I love finding 1995 style hand-coded HTML mad scientist web sites that are still actively maintained in 2019.
"Here's my extremely niche thing that I'm into and tinkering with and learning about and thinking about all the time, and I am compelled to share my knowledge with the internet via this un-navigable web site that makes no goddamn sense anymore"
A True Story Of 'Copyright Piracy': Why The Verve Will Only Start Getting Royalties Now For Bittersweet Symphony
@dankwraith bbut how else will the world ever truly appreciate my idea of scheme but for fish???
https://v2.jacky.wtf/post/9a3f803a-9482-43b8-b8f4-1dbff7a13178
Stop using Google Chrome.
Google Chrome is moving to remove autonomy from Web users. Excuse me while I purge it from my machines. Please remember - it’s a “open source” “project” (commerically provided product) whose goal is to not to “affect our [Google’s] ability to customize ads and/or could block ads online, which would harm our business” (from their SEC 10-K filing).
Google Chrome is not built for people; it’s built for Google, by Google. You are their bank.
Mastodon is my protest song against Twitter, but honestly, shouldn't a protest song be fun to sing? Shouldn't it feel more like a foot-stomping gospel song, and less like a funeral march?
I have yet to really come to terms with my extreme disappointment with the tech industry. Not just with the "techlash," but with many more personal things:
- burning out on being an open-source maintainer
- realizing that the browser industry is brutal and uncompetitive
- noticing how many tech influencers are just seeking out social media validation through Twitter or GitHub
- realizing that the frontend JS community is largely fad-driven rather than evidence-driven
I could go on
Facebook wants up to 30% of fan subscriptions vs Patreon’s 5%
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/26/facebook-vs-patreon/
Fuck Facebook. Do not use this
re: EU copyright directive
re: Technology for the resistance
Technology for the resistance
@bhtooefr Fully agree and understand.
The larger point is to make sure that whatever software is required in order to use the network is simple enough that it will run on a large variety of existing platforms.
In practice, if it will run on a c64 or a ZX Spectrum, it will *sing* on the lowest powered modern devices available.
Technology for the resistance
@ajroach42 This is dovetailing into an interest I'm picking up lately - a segment of heavily "Galapagosized" Japanese consumer electronics, that in some cases never really left the late 90s/early 2000s gadget mindset.
...and as a result, has avoided the bloat of modern technology, even as it benefits from it. So, you get things like a digital notepad that flies on a 96 MHz ARM7, when modern tablets struggle to do the same with multi-core multi-GHz ARM Cortex-A9001s.
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/2/20/18232960/google-nest-secure-microphone-google-assistant-built-in-security-privacy Google "forgot" to tell customers about the unadvertised microphone in Nest Secure. In other news, the Greeks "forgot" to tell Troy about the unadvertised soldiers in that big wooden horse. Adtech IoT devices are not your friend.
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