BBCode, like HTML, uses an uncommon character (the square bracket) as a formatting indicator, making formatting very clear, but unlike HTML's angle brackets, they can be typed without Shift on the keyboard, making BBCode quite convenient for typing.

@jevko I've personally been quite fond of #BBCode. HTML is too unwieldy for things like forum posts, but Markdown is too simplistic and sometimes unintuitive (compare HTML and BBCode's vs. Markdown's handling of links) and can lead to situations where it uses elements that I've meant as plaintext and mis-parses them as formatting indicators.

BBCode, like HTML, uses an uncommon character (the square bracket) as a formatting indicator, making formatting very clear, but unlike HTML's angle brackets, they can be typed without Shift on the keyboard, making BBCode quite convenient for typing.

bugReport | Sizing images with bbCode

https://tupambae.org/display/0ac89072-1165-5697-a050-832120248084

@gordoooo_z @PhenomX6 @futurebird @ink8 Whatever Eugen decides at this point it’s irrelevant. He’s pretty much lost his grip over holding the Fediverse brand as secondary to the notion of a fantasy “mastodon network” when he gave that Time Magazine interview two months ago in which the word “Fediverse” appeared not one single time - that caused enormous, untold damages including confusion that remains in the news media and disenfranchisement of large swaths of developers and users alike on not just other platforms, but mastodon instances themselves.

There’s really no such thing as toots anymore, Eugen himself refers to “Posts” and “Quote Posts”, and the submit button in mastodon now says “publish”. The reason #Misskey calls them “notes” is because that’s what they are actually called in #ActivityPub - there are also other types, that other platforms use as well, including “article”, although, instances like #qoto have set the character count for notes at 65535 🙂

It’s been covered in this thread already that Quote Posts are simply beyond the control of mastodon devs, Eugen’s edicts, or local mastodon users or admins, because most other platforms support it and there isn’t anything #mastopub can do about it. In Misskey, users can disallow it, but that only affects other local users, so it’s s moot point (except for silo instances).

There are very few Fediverse platforms that aren’t taking advantage of most things that are possible, for example, #Soapbox now has federated events, and introduced custom emoji reactions like Misskey has, and live chat - Misskey’s traditionally led the way with these federating features with #Calckey going even further.

Some platforms however, intentionally incorporate a leaner set of features; #Smithereen is one example, it doesn’t even sccomodate boosts, which harkens back to #Myspace, #VKontakte (aka, “VK” - not sure I spelled that right), and very early #Faceplant days. #Epicyon has anti-silo capabilities baked in.

#Mitra has #Substack style subscriptions at it’s core. Anyone can subscribe remotely from any Fediverse server instance where the user can receive DMs - and in congruence with privacy concerns that are typically expected for Fediverse implementations, it’s based on #Monero (XMR).

Most platforms also support #Markdown, with Cakckey being perhaps supporting the greatest superset IIRC, including #LaTEX, and #Friendica, being much older than msstodon, has continued to evolve over the past decade and still has support for #BBCode too, and direct links for uploading images for those who prefer to.

I didn’t see any mention of Markdown support when I bothered to look at the mastopub roadmap, yet even on that platform, Quote Posts are all throughout the stream and people boost and reply to them as the time - and, as mentioned earlier, anyone can create a post, simply pasting the link from someone else’s post, and then boost that… Voila! Local #Quote_Post.

mastodon was successful in its arrogance of leveraging some pretty graphics and welcoming verbiage into a brand that Eugen weaponized against virtually all other Fediverse platforms, and now, with all of the fine forks like #Hometown and several newcomers, we’ll soon be seeing hardforking as a result of that hostility.

But not just forks, funding and ambitious development as evidenced by existing and emerging platforms like #Cloudflare’s #Wildebeest, Tumbler, and the very unique, #Django based Takahē Fediverse server that I wrote about here:

https://tallship.writeas.com/takahe-a-new-fediverse-paradigm

Average people are already migrating in larger numbers everyday away from the archaic mastodonian resource hog to other, more capable and promising (and friendlier) platforms elsewhere in the Fediverse that have integrated and fully support #masto_migration, and even ones that don’t (yet) haver that feature.

Unlike other dinosaurs and the eponymous mammal for which Eugen chose the namesake of his #TootSuite product, we shouldn’t expect extinction for his platform, but the apathy and indifference levels are rising, as is the enmity in many sectors of the community for what others perceive as a betrayal (or sellout), and that kind of self-inflicted damage is often difficult to mitigate, with waves of disenchantment reverberating get into the future… Just look at what happened to #SourceForge - it still technically exists, but never recovered after the community betrayal it committed years ago.

And finally, there’s a irony so obvious that’s it’s not even plausible to deny… Eugen subverted the very rudimentary principal that the Fediverse network is ideologically predicated upon - #DeSoc… There’s no question that his goals shifted to that if building a silo for himself, at least to some great degree. Very sad.

An interesting thing about condescending others, you find yourself alone and isolated in an otherwise vibrant, busy world.

#tallship #Takahe #ActivityPub #privacy #community_values #FOSS

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@saustrup

Denne tråd gør mig nysgerrig på hvordan indlæg der er forfattet i #markdown (andre muligheder: #bbcode og #html — og ren tekst, selvfølgelig) og postet gennem #pleroma ser ud i #mastodon og om det evt. virker forstyrrende i en #skærmlæser 🤔

Uordnet liste:

• ren tekst
• fed skrift
• kursiv

Ordnet liste:

1. ren tekst
2. fed skrft
3. kursiv

/cc [ @JackOttoKristensen ]

@saustrup

Denne tråd gør mig nysgerrig på hvordan indlæg der er forfattet i #markdown (andre muligheder: #bbcode og #html — og ren tekst, selvfølgelig) og postet gennem #pleroma ser ud i #mastodon og om det evt. virker forstyrrende i en #skærmlæser 🤔

Uordnet liste:

• ren tekst
• fed skrift
• kursiv

Ordnet liste:

1. ren tekst
2. fed skrft
3. kursiv

/cc [ @JackOttoKristensen ]

Making summaries in a long article?