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aral

@aral@mastodon.ar.al

I make small things.

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annika, to random
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Windows 11... good??

aral,
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@annika Depends… how do you like your surveillance? Rare or well done?

aral, to SmallWeb
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Anyone here know anyone from Paddle that you can put me in touch with? (Or share your experience with them?)

I’m reconsidering whether Stripe is the right solution for the initial payments option in Domain (https://codeberg.org/domain/app) or whether it makes more sense (and would be easier for folks who want to run their own Domain instances and become Small Web hosts) if I integrated a Merchant of Record (MoR) solution instead.

aral, to random
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Money is a legal fiction.

aral, (edited ) to random
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Cost of King Charles’s coronation¹: £250m

Amount cut from social care budget²: £250m

Staunchly remaining a royalist fool in the 21st century: priceless.

¹ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/king-charles-iiis-coronation-expected-cost-taxpayers-around-250m-1715507

² https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/mar/17/government-to-cut-250m-from-social-care-workforce-funding-in-england-report-says

maryeffrancis, to random

I’m watching Eric Cline on the collapse of civilisation in 1177 BCE. Drought, Famine, Migration, Trade Disruption, Unrest, War …

aral,
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@maryeffrancis Bingo!

poemproducer, to random
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pleaase boost

Ukrainian feminist activists need your support!

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cr87izwtza5/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

aral,
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@poemproducer Can we somehow help them get on the fediverse? Maybe with a @pixelfed account? (CC @dansup) – I can’t even view their posts.

Instagram doorslam while trying to view post.

aral,
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@poemproducer @pixelfed @dansup @eristavi @uartists 💕

info_activism, to random
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Our face has a unique set of data measurements -such as the width of your nose & the distance between your eyes- called a faceprint. Facial recognition tech is everywhere. But, do you know how it works & what can be done with the information collected? https://theglassroom.org/en/what-the-future-wants/exhibits/the-real-life-of-your-selfie-wtfw

aral,
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@info_activism Folks, alt text please; privacy education is not just for the perfectly-sighted.

“YOUR SELFIE,
YOUR DATA
With every selfie you upload,
facial
recognition software can gather unique data about vour face. This data goes on a journey of its own and can be used in many ways, even without your knowledge.
TACTICAL
TECH”

RichardJMurphy, to random
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Did a Tory Vice-Chair mean to oppose democracy, or did he just make a mistake? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/05/08/did-a-tory-vice-chair-mean-to-oppose-democracy-or-did-he-just-make-a-mistake/.

aral,
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@RichardJMurphy Alt-text for text in image:

“Tory MP Lee Anderson has suggested that those opposing monarchy should leave the country. At the very least that implies he does not believe in the democratic right to hold a view different to his. Is that what he really thinks?”

(You can edit the post to add the text to your image if you want to make it possible for people who use screen readers to see it too.)

ilumium, to random
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Who the heck would voluntarily use an email service that puts inside email text?

aral,
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@ilumium Have you tried Schnail Mail?

https://ar.al/notes/schnail-mail-free-real-mail-for-life/

aral,
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@koolinus Imagine how it makes me feel, I wrote it ;)

(It was never going to be a forever app. You can’t play cat and mouse with trillion-dollar corporations. What you can do is build alternative infrastructure that can exist forever… or at least be the bridge that moves us in a different direction. Better was always a stopgap that allowed us to keep working on the problem. The Small Web is the bridge.)

aral,
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@nellie_m You’re very welcome. It’s ten years old and, sadly, still just as relevant.

aral, to random
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All hail Charles the Turd!

aral,
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HT @rimibchatterjee ;)

aral,
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@BradRubenstein Apparently not about Charlie boy but still, great song :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Girl_(Hall_%26_Oates_song)

melissabeartrix, to random
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Just had a guy and his two kids in the shop, the oldest was 4 1/2, she told me so proudly ... She had a beautiful lavender cardigan on and matching socks ... I told her I loved that colour, we had a little chat about purple and all the purple things we have ... Then she asked me "are you a girl?" ... I looked at her dad and said can I let her know, he said yes

I crouched down to her level and said "that's a nice question you asked" ... and then said "I was born a boy, yuck, and for many reasons I always felt like a girl" ... Her eyes lit up, and I got a huge hugz and she whispered in my ear, "you're a girl"

I am more than likely the first trans person she has met, I made her feel comfortable and listened to ... one at a time ... Her dad thanked me for being kind.

Never dismiss a childs question, you might feel they are abrupt, they are not, they just want to know

First impression are important

Hugz & xXx

aral,
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@melissabeartrix 💕

mae, to random
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oh FUCK OFF

aral,
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@mae Mmm, open sauce!

aral, to random
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“According to a recent poll, more than 70 percent of Britons under the age of 50 are indifferent to the coronation. Even so, a staggering 250 million pounds ($315m) of magicked-up taxpayer money will be spent on this single day even as thousands of nurses, doctors, teachers and other key public workers have been told for months there is no money in the coffers to offer them a meaningful pay rise.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/5/5/with-charles-iii-coronation-colonialism-is-coming-home-to-roost

#monarchy #uk #inequality #letThemEatCake

aral,
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@marjolica @Mark62 Wow. Just wow. I have no words.

aral, (edited )
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@rimibchatterjee

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shacker, to random
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Best explanation I've seen of why the Paradox of Tolerance is no paradox at all.

aral,
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@shacker @forschungstorte Wow, it doesn’t? That’s unconscionable. What’s the deal, @ivory?

(I just downloaded the app to test but I’m not going to subscribe just to see whether or not it allows accessible toots or not as posting is a premium feature.)

PS. Thanks for adding the alt text in. Will boost now.

lexd0g, to random
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skyline is dead. fuck nintendo.

aral,
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@kkarhan > “not because of @aral but I endorse the manifesto”

Exactly as it should be :)

@lexd0g

aral,
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@kkarhan @lexd0g Haha, no worries, it was a productive rant :)

aral, to random
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Design is what happens between your ears, not what you see on a piece of paper.

(The piece of paper is useful for communicating with others about what happens between your ears.)

aral,
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@scottmatter Hadn’t read that (also popping it on my ever-expanding list, thank you) but yes, indeed, the human mind extends far beyond the brain. And you’re entirely correct that this is fundamental to design. Not just to the process itself but also in determining the character of the things we create and how those things, in turn, shape our reality.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/aral-balkan-ethical-design-cyborgs

https://ar.al/2021/12/18/the-three-laws-of-personal-devices/

https://cyborgrights.eu/

aral, to SmallWeb
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So as Kitten¹ matures, I’m starting to talk about it at in-world events.

At the end of May, I’ll be in Paris, presenting Kitten (& Domain²) at @newcrafts

https://ncrafts.io/agenda

I arrive the 24th, speak the 25th, and leave the 27th.

If you’re around and want to chat about Small Web, Kitten & Domain, let me know and maybe we can arrange a small get-together if there’s enough interest.

:kitten:💕

¹ https://codeberg.org/kitten/app
² https://codeberg.org/domain/app

aral,
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@framasky Ah yes, @Framasoft – thanks! Although you’re very welcome too :)

(The Mastodon @mention autocomplete could use some work, me thinks.)

@newcrafts

neil, to internet

I appreciate that this is going to upset some people, and I thought I was too shy to say it, but I prefer over :

Here's why:

https://neilzone.co.uk/bluesky_over_mastodon.html

aral,
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@neil smh :)

This is some @doot level trolling, right here (and that’s a compliment) :)

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