Post by @TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space

2026-07-23 16:21 UTC

If your ebook reader app can't even attempt to open a raw .txt file, in 2026, something has gone profoundly, fundamentally wrong in the development process. Plain text is literally the baseline of computing, how is this an edge case? Speaking from experience, it's moderately difficult to have a parser that handles almost all .txt files in all encodings well, but not even trying is just pethetic.

Replies (8)

@Scott@tweesecake.social 2026-07-24 02:58

@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space This is why all blindy apps need in-built radio players, music could soothe your discomfort.

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@ysotomayor@mastodon.social 2026-07-23 16:34

@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space The hell? The 25 year old note taker I found in my workplace's closset can handle txt right.

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@Pool@dragonscave.space 2026-07-23 16:34

@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space which E book reader is that I wonder

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@Aryan@dragonscave.space 2026-07-23 16:46

@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space I want to know what it is.

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@jscholes@dragonscave.space 2026-07-23 17:44

@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space If it's not a jab at a six-thousand-dollar notetaker, is it a jab at a 400 MB text editor with six thousand menu items?

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@sparksexist@dragonscave.space 2026-07-23 17:57

@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space who did it?

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@ragb@masto.pt 2026-07-23 23:01

@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space Maybe not dfancy enough to vibecode and put on the 3rd 20 page generated document of the day they call release notes.

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@stgiga@blahaj.zone 2026-07-23 23:51

@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space As someone who wrote code that deals with TXT files this shit is wild.

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