@davew recently asked:When we say something is on the web what does that mean
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@davew recently asked:
When we say something is on the web what does that mean?
Here is my take. I should probably preface that with a disclaimer. You would get a very different, and more representative answer if you were to ask my daughter, or really anyone who doesn’t work with opensource and doesn’t have strong ideals around the open web. 🙂
For a lot of people, I think the lines between the internet and the web have blurred. Or maybe it was never clearly defined in the first place? We say things like “I saw it on the web” when we really mean “I saw it online,” whether that was on an app, in a newsletter, or on TikTok.
The Internet means so much today. The Internet is IoT, the smart devices in our homes. Internet is the social media apps we use to exchange messages and pictures. Internet is the apps we use to order pizza, check the weather. Internet is the endless stream of videos we scroll through for a small dopamine hit.
For me, “the web” is none of that. It has a specific meaning. When I think about “the web”, I think about something that lives at a URL I can open in a browser. Something that’s linkable, shareable, aed readable from anywhere, without having to install an app, or be logged in.
I know this sounds like an old man’s view. I don’t see my view as nostalgia though. I see it as a way of thinking about information and content that’s open, interconnected, and (hopefully) durable (Cool URIs don’t change). When I say “on the web,” I’m picturing that open space of websites, blogs, wikis. I see the web as an opposition of the ever-growing walled gardens of the Internet.
I’ve written all this before looking at any of the replies Dave got so far. I’ll now go and check!
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When you paste a url into a selection, the text you selected becomes a link to that url.
“Cute paste” is a nice name for this feature @davew! It’s a much better name than “Paste a URL over text to make a link”.
Over the years, I’ve become so used to this feature in WordPress / Slack / GitHub / Notion, that it’s really frustrating when it’s missing from an editor. At least once a week I make the mistake in Google Docs for example. I’m glad to see it appear in WordLand.
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Les récentes tribulations de notre gouvernement et de notre premier ministre sont frustrantes pour beaucoup de raisons. Mais c’est pour moi une autre occasion de me demander pourquoi nos institutions continuent à utiliser Twitter pour faire leur communication. Notre (ancien) premier ministre continue de publier des annonces sur son compte Twitter, qui ne sont pas disponibles ailleurs. Son compte “vérifié” assure que ses tweets sont visibles même à ceux qui n’ont pas de compte, mais ce n’est pas le cas de tous nos politiques, et l’expérience reste tout de même assez pourrie.
Est-ce trop demander d’avoir nos représentants utiliser une plateforme entièrement controlée par le gouvernement français. Je pensais que c’était justement le rôle d’@admin.
Je rêve d’un monde ou le site du gouvernement listerait autre chose que Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, WhatsApp, YouTube, et RSS (yay !!!) comme manière de suivre le gouvernement :
Si vous partagez mon opinion, allez-donc signer la pétition : Cesser d’utiliser X (anciennement Twitter) pour les communications officielles du gouvernement
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Ça me semble logique. TER est peine, et c’est la vérité. 🙂
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Je me suis fait la même réflexion avant d’activer la “reader view” sur Firefox. Mais je le fais sur de plus en plus d’articles, donc je me dis que c’est plus moi qui vieillis qu’autre chose 😅
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I’m happy to see myself there, thank you, but I think my WordPress feed https://herve.bzh/c/wordpress/feed/ may be more appropriate 🙂
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Rien que d’y repenser, la musique d’intro de Mc Gyver me revient en tête, c’était vraiment quelque chose.
Highlander aussi, avec la chanson de Queen au générique ! “Here we are, born to be kings,…”
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I really appreciate that illustrator. It’s been great revisiting those moments of the show, and the animation really adds value to the replay. ♥️
