I wonder if a subset of the language could be formalized, as some kind of opt-in decision. Like when TSR divided Dungeons & Dragons into D&D and AD&D...

Me too...

The year of the Linux coffee table.

It's a middle manager. It doesn't know what it's talking about, but it will talk about it with complete confidence.

I was trying to read this article but could not get to the end. Suddenly, I realized.

Same mannerisms. Same style.

Was it written with AI?

Blame the game not the player. "LinkedIn cringe style" predates generative AI (though it was arguably willed into existence in part by the evolutionary process operating on a engagement-based feed-ranking AI)

I think it was just written by someone used to making tweet threads rather than coherent articles.

Short statement. Short statement.

Dramatic conclussion.

Yes.

What is it is with one sentence paragraphs?

This drives me nuts.

It also feels like hubris that the writer believes each sentence is so important that it deserves its own paragraph.

At the same time it makes me question the writer's confidence that they may be doing this to trick the reader.

Whatever it is...

It drives me nuts.

Annoys me.

Gets on my nerves.

But alas...

That's the internet for you, and in the end...

There are bigger things to stress about.

I guess.

It still get to me.

Yes it’s not X it’s Y. I dont mind AI as such, but I’m tired of that specific style of writing.

It does seem like it - with the addition of "one sentence per paragraph", which - outside of its LinkedIn format - feels like yelling. This format doesn't incite trust in the person advising (let alone the tone).

The Atom code editor. It was good to have a mainstream alternative to VS Code, it's a pity it reached end-of-life.

Atom was by GitHub, and VS Code by Microsoft. As soon as Microsoft bought VS Code, Atom’s fate was sealed.

> As soon as Microsoft bought VS Code

Correction: I meant “As soon as Microsoft bought GitHub”.

Checkout Zed or Pulsar. Made by people who worked on Atom.

iirc Atom was the original Electron project. Eventually VS Code came along and took all the good ideas - the modularity through extensions, and Electron / web based cross platform, but made it really fast and added IDE like language support through LSP. Atom may be dead now, but the idea lives on in VS Code and the new project by the original developers of Atom: Zed

> iirc Atom was the original Electron project.

Indeed (and the names are a clue). More specifically, Electron came out of the ideas in Atom, not the other way around.

Electron was originally named Atom Shell https://www.electronjs.org/blog/electron/

Atom Shell/Electron was from the very beginning something you could use separately from Atom as a framework for creating desktop apps using Chromium/Node.js.

You’re right, I misremembered that. Thank you for the correction.

The creators went on to make Zed.

You're absolutely right!

Denmark has a digital ID service for its citizens called MitID which includes a 2FA system that can involve a smartphone app, but not necessarily. Citizens can request a code display device if they prefer not to use an app. There are also audio code readers for people with impaired vision.

The system works really well and it’s very convenient.

I think that the European Digital Identity project should not be hosting its source code and content related to European standards, guidelines, and initiatives on GitHub, a closed source product owned by Microsoft.

If nonprofits like the FSF or communities like the Debian project are able to store their code, why is an organisation with the magnitude of the European Comission unable to do it.

Why stop there? Go all in: they should not run their open source totalitarian digital control nightmare codebase on closed source hardware, because that's the real issue!

If Dr. Evil created a death ray machine to destroy all life on Earth, I would be there to say “oh it is based on an open standard, how nice”.

Quick! Save the EU from Microsoft by cloning it to your hard drive so the code can be safe and sound.

Nah seriously this doesn't really apply to Git.

This post is misleading.

The project is just an example.

It does not mean there will not be support for other ways of verification.

It also doesn't mean that there will, and it is a strong indication that there won't.

Arguing with some random developer contracted by European Commission to make example code for mobile devices is not a political solution

Exactly