@karyl counterpoint: it is already time for mesh networks to smash the telecom hegemony ✊
reading/reading about Emily Short's _Parrigues Tarot_ and I'm completely astounded, it's so good https://emshort.blog/2018/06/26/parrigues-tarot-draft/
Brain: wanna make new thing!
Me: okay cool but these five things need finishing befo-
Brain: NEW!!!
what if there was a secret internet about dogs called the bark web
I'm interested in shifting my VPS to a non-US provider. Suggestions? What do y'all use for hosting stuff?
I very strongly believe the future of the web is people taking back control their space rather than relying on the convenience of using the services of corporate structures.
These places time and time again have proven they do not have our interest at heart and exploit our desire for convenience for their gain.
We gotta flip the script and stop expecting places who have never had our interests in mind to change.
We can do better. We don't need them.
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On birdsite, someone posted that in tech, the manager/individual contributor trade-off is that you can have power or autonomy, but not both.
I've found that to be very much true in my own experience working in tech; the more power you have the less it's your own, all the way up to the CEO, who answers to the VCs, whose sole motivation is profit.
I think a #coop model has the potential to be an antidote to this crushing pattern.
getting her strength back...
@aparrish thanks for your wondrous #deconstruct talk! The VAE’s exuberant naïveté re: what words are was delightful and hilarious and had me in tears.
*tiny snore* 💤
@Efi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorless_green_ideas_sleep_furiously it was a sentence Noam Chomsky used to argue that statistical models are insufficient to capture whether or not a sequence of language is grammatical. chomsky considered it nonsense but it's so evocative, right? from that wikipedia page I love C.M. Street's attempt to contextualize the phrase:
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At SeaTac. I resent having to walk past acres of parked cars to get to the train.
You look nice today :)
I LOVE this idea! Simple income redistribution by ... just giving money away. https://www.heliumgrant.org/
Petition to relabel all compiler error messages from `error` to `quest`
quest: memory: No such file or directory
Now instead of it seeming like you fucked up, it's the nice compiler NPC assigning you a task!
A cool post on birdsite reminded me: I remember being absolutely dumbstruck when I figured out how objects are defined in NetHack. It involves a .c file that #includes itself. Figuring out how that worked blew apart my entire understanding of what the C preprocessor could do. https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/blob/NetHack-3.6.0/src/objects.c
Learned to use the laser cutter at Noisebridge over the weekend, and made these fetch Netrunner credit tokens 💅 https://social.coop/media/ggNOfpEQBA6d1sdKN7g
A thing I like is that solar panels are basically just leaves, innit! 🔆 🍃