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[–] [email protected] 53 points 8 months ago (2 children)

odf/odt/ods

.md

SimpleX

Matrix

OpenPGP

Last, certainly not least... ActivityPub

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Markdown really should have more widespread support than it does. It's just the right mix between plain text and an office document, I took my college notes with it in fact cause of how fast it was to format stuff. But as far as I know, there's no default program on any of the (major) OS's or Distros for viewing it.

Maybe it's just due to a lack of standards for formatting or something, but regardless I do wish it was used and supported more.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

markdown is standardized? I haven't found two parsers that parse the same file the same for any but the most trivial documents

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's what I mean by a lack of a standard for markdown. There needs to be at least a core standards for stuff (like bolding and italics), that is universal across stuff. Then if a program wants to add onto it, that's fine. But just the core parts being standardized would help a lot.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

There are some pseudo-standards for it. Github-flavoured markdown is probably the biggest of them. Then you get things like Obsidian-flavoured markdown that is based off of Github’s.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Heads up for anyone (like me) who isn't already familiar with SimpleX, unfortunately its name makes it impossible to search for unless you already know what it is. I was only able to track it down after a couple frustrating minutes after I added "linux" into the search on a lark.

Anyway it's a chat protocol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I am so confused on how simpleX works

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

going based on preliminary understanding of this shit, it looks like it does all of the user handling on the client side explicitly, server side probably doesn't do anything of the significant sort.

Or at least to a degree that provides reasonable assurance that X person is different from Y person based on the messaging alone. Though your typing style is going to significantly influence it regardless of that.

probably not accurate, just what i gleaned in about 3 minutes.