Bascht @bascht@mastodon.social

I'll soon handle and display webmentions on my blog without relying on 3rd party services 🤓 adding #webmention handling to my #Hugo backend and support for displaying them to my Hugo theme... #indieweb

"One small way to get our independence and agency back from exploitative platforms is to build personal websites to share on instead. It’s a step to taking back control, and building a web that neither relies upon, nor feeds, the harms of Big Tech."

Great post by @laura

https://24ways.org/2019/its-time-to-get-personal/

An example of a hyper-specific niche in a once widely popular platform: Loop cassettes

There are all kinds of convoluted internal pathways, but they do the same thing: Add length to seamlessly continuous playback

Magical Christmas dust is the reason I still celebrate Christmas!

I don't know why I even bother to encrypt my emails or hide my face at demos anymore....

This might or might not be a good idea at 8pm.

Mastodon: I'm so grateful for the friends I've made here, they really mean a lot to me.

Also Mastodon: Pee pee poo poo

Also Mastodon: *incredibly cursed content*

Also Mastodon: I eat trash.

My Facebook feed is 50% lost dogs and 50% people lamenting the slow death of western democracies.

late stage capitalism in action

Here is a pre-filled Form 13909, just print it out, add your personal information, and mail it to the address listed on the bottom of the form.

https://yukari.sr.ht/internet-society-form-13909.pdf

Alternatively, this file can be opened with LibreOffice Draw to make edits and prepare your document digitally:

https://yukari.sr.ht/internet-society-form-13909.odg

lodraw crash course: F2 + click drag to make a new text box, Ctrl+[ to reduce the font size to something reasonable, red icon in the toolbar along the top to export as PDF. You can send the document by email to eoclass@irs.gov.

#Accessibility
"Who can use this color combination?" a tool that shows you how different part of the population perceive your color combinations
http://whocanuse.com/?b=fedc2a&c=5a3b5d&f=20&s=

“The technology behind the internet is not incompatible with our rights, but the business model Facebook and Google have chosen is.”

Yep, that’s Amnesty International saying that.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/11/google-facebook-surveillance-privacy/

»Extinction Rebellion: Roger Hallam entschuldigt sich für Holocaust-Aussagen | ZEIT ONLINE«

https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2019-11/extinction-rebellion-roger-hallam-entschuldigung-holocaust-aussage

»Noch vor seiner Entschuldigung hatte Hallam allerdings dem Spiegel ein Interview gegeben und dabei gesagt: "Der Klimawandel ist nur das Rohr, durch das Gas in die Gaskammer fließt. Es ist nur der Mechanismus, durch den eine Generation eine andere tötet."

Außerdem sprach er von einer "bewussten Entscheidung" der Eliten, "die nächste Generation zu…