Paul Watson @paulmwatson@social.coop
How can I help you? // Web-developer // Cape Town // [@ChangeXHQ, @Verilayer, @TheSourceBot] // Former CTO @Storyful // EOF
Like the Community Canvas idea and now with a simplified version. https://medium.com/@pforti/introducing-the-minimum-viable-community-canvas-summarizing-the-core-elements-of-a-community-on-1-c7c9bde8ea99
Perhaps social.coop needs this filled out?
Interesting how @hellozeronet lets you choose how you represent yourself to each site you visit. https://social.coop/media/xF_kponpOLUT7B1liYM
Took a bit to wrap my head around how DMs work on Mastodon. Mixing them into the public Notifications is a bit weird. Breaks up private conversations. I can seem myself DMing in public by mistake this way.
🇿🇦 South Africa are 126/0 at lunch. Elgar 72* and Markram 54*. 🇧🇩 Bangladesh finding another flat pitch with little bowler assistance. #SAvBAN
Worrying that wireless headphones are adding proprietary layers. They will become key components of our voice assistant enabled interactions with computing.
And the same with wireless headphones. Bluetooth is "open" but not that great, so devices add their own proprietary layer to make it convenient.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/5/16426754/pixel-2-headphone-jack-bluetooth-walled-garden
Convenience as ever wins. Same for distributed, federated, alternatives to Twitter. Make it convenient.
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/10/5/16428964/sonos-one-speaker-voice-alexa-hands-on
https://social.coop/media/gKypl5LJk53GAp0w_0s
Mean but I got Bilzerian added to Urban Dictionary.
http://bilzerian.urbanup.com/12021878
Decentralised technologies mean censorship-resistant websites
http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2017/10/05/decentralisation-and-censorship/
Quite like the Google Pixel 2 design. Reminds me of Smeg or a Fiat 500. https://social.coop/media/YrTjO7--xF5JwR6N4Mo
Trying out Firefox 57 beta
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/quantum/
Innovation is overrated. "Maintenance and repair, the building of infrastructures, the mundane labour that goes into sustaining functioning and efficient infrastructures, simply has more impact on people’s daily lives than the vast majority of technological innovations." https://aeon.co/essays/innovation-is-overvalued-maintenance-often-matters-more
YouTube makes it so you can't link to your Patreon unless you show YouTube's ads https://twitter.com/InnuendoStudios/status/913418338507935744
Something something I told you about other people controlling your distributions channel something something
Happy to say I haven't used Uber since 2014. Unhappy with the taxi services I've had to use instead but principles gosh darn-it.
https://medium.com/financial-times/uber-the-triumph-of-wallet-over-spirit-100837dd6d94
On being a multi-planet species it's good to hear @elonmusk move from "we're doomed" to "it's exciting". Hope for the future vs. lecturing on the future. Still wildly optimistic of course.
https://youtu.be/S5V7R_se1Xc?time_continue=105
via @torproject
Pro-tip: Do not use a VPN for anonymity https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#IsTorLikeAVPN …
Stumps day two and 🇧🇩Bangladesh trail by 369. 127/3 #SAvBAN
Amaroq looks good next to @BearNotesApp. Seems like the best #Mastodon iOS client.
https://social.coop/media/wuJC5TIyroo8S3R48C4
Honest question but what is the environmental impact difference between rockets and jet planes? I assume rockets are much, much worse per person per kilometre. But I may be wrong.
https://youtu.be/zqE-ultsWt0