[HN Gopher] This Interview is a Mistake: A Conversation with R.U...
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This Interview is a Mistake: A Conversation with R.U. Sirius
Author : asimpleusecase
Score : 31 points
Date : 2022-05-08 06:01 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (spikeartmagazine.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (spikeartmagazine.com)
| calrain wrote:
| Right Click, Inspect, Disable Font Style
|
| Read article
| mdp2021 wrote:
| ? The font from here is a "folioLight 16px" (after a number of
| overrides in a horridly messy CSS), remarkably neat, and no
| special treatment. What was wrong at your site?
| ricardobayes wrote:
| The letter 'a' looks weird
| cecilpl2 wrote:
| This is what it looks like to me in Firefox 99 on Windows.
|
| https://imgur.com/a/ohIYfqL
| NikolaNovak wrote:
| For me, it's unreadable on Firefox. It's annoying but
| readable on Edge.
|
| https://imgur.com/a/jP7SYe4
| genericacct wrote:
| ctrl-a ctrl-c move to text editor, new. ctrl-v (or shift+ins)
| also works well. I must say even though it's hard to read that
| it reminds me visually of a 20th century badly xeroxed zine,
| which may be appropriate in this case.
| cronix wrote:
| In Firefox I just disable all custom fonts and resizing.
|
| > [General/Language and Appearance/Fonts/Advanced][uncheck]
| Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your
| selections above
| photochemsyn wrote:
| Side note: I don't think 'cyberpunk' really described the work of
| William Gibson. A better term would have been cybernoir. Take a
| look at the work of French director Jean-Pierre Melville, or late
| 1940s American film noir. For example, many "Le Samourai"
| characters would fit right into a Gibson novel.
|
| Maybe it fits a little in that the characters in Gibson novels
| were generally not the 'leaders of society' that featured so
| heavily in what is commonly called 'space opera' science fiction,
| and so his writing style was perhaps as revolutionary in the sci-
| fi genre at the time as punk was in the pop-music genre.
| na85 wrote:
| The "punk" in cyberpunk comes from the misanthropic nature of
| so many characters in the seminal works, just like in
| Neuromancer, and embodied in the trite phrase "high tech; low
| life"
| uxp100 wrote:
| IIRC the punk in the term cyberpunk was not inspired by the
| musical genre, which Gibson was not particularly familiar with,
| but of course they both share common origins in referring to a
| person as a punk.
|
| (and also IIRC at the time the line between punk and new wave
| was not as clear, patti smith, the ramones, and the Sex Pistols
| shared little other than an attitude, everything seems clearer
| in retrospect, it's a long time since I read londons dreaming
| or American hardcore or pattis memoir, and anyway, I wasn't
| there.)
| neonate wrote:
| http://web.archive.org/web/20220509164023/https://spikeartma...
| jzellis wrote:
| I wrote for Mondo in my late teens and Ken was my friend and
| mentor. A remarkable man and extremely worthy of recognition and
| celebration. And a much kinder person than his rep might suggest.
| criddell wrote:
| This is almost unreadable in Windows/Firefox. It's fine on
| iPad/Safari.
| andyjohnson0 wrote:
| On Firefox/Android the start and end of every line of text is
| clipped. And the browser isn't offering me reader mode.
| Basically unreadable.
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