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travisfw

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Always showing up for the conversation on designing, in Doctorow's words: an "enshittification-resistant digital nervous system."

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PixelChris, to random

Pheonix Yard, Monmouth, July 2021.

Assorted vintage storage tins.
A stock room of wooden furniture.
More wooden furniture.

travisfw,
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@PixelChris @ChrisWere desiccated soup. In the times before plastic everywhere.

travisfw, to random
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you have to choose between "don't put all your eggs in one basket" and "put all your eggs in one basket AND WATCH THAT BASKET"

travisfw, to random
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what other fediverse software do you use?
I also use Bookwyrm, and I'm considering finding a good Lemmy instance.

travisfw, to random
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"Accountability as I mean it is more about ourselves in the context of the collective. … about recognizing that we are necessary and wanted. … when we are not working to live as our best selves, we are devaluing the time and care that our loved ones offer us."
— Mia Birdsong in her book, How We Show Up

travisfw, to atheism
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I often feel like the odd one out, believing in something I call God, among secular technologists. I see most as a rejection of modern dualistic Christian culture. Fine: I've literally no ties to Christianity. Neither am I New Age, though I do think they are a bit closer to the Truth in referring to God as The Universe. Doesn't matter exactly what you call It. Mystics of all origins in all geographies will tell you the limits of names.

travisfw,
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What I believe in is the limit of knowledge. I believe in Mystery. I believe in cognitive psychology: that our brains can only take us so far. If I can understand the limits of the machinery of understanding, I can get a glimpse of the scale of all that I can never begin to understand. What is left is: to simply continue to be a part of it all, and with respect to our oneness, be as healthy as we can.

travisfw,
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@deshipu 💯!

travisfw, to random
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I emailed Kobo support wrt my recent purchase of their "Libra Colour"

I am writing because the device does not seem to recognize audio books loaded into its storage via USB. Is there a method for getting the Kobo to ingest and play DRM-free audio, or is the Kobo ?

I am obviously hoping the hashtag doesn't apply.

travisfw, to random
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no toots today??

travisfw, to random
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wow this bear vs man meme is very memetic today

bruces, to apple
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*Reduced to bribing the stockholders with the cash hoard

travisfw,
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@bruces Y'know, I don't object to buybacks. I know they're a bit shady, but to me that just exhibits the pervasive shadiness of the whole stock market. If a corp neither gives dividends nor buys back its stock, there is no intrinsic value to the stock. A buyback pays shareholders, doesn't it? It legitimizes the market, IMO. And if the company can afford a buyback, that is a signal it is not failing.

GustavinoBevilacqua, to random
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A question for my U.S. followers, since today search engines are almost unreliable.

Is it possible, in the U.S., to buy dynamite at the hardware store?

travisfw,
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@GustavinoBevilacqua I have not seen explosives sold, but I don't live in, apparently, Illinois. My answer is "no"

nixCraft, (edited ) to linux
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Oh no. It is true neofetch repo has been archived by the owner. Now grandma is worried. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yixseXhg5ZY #Linux

travisfw,
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@nixCraft https://alternativeto.net/software/neofetch/

nixCraft, to random
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What is a 10x engineer? Wrong answers only.

travisfw,
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@benbe @nixCraft not wrong.

travisfw, to random
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wishing I could go to the on Monday in NYC, but the possibility is not even remote.

travisfw, to random
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checks as many security and privacy-concerned ✔️ boxes as possible composing common cryptographic primitives, addressing and key rotation, providing the necessities and comparatively few prescriptive opinions. https://keri.one/

travisfw, to random
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forbids forks from precluding the sovereignty of dependent software with the : Cryptographic Autonomy License, an OSI-endorsed legal document <https://opensource.org/license/cal-1-0>

travisfw, (edited ) to random
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dev docs start with a quote from :
"Fight for the things you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you."
https://veilid.gitlab.io/developer-book/

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travisfw,
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Is the caption what she's saying or what someone is telling you about her? Funny either way, I guess.

Bears definitely top the list of cute + dangerous. Just below domesticated dogs, I suppose.

travisfw, to random
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double-click, ctrl-c, ctrl-t, ctrl-v, enter

I've done that a million times. :thinking:

mhoye, to random
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For me at least the thing that made the “good old web” great was being able to click “view source” and learn something.

travisfw,
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@mhoye boost times a million. html was designed to be literate. fuck git. html is functional open source.

Now, I usually can't even find the in-document link for whatever heading or section.

i2p, to random
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The I2P network includes a plugin architecture to support both easy development and installation of new plugins.

travisfw,
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@i2p "This page was last updated in June 2012"

If the whole thing isn't missing any information, uhm. Maybe just add some punctuation?

travisfw, to random
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Thanks @pluralistic, for the term "enshittification-resistant digital nervous system."

Strong finish to the Marshall McLuhan Lecture on from Berlin’s transmediale conference

Episode webpage: https://craphound.com/news/2024/02/05/my-marshall-mcluhan-lecture-on-enshittification-from-berlins-transmediale-conference/

Media file: https://archive.org/download/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_461/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_461_-_My_Marshall_McLuhan_Lecture.mp3

travisfw,
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I have been thinking on this and doing what I can since I graduated 19 years ago and came to the Bay Area to find what we now call in full swing in 2007.

To me, it was obvious, then, that it would look this ugly, now. (Everyone had starry eyes and I've always loved tech too, but it was ugly then, too.) I wish people would look for those voices from the past, who said it. Yeah, they're there. If you were there, you know someone. Ring them up for a real conversation, now. 👍🏻

oshwassociation, to random
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We are so lucky and thankful to be working with LESPACEMAKER to have a space to gather in day 2! Merci d’être nos hôtes et si excellents!!

travisfw,
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@oshwassociation well now I want to live in a tree.

That tree has running hot water!

fission, to random
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We just posted a farewell to our blog about winding down operations of the company https://fission.codes/blog/farewell-from-fission/

Thank you to everyone for your support, interest, & collaboration over the years.

We're proud of the UCAN, WNFS, and IPVM stack we developed, and hope to see them have continued growth across different ecosystems as open source standards and implementations.

travisfw,
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@fission Sorry I didn't get to connect more with you all while the project had more steam. I presume you all have not disappeared in a puff of smoke though.

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