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lambdaba on Jan 9, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Simplicity of IRC

Well, in practice you can have binary input, as many programs do, but human-readable free-form text is the simplest interface there is.

We just need more modern terminals that can handle that.

alkonaut on Jan 9, 2022 [–]

> We just need more modern terminals

Yeah like smartphone apps , webapps, and desktop guis…

lambdaba on Jan 9, 2022 | [–]

Those are apps, I mean a glue / universal interface layer that's 100% owned by the user

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