To be clear, articles like this are saying “China”, “Belgium”, etc. as shorthand for the national government of that country.

Not that everyone in that country must switch; only that the country-level government is declaring they will switch computers they use.

This does have a strong effect on what other organisations and individuals use, but it lags a long way and certainly doesn’t directly affect everyone in the country.

With that said: Yeah the Chinese government is made up of a great many more people than European national governments. It’s a big move.

I keep meaning to learn ‘tmux’. But this setup (gnome-terminal, with a GNU Screen session in each tab) does everything I need. So the motivation to switch hasn’t arrived.

Emacs has a very good shell mode.

It even has terminal emulation, but does pretty poorly IME at handling full-screen terminal applications.

Plenty of web clients allow the user to turn off JavaScript. Which is a good safety and security measure.

If a web site breaks without JavaScript, that’s the fault of the web site designers and implementers.

I’d love to. Sadly, when I do leave JavaScript alone, too many web sites that should work fine just break.

Web applications need JavaScript.

Web sites do not; the static web technologies allow basically any styling, and browsing any content your browser can handle, and HTML forms work fine. In any case, many people who need to access the web site can’t run modern JavaScript. So it should work without that.

There may be special dynamic enhancements that require JavaScript, but the site should so its core job flawlessly, without any JavaScript.

Not just you. For more than a quarter century, we’ve known that if a paragraph’s text lines sprawl across a wide screen, it’s more difficult for most people to read. (And the same is true if the lines are too short. There’s an optimal range.)

https://jamesmattison.co.uk/method/why-line-length-matters-for-legibility/

For this reason, it’s good for a website’s style rules to limit how wide (measured in characters) a column of text can get, regardless of how much screen there is to expand into.

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A child of five would understand this. Fetch me a child of five.

—Groucho Marx

Of course, that works only when everyone’s in the same room. I don’t have a good replacement for teams that connect remotely.

Yet another way that the good ideas from Agile got crushed to meaninglessness by Business Idiocy.

The whole point of the “stand up meeting” is, by forcing everyone to stand together, to encourage everyone to keep it brief and to the point, so it benefits everyone without sucking their time.

Screenshotting a text post on the Fediverse, to post an opaque image on the Fediverse.

The post was right there to be shared.

Without this, we wouldn’t be sure the agent does a good job!