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Danielle Foré

@SwiftOnSecurity and kids these days can’t even write in cursive! Moral decay of society etc lmao

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LisPi

@danirabbit @SwiftOnSecurity Practically no nation besides Russia bothers, though I'm not sure it's all that dramatic of a loss.

Its purpose - fast writing - is rarely done by hand now and even then it wasn't anywhere near as fast as shorthand (also known as stenography) even in its day of prime.

LisPi

@danirabbit Ah I see.

It's not quite on the same level, mostly because no actual capacity was lost (and books have been in print-type for so long that the notion of cursive books is practically a curiosity now), while for those systems they still very much do use those mechanisms and their obscuring does hinder the users' control and ownership of their computing.

jrm4

@danirabbit @SwiftOnSecurity

I literally wish I could unlearn both vim and cursive.

OPs point, on the other hand, is a genuinely important one, having to do with "power in the machine"

Orc

@jrm4 @danirabbit @SwiftOnSecurity Don't write cursive and you'll forget how do to it eventually (in my case, "eventually" was about 6 months -- I came of age at the tail end of the whole left-handedness is evil era, so I had the double whammy of left-handed cursive leaving smear of ink/carbon as I scribbled, and my teachers telling me that it would be far easier if I did it with my right hand.) I presume that forgetting vim-isms would work much the same way, but you should be using berkeley vi like G-d themselves intended anyway.

@jrm4 @danirabbit @SwiftOnSecurity Don't write cursive and you'll forget how do to it eventually (in my case, "eventually" was about 6 months -- I came of age at the tail end of the whole left-handedness is evil era, so I had the double whammy of left-handed cursive leaving smear of ink/carbon as I scribbled, and my teachers telling me that it would be far easier if I did it with my right hand.) I presume that forgetting vim-isms would work much the same way, but you should be using berkeley vi like...

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