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Re:How I do my computing by pb9lrpweu on Sunday May 17, 2015 @12:51PM (#9560696)
> RMS is a brand

No, he's a person, trying to live the life he wants - just like everyone else. That he is talked about does not make him a brand. GNU is his brand.

> The jarring "Oh the CSS hasn't loaded" moment is precisely what he wants you to experience.

Actually, Stallman's website has been around for decades - as has the GNU project - and his sites have always been very plain. I don't think I'd describe consistent apathy for gimmick as a gimmick.

> The kind of people who visit his site know how to use reading mode on their browser

What's reading mode?

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Re:How I do my computing by dredmorbius on Monday May 18, 2015 @03:37AM (#9563193)
"Reading mode" on Safari is an integrated support for Readability (http://www.readability.org), which presents a minimally styled, highly readable, Web page.

I prefer a strongly similar design for my own sites.

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Re:How I do my computing by thrownaway122 on Sunday May 17, 2015 @05:15PM (#9561725)
> What's reading mode?

I think that it is something invented by the people that have pushed for huge javascript monstrosity websites so that they can avoid the javascript monstrosities...

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