: When to Talk and When to Stop Manufacturing the Opposition's Armaments Within the last few months I have noticed a troubling trend from men* in, and adjacent to, …
: Software As Training Wheels In an interview from the nineties, Steve Jobs described the computer as a “bicycle for the …
: What Should We Expect of Our Professions? In a different career, as a younger person, I had the great honor to land at a city owned theatre, …
: Finding bio labs with viruses seems like something that would raise more alarm bells in a …
: Idle Thoughts on Romantic Chatbots Wired ran an article featuring people romantically engaged with chatbots. I don’t really know …
: Publicly Funded Frugal Computing I know that my current government would not do something like this, but imagine if governments were …
: Tethered I recently completed a 600-mile round-trip drive to witness a pair of my dearest friends get …
: I know it’s not in vogue for corporations to hire people, but our work would absolutely be …
: I finished Claire Dederer’s Monsters. The first two thirds of the book are interesting enough …
: Leaving for myself useful for removing all the contents of a specific merge commit git revert -m 1 …
: Are there fantasy stories out there that don’t implicitly endorse substance dualism? Feels …
: My thinking around debt has shifted in the last few years. US debt has worked to finance the …
: I understand why the Wikimedia Foundation created a dataset that is purpose built for machine …
: I am starting to notice that the AI generated images have gone in an opposite direction. They all …
: Proposal: we inculcate a reflex that encourages people to not send messages generated by AI. If the …
: Useful Renumeration Programming note: Against The Future has long been a catch-all blog. I never really intended for …
: I wish I was better at is completing writing on a piece when I first feel its rumblings. There are …
: The OpenAI Ghiblification release is clearly Altman and his acolytes doing it as a show of force …
: Seeing calls for other countries to ignore US copyright protections. My monkey’s paw brain is …
: Yesterday, I continued working on a writing project that I last touched back in June. It’s …
: I told myself I’d get my SBC with YunoHost on it running so I could try out GoToSocial but …
: I think I am getting worse at spelling. I suspect this is because spell checking has become …
: Told myself I’d spend one hour on the hobby programming project last (narrator: he would spend …
: This and the keyboard from Simple Mobile Tools appear to be the only actively maintained FOSS …
: Another day of alarm, an anecdote, and the barest of salves My girlfriend found a 3D printable cat grass planter and asked if I could do it. I, of course, said …
: I just finished reading On Lying and Politics. It’s a short read that I started a while ago …
: Hoping the Framework 12 is a reasonable price in the budget computer space. I have trouble …
: Raspberry Pi Zero doesn’t support power switching. Cooooool. I wish I had thought about the …
: Last night, I was catching up with an old friend on the phone. Sony and the PS5 going down had him …
: It’s nowhere near done but I’ve put about 60 hours into a desktop application that takes …
: Regional Exchange Programs I read recently that an increasing number of Americans have never lived anywhere outside where they …
: Finally, looked into Cura plugins. That there is a measuring tool is great news. Weird that this …
: There’s a very good chance that a computer I purchased used from a friend to get me through …
: I spend my workdays in Go and YAML. I’ve got a hobby project that I ended up choosing Python …
: Hey #Fedi, Can anyone who’s written plugins for NickelMenu or Koreader point me in the right …
: While the getting is good, Warner Brothers has full-length movies available in a playlist on …
: The Treasury Crisis Is the Most Immediate Threat There is so much going on but God this is dire. Musk and his young fascist programmers have read and …
: Imagining how well software would run if any given company’s developers weren’t on a …
: Plagiarism is cool if you first launder it through the fossil fuel industry. …
: It’s been years in the making, but it’s happening. I’m in a long-running play by …
: Good news for people running Rebble firmware on their old Pebbles. rebble.io/2025/01/2… Also, …
: 30 days from now, my Facebook account will be unrecoverable. I was expecting to be able to fully say …
: Fixed the toilet flapper and now I have one less thing to fix.
: Anyone who gets joy from gardening, mending their own clothes, and generally doing things …
: Pulled my FreedomBox out of storage and slapped YunoHost on it. My experience with YunoHost is good …
: If you’re going to be putting roots down somewhere new in the US, at least take a look at this …
: Final Draft 10 Users As a result of security concerns for both our network and our customers, we …
: I see reports that countries and companies are rushing to AI to help the economy. What if you simply …
: I’ve gotten a lot of mileage and learned a lot as a developer because of Go. I decided to …
: Printing something with a raft instead of a brim. This is my first time printing a raft and …
: I have yet to get myself into the habit of making profiles for 3D printing (my printer isn’t …
: Printing my first lithophane. It’s definitely going to take more than one try for me to dial …
: I’ve written the beginnings of this one play several times since 2014. I have long had the …
: It’s silly that Go allows you to test if you have race conditions but the compiler …
: I don’t have any ambitious projects in Python. Closest thing is a webscraper I wrote once. I …
: Celebrating Public Domain Day 2025 This year, in celebration of public domain day, I went and saw a public screening of Blackmail. The …
: Anti-Flag is one of those bands that sort of inoculated me to the dominant logic of my adolescent …
: Something quite unusual has happened to me. I cannot find a receipt for a large purchase I ordered …
: There’s often a moment for me when I have a thought and I start working on it and it seems …
: Concept: A home maintenance focused crawler that goes through and just gets all the web pages and …
: Happy Public Domain Day! It’s a shame that our cultural inheritance was locked up for 70 …
: Can We Kill AI? Please. I want to think about something else. I hate that every time I go to write a blog post, it …
: Y’all want to see some text that has aged poorly. “The amount of carbon dioxide in the …
: We need a better apparatus for teaching people to opt out of streaming. Navidrome is a solid, easy …
: A system is probably safe and robust if it can have its guardrails removed by mocking it like the …
: A while ago AOC tweeted in defense of the inside baseball game she was playing because it meant that …
: My friend and I have picked up working on a project that got put on a hiatus nearly a decade ago. …
: This seems like one of those water is wet findings but it is interesting to see specifics like RTO …
: I immensely benefitted from my time at HOPE last year. I’m thrilled to learn I’m only …
: I saw a screening of Interstellar 5555 last night. I had never seen it before, but a guy has to take …
: www.science.org/doi/10.11… Haven’t thought much about chirality since high school …
: Never has a person said, “I wish I were talking to a machine” and yet… …
: I’m doing some research for any groups that could help people because a few acquaintances have …
: I’m now managing a wide enough collection of websites for friends that I’m considering …
: Rewatching Spider-Man 2 and the idea that a paper paid Peter Parker $300 (~$526 adjusted for …
: The audio provided by ProPublica here is an example of ghouls in their natural habitat. …
: People responsible for systemic harm towards millions of people seek to keep a lower profile. …
: Ugh. When was Beeper acquired by Automattic?
: ProPublica has a tool for figuring out why your claim was denied. …
: The new feature where your mastodon mentions show up in the micro blog UI is neat.
: I fear that when the AI hype cycle ends, all the cheap compute that comes out of trying to do …
: Cobra Kai is a speculative fiction about a society organized without the police.
: I’ve got a CLI project that I work on a few times a year. I’m cursing myself for …
: A municipal government should have the capacity to host ticketed events without a for-profit …
: I had to register for tickets through Eventbrite to recycle e-waste and I have a ten-minute window …
: I came across this blog about managing the various tools used in your Go development via a tools.go …
: Been waiting for the analysis that looks at all the social welfare programs that lapsed. …
: Cape, a privacy focused MVNO seems promising. I would be curious how they determine who is a …
: I picked a good time to get into FreeCad blog.freecad.org/2024/11/1…
: A few years ago I went looking into the Conflict Free Replicated Data Types and the world seems to …
: Anyone noticing very slow interaction times with Codeberg in the CLI? Does this have something to do …
: Putting this out in the world in the hopes I can do it. I have some holiday time off coming up. Some …
: I never worried about Social Security going insolvent because there have always been simple …
: One of the better Verge episodes regarding AI The Vergecast: Making human music in an AI world …
: Hypothetical software: KDE but rename all the apps something sensible.
: I feel that I have been graced with a robust education. I was set on a path that encouraged me to …
: There’s a not insignificant part of me that wants to purchase a Framework before tariffs come …
: With any luck, the Democrats are in crisis and will start looking for ideas lying around. …
: Since the NYT Tech Guild is on strike here’s where I’m following along Key Races and …
: I finally had an idea for a mobile app that I’d be excited to work on. I’ve been wanting …
: Some morning music Autobahns First LP
: The New York Times Tech Guild workers are on strike. This appears to be the first time tech labor in …
: Another worryingly warm day in November. I have to believe that if we could fuck up the environment …
: Links November 4, 2024: Banning the Gas-Powered Car, Music Industry Hard Drives, and Freeing the McFlurry It is the eve of the election and I had some time to burn through the read it later pile. I avoided …
: I’m not sure where to weigh the concerns of frugal computing with the concerns of testing but …
: The Verge Endorses Harris When JD Vance was announced as Trump’s running mate, The Verge ran a story that, I felt, …
: The Navidrome web client doesn’t have a repeat feature. This is fine, it just reminded me that …
: I wish there were a 14-inch version of the Framework laptops. Work had me on a 13-inch Macbook until …
: If I were in charge of Jira, I’d kill the subtask feature or make it invisible to sprint …
: I’ve listened to this album at least 10 times since I got it yesterday. It’s a sub-30 …
: Been a long time coming, but I finally have the plugin-based chatbot that can handle slash commands …
: The things that the LLMs are good at with coding are things that I would be happy to have an intern …
: Nothing like being confronted by a bad decision you made when creating something. Now I need to …
: Went to the vet today and the office had a “We’re recording” poster that explained …
: Bicycle law making it to the PA Supreme Court bikepgh.org/2024/10/2…
: Goland test framework quit unexpectedly but it works when I run the tests in the terminal and as far …
: Bicycle law making it to the PA Supreme Court bikepgh.org/2024/10/2…
: Ended up with a Raspberry Pi 400. What should I do with it?
: Firefox on Android update moved the address bar to the bottom. I can change it back but why, …
: Glasses are a weird industry. I know that it’s already a monopoly but insurance in the US is …
: I know that there would be hurdles to this for networking reasons, but it seems wild to me that …
: Every time I see a tick, I wonder if I can book a lyme disease vaccine at the vet for myself.
: I needed a task before bed and I was going to get my gemlog setup. I encountered a dockerfile and a …
: techcrunch.com/2024/10/0… Automattic has so far called all of WP Engine’s claims meritless. …
: Something I dislike about micro.blog’s new editor is that the preview function prevents you …
: Coming to the conclusion about myself that I like making software for small groups of people because …
: Naming everything with the letter K is truly the worst thing about KDE.
: I fear what will lead me to building my own CMS one day is that I wish to infinitely subdivide my …
: My blower motor went out in my furnace. I called in an HVAC technician to check it out because it …
: Put a few devices back in commission this evening. I have a regular Chromecast and a Chromecast with …
: While I did end up just using tailscale + Remmina I did find this neat web tool for connecting to …
: Found in the Fediverse September 30, 2024 Found in the Fediverse September 30, 2024 It’s very clear that Found in the Fediverse and my …
: The number of photos I have to abandon on my X100F simply because they are blurry is a little …
: I wonder if there’s any work out there on the violence that IVR systems enable. In the context …
: I want to take How to Build Your Own FM Transmitter and make a low powered transmitter that I can …
: Behold, the future. I’m sure the investment thinking is those costs will come down. As a …
: Every project at my house has me saying, “if I only had a table saw.” I’ve started …
: I hate that the various subcategories of statistical and algorithmic computing (there’s …
: Self-hostable 3D print estimate code. willuhmjs.github.io/printstim… …
: I don’t like that the window of debate around getting people more money right now between both …
: Tightened the belt on my x axis and now my circle prints are circling properly.
: You like helmets, right? Our present moment has us in a situation where finding well-written information is laborious. Last …
: Guess this is the end of purchasing consoles for me. The PS5 Pro is all about digital sales, …
: micro SDs should come in colored variety packs.
: Discovering 3D Print Files I find it a little disconcerting that the primary way to find and discover 3D prints is through …
: On the craft front today had many failures. New filament took a moment for me to dial in. Made a …
: Are there ActivityPub frameworks/libraries out there. I haven’t really looked, but one of the …
: Found in the Fediverse, September 6, 2024 It’s been about a minute. I’ve been waylaid by getting into 3D printing and it’s …
: The World Has Received Another 3D Printing Sicko The 3D printer is an incredible technology. While, I take the proliferation of plastic widgets as …
: Reporting for Influenza, RSV, and COVID resumes November 1st per and updated CDC rule. Why we …
: As far as technical books go, I’m already getting a ton of mileage out of Sean Aranda’s …
: After years of telling a friend that I think they’d like Linux, they’ve been sharing …
: I built my desktop in 2014 not all of those parts came out in 2014. I’ve done a few hardware …
: I feel like I need a separate blog for my project logs. I was gifted an Ender 3 in late 2022. I …
: Using Pixelfed to post about my more visually oriented hobbies. My latest post has been posting for …
: Found in the Fediverse - August 23, 2024 I’m happy to have been consistently finding pockets of time to dive through links I thought …
: One day I’ll get the speakers working on my chromebook that’s running Q40S w/ KDE.
: Bash command to set environment variables from .env while ignoring commented lines export $(grep -v …
: NASA Safety Decision, Dying Optical Media, and AI Copyright Traps Critical NASA Safety Decision arstechnica.com/space/202… Two astronauts have been stranded on …
: Found in the Fediverse - August 21, 2024 Clearing out some bookmarks from the last couple of days. Zen Browser www.zen-browser.app A Firefox …
: Music server has been stable. Tailscale has been great for accessing outside my house. Now, I just …
: Found in the Fediverse - August 19, 2024 I had fifteen minutes to get through some bookmarks and then my editor crashed and apparently …
: Reducing Photo Collections, PFAS in Your Diet, Dystopian Pinball - August 18, 2024 My Wallabag is 139 pages deep. I’m certain not every saved link is worth sharing out or …
: I found a beautiful wood cased Sony AM/FM radio. I’ve set it up in my woodworking space. I …
: Found in the Fediverse - August 17, 2024 I have tried on so many occasions to keep a regular link blog as a means to reading things I saved …
: Would be nice if the Go compiler detected when a nested struct had the possibility of being nil and …
: A friend of mine who has to be publicly facing as part of his job used the Bing chat to look himself …
: I’ve been exercising three times a week for the last few weeks (up from once a week) and I …
: I appreciate how micro.blog got me in the habit of posting to my own site regularly but I think …
: Needed something that was sub 30 minutes to watch and unwind at night. I’m three episodes into …
: There are so many factors that contribute to the lower quality of life in the United States, but …
: Needed something that was sub 30 minutes to watch and unwind at night. I’m two episodes into …
: I’m so disappointed I didn’t know about this until today. I was just in NYC and would …
: I know boilerplate is annoying to write but I’m coming out against generated code as the …
: Some fun notes from my notes app on this day. 2022-07-27: Saw a raccoon steal a baguette on Mount …
: The story of Cobrai Kai is a story about how an impossibly even older man is actually the greatest …
: How do we get the search indexes to be put into the public domain? The fact that something like the …
: For ~ reasons ~ I am learning some Node. I decided that I’m going to make a simple app …
: I don’t have the moments to spare, but it never occurred to me until this past weekend that I …
: During the process of sorting my office, I found a wireless dongle for a mouse I was going to put in …
: Cleaning the office and am regretfully at the place where I need to sort my unused electronics into …
: I am two for two on setting up nodes in projects that require virtually nothing from me after …
: Readings from in and around and transit to and from #hopexv. The early morning and late evening …
: Received my first packets from a LEO satellite. Apparently, one of the satellites from this launch. …
: First thing I did after unpacking is setup my groundstation I made at #hopexv. Waiting for my first …
: Installed Zed on my Chromebook. I’ve been using LiteIDE. Zed feels snappy so far. …
: Installed Zed on my Chromebook. I’ve been using LiteIDE. Zed feels snappy so far. …
: Kubertnetes is a good way to learn about Linux internals the hard way. Today’s lesson: ARG_MAX
: “on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.” This gets me every time. I know …
: I’ve switched my personal API request client to Bruno, and I am pushing for this within my …
: My kingdom for a search engine that isn’t also in the large language model arena. I imagine …
: I never considered the noise pollution angle of data centers and other mass compute operations. This …
: My digital illustration instuctor introduced us to The Bézier Game yesterday. Nice, gamified way to …
: Completed my first battery & screen replacement today. This phone is skipping a landfill and …
: The Hachette v Internet Archive sort of jolted me awake and I have now made the IA a place I donate …
: The OUYA can apparently be restored to functionality. I think about then this device anytime I am …
: didthis is a neat app. I’ve had this idea for my own hobbies, but building an app for my …
: I’ve long wanted to create documentation for my house. I’ve got many files for the …
: Pretty interesting to see the varying levels of HTML 5 APis between Chrome and Firefox. Fortunately, …
: The Hare language pitch was designed in a lab to target me. As I’ve said before, we want to build …
: I’ve been having this bizarre bug on Zorin OS where, when I print something, it freezes the …
: Apparently, Mycroft Mark IIs have been failing. I stopped exploring the possibilities with mine once …
: To give myself a way to backlog things I’m interested in but don’t want to spend an …
: The first chapter of Ted Striphas' Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet contains an engaging …
: It feels like the conservatives have just fucking won. The administrative state may was well be …
: I think the biggest roadblock to me diving into Veilid is that so much of the knowledge about …
: There should be a threshold where websites are deemed too important to shut down. I’m not …
: In Unraid, my logs were at 100 percent. I partially assume long-running uptime is to blame, but I …
: Twice today, I’ve had to use Chrome to complete a task instead of Firefox.
: Several years ago, I pavlov’d myself into being able to be extremely productive with one …
: Hate to admit this, but after I get through some of my other software projects, I kind of want to …
: “Sony’s purchase marks the first time a studio has moved in on a theater chain since the …
: The drones powering this persistent surveillance are not DJI’s. They are increasingly Skydio’s. And …
: I find myself in this silly position where instead of using a USB switcher for my keyboard/mouse, I …
: My Android phone detected that I’m using a screen protector and has a mode for this occasion. …
: I’ve heard that running Windows apps on Linux has gotten much, much better. Despite using a …
: This AI rant lifted my spirits a bit today ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-wi…
: Anyone who values freedom should celebrate Juneteenth. This clip from Henry Louis Gates Junior is a …
: A real #OthetNetworks moment www.universalhub.com/2018/nort…
: This seems like a pretty wild Wi-Fi driver flaw. www.tomsguide.com/computing…
: I haven’t been able to get my speakers working on Q4OS w/ KDE. Today, I decided to try the …
: Regretfully, I am now living a dongle life.
: I just discovered that software can become Blue Angel certified. eco.kde.org/handbook/
: I am taking a digital illustration class. Had the first session tonight. I am still excited about …
: The urge to waterproof, wire, and generally finish the basement has never been stronger. I could …
: I think for our next pandemic, we’re going to be worse off than we were for COVID. As the …
: I’ve been getting inconsistent performance at of those 2.4Gz dongles. It’s happened …
: Having the weirdest issue where my monitor has this horizontal banding that crops up randomly. …
: I think the Pixel 4/4a were perfect phones. A flippant wish would be to public domain the design of …
: There’s still time to comment on the CDC’s vaccine recommendation. People’s CDC …
: Reading about this decision from a French court to force DNS providers to tamper with their …
: Doing research on embedded eventing systems and stumbled across this very lightweight message …
: I’ve been out of the theatre industry for some time now. When will I reach a point where the …
: If you aren’t in or can’t make it to NYC, you can still attend HOPE XV virtually. …
: Yesterday, I was using my bike. A guy passed me really close. The whole way down the hill, I was …
: Writing tests is the hard part, partially because it’s tedious. I need to get better about …
: Millenial to boomer: Here’s how you save a Word document to PDF Millenial to zoomer: I’m …
: My brother sent me his resume to look at via a Cavna link. I asked for a PDF but spared the lecture …
: I think parents deserve maternity and paternity leave, but it seems like there should be a …
: On days where my commitments are low I always have a ton of hopes and dreams for what I’ll …
: What are some ideas for things that would make the most sense as a monolith application? Pretty much …
: The curse of using Linux is that you get curious about the different flavors. Do I risk it all for …
: The number of sites that are just increasingly outright hostile to me not loading all of their …
: I’m now a Chromebook Linux evangelist. Since I slapped Q4OS on the machine, I’ve enjoyed …
: Asunder is such a great piece of software. It’s fast and it is great at grabbing metadata.
: I’ve been looking for an excuse to learn how to use a laser cutter. There’s a craft …
: I think it’s pretty great that there are some embedded OSes in the world getting 10+ year …
: Posting for later if I ever get into HAM radio. www.cqrlog.com
: OpenAI will now spit out phrases about legal child murder and gadgets …
: Slash pages are a neat idea slashpages.net
: I went to look for a screenshot of the original tweet that suggested the Tom Bombadil poem as …
: Ran into that weird micro.blog issue where I try to log in and it just doesn’t send an email.
: I’m new to working with XMPP. I’ve built a webhook bot for our server. I’ve …
: Maybe there should be stronger regulations on Spyware. Surely there’s a better IT solution for …
: Was delighted to learn that the VHS player I picked up from the thrift shop has an auto-rewind …
: Using Snikket, Converse.js, incredible prior work from Mellium, and custom XMPP chatbots I wrote, …
: Overall a solid day. Learned quite a bit about using OBS and figured out some quirks of XMPP.
: Got my brother a laptop for his graduation. I asked which system he would prefer. He asked for a …
: Just discovered Rarelust A person is preserving a bunch of old films that aren’t widely …
: Rescuing the video from a VHS that isn’t widely available online feels incredible. Adding a …
: The end is nigh for a Discord group. I am incredibly close to having parity on Snikket that I do on …
: Ugh compliance training uses AI generated voices.
: Sleep and a fresh set of eyes on the XMPP docs helped. I forgot to have the bot join the room before …
: Working with the Mellium XMPP library to write a service for a server. I’ve got programmatic …
: Got my ticket to HOPE! I’ve never been, but I’m excited to participate and meet people.
: Ordered a new battery for my Pebble from iFixIt When I got it like 7 years ago it lasted 7-10 days. …
: Ran into a person who works for Google. They said they’d been there for about 15 years. I …
: I would love to travel by train. It is ridiculous that a flight that is 1.5 hours takes 9 hours by …
: Maybe it says something that users immediately revolt when they’re informed that their data …
: Working in Krita on a more intense graphics project than I normally do, but I’m really …
: We should impose an externality cost on AI companies. Start with the emissions and just work our way …
: I had a ZWave battery powered paddle switch for my living room lights. From day 1 it presented …
: Another College Closure This time it’s hitting my undergrad alma mater They announced they are closing at the end of …
: Today, I taught a friend how to use Hugo and git to get changes for his static site into Codeberg. I …
: It’s neat that Codeberg allows you to either use their CI or to host and integrate your own.
: I don’t really want cameras in the home, but maybe I do want a replaced daily picture of my …
: Is there a spiritual successor to the Pebble? I am currently in a film photography class and the …
: I had a physical calendar in 2023 in a public space because I live with people, and it’s great …
: This seems like a real societal failure here. Only 22.8% of adults and 14.1% of children have …
: I had to go to work headquarters for the first time since I started like two years ago. The …
: Always thrilled when people recognize the Pebble in the wild. It’s happened three times since …
: I met a person in their early 40s who has a pension. I am shocked that anyone still has one.
: For ~reasons~ I’ve found myself in a “Panera Digital Cafe.” If you want a vision …
: The theatre people have turned Sufjan’s Illinoise into a musical. Not sure how I feel about …
: I’ve got 3/5 of us on a snikket server. The lack of group voice chat will need to be solved. …
: I’ve got one groupchat that might move away from Discord because of this …
: I go on about this a lot and it’s partially because when I found new music growing up it was …
: I’ve reached the stage of my life where I am interested in being able to take VHS tapes and …
: I wish there was a broadly supported UI design language that wasn’t dictated by Google or …
: Whatever happened to veilid.com I was excited when they announced, but I haven’t seen anything …
: As Spotify announces that small artists will receive no money on their platform, it’s worth …
: Just finished writing so many sequence diagrams. I never want to think boxes, arrows, or lines …
: This is tragic. I’m not into retro gaming but I’d rather a world where something like …
: My normal printer rec is just “2000s enterprise office printers off eBay.” But damn this …
: Discord announced that they will be adding some advertising to their platform. This caused an uproar …
: I still find myself reaching for my phone to idly scroll when Instagram, waiting on minor things. …
: When you have to buy the physical version of the book because you can’t stand the narrator of …
: I remembered where the Chromecast was after a half day of getting NymphCast up. It’s no longer …
: Chromecast shouldn’t be the only device that allows you to easily throw data around. I started …
: Not sure if anything else like this is out there, but tiiny.host has a feature that allows you to …
: Of course NVIDIA is helping to undercut already low paying care work. gizmodo.com/nvidia-wa…
: Bots that automatically repost when tagged are incredibly easy to abuse to spread malicious content. …
: There’s something very freeing about html & css. Even vanilla javascript is growing on me.
: Made my first set of French cleats and I’m obsessed now.
: The music blasting from fake rocks that you find inside of those spaces that can only be described …
: Where are people going for their COVID data these days? People’s CDC doesn’t seem to be …
: Haven’t had much time for personal projects. It’s been work and life. Hoping the next …
: I am spectacularly disappointed in Biden and so are many of my friends, but I think a second 45 term …
: I would love to read a book on interest rate/business environments and the style of code that gets …
: My current hell is something being technically possible.
: Many musicians now create small, almost daily music videos that have the same songs, but have …
: I’ve found myself clicking into 404 Media so frequently that I finally subscribed.
: Links February 26, 2024: Conversations from the Small Web and Recommendations I haven’t been at the newsletter in the while, but I want to get back into the habit. I have …
: Independent musicians who only have their music up on Spotify. Why? I am happy to trade money for …
: When I first encountered Zim desktop wiki in college, I was vaguely aware of version control …
: We have a critical process at work that feels like it was engineered in a lab to not work with my …
: I hadn’t had time to look into what the Sora demo was doing, but Brian Merchant did. Still …
: Play tested the character creation rules for a game my friend has been working on for years now. I …
: I’m disappointed by the Hubs news. I don’t have a ton of interest in 3D virtual worlds …
: I was initially excited that they removed the old CEO of Mozilla, but it seems like it’s going …
: I learned something interesting about Mastodon. If you default your posts to unlisted and there is a …
: Just saw the demo’s for OpenAI’s Sora. it’s just depressing. What are we even …
: In Internet for the People a few pages mentioned London’s 1980s Technology Networks. These …
: I’ve tried multiple times to use JetBrain’s Fleet. I find myself exiting and just using …
: Nearly finished with Internet for the People and I have a strong desire to see if I can do anything …
: Considering the internet’s origins, is there a future or a path where it doesn’t enable …
: I have to make my first retreat from Linux. I lost too much of my Surface Pro functionality (camera, …
: Writing up documentation or debugging investigations are some of my favorite tasks as a software …
: When you want to listen to the music in a place but none of the conversations. Really wish there was …
: I’ve been using Zorin OS for a few weeks now on my desktop and my Surface. I will probably go …
: I’ve started to opt out of email only statements and notifications. Bulk mailing helps to fund …
: I keep a daily notes blog in Confluence that can be viewed by anyone internal to the company. …
: This is not great. There’s a leak somewhere in the CU systems' supply chain. Maybe it’s …
: Multiple groupchats activate to tell me that there’s been an update from the people of …
: I noticed the kerning on an SVG I was given to use is bad. I can’t abide this.
: This will lead to me annoying my friends. If I can’t turn it off, I’ll become a full …
: Maybe I need to become a WINE person. I’ve never done it. I’ve either booted up a …
: Gave Darktable my first serious whirl tonight. It’ll more than serve my purposes. So, far the …
: Wondering if it would benefit me to repurpose a lower powered computer from the graveyard and do my …
: Several years ago now I wrote a post about how ads at gas pumps would lead to artificially slowed …
: Flagging because there’s several Pixels among my friends and family. Really hoping I …
: How much carbon is wasted on bad k8s deployments?
: The Verge has a lot of AI positive sounding headlines. I wish they approached the AI buzz with at …
: I wonder if it would be better or worse if workspace messengers had the ability to set a message to …
: Favorite work game: is it my fault or Gitlab’s
: Can’t wait for the siren song of quarterly profits to ruin the Raspberry Pi. …
: Small goal for the year is to not miss a single week of Xing Yi. I may change this for holidays or …
: I thought it was strange that there was a phone recycling box in a random exhibit room at the …
: I don’t need another project, but on the ever ambient possible projects list is writing my own …
: Spent some time really thinking through a possible time & retry problem and am happy to report I …
: A Netflix for public domain works wikidata-todo.toolforge.org/wikiflix/
: While troubleshooting something for a friend yesterday, I encountered networking issues that appears …
: Went to go order more masks and learned that Project N95 wound down at the end of 2023. …
: Team lead put me onto Mockoon and early uses indicate something pretty great.
: I had an NTFS mounting issues earlier today. I discovered this sudo ntfsfix /dev/{sdbNumber} fix. …
: I really like the idea of now pages. I had hoped to dedicate some attention to my personal website …
: A really thoughtful article that anyone interested in both day to day software practices and …
: I’m in a zoning board meeting and the chairperson has asked the presenter how the operations …
: Dismayed at how Kagi handled the feedback to using Brave results in their stack and also at how Kagi …
: System76 laptop mysteriously died. The screen won’t turn on and powering it up leads to the …
: Trying ZorinOS and liking it. I keep a Windows partition around but this may be the year where all …
: Seeing weird stuff around low stakes domains and services I monitor and manage. Trying to find any …
: Year of the Linux desktop is a state of mind.
: Comic books should have page numbers. Very annoying that a great many of them don’t.
: The secrets to a more robust public domain could lie within a video essay and by the time I finished …
: I love that people will put Linux on anything and everything. Got an old Surface laying around? …
: Just discovered that Thriftbooks has a used media market as well. Not sure how I missed that before.
: People are so needlessly hostile when you mention that you’ve opted out of something. A …
: Came back to work and Confluence has added generative AI into the editor. Can’t wait for …
: Started a project that I’m excited about. Not ready to fully discuss, but beefn working on it …
: The cognitive dissonance of being able to purchase DRM free music from Amazon but not DRM free …
: Given the preponderance of Spider-people (Peter Parker, Miles Morals, Gwen Stacy, Cindy Moon, etc). …
: I don’t have many problems with Linux as my daily driver, but I do somehow have three …
: It’s been a minute since I’ve used Processing, but I might jump back into it. Their …
: Links 12-18-2023: AI and the Rise of Mediocrity and How to Kill a Decentralised Network It’s been too long. Life accelerates and things you enjoy get deprioritized. For the remainder …
: Alright. Timeboxed to about one hour. I was able to read and write about two articles. I need to …
: I love to see mergers NOT happen. Adobe didn’t need to control more of the creative …
: I really enjoy collecting links into a proper newsletter format. Haven’t been able to do that …
: Finally, reading about the vellid framework. I’m pretty excited about this. I imagine …
: Following the Beeper updates closely in the app. The team is great about communicating with users, …
: I’ve ported some of my email addresses into Thunderbird. I’ll set up some automation to …
: I wish the micro.blog allowed for the creation of categories on the compose page.
: Journalists keep saying that in the Apple v Beeper situation that Apple would be making a privacy …
: I saw an instance admin, I can’t remember who, said that their solution to Meta integrating …
: Virtual cards should just be built into a banking solution. Obviously, this would be difficult for …
: There are a handful of applications I’d like to make for my friends and me without having to …
: I’m auditing my expenses for the past year and finally making a budget for the year ahead. For …
: State of FOSS financial planning applications leaves a lot to be desired. I’m using a …
: Keet, a P2P chat app. This will be something I keep my eye on.
: Rare instance of Google doing the right thing. It’s also terrible that a single company can …
: Dropbox AI is worse the more you learn about it. I cancelled the subscription and migrated …
: I’m loath to admit this too loudly because it could ruin my quality of life, but I kind of …
: I can’t get myself off the handful of proprietary services faster than they’re making …
: Incredible insights into gun buybacks and programs to dispose of guns. There’s a BATF …
: I’ve started using this terminology and want to be able to easily source where I discovered …
: I think the biggest lesson I keep learning is that sometimes just setting things down is the answer. …
: Investigated which LLM backs JetBrains new AI service, and it’s just OpenAI. It’s like …
: So much is possible when there’s political will. In the US, this would take two generations …
: I know I’ve got some of the most glaring biases in saying this, but it does truly feel that …
: The shortness of breath is way worse than last time with COVID. My other symptoms have abated.
: Sure, Zaslav deserves to be staked out over and anthill and slathered in high-fructose corn syrup. …
: On this #DayAgainstDRM I installed AudiobookShelf and loaded my Libro.fm purchases onto the server.
: Welp I’m sick so, I may as well do my annual rewatch of Spider-Man (2002).
: Starting in 2024, Paxlovid is no longer free of charge. My doctor informed me that without insurance …
: This doesn’t answer the question of if the open source model will actually be OSI compliant or …
: This is so infuriating. Waiting for a FOSS car, but I’d rather legislators just make this sort …
: Sore throat. 2 negative antigens. Sucking down soup and tea like it’s my job.
: I love the internet for almost always having solved a problem I encounter. Today’s goal: move …
: My dog has gained some independence and now prefers to sleep around the house rather than on the …
: Thermostat: 66 degrees Most rooms: 66–68 degrees Office: 72 degrees. Me, the dog, and the server are …
: In Lieu of Spotify Wrapped I don’t use platform-based streaming services and rely on both used music or buying directly …
: There doesn’t appear to be a good Linux desktop client for subsonic servers. The Ubuntu team …
: I have a suspicion that letting illness run rampant through schools is an intentional attack by …
: Fifty percent increase in COVID cases over the last four weeks. When do we bring the public health …
: It sounds like the studios conceded nothing in the tentative agreement. …
: Several years ago, I was sent to go handle a routine task for our theatre’s bulk mail account. …
: I’ve got an AI blocklist I’m curating over at aiblocker.org (I’m behind on …
: This is a great engagement with dead internet theory and a good reminder for me to playthrough the …
: Removed Chrome from my work computer workflow this morning.
: I feel like the first time I use a non-relational database for a big project I’m either going …
: People care and are generally aware of how the economy is doing and that has impacts on perceptions …
: Saw Pipewire on the TL and am stashing for later. PipeWire is a project that aims to greatly …
: I’ve never been super on the fireworks train, the environmental cost had me lean anti, and now …
: Is coinage an item or is it a fundamental property of the character? The game’s rules are …
: Assumptions developers make: a player can only have one character in a given TTRPG campaign. Working …
: You start by building one wooden thing to improve your home’s storage capacity, and then it …
: The 2016 Democratic primary is the last time I can remember their being positive vision and …
: It was important to get alignment right, he said, because superhuman AIs would be, in his charming …
: Feels like there should be an option for pet cars on Amtrak. Their website says you can bring pets …
: Part of it is certainly age, but I think part of it is approaching social media more intentionally. …
: In the forums that I set up for various RPGs for my friends, they created a topic called “The …
: Something that I find quite wonderful about research and ideas is that you often have people …
: Non-chrome users expecting a delay in YouTube seems like it would be consumer harm territory. I hope …
: Ended up using Pop OS’s built in back up because it had an easier to finagle UI. Fewer options …
: For years, I’ve loved Timeshift for backups. The lack of network support is leading me to Back …
: Where do we need to direct ire to get #Google to walk this back? I’m already a Firefox user …
: Shocking to discover that flexible remote work policies are good for companies. …
: Really liking the coverage I’ve seen from 404 media.
: This is neat! A giant online store of old phones. phonecoinc.com/home.asp
: Google used to offer more than just a search box for input. My friends and I played a game with this …
: Is brain fog reversible? If it’s not, shouldn’t we call it brain damage? My assumption …
: No updates on the location of my couch since November 9th.
: Finally got around to watching A Man Called Otto last night. Script was solid, and recognizing all …
: The daylight savings switch has me in the basement just doing woodworking (largely shelves) with the …
: Haven’t been to Domo since 2017ish, but it was lovely. Didn’t realize it shuttered due …
: I’m glad Ed is out there covering all the hysteria around workers being less productive and …
: Did tax law change recently to make this easier or is Zaslav just only able to see dollars? Films …
: I finished You Deserve a Tech Union recently. The book is a glimmer of light and I recommend people …
: 40 percent of Australia is offline because one of their duopoly internet providers is down and Optus …
: Montreal has great people and great ideas. It would have been a real boon for this event to land …
: I’m really disturbed by the trend from short form videos that reduces dialogue, speeches, …
: I basically plan on watching every documentary on file sharing and I’m watching one with a …
: Google kills another project. This time it’s an affordable housing initiative. Wild idea: …
: You would think that there would be more education on how to deal with paints and oils in the home …
: New fear unlocked. cointelegraph.com/news/bore…
: I hope musicians start moving away from streaming. It’s not a good deal for them. More than …
: There are more documentaries that feature Girl Talk than I anticipated.
: Yeah, seizing the golf courses for the public is on the list. …
: My Pebble watched was recognized in the wild for a second time since I’ve had it.
: I had a grad school class that I jokingly called diagramming because that’s what most of the …
: Linux downside. I’ve somehow ended up with three versions of dbeaver installed on my machine.
: I love that there’s seems to be a new mastodon client every week.
: I just learned that Singapore has an incredibly costly bar for car ownership – 76k just for …
: What are some examples of jargon that made it into the mainstream, but aren’t used correctly? …
: Coming out against defaulting environment variables to your lower level envs. Defaults make me lazy …
: I need to submit all of my medical receipts to my spending account soon. This one is strictly harder …
: Typing on a keyboard after you come in from the cold is such a miserable experience.
: Extension Alert: Consent-O-Matic Found this while browsing the fediverse. But it’s a plugin …
: Famously people love when third parties can’t make peripherals without the blessing of a …
: I would love to see the numbers but at this point I have a hypothesis that if you purchased one …
: I’ve thought of the dumbest feature to add to a social media site. Append a famous drill tweet …
: I’ve cynically joked several times that it’s optimistic of us to imagine we’re …
: I’ve installed Thunderbird. I’ve got too many email addresses and hopefully this will …
: I read through Bandcamp’s updated terms of service from the post Songtradr announcement and …
: Do we have data on lost jobs? Is there data based on political split? I’d love to see it …
: I did the Android 14 update after learning that I can still side load older apps. It’s just …
: Watching a swedish documentary on the pirate bay trials and one of the people on trial is asked why …
: I’ve been watching documentaries made about the file sharing moment and its lawsuits. It …
: The first loan payment came out since the restart. We did it, Joe!
: I absolutely don’t need another computer in my life, but this makes me want to build a …
: Billionaires and news media seem very thirsty for a recession.
: I already hate plane travel, I do not wish to hate it more, but at every step the TSA does seem to …
: Overheard: “the internet today is just for shopping and perverts. I don’t want …
: This framing of the other tolls of AI is important. I’ve seen others mention that, soon, only …
: I’ve often used this blog to take reading notes in public, but that’s not terribly …
: While everyone else is in Hell hunting Ronald Reagan I’ll be down there trying to smite Robert …
: I have no particular history with Infocom but I hear this plea and think that old IP should be …
: I wish we could add categories from within the New Post page on micro.blog.
: Another day, another dead Google service. When the service launched in October 2021, Google said …
: October 12, 2023: Reinstating Net Neutrality, Bandcamp Sold, and an LLM via BitTorrent This has been sitting as a draft for greater than ten days. I culled the links I didn’t finish …
: The anti-vax propaganda is dragging us down. We need to bring Old Yeller back into the limelight. …
: Spent the evening finally learning how to setup reverse proxies with nginx. Also fixed some DNS …
: Firefox is getting a built-in feature to sniff out fake reviews. When you click it, all reviews on …
: The sheer amount of good legislation vetoed by Gavin Newsom should immediately crush any talks of …
: NPR leaving Twitter had a negligible impact on traffic to the site. …
: “We can create a lot of bad copies of Shakespeare, but it will fail to produce Walt …
: I’ve been following and know how bad AI is for people make things, but the FTC discussion on …
: I’m listening to the FTC Generative AI discussion and what’s most disappointing to me is …
: PopOS team had their curl updates out pretty quick. I am not sure if they source any of that from …
: Another company I’ll be moving away from. I don’t want to self host everything sometimes …
: If you have a Stadia controller, be sure to update the device to use Bluetooth mode. The other …
: I wonder why so many banks have discontinued Controlled Payment Numbers. It’s a top-tier …
: It’s been weeks since I replaced the default launcher on the TV with Flauncher. Performance on …
: One of my goals this year is to move away from Adobe for creative endeavors that are largely a …
: I wholly missed them adding a third Democrat to the FCC. That’s legitimately good news.
: The number of problems that are resolved because of improper permissions and access controls is …
: The rotating book stand but instead of book it’s a small cut out on my desk for my various …
: Bad news for fans of Fat Bear Week: The GOP led government shutdown would prevent many agencies from …
: Bless this writer for noting that an individual’s business decisions are bringing harm to …
: It’s stories like this that make me believe we will never solve human problems. tldr; it …
: Now that my monthly subscriptions have been trimmed, I need to go through an audit of my yearly. …
: It’s kind of neat that while using micro.blog, I’ve been exposed to 4 different …
: An LLM based service I would support: a podcast listening service that downloads your RSS feeds but …
: With Joe Biden objectively the most pro-union president in our nation’s history, it seems clear that …
: When those high interest loans come due Tinder has rolled out its promised high-end membership, a …
: Free at home tests are live again www.covid.gov/tests
: It feels like the best time to stop using corporate social media was 10 years ago and the second …
: I know the WGA strikers were asked by the guild to continue picketing with SAG. I hope that they …
: People doing honest implementations of automation would be well served to call not only what does …
: Sometimes you don’t fix the bugs before bed.
: I got a message from CVS that they didn’t have the most recent booster and that I would need …
: Saw a clip of Pete Buttigieg answering questions from a Republican congressman about climate change …
: Some developers want unbridled freedom to build their model — but some are looking forward to …
: Troubleshooting and debugging real-time software is such a different experience than called based …
: I encountered the idea of social media as macrophage (a time eater) in Jenny Odell’s Saving …
: I would love to work for Lina Kahn’s FTC www.politico.com/news/2023…
: Imagining a personal website where different sections have “office hours” based on grid …
: There’s some asphalt repair near my house going on, and you can see where trolley tracks once …
: Dr. Anne Pasek from Trent University will be joining us for Science Litercay Week 2023! This talk …
: It also looks like Kagi has Stumble Upon kagi.com/smallweb/
: Not sure if I just don’t like my character in Baldur’s Gate or if it’s video games …
: Pretty exciting updates in Kagi. Unlimited search for $10/month. Removal of the adhoc pricing for …
: I created a daily app for myself, mostly for stand ups, but also to keep track of the work I do for …
: I’ve heard Wu-Tang sampled so much that it’s probably worth me spending the time to give …
: I wasn’t very focused earlier today so now it’s just late night trying to power through …
: Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer would really like to buy Nintendo someday. In an August 2020 email …
: Tailscale is excellent, and my only lament is that I’ll never have spent time learning …
: Some insurance providers aren’t covering the COVID vaccine. There is apparently some support …
: What major software & platforms are based out of the UK? It looks like I’ll need to update …
: I’m really torn on where I sit with the proliferation of LLMs to the low powered computers. On …
: Maybe I’m not seeing a good solution for self-hosting a public facing service for a small …
: Other borrowers are adding to their income. In the Federal Reserve’s latest survey of economic …
: Finally dealt with a suspected fraudulent charge. I noticed it like a month or two ago, but the …
: September 17, 2023: Ditching the Guillotine, Fixing Search, and Fables It’s been a few weeks. A lot has happened but this week we’ve got guillotines, search, …
: The credit for solving tonight’s tech woe goes out to my dog. After a TV update changed my UI …
: I don’t use my TV often but I use it enough and an update I didn’t explicitly approve …
: Reading Notes | Incorporating the Digital Commons: Corporate Involvement in Free and Open Source Software Benjamin J. Birkinbine. Incorporating the Digital Commons: Corporate Involvement in Free and Open …
: Just got through the introduction to Jenny Odell’s Saving Time. I haven’t shut up about …
: I think Willingham releasing Fables into the public domain is an incredible move. As many have …
: Tonight’s tech support round up. Mom calls: Bitlocker has locked her out of her computer. …
: The digitizer in my car’s touch screen went out. I’m making an educated guess it’s …
: I added a cache to my radio programming project a while back, and I regret it a little. I think that …
: Reading Notes | The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation Doctorow’s latest work is a quick read that gives us an overview of suffering under the tech …
: What’s the appropriate team size to number of services owned? Ownership here meaning (the code …
: I used to see all of Ed’s posts on real time that’s been happening less on Mastodon, but …
: For the people that care about breaking news. I got a push notification news alert from Google and …
: My favorite thing is when a single law firm represents a bunch of people from forced arbitration …
: I am once again reading about physical album releases. The Japanese industry had especially favored …
: Reading through Seize the Means of Computation and just so mad about what YouTube’s ContentID …
: Gluon insta crashes for me on my phone now. Posting from the first party phone app. It’s been …
: It’s been clear that the AI boom was just the crypto investors finding a new place to go. …
: I had no idea about this. Presently, over 60,000 wild horses are being kept in holding facilities …
: Very cool that a bunch of people we should assume aren’t acting in good faith get to …
: Thinking about our one and only federal privacy law COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy …
: There are large corporations that haven’t fully gotten into the ad surveillance marketing in …
: Every friend I encounter “Open up your chrome settings or install Firefox and I’ll stop …
: Child Poverty doubled within the past year. It’s infuriating that we made progress on this …
: I don’t have much writing advice to dole out, but if you have an idea now that isn’t …
: Watching Pump Up the Volume for the first time.
: Trying Organic Maps for navigating somewhere today instead of Google Maps. I can pretty much already …
: If anyone uses Utgar’s Chronicles for playing Microscope, over the last couple of days I spent …
: Instead of suing the Internet Archive, music studios could make the argument that buying the digital …
: I’ve learned a dangerous (for my finances) fact. While many artists no longer sell CDs, many …
: I referenced 13P in my last post. They had their final production in 2013. Howl Round did a small …
: I don’t have many developer friends in my personal life. In general, this is great. It really …
: I’ve been soft launching a links newsletter for months (it will be launched when I redo my …
: My friends and family hardware help policy has been “if I recommend it, I’ll support …
: Periodic reminder: always good to login and see what the containers have going on in their file …
: The year isn’t over yet, but I think the accomplishment I’m happiest about is …
: Guess I’ll be looking for de-googled Android once support for 13 ends.
: I know that the standard reason given for the exclusion of headphone jacks from phones is because of …
: Flagging this container host for later. Seems cheaper than some of the other hosted stuff out there. …
: Addendum to the last post. I think Bandcamp has a value add. They’ve got people dedicated to …
: The music algorithms have gotten so bad at surfacing new music that I wonder if there’s a …
: I’ve used Navidrome every day since I installed it, but I do wish it would infer some data …
: There’s something about working with any physical thing that is so much more satisfying than …
: I’m considering cancelling a pre-order for something I’m quite excited about and …
: I love when my dog drops something off the couch and stares longingly at it on the floor or looks to …
: Not sure how feasible this is but I do feel like corporations should have to release the source code …
: Found a 3 song EP on a disc at a used book store by a band called La Laque. Can only find a handful …
: I’m not sure if Docker would be compatible with notions of frugal computing. I suppose it …
: Couldn’t sleep trying to get some software my friends use Dockerized. I’m at the rm -rf …
: My first month with Kagi just ended. While I did breach my allotted searches for the lowest tier …
: Just saw a round up of news and the first two stories were Biden using different stairs after an …
: 12 percent of Americans eat half of the beef in the United States. I cannot comprehend eating this …
: Took my dog to daycare to play with some other dogs for the day and the receptionist had been out …
: With the second edition, Paizo may have turned Heal into the best spell in the game.
: Not a bad weekend. Painted a wall, wrote a scene of my play, I am almost finished with another book, …
: I wonder if the alternatives to Github are going to eventually implement dependabot scanning. …
: I think I have now been burned by the loss of an old software and will be backing up binaries to my …
: My CD archiving process is taking place on Windows because the gaming computer has the disc drive. …
: Navidrome learning curve: your file structure means nothing to it and each of your files must be …
: August 25, 2023: The GOP Plan to Criminalize Being Trans, You Can't Copyright AI, All My Apes Are In Court This week’s post is a bit heavier on the links. This post looks at Project 2025, a …
: Reading about what people do to get GPUs into boards that don’t have the full PCI slot. This …
: Does anyone know if it’s possible to have uBlock Origin pull in a blocklist from an external …
: Per a suggestion from Manton, I created a separate plugin that just bars ChatGPT. No Index+ does all …
: It’s interesting that companies now have to spend additional resources tracking down the …
: Land of the Giants used an AI Elon voice to read one of Elon’s tweets, websites were using AI …
: The structure of the fediverse is a structure that helps resist right-wing takeover and control of …
: I’ve finally gotten curious about Plex and I used DuckDuckGo to search for some info about it. …
: I wonder when American Evangelicals will form their own Council of Nicea to excise all the …
: I need to go read Bill Gates' letter to hobbyists. I’ve seen it referenced a lot and I know …
: I’m trying Kagi for search at the moment. It’s month 1 and I go through half the month …
: Project N95 is rolling out an air filter donation pilot program for schools and organizations. …
: We need to bring back a culture of seeding torrents. I just pulled something from the Internet …
: Found documentation of some undergrad letterpress and book arts projects I did.
: As someone who has spent an inordinate amount of time getting to where I am currently with free …
: My friend is writing some intro music for a project I’ve got on a slow burn. They messaged me …
: Simply asking for the NewsGuard list of websites did not work and is not publicly available. They …
: If we had a single payer system all of this would be negotiated out already and we wouldn’t …
: I reached out to NewsGuard and simply asked if I could have access to their list of AI-generated …
: I’m noticing that the LanguageTool suggestions are getting a little bit worse. Wonder if …
: Record labels suing the Internet Archive for preserving 78rpm vinyl. These records are accessed by …
: Today, I discovered how easy micro.blog’s plugin system is to work with so now the cogs are …
: August 14, 2023: Illegal Newspaper Raid, Advertising to the Children, and The Toll of Training AI Models. I just got back from a lovely wedding and while it was in a well ventilated large space and most of …
: If I started a gemlog, what should I do with it? I’m currently pleased with how I’ve …
: I don’t love that Github is an essential infrastructure to participate in many open-source …
: Moving From Pocket to Wallabag On August 15th Pocket accounts needs to be moved over to Mozilla accounts, presumably this will help …
: Created new microblog plugin that explicitly disallows ChatGPT bot, ChatGPT users, Google’s …
: Continuing my read of Incorporating the Digital Commons. Back in 2019, I attended the open stack …
: These ‘AI’ products are so deeply unethical that the more I read about them the more I …
: Mark Fowler, I’ve probably come across this FCC commissioner before, but this article really …
: I sought out jobs in Go because it’s a language I learned while working at another company and …
: For those interested in IT (helpdesk, network operations, product, development) and unsure what they …
: I’ve been searching around for another round of grad school. I just sent a round of emails for …
: I do not know if this is entirely true, but it feels like the single biggest writing workflow hack …
: Allegedly, adding this to your robots.txt file will prevent OpenAI from ingesting your website. …
: www.cnn.com/2023/08/0… Every time I come across this story I find myself both outraged and …
: A downside to Incorporating the Digital Commons is that it repeats the neoclassical myth of barter. …
: Reading through Incorporating the Digital Commons and it looks to be leading up to discussing how …
: A mutual friend posted a table of what it cost for an apartment and then what their mortgage is from …
: August 5, 2023: Licensing Agency for AI, Net Zero is a Trap, The Failures of Progressive Democrats I think I found a new workflow that will make keeping up with this newsletter easier for me and I …
: Reading through Aaron Sahr’s Keystroke Capitalism and the revenue from financial services for …
: Cargo bikes deliver cleaner and faster in cities, but I do wonder if EVs will lead us to another …
: Glad that this specific fact was called out. US credit rating downgraded for second time in history. …
: This polycrisis piece documents that CO2 is a stock problem not a flow problem and the following …
: If you’ve got a Gemini browser, this is yet more good writing against Google’s web DRM …
: The Book Festival exists to give a platform for debate and discussion around key issues affecting …
: “Imagine ballroom scenes, party scenes, any scenes that need tons of extras,” Susskind …
: Knight notes an extra factor, though – the wellness pipeline has become a co-dependency. Many …
: LaSalvia says if bosses start demanding workers be at their desks in the office Monday mornings, the …
: I’ve seen a rise in “we hacked the scammers” content. The videos are always a …
: Actual footage of me debugging my k8s deployment youtu.be/rryQfAnQs…
: I was using Neeva before they shuttered and someone mentioned Kagi.com, so I’m trying that …
: You are either dedicating all your CPU cycles to run JavaScript tracking you or walking away from …
: That sense of no longer existing flourishes on the road. That sense of escaping the enterprise we …
: Once upon a time, Google’s official policy was “don’t be evil.” With the …
: Cars are such an unconscionable burden that we’ve necessitated in most of the US. July has …
: In undergrad, an econ professor told us, “all models are wrong some models are useful.” …
: This laundry list reminder of how little Democrats have done is brutal. The critique of progressive …
: July 29, 2023: Piracy is Preservation, Hollywood Has the Money, They Just Refuse to Pay Up, and Digital Nazi Bars I don’t have much to report in the way of public personal work. I missed my self-imposed …
: Maybe one of the grossest ideas ever is “hot desking” or “hoteling.” Whoever …
: My first master’s paper in 2019 was on designing alternative search engines because Google had …
: Deleted my Pocket account. Pocket marks the 4th service on my list of proprietary software that …
: The Fediverse is cool but exploring Gemini is magical. Much of the Fediverse seeks to recreate …
: Not even sure how feasible this is but I’ve encountered a few long form posts already in the …
: Welp, I’ve downloaded a Gemini browser. The Circumlunar Universe is so calm. I might start …
: Tempted to start NetSurf first development practices for my personal site. Perusing them now it …
: With the exception of deleting my Pocket account, my Wallabag migration is complete. I’ve got …
: There’s a fairly good argument that ChatGPT getting dumber for users is because they’re …
: My Wallabag migration is going to mean I will be switching to KOReader on my Kobo. I was going to …
: Looking for an optometrist and in one doctor’s about section there’s this. Other …
: I’ve never done a DNA test for myself for privacy reasons, but I had been mulling doing it for …
: I’m curious if anyone is aware of rules regarding the lending of personal eBooks. I understand …
: I’m running Paizo’s Abomination Vaults for some friends and there’s a good number …
: It should not be a 15-step process to read a digital file you purchased on your preferred device.
: I was hoping that NewsGuard would release the list of domains they’ve identified as being …
: Haven’t fully migrated my saved articles to Wallabag yet, but I removed Pocket from my phone …
: I’ll be migrating from Pocket to Wallabag because I just don’t like the direction that …
: I will be 100 years old with 6,000 different computers because each one allows me to do something …
: I hate that like once a month I have to evaluate the tools and hardware I want to use as a hobbyist. …
: I saw a suggestion to SAG-AFTRA folks to always announce a studio executive’s compensation …
: Shift Left: The process by which critical parts of software development are moved into the …
: The broadcasters are attempting to enclose the airwaves by adding encryption to the standard they …
: Dear work, I need a two-year sabbatical so that I can build out software services and plugins that …
: The post Supreme Court ruling proposal for loan forgiveness is leagues from what Biden campaigned …
: My martial arts instructor is also an actor. He mentioned there was a call for motion capture where …
: I try not to give my dog human food unless it’s like a small bit of unseasoned meat or …
: If you’re in a position with PTO and don’t have a plan for it, I highly suggest turning …
: Don’t really get the claim that ebikes are elitist because of cost. Getting hit with an auto …
: “The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and …
: Ask the average non-stan sixteen-year-old to name the artists behind the songs they listened to last …
: July 8, 2023: A Bestiary of Waste, AI Poison, Browsing Instagram While Blind I don’t have much to report in the way of public personal work. I missed my self-imposed …
: The Public Domain date is too far in the past. Nearly 100 years between the date of release and the …
: A thing I regularly do for friends and family is put together electronics purchasing options. They …
: The biggest failure of Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) is that she had the opportunity to correct …
: I do think Mastodon may need to communicate a little bit better to all types of users. A brilliant …
: Google Enshittification: My mother just had a near miss because she searched for a manual for her …
: Be available for when God ends.
: At what point do I add administering multiple Foundry instances and Flarum for my friends to my …
: Somehow I’ve been getting my oil changed for greater than two hours.
: Debt Collective on the plan B debt cancellation option the Biden Administration has proposed. …
: I was planning to try and get this piece I’ve been kicking around in my head written today but …
: Given the news. Here’s information on how to join the Debt Collective’s debt strike. …
: I’m so tired of the “taxpayer” money argument. Federal spending isn’t paid …
: This is hands down one of the best features of my Kobo. Hate to see Mozilla doing this. I guess …
: Smoke from up north is pretty rough today.
: I’ve posted about this before, but I maintain a blocklist of domains & users that are …
: Useful tool when dealing with regex regexr.com
: Jun 25, 2023: Unnecessarily Complicated Renders, Online Afterlives, and Human Labor That Makes AI Possible I don’t have much to report in the way of public personal work. These last few weeks have gone …
: Being driven slowly mad. My company has a service that’s abbreviation is OMW and MacOS …
: People are concerned that AI is going to turn the internet into a porridge of low-quality service …
: My brother (high school) asked for assistance editing his resume. We started in Google Docs (fine …
: Savings rates are at the lowest they’ve been since 2007 right before the financial crisis.
: I don’t know if it’s possible for my vision to have improved but I’ve had to stop …
: I could be pro instances of Mastodon for sporting events that also welcomed brands. Not because I …
: Codeberg pages are super cool. I finally moved my vanity URL off a self-hosted ghost blog. Once I …
: My friend’s child was drinking a suspicious amount of lemon juice before taking a covid test, …
: I don’t think this is the alternative to Google Fonts someone mentioned, but it’s what …
: June 16, 2023: Training With Synthetic Data, Wildfire Smoke, Worker Agency I have been writing, but I haven’t written anything for the public in a few weeks. I had …
: I hope the users are actively hostile to any scabs that might come in. …
: Hard to read things like and continue your day. It’s everywhere and it’s horrible. …
: Reddit is undeleting people’s post, even from years ago it appears. Wouldn’t this run …
: We had been doing a play by post in Discord. I have been saving backups with a quick and dirty bot …
: Calling it late capitalism feels pretty optimistic. You’re telling me this is going to be over …
: We’ve been off Discord for our play by post for about 24 hours now. Setting up everything and …
: Just a comprehensive list of how bad COVID still is. sites.google.com/view/why-…
: Flarum has gotten so good since I first evaluated it years ago. Long story short, my friends and I …
: Are there only ~8000 subreddits on reddit? If that’s the case, 93 percent of subbreddits are …
: Bourdain’s opinion on beer is the only one worth reading. Interviewer: I read somewhere that, …
: Electric bicycles are displacing oil more efficiently than any other EV. …
: Jun 9, 2023: Under the Waves, 200 Years of Luddism, and CFPB Recommendations In my latest piece for Against The Future, Smashing Machines for the Children, I look at the …
: The print version of Current Affairs has an excellent piece on lotteries by Alex Skopic. I’ve …
: There are two competing theories on the orca boat sinking phenomenon. 1) they’re pissed. 2) …
: …what better medicine than to visit friends, to hold people close and say I love you and I …
: I kept one student loan payment active during the pause. It wasn’t very much, but it will …
: I didn’t realize AQI was over 130 outside when I went on a brief ~20-minute bike ride and came …
: Sometimes you don’t finish a piece of writing, but it’s a gift because there are new …
: With StackExchange’s apparent embrace of generative AI, I opened a question up on codidact …
: I need someone to update my mental model. How are most TikTok/Reels/Shorts made today? The way I …
: It is quite maddening to see so many things that need to be done but aren’t profitable, so …
: Teams is such trash. It’s not enough that my work switch platforms, I need Microsoft to lose …
: Traveling two miles without a car in the United States? Harder than you’d think!
: Copyright/intellectual property disputes are so interesting. How do I work in that sector without …
: Indeed, a peculiar feature of the present alarm about wages driving inflation is that this is not …
: Kind of surprised to find this in The Atlantic When employers say there isn’t enough labor, what …
: Yesterday was the first day another student was at xing yi at the same time as me and the instructor …
: Smashing Machines For the Children In 2019 Ben Tarnoff published To decarbonize we must decomputerize: why we need a Luddite …
: The weakening of child labor, the attacks on family planning, and the tightening of food stamp …
: It seems like a bad idea to put children in a position to be serving alcohol and potentially dealing …
: In a recent paper that made waves in the ML community, a team at the University of Massachusetts, …
: Notes | Resisting AI: An Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence Dan McQuillan. Resisting AI: An Anti-Fascist Approach to AI. Bristol University Press 2022. …
: Nostalgia Electronics is for sale.
: “All models are wrong, some models are useful.” - Kent Klitgaard in an undergrad seminar …
: Money stored in payment apps isn’t insured by the FDIC and the Consumer Finance Protection …
: I think the concept of “streaming payments” will invite all sorts of horrible …
: I was feeling super tired so I looked up at the CO2 monitor, and it was over 1400 PPM in the office. …
: My opinion of glitches in video games is that if the glitch doesn’t prevent players from …
: Bizarre things going on in Rust land. I haven’t touched the language yet. I started reading a …
: The White House agreed to a key GOP request to tighten work requirements for federal aid. Most …
: May 30, 2023: Note Taking Methods and Imagining a Renter's Utopia This week’s piece is taking me more time to both research and hammer out the arguments and I …
: I’ve been playing Pathfinder with a group of friends since we were 16/17 and a decade and …
: I’m hearing reports that under the new management Casa Bonita’s food has improved, and …
: Trying to read a paywalled article, and I am at the step where I’m logging into my local …
: A paper I’m re-reading for this week’s post directed me to The Solar Protocol. This is a …
: Learned a valuable lesson about back-ups today. I didn’t swap my alphasmart neo internal …
: This World Food Programme online word game just resurfaced in my brain. I set it to the highest …
: Currently listening to vektroid.bandcamp.com/album/tel…
: Prompt injection attack game. It’s provided by a company, so I’m sure any activity will …
: Everything already functions in the most Byzantine manner, and solving problems is already opaque …
: You might think there ought to be a law against policies that make people simultaneously …
: The Micro.blog newsletter feature is a great start. Excited for some of the features discussed in …
: The AI corporate training videos will be so infuriating. Before this moment, I could assume that …
: Pilot Newsletter: Foosbal's origins, the Metaverse, and A Plea to Responsibly Use the Digital Commons This is a pilot of an upcoming weekly newsletter. It will certainly evolve and morph as the weeks go …
: I found a repo of design systems, but what I’m looking for is a design system that is people …
: AI cannot be value neutral because its training data comes from the past. AI has a built-in …
: Posted this week’s post, tested the newsletter functionality, added a simple feature to my web …
: I’ve been using large language models for the last few weeks to help me with the really arcane …
: Just did a newsletter test with my latest post using Micro.blog’s built in tools. Pleased with …
: Getting Cast Over the Cliff Isn't The Only Option The ongoing writer’s strike might be the most important union effort to watch for many …
: NewsGuard has apparently identified 125 additional websites as AI generated. The NY Times reported …
: Updated my AIBlocklist repo with a csv of fediverse accounts that are mostly or entirely …
: #pixelfed web is vastly superior to the android app. The Android app kind of feels like it’s …
: Browsing pixelfed and doing some tag surfing, it seems the vast majority of the AI art is generated …
: If you block on an account on #pixelfed, the accounts posts still show up in the tags.
: I’m using #pixelfed on the main instance and there aren’t enough moderation tools. I …
: It’s so much easier to archive and post everything at the moment of creation. I am going …
: The advertisement free search engine Neeva is shutting down. I only recently discovered Neeva and …
: The mowing started promptly at 8 AM.
: Got my Sunday post in a draft at 1365 words and some more scenes sketched out for the play. …
: I hate this about myself but the discovery of fountain, a screenplay markup language is probably …
: I took a break from any sort of fiction writing the same year I ceased doing theatre. I’ve …
: I picked out what this week’s blog post was going to be about, and I have it outlined and am …
: YouTube channel dedicated to the worst software practices. My favorite, and I think the most …
: I’m unsure where I stand on this fair use ruling. I don’t find training language models …
: My local post office is open 6.5 hours a day in the middle of the workday. The hours got reduced …
: My old FSA could be charged directly. My new FSA requires me to pay out of pocket and then seek …
: I love registering for a new insurance company every time I switch jobs. It’s fun and a great, …
: For the life of me I cannot get microblog to cross post consistently. I’ve done three posts …
: Google’s top-level domain presents new opportunities for scammers Can you quickly tell which …
: I started a blocklist for AI which will work great for domains, but what are similar tools that can …
: I’ve always hated private parking and towing enforcement. My friends lived in an apartment …
: I updated my AI blocklist with sites that advertise themselves as selling AI generated SEO content. …
: Low Background Media During the 1940s and 50s, nuclear bombs were detonated during both their development and the …
: The history of social media is hot or not to bot or not https://t.co/k0Oqs2Z3U6 — David Lee …
: This is of the more thoughtful pieces I’ve read on AI art. …
: A Blocklist for AI Companies have supercharged the low quality content farms with AI. I want to avoid as much cheap, …
: These bots are mirrors. They can only reflect the world around them. Ensure that what you have to …
: An LLM could never make Wugazi. Also, as we pour one out for MTV News, here’s this history of …
: micro.blog is the best CMS I’ve used. It allows me to interact with the web in a way that I …
: This is the best representation of a millennial having a breakdown in 2016 …
: It’s kind of nice that new phone releases just fell off my radar when they stopped putting …
: I need to do some reading up. I’m wondering what the Internet Archive’s position is on …
: “Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, admits a drive-through AI is actually “a very …
: I started a physical #zettelkasten and so far, I have only put information about food, coffee, and …
: I’m happy to find that this illegal-art exhibit is still available.
: Falling down the hole of mashup music. The Internet Archive is a great resource for this. Currently …
: Haven’t listened to The Grey Album since the Bush administration but this might have been one …
: Interesting observation on “faster than expected” rhetoric with regard to climate …
: Since there is a coming increase in price for PocketCasts, I’ve exported my subscriptions and …
: If you’re in need of finding new things to read or people to follow the Bring Back Blogging …
: 1000 people are dying each week from COVID and the public health emergency is expiring. This brings …
: I’ve been paying for PocketCasts Plus for a while. I like having a desktop app. I just noticed …
: we wouldn't have mass shootings if everyone was vegan — David Lee Parsons (@davidlparsons) …
: Where are people storing json for small apps? In my case, I want it to be editable from both my …
: Currently making an app for managing quotes I collect using Fyne. I find the lack of dynamic …
: I know that the idea of a carbon footprint was developed by oil companies to shift blame to …
: Nothing breaks your focus like waiting for a pipeline to finish.
: Thinking Tools and How I Post Here My blog acts as a thinking tool in some ways. I often use the search feature embedded within it to …
: A piece on groupthink within academia, specifically the economics profession, but there’s a …
: My favorite thing that more and more people are realizing is that the Republicans practice Modern …
: The current iteration of LLMs seem to be causing more problems than solutions. …
: I don’t want a newsletter, I want an RSS feed.
: I feel this way about AI already, but I’m also increasingly concerned about payments. On this …
: I owe micro.blog a debt of gratitude. I have been trying to keep a blog running since 2015/2016. …
: It’s hard to learn a new programming language when you have one that you’re productive …
: California seeks to limit geofence and reverse keyword searches. Predictably, there’s pushback …
: I knew how politically fraught some rare earth minerals used in batteries, magnets, and other …
: Fedidb, a useful site for exploring fediverse technology.
: Created a #calckey account to try it out. The UI is definitely better than Mastodon’s. My home …
: The government forgot how to make a key material in nuclear weapons and then had to spend truckloads …
: Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow I had been eagerly awaiting the release of Red Team Blues since I first heard about it on …
: I’m happy that people showed up to support this person but I’m glad the Guardian opened …
: I’ve found myself with two pre-ordered copies of Cory Doctorow’s Red Team Blues, if …
: Since moving away Colorado has passed a handful of good laws. I definitely miss that place. …
: I went searching to see if The Decemberist’s have released any new albums since 2018. They …
: I started using Just in personal projects because the syntax is cleaner than Make. Most of my …
: Started the Github migration today. One of GitHub’s best features is discovering new repos. I …
: Currently migrating my git repos to Codeberg. It’s appropriate that the first one I moved was …
: It’s incredible that Wizards of the Coast just seems to regularly and casually does evil …
: God, I hate DRM. I picked up an eBook for something I’ve already purchased a hardcopy of to …
: The Deficit Myth eBook is 3.99 right now. My reading group read it a few months back, and I highly …
: Each day I create a simple list of tasks. Today, I decided to throw them into an Eisenhower Box, and …
: Notes | The Case for A Job Guarantee Pavlina R. Tcherneva. The Case for A Job Guarantee. Polity Press 2020. The author states that this …
: The web is lacking many features of a commons and now that the forces are here to strip mine freely …
: Work has been more wrangle the yaml than write code lately.
: Is there a known link between rising average temperature and violence? I understand that one of the …
: There are an estimated 352 million guns in this country. Assuming we could get buy in for a federal …
: Another day, another letter giving me free credit monitoring because of a data breach.
: Experts say many companies do not document the contents of their training data — even internally — …
: I understand Nilay may one day get tired, but he’s one of my favorite journalists out there.
: I see a future where the freely available chat LLMs are trained on less current data than the paid …
: I do not waste my time reading synthetic text. - Emily M Bender From ChatGPT Is Not Intelligent
: The proprietary large language models will be with us for a while. It’s a tool that does have …
: The downside to the people who were hyping cryptocurrency going all in on LLMs is that, LLMs have …
: Fire Coming Out of The Monkey’s Head by the Gorillaz feels like a Welcome to Nightvale …
: I’ve been wide awake trying to fall asleep by reading Search Engines in Theory and Practice on …
: My council member has been really going to bat for neighborhood improvement projects and I’m …
: Doing some website design work myself and found this website has easy to download patterns. …
: I love my Neo. I’m still habituating myself to using it, but the quick boot times and the 8 …
: Not really a huge fan of Substack as a company, but I do think it’s good that there’s …
: My big prediction with LLMs and coding is that the LLMs will get good at things like C, Rust, and Go …
: ChatGPT Trades SEO Spam and Walled Gardens For Enclosure I was doing some weekend upkeep and wanted to add open-source contributions to my CV. I went …
: “Studies into these vaccinations are also showing “tremendous promise”, with some researchers …
: Pretty much every censorship or free speech issue right-wingers bring up could be solved by …
: I’m glad Yasmin Nair reported on what happened with Current Affairs, I do wish that the press …
: Are you all ready for healthcare insurance to get worse
: The Live Free or Die state has proposed legislation for getting more open-source technology into the …
: A good Zadie Smith excerpt twitter.com/davidlpar…
: Started a new repo where I hard forked an existing Go library to begin implementing a tool for …
: Discord is so clearly built as a means of enclosure. Going through the settings and terms of …
: I’m reading Paulina Tcherneva’s book on the job guarantee now but for those curious but …
: Interview with the Mastodon CEO on Decoder. pca.st/episode/9…
: ChatGPT for Me seems like something that I could see be useful if it were entirely local. I …
: Links 3-28-2023: Secret Geniuses and Law Enforcement's Fabricated Gun Smuggling in Colorado Springs Secret Geniuses Before Elon Musk purchased Twitter I would say that I’m glad Twitter exists …
: mastodon.obdev.at/@littlesn… Scunthorpe problem strikes again. Don’t worry, though, …
: Rome Can't Be Built In A Day, But This Can Be Having recently moved, I have consistently been in the un-envious position of assembling masses of …
: AlphaSmart Resources Now that I have one of these devices, I wanted to collect a handful of resources that I may revisit …
: AlphaSmart Neo Test My e-reader purchase further convinced me of purpose-built devices. I’d be eyeing a Freewrite …
: But McKinsey’s charts also show something interesting: as of the end of 2022, adoption had leveled …
: Learning more about cookies in Go with this guide from Alex Edwards. I’m not doing anything …
: I will say that rolling my own login and session management has me learning a lot about cookies and …
: With all the anti-trans legislation in the news, I wanted to see what the research says about …
: Taking shelter in my car while getting gas. Not from the weather but from the ads that blare at the …
: I’ve been an avid pocket user for a while. My 2023 goal is to move more stuff to open-source …
: One of my favorite relationships that’s happened since my move is with my handyman. We …
: What if developers used sound canons to displace residents and swooped in to buy the empty …
: Red states are using preemption to stymie the efforts of liberal cities. My favorite quote is the …
: In addition to the work I’ve been doing with login on personal projects, I’ve been …
: Pittsburgh Water and the East Palestine Train Derailment I was recently asked again about how Pittsburgh’s water is fairing because of the East …
: In addition to tech start-ups, SVB funded a lot of community solar projects. That’s a bummer.
: Ah good exposure to wildly speculative assets is causing problems. The failures of Silicon Valley …
: After big-bank speculation threw the global economy into chaos, the U.S. government made two …
: Yeah, it’s good for me to be doing this work that integrates with the front-end. I don’t …
: AHHH! I just noticed the new show cross-posting options. Hell yeah. @Manton this is excellent! Been …
: I stubbornly decided to do my own login and session management with an application I’m working …
: My work project has been a deep dive into fixing the spaghetti. It’s a good thing I enjoy …
: It’s basically always politics of projection with the right
: Coworker showed me some of the MUMPS code in the system. Memory constraints really did a number on …
: This post reminded me that it’s harder to read code than write code and you should never …
: I picked up this ereader and found this in the PC Mag review of it. The ebook reader now supports …
: It’s stuff like this that makes me happy to be a paizo subscriber. Glad they’re coming …
: OpenVoice OS is incorporating as a Dutch nonprofit. This will help keep the Mycroft hardware alive. …
: For those who haven’t experienced Sludgefest www.youtube.com/watch
: The Republican Study Committee which includes 75 percent of house Republicans came up with a plan …
: Drivers are psychopaths Moments later, a passenger abruptly opened the car’s side door. Unable to …
: Degenerative AI, an easy read from Ed Zitron if you’re catching up on the AI chatbot moment. I …
: Highlight and good news about the bivalent vaccine from this week’s People’s CDC weather …
: The main problem I’m finding with pixelfed is its speed. I started with pixelfed.social …
: If anyone has the capacity to donate, here’s a link to a mutual aid fund for East Palestine.
: Gotta love living in America. A University used chatGPT to write a letter after a mass shooting.
: Finally signed up on a pixelfed instance. I use instagram mostly for following contemporary artists. …
: File under things that make society worth living in shouldn’t be for profit. Bernie Sanders …
: Ron Wyden suggests ignoring a federal court ruling. Given our current moment, ignoring the courts …
: Apropros of nothing, I’m thinking of this moment
: In 2021, Motherboard reported there was an increasing likelihood of a catastrophic freight train …
: Last Week Tonight is covering #EastPalestine on the newest episode.
: Figured I’d share this link since I looked up the productivity pay gap to show someone the …
: If Norfolk Southern prevails in the Mallory case, the company could use the ruling to block lawsuits …
: Steven Dozinger on the #EastPalestine train derailment.
: Monied interests disguised as grassroots activists stalling solar projects.
: Every time I have to leave a project for a bit, I spend like an hour remembering what I was doing …
: A 1.5m dollar fine for a company that clears 2.7b seems pretty insulitng. Feels like laws …
: I’ve yet to define the exact moment an excel sheet needs to become an app.
: Patent trolls seem to be a major reason Mycroft.ai is shuttering its operations. I just received the …
: It’s unfortunate that a loud and increasingly growing contingent would decry things like …
: I’m glad that there is this reporting on East Palestine. I wish there was more with a greater …
: This makes me think of Sherry Turkle’s work. www.theverge.com/23600785/…
: The “it’s 200x and y scenario” tiktoks give me a sense of dread. A bunch of people …
: This post #EastPalestine is better sourced than most of what I’ve come across.
: Any good information on the #EastPalestine train derailment. I’m within 100 miles and am …
: Probably not a good sign that every single Berkey Filter is sold out right now.
: Prompt injection attacks are interesting arstechnica.com/informati…
: I’ve been helping my mother navigate the minimal safety nets afforded by this country and my …
: Bard makes a mistake in first demo
: The Bing search release and then impending Bard update. Can’t wait to have a more difficult …
: I’ve got a mostly written essay about aging and the film industry. I need to finish it. …
: Rising interest rates increase inflation pluralistic.net/2023/02/0…
: I was looking for an open-source, local contact manager that easily syncs contacts from gmail and …
: I may have posted this when I first read it a few years ago but this line from Society of the …
: I’ve understood for a while why Google results were getting increasingly useless but I …
: Digital Enclosure. hachyderm.io/@molly0xf…
: If you must use teams in a large meeting, turn on “together mode.” It doesn’t …
: Just learned about CDM I’m browsers and how it’s more or less impossible to create fully …
: Received a check for 7 dollars today for paying off my car early. Paid my car off on 2021.
: Is anyone who follows me interested in learning about Modern Monetary Theory? I just did a reading …
: Every job I’ve had that asks for time tracking for tax credits or otherwise, I use the time …
: A company I’ve been doing freelancing for on and off for the last few years shuttered the …
: I started using the Confluence blog function in my personal space at work and it’s helping. I …
: Starting my read of The Modem World. Feels appropriate as the Fediverse is taking off and gaining …
: Death to proprietary file formats. The Scribus developers are working hard on improving Scribus. …
: I’m working on two short zines. While I do have an Adobe subscription because I got to a solid …
: Not sure if this would be a good ActivityPub use case or not but federated app stores. I’d 1) …
: I started The Last of Us and the truck/escape scene that’s about 16 minutes in took me out of …
: Found this resource after looking into videofreex. Seems to have many videos from Paper Tigers …
: I’m quickly learning that each home improvement project is actually the planned home …
: Need to remember that if it’s a nice day, I should always use my bike instead of my car. Car …
: Reading Time and the Suburbs by Rohan Quinby and it’s very theory packed. It’s got …
: “Under the present suburban regime, every urban function follows the example of the motor …
: “Under the present suburban regime, every urban fiction follows the example of the motor …
: If I’m remembering my read of the A Walk in the Woods correctly, The Forest Service builds …
: Every day I must endure Microsoft teams and every day I copy and paste text from the chat. I only …
: ublockorigin but for AI generated content.
: My friend has been on strike for 56 days (not including weekends). It’s horrible that a …
: It’s super neat how many clients are coming out for mastodon. Would love to see similar …
: It’s taken years but I’m getting workspace pilled. Previously, I’ve found them …
: Another website for finding Fediverse servers. So far they only appear to show mastodon ones but …
: Trying a mastodon experiment. I’ve got both tusky and Fedilab on my phone. It’s a matter …
: I deeply admire and am deeply jealous of people who have a daily/regular blogs of links where they …
: I miss living in a bigger city.
: A friend recommended that 90s show. I couldn’t do it. I got like 7 minutes in. The laugh …
: I’ve been toying with a tabletop engine that I received a while back. It’s an …
: Interesting video by @MalwareTech on chatGPT and malware. youtu.be/L9w_k2ypR…
: If you plug and unplug the display an unknown number of times it does begin working.
: Really hate having to work on a Macbook for a variety of reasons. Today, it’s working external …
: Metal Gear Solid predicting the future again. www.gamebyte.com/marines-f…
: 90 percent of getting anything done is simply forcing yourself to start doing it.
: All day I’ve put off work on this application for my pathfinder groups becuase I’m …
: Pathfinder 2nd Edition Foundry Setup With people getting into Pathfinder because of the actions of WotC, I figured it might be nice if …
: The D&D OGL 1.2 feedback survey is out. I’d recommend this thread from @DopeGhoti before …
: Been at the new job long enough to get pulled into technical interviews. I really loved my first …
: New company laptop is my least favorite day. I already have good device setup exactly as I like it. …
: Some ideas for federated social media moderation.
: This article on self-trepanation made me deeply uncomfortable. Maybe it’s because I’m …
: Been waiting for a podcast addressing this AI hype cycle. pca.st/episode/4…
: The prospect of implementing and managing login, session, and signups has me looking for open …
: The Atlantic article about bad pizza boxes sent me in search of innovation in this space. Rest …
: Every day I marvel at the wealth of open source work done and how much it speeds up my ability to …
: The pizza box is ruining your pizza. Interesting, that this hasn’t been a site of innovation …
: Always a little jarring when your puppy is being suspiciously quiet and it turns out they were just …
: Two quick PRs to make before I release go-dj v0.1.6 this evening.
: It’s incredible the issues you can find while debugging separate issues. My hope is that by …
: I am 3 days behind when I set my goal for the next release of go-dj. My primary goal was to fix all …
: I assembled the Mycroft II dev kit I received from NeonAI. I don’t presently have access to …
: Interesting development on my digitizer. When I took the car above 70, the touch screen started …
: The digitizer on the screen in my car appears to be broken which means I can’t change the …
: To what extent is the government officials traipsing about with classified documents a symptom of …
: Beeing seeing a lot of the Alsan gif with the Paizo statement on the OGL.
: I don’t love that Firefox has a built in screenshot feature that shares a keybinding with what …
: I would really like to see more public money going to local news outlets, open-source development, …
: I canceled my tweetdelete.net subscription as I am no longer using Twitter.
: Sometimes I see Reels/TikToks and think, “maybe video on the web was a mistake”
: Mint the Coin Event on 1/23/23 12-2 PM EST mintthecoin.org
: 5 years ago I found myself incensed by what turned out to be a PR stunt. Legalfling.io was going to …
: EFF breakdown of the WoTC OGL 1.1 leak and what it means for TTRPG creators. …
: Seriously, not having Twitter after 6 years of full time usage has been great. I feel like I’m …
: I’ve got a few days off coming up. I’m excited to catch up on articles I’ve been …
: Hate when you thinking you have a solution for something and you’re pretty sure it’ll …
: I don’t care about 5e specifically, but I want a vibrant gaming ecosystem and hate monopolies …
: Brief explainer of bridging algorithms www.washingtonpost.com/politics/…
: me: “play radio indie” mycroft: “cannot find radio indeed” me: “play …
: I found about anki today. My friend and I had been working on a TTRPG and lost momentum when he …
: An effort to clear up some of the effects regarding WOTC’s moves with OGL …
: The folks at mycroft recieved a lot of flak during the holidays because many people were out while …
: What in the hell is this requirement for registering my vehicle in this state. “A tracing of …
: For those who want reading recommendations: My uptake of rudimentary woodowrking is mostly because I …
: Progress on Building a Shelf This past weekend I started making a freestanding shelf that I intend to use as a half wall in my …
: Thoughts on Digital Enclosure and Virtual Tabletops This is something I’d like to sit down and write a proper argument for. For now, some notes …
: I can’t find it but @GeePawHill@mastodon.social had a post the other day about building the …
: I got another hour before I can finish sanding the bookcase that consumed my weekend. I’ll …
: My company gives out two paid days to do volunteer work. I hope to use these. I was wondering how …
: I read the People’s CDC weather report regularly and I’d encourage others to do the …
: It’s on my list to audit my network and I’m bookmarking this for that time. …
: Voice assistants, even the open source ones, don’t support WPA3 …
: I use the mycroft play radio feature every day. It’s semi random based on genre. I think my …
: Disruptive research has declined. This article points out the incentives for publishing often, the …
: I did zero programming this weekend and spent some time trying to make my first bookcase. I’ve …
: Not sure if it’s possible but I would like anything I post on Mastodon to end up here without …
: There are parts of the world that subsidize bookstores in cities, but I think this should extend to …
: I love cafes so much and I desperately miss loitering in them. It’s a shame we’ve done …
: Had a solid day. I intended to work on go-dj for the last hour of being awake but I’ve been …
: The Wizards of the Coast stuff with D&D and D&D Beyond seems pretty clearly like they want …
: I’ve done my #mycroft development for the week. Didn’t get as far as I would have liked …
: Rather than use the radio skill which has quite a bit of GUI to it (station, play, stop, next, etc), …
: Looking to the skills folder in the mycroft-dinkum file proved to be a good bet. …
: The mycroft-dinkum gui differs from the previous iteration’s gui. While the previous iteration …
: Found this bit of code with an interesting comment while parsing the skills. It looks like there may …
: Doing some work on the mycroft II tonight. I’m trying to see if I can get the beginnings of a …
: PHP has both types and classes and yet many have decided to only use associative arrays.
: Probably useful listening for anyone who may ever need a lawyer. pca.st/episode/7…
: Discussion of the various open source voice assistants associated with the mycroft project. …
: The logic for registration and login is working. Next time I touch this, I’ll focus on …
: For my own personal accountability. Tonight, I’ll spend some time on a personal app for my …
: Flagging for later as I get into mycroft and Neon AI development. www.neon.ai/SystemsAr…
: For no reason at all remembering the BKR dutchreview.com/culture/h…
: HTMX looks very good. I’ve gotten the hx-post integrated into this application but now I need …
: What is it about phones/tablets that makes it more difficult to install any old operating system on. …
: I’ve been avoiding registration and login because I haven’t done it before from scratch …
: Just came across a book I definitely have to add to my to-read list. Warez: The Infrastructure and …
: My pause on go-dj led me to working on an app for my friend group. One of them was eager for me to …
: Recommended Reads From 2022 2022 was a busy year. I fewer books than I would have liked, looking back through my list these four …
: radio-browser is a public domain effort to collect as many internet radio and tv stations as …
: Bash features flagging for the section on Job Control
: one of my favorite memes made better with chatGPT’s useless sparknotes
: Open Source Lighting Resources I’ve been missing lighting so populating my blog with some links I want to circle back to when …
: Introducing go-dj: a cofigurable, command line dj Often I have wondered how many songs streamed each year are re-streamed. On its face, having your …
: Mycroft Resources I received my Mycroft II just in time for the time off. I’ve been tinkering with it. Something …
: Open Source Data Sets Posting these here to revisit in 2023 for my search project. The Pile The Pile is a 825 GiB …
: 2023 Programming Outlook & Resources My 2022 project I’ve committed to releasing just needs me to finish writing the unit tests and …
: File under automobile hatred. P-22 was struck by a car and eventually euthanized. In a moving …
: Notes | Inhabiting the Negative Space by Jenny Odell Jenny Odell: Inhabiting the Negative Space. Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Sternberg …
: Introducing instagram-away-message Since Instagram handed me the feature to post 60 character notes, I’ve been doing a bit where …
: How to Achieve Full Decolonization by Jason Hickel details an economic pathway forward for colonized …
: I love the idea of an investment firm being woke. Blackrock of all of them is hilarious.
: Migrating to Mastodon Resources Collecting resources for people who want to migrate. Finding A Server instances.social filters …
: Notes | Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library Amanda Oliver. Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library. Chicago Review Press. 2022. Summary …
: Notes | Abolish Silicon Valley Wendy Liu. Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism. Repeater Books. 2019. …
: After 3 years of using Pop OS, I just learned about other search features from within the launcher. …
: Notes | The Austerity Politics of White Supremacy Source: Dissent Magazine | Author: Vanessa Williamson | Date: Winter 2021 Summary Vanessa …
: Notes | Ctrl+Alt+Delete: The changing landscape of the uncanny valley and the fear of second loss Source: doi.org/10.1007/s… | Author: Debra J Basset | Date: September 22, 2018 Summary Basset …
: Debt relief application is finally live. studentaid.gov/debt-reli…
: Any ethically trained AI models out there? I want to dabble with the technology to get a better …
: All Public Transit Issues Can Be Traced Back to the Ford Motor Company It is appropriate that the subsidiary responsible for today’s transit misfortune is owned by …
: Housekeeping Update For those following along, I’m updating how I use microblog. For a long while I’ve …
: How To Download Academic Papers for Free How to download academic papers and books for free pic.twitter.com/slxtHkbFRs — Alex Strasser …
: Why You Should Design Overland Maps With 6 Mile Hexes Not to mention this handy consequence... pic.twitter.com/RBZ8ZbgTNS — Lumpenrolletariat (Nat) …
: Covid a leading cause of Lymphocytopenia along with AIDS Huge drug manufacturer Merck lists Covid as being a leading cause of Lymphocytopenia along with …
: Links 10-3-22: A Flu Variant's Disappearance, All Platforms Become Malls, and Killing the Newsletter Leading Seasonal Flu Variant on the Brink of Extinction Around four prominent lineages of flu …
: Links 10-2-22: Crime, Paperless Billing, Graphics Without Adobe The Great American Mystery Story: Why Did Crime Decline? Despite crime decreasing yearly since the …
: I simply cannot handle another recession …
: Thread on how viral evolution occurs I've written before about how viral evolution occurs at two levels: within individual hosts and …
: The Verge. “Google’s Making It Even Easier to Remove Your Personal Info from Search.” Accessed …
: Twitch bans gambling games Glad to see some action. I’m not opposed to gambling outright, but I do think having gambling …
: Thoughts on abortion from elsewhere Shane, Charlotte. “The Right to Not Be Pregnant: Asserting an Essential Freedom.” Harper’s Magazine, …
: Some context on the wild new and used car market. This is not just an example of poor individual choices about buying a fancier car than necessary. It …
: I’ve been inspired by The Verge redesign so I’m going to see if I can, through tags and …
: I finished Tal Lavin’s Culture Warlords. My quick summary is: when you think things like …
: Paxlovid mouth is real. Chocolate milk does a decent job of masking it for a little while.
: Seeing all the ways people are scraping together housing is so horrific. What a failed society we …
: Cobra Kai is so big and dumb and easily handled by COVID ridden body.
: I am sick and do not have the fortitude to watch something new. So, I’ll begin my Buffy …
: I would like to see a software regulation called that required a stable version offline version for …
: Sad that The People’s Joker was pulled from TIFF. Add it to the list of reasons we must …
: For several years now, I’ve been trying to square open source code with the fact that its been …
: PS5s still sold out. That’s incredible. I really would just like to buy one before Spider-Man …
: It’s not enough, but I am happy for the people whose debts are either entirely or almost …
: To date, I’ve really enjoyed Go. Today, is the first day in the years, I’ve been using …
: The way the big TTRPG houses are aligning themselves with virtual tabletop software has me wondering …
: I appreciate my low stakes freelance gig that I keep because 1) money is always nice and 2) because …
: What are people using to manager their API testing? I prefer Insomnia. The team is largely on the …
: The biggest change to how I use Go since they’ve added generics is that it’s made …
: Notes | The memory of perfection: Digital faces and nostalgic franchise cinema Source: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.11…| Author: Dan Golding | Date: July 28, 2021 Summary …
: I came across one of the reasons Tarkin looked so bizarre in Rogue One. “…when the …
: The InkJet Model Comes for the Automobile In a moment that feels as though it is straight out of a Philip K Dick novel, BMW has rolled out the …
: Positive, Negative, and Zero-Sum Games The world is a hellscape of vultures trying to separate honest people from their money. The most …
: Dismantling car infrastructure would also undermine surveillance infrastructure. arstechnica.com
: I Hate It Here (Earth) In the early Trump administration, I thought there was a possibility that the neverending parade of …
: We need infrastructure to address inflation not unemployment.
: Pebbles are such great products. The community they actively built has preserved a great piece of …
: Imagining an AI Commons Report At the end of 2019, a lifetime ago, I participated in Machines Agencies' Imagining an AI Commons …
: Work has me developing on a Mac and I wish I could just main Linux.
: I Went in Search of Decentralized Relational Storage I don’t buy into the Blockchain hype, but I do see the value of decentralization and …
: Chambers and Their Echoes, a Colostle Playthrough | Day 5 & 6 📝 📝 Day 5 & 6 Exploration 2 [clubs], A [clubs] Hugo got right to work after finding the pirate …
: 2021 Recommended Reads These are the books from the past year that I both read and enjoyed enough that I would encourage …
: Notes | Blockchain Chicken Farm Xiaowei Wang. Blockchain Chicken Farm And Other Stories of Tech in China’s Countryside. FSG …
: A Retrospective on the October Photo Challenge. I didn’t end up finishing the October blogging challenge. Life got busy and though a few posts …
: Notes | How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism Summary How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism is a book length response to Zuboff’s …
: DAY 22: Two years largely indoors and constantly engaged in screens has my eyes in regular need of …
: Day 21: This painting from a friend above my work shelf often reminds me of space.
: Why Would I Want An Append-Only Ledger? Why Would I Want an Append Only Ledger? Author’s Note: The point of this post is to highlight …
: Day 20 when there is only one sport
: Day 19: Some favorite and oft cited books on a mirror
: Day 18: I said I’d be finished hanging flyers when I ran out of tape. Flyer created by: …
: Day 17: Compass. I like how the author deals with navigating the stars in this book and the dynamics …
: Rotation Day 16 I’ve got a feeling the weather is changing And my luck is in / @challenges
: DAY 15: An ethereal moment in gaming history
: Day 13: love running into alley animals.
: Day 12: My grandma survived lung cancer and before she passed I used to tell a legend that she …
: Notes | Commons Praxis: Towards a Critical Political Economy of the Digital Commons Source: doi.org/10.31269/… | Author: Benjamin J Birkinbine | Date: 2018-03-02 Summary In this …
: Day 9: A long time ago, an old friend gifted me this piggy bank to keep my money safe.
: Impressions of My First IndieWeb Create Day Overall Impressions I found IndieWeb through using micro.blog and was sold on trying to participate …
: Day 8: A favorite building at twilight.
: Day 7 the pandemic introduced me to my favorite spice.
: Day 6: I don’t think we ever planned for the number of cars that would be in the streets.
: Notes | Contemporary Commons: Sharing and Managing Common-Pool Resources in the 21st Century DOI 10.1515/humaff-2019-0007 | Author(s) ANNA ŠESTÁKOVÁ, JANA PLICHTOVÁ | Date 2019 Summary This …
: Day 5: Toy. I love Hanayama puzzles.
: Notes | Carving up the Commons: How Software Patents Are Impacting Our Digital Composition Environments DOI 10.1016/j.compcom.2010.06.006 | Author Annette Vee | Date 2010 Summary Dr. Annette Vee looks at …
: DAY 3: Something about this feels in line with majority.
: Day 2: Bronx building in the dark
: Chambers and Their Echoes, a Colostle Playthrough | Day 3 Continued Part 2 📝 Day 3 Continued Part 2 Exploration Ace [spades] Hugo is gone for a while. A long while. I sit in …
: Day 1 of Micro’s October Photo Challenge. The theme is touch and I’m and thinking of the …
: I’ve been collecting a bunch of things for my post capstone use of this blog and I’m …
: Chambers and Their Echoes, a Colostle Playthrough | Day 3 Continued 📝 Week 1, Day 3 Continued Exploration 6 [spade] When I arrive back at camp and show Hugo my find. …
: Notes | Critical Commentary Decolonial Computing and Networking Beyond Digital Universalism ISSN: 2380-3312 | Author(s): Anita Say Chan| Date: 2018 Summary Anita Say Chan presents the …
: Fighting with an ORM and I just am screaming this headline
: Chambers and Their Echoes, a Colostle Playthrough | Day 3 📝 Week 1, Day 3 Exploration 5 [diamond] | Event King [Spades] I could feel the heat of the candelabra …
: Notes | Digital Democracy: Episode IV — A New Hope: How a Coproration for Public Software Could Transform Digital Engagement for Government and Civil Society Source: doi.org/10.1145/3… | Author(s): John Gastil, Todd Davies | Date: January 2020 Summary …
: Chambers and Their Echoes, a Colostle Playthrough | Day 2 📝 Week 1, Day 2 Exploration J [spade], 7 [diamond] You never sleep well in a new place. I woke up …
: Notes | Democracy and Digital Technology Source: International Journal of Human Rights | Author: Ted Piccone | Date: July 26, 2018 Summary …
: Chambers and Their Echoes, a Colostle Playthrough | Day 1 Continued 📝 Week 1, Day 1 Continued Exploration 10 [diamond], J [diamond] | Event 8 [spade] | Item 10 [spade] I …
: Chambers and Their Echoes, a Colostle Playthrough | Day 1 📝 Week 1, Day 1 Exploration 8 [club], 9 [spade] This isn’t really the first day. It’s just …
: Notes | The Net Was Never Neutral Source: loriemerson.net | Author: Lori Emerson | Date: August 14, 2021 Summary Emerson asks how are …
: EU Proposes Universal Charger Standard EU proposes a universal charger Genuinely good way to reduce e-waste and promote hardware …
: Notes | Critical Commentary Negotiating Engines of Difference ISSN: 2380-332 | Source: Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience | Authors: Lily Irani & …
: Anotating four papers this evening was ambitious. I will struggle to get through two. This next one …
: Notes | The Banking Industry Underestimates Costs of Cloud Migrations DOI: 10.1109/CB149978.2020.00039 | Source: IEEE Conference of Business Informatics | Authors: Fadime …
: Notes | Flawed Cloud Architectures and the Rise of Decentral Alternatives The longest paper of the night. Abstract also looks like it’ll be the most useful. Here goes. …
: Notes | Critical Commentary Decolonizing Infrastructures of Empire This ended up being a much shorter paper than I thought it would be. It’s in like 16 point …
: Notes | Municipal Shared Services Cloud First up in the papers I need to read through today is Municipal Shared Services Cloud. It’s a …
: Currently reading: Life Under the Jolly Roger: Reflections on Golden Age Piracy by Gabriel Kuhn 📚 …
: Beware the Infrastructure as a Service I moved some small projects on to Google Cloud Platform to familiarize myself with the ecosystem and …
: 📚 How to Resist Amazon and Why I have spent the better part of my twenties with and around book sellers. Further, I have spent the …
: Cartridges of Infinite Nostalgia Recently, at a friend’s, I noticed a Gameboy Color sitting out in the living room. Loaded into it …
: Notes | How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell ODELL JENNY. HOW TO DO NOTHING. MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING 2019. Summary How To Do Nothing begins by …
: The Future Came For My Elevator I came into work and the elevators had new operation panels. The building owners had been …
: 📚 Radicalized by Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow’s newest book wasn’t on my radar until I walked into my local bookstore on …
: A Hushed Pulse Electric Sophie zoned as the road wound up to the gate. Plumes of vapor lazily drifted upward from the stacks …
: Of Beers and Bullion The moment a friend introduced me to Venmo something about it violated my moral intuitions. …
: The Only Good Advertisement I’m not sure I believe that web ads can be good. When AdBlock Plus made peace with digital …
: The Context of Spinning Disks For me, the second half of 2017 was replete with existential crises and, initially, I coped by …
: PetroVision Recently, I engaged in a regular American ritual — I filled up my gas tank. This gas station …