On a tangent: For the specific task of (what's now called) word processing, there's a mighty fine book showing how the tools on a UNIX system can add up to something greater than the sum of the parts. See https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/utp/
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Back to the future - Interacting with threadiverse communities through Usenet / NNTPThere's https://eternal-september.org/
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Federating answers out to other servers?Some threads come in from elsewhere, e.g. https://billboard.bsd.cafe/topic/db5881ef-e539-44f5-9c80-6ca6f4675226/if-you-really-know-your-gnu-coreutils-you-probably-don-t-need-as-many-extra-tools-as-you-think.
When answering to that, I see my response on here, but not elsewhere (such as the original server of that thread: https://snac.bsd.cafe/r1w1s1/p/1775189213.762361)
Is it supposed to be like that?
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Huge images?The site logo (also used for a couple of forums, like this one) loads slow enough that I can see it show up. I checked and https://billboard.bsd.cafe/assets/uploads/system/site-logo.png (with some cache-busting ?v=... suffix) is 2MB!
I'm not sure if it really needs to be a 2048x2048 pixels, 24bit PNG. Same size as a 16 colors PNG: virtually identical, 390kb. Same size, but jpg: 297kb. And even that seems excessive to me for a logo that's usually scaled down to thumbnail size.
