Telegram is notoriously insecure and routinely cooperates with govs behind the scenes while talking a big game about speech and privacy. Even their limited opt-in (roll their own) encryption is sus. The more you know 🌈
the colony, screenshot, macintosh (1988) https://www.mobygames.com/game/3489/the-colony/screenshots/macintosh/319272/
If you're interested in working with me in public on open specifications for miniature racks like those in 1970s computer labs then check out this newly created Codeberg repo: https://codeberg.org/trevorflowers/desktop-computer-lab
I just really want many people to be able to make interoperable miniature rackable retrocomputers, OK? 😺
#desktopComputerLab
it occured to me that if the web is full of junk (like ai-generated seo content etc), are there search engines where you can create and share with others your own (potentially big) sets of domains to include in the search? (edit for clarification: people would cobble together their own curated subset(s) of the web and just ignore the junk)
Yikes, bailing on the platform you funded because they are worried about safety is quite the stand.
https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana
Tried looking up the average height of one story of a building, in the current era of the internet.
I wonder if this is what having a stroke feels like.
The opposite of "rise and shine" would be "collapse and absorb light" and personally I think I'd like to be encouraged to become a black hole.
BBC: Saudi forces 'told to kill’ to clear land for eco-city https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68945445 #dystopia
Programming mantras are proverbs https://lobste.rs/s/ouybxe #programming
https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/programming-mantras-are-proverbs/
The New York Times is a reactionary rag these days because the executive editor feels that activism went too far in 2020 and he explicitly sees his job as winding that back.
so expect continued deliberate malice from the NYT going forward
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/05/2024/joe-kahn-the-newsroom-is-not-a-safe-space
@KellyandRoger@kinky.business What about https://standardnotes.com/ ?
There's a bunch of other note taking software I could recommend (e.g. Obsidian), but Standard Notes seems about the closest to Google Keep
“I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
#WilliamBlake
How fucked up would it be to use JavaScript on a microcontroller to read from EMGs to give me a new usb mouse/keyboard that's just a bunch of wires I strap to myself? https://www.espruino.com/USB
https://hackaday.io/project/8823-super-simple-muscle-emg-sensor
Probably not for typing any time soon but maybe for window manager shortcuts and moving my cursor?
Many yearn for the "good old days" of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.
https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/