marginalia.nu is really cool. I mean, it’s a black hole of time and productivity, the way StumbleUpon was way back, before the SEO people learned about it, but it’s really cool!
I had an entertaining “sometimes stereotypes are there for a reason” moment where I clicked on the git link and went “hey what language is this anyway?”, and randomly browed down the directory tree to marginalia.nu/marginalia_nu/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/wmsa/configuration before seeing my first source file. “It’s java, isn’t it” hit me about a third of the way down the list, before I got to the java dir, but I was kind of curious how deep it would go.
If you feel the need to complain about how something doesn’t align with your personal philosophical convictions and fails to satisfy your criteria for ideological purity, please write a really long and angry essay about this topic, and send it to kontakt@marginalia.nu.
Don’t forget to press caps lock as you begin typing to save your pinky fingers, I wouldn’t want to be responsible for nasty RSI.
I’ve never used marginalia.nu, but that made me laugh and want to check it out.
I think the intent was more to make fun of the person doing the screaming at a random FOSS author and to underscore how unpleasant RSI would be for that person. I don’t think this was intended to make fun of RSI itself or those who have it for any number of reasons that don’t, likely, include screaming at the author.
It feels like literally a direct reference to Richard Stallman and his RSI & “Emacs pinkie”, being the archetypal “ideological purity” complainer. Why (charitably?) assume one is being disingenuous as opposed to just having a different interpretation?
On the orange site, I asked for an “about” page, and got this helpful link. There’s also a question of sharing the indexes, which has some hurdles about bandwidth and disk space - “I’m probably producing around 250-500 Gb data/month at this point.” If only I had fiber at home…
I’m currently looking for hosting for a large term frequency data file that is necessary for several of the search engine’s core functions. I really don’t have the bandwidth to serve it myself. It’s only a couple of hundred megabytes so it’ll probably be solvable somehow.
Isn’t this a perfect use case for seeding it as a torrent with a bandwidth limit set on it?
Does anyone know what the icons mean after the search? I’ve seen “eye”, “man with magnifying glass”, and, I think, “factory”? No way to gleam their meaning on mobile from what I can tell.
Having never heard of this site before, I appreciated that a search for marginalia in itself doesn’t immediately turn up itself as the first result. Sounds like open sourcing is the best next step to continue to grow a cool project.
marginalia.nu is really cool. I mean, it’s a black hole of time and productivity, the way StumbleUpon was way back, before the SEO people learned about it, but it’s really cool!
I had an entertaining “sometimes stereotypes are there for a reason” moment where I clicked on the git link and went “hey what language is this anyway?”, and randomly browed down the directory tree to
marginalia.nu/marginalia_nu/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/wmsa/configurationbefore seeing my first source file. “It’s java, isn’t it” hit me about a third of the way down the list, before I got to thejavadir, but I was kind of curious how deep it would go.I’ve never used marginalia.nu, but that made me laugh and want to check it out.
Feels a bit unnecessary to make fun of RSI, something debilitating.
I think the intent was more to make fun of the person doing the screaming at a random FOSS author and to underscore how unpleasant RSI would be for that person. I don’t think this was intended to make fun of RSI itself or those who have it for any number of reasons that don’t, likely, include screaming at the author.
This isn’t making fun of RSI, it’s making fun of angry nerds on political crusades, and claiming otherwise is disingenuous to be charitable.
It feels like literally a direct reference to Richard Stallman and his RSI & “Emacs pinkie”, being the archetypal “ideological purity” complainer. Why (charitably?) assume one is being disingenuous as opposed to just having a different interpretation?
On the orange site, I asked for an “about” page, and got this helpful link. There’s also a question of sharing the indexes, which has some hurdles about bandwidth and disk space - “I’m probably producing around 250-500 Gb data/month at this point.” If only I had fiber at home…
Isn’t this a perfect use case for seeding it as a torrent with a bandwidth limit set on it?
Does anyone know what the icons mean after the search? I’ve seen “eye”, “man with magnifying glass”, and, I think, “factory”? No way to gleam their meaning on mobile from what I can tell.
Having never heard of this site before, I appreciated that a search for
marginaliain itself doesn’t immediately turn up itself as the first result. Sounds like open sourcing is the best next step to continue to grow a cool project.