it opened up a lot of complicated questions about governance (for ICANN etc) that I didn't feel super well-equipped to answer but I think it would be cool to explore

Here's chatgpt's take on it! Hah!

https://chatgpt.com/share/69fb516a-33c4-83e8-8746-f40b0557375c

I don't think a colon fits at all. Comma perhaps. My hyphen-as-em dash seems to be the appropriate way to handle it - at least that's what I'll continue doing.

An example (picked at random) of how my style differs (and not saying that you should change anything)

> This is the old machinery. Not pure. Not beautiful. Not easy to use.

This is the old machinery: not pure, beautiful or easy to use.

No idea which is more correct or effective. But yours just reeks of LLM, even if it isn't

On a related note, I've found myself wanting to double down on my preferred writing style in response to LLM style taking over.

I tend to be very long-winded, and surely flirt with the line of run-on sentences/comma splices. But, to me, that's better than all of the 3-6 word "punchy" sentences that llms prefer. I'm allergic to it now

Likewise, Ive always used hyphens in place of em dashes. Cant be bothered to figure out how to insert one of those, and certainly won't going forward

One comment: Using the boring internet sometimes depends on privilege at the moment. Learning how to set up servers and interact with less-explored protocols often requires a huge time + energy investment. I find that easy to forget.
(I don't think that privilege dependency is fundamental: Software improvements can reduce failure modes and increase compatibility; I've also been thinking about self-updating small server boxes to physically hand out to friends who want their own file storage and fediverse instances. Though those would be instances of social privilege. Hm.)

fwiw, I had the exact same sense while reading that fantastic post. Not to an excessive degree - I just thought there was a tasteful amount of it used to tidy up what had been hand written.

I'm glad no Ai was used, yet perhaps even more disappointed that some manners of writing are now forever tainted

I just subscribed to your rss feeds, via feedly which I've recently revived and am cleaning up. Sad that Current is apple-only. A PWA would be ideal, and aligned with your ethos...

I really hate that they took good patterns and apply them everywhere without discrimination, which now make them sus when humans apply it where they belong.

if i do use ai on writing I will 100% disclose it

But the shape of it, or at least some parts of it, is very similar to ChatGPT's preferred prose style.

Did you get assistance from an LLM? If you did, no shade because you used it for something good. But you should disclose it. If you did not, well, it's proof that some rhetorical patterns are hopelessly tainted now.

The finger protocol is a favourite of mine. I’m glad happy net box is around for that and it means on the Vision Pro I can display random people’s updates on the wall beside my desk.