The monopoly tried to make them the same thing.

Lawrence Lessig called out their bullshit, or they would have gotten away with it

https://nohello.net/en/

Internet Standards.

The things MS tried to extend-and-extinguish the Web when it was just barely born. Remember campaigns “best in any browser” ?

We almost didn’t have an open Internet.

Fuck you specifically, MicroSoft

Your life is what you mundanely do every day

No one special day defines your life

(Unless you do something stupid like just graze the ear)

Opening up wifi list at every DefCon I’ve been to:

“Never gonna give you up”

"Never gonna say goodbye "

"Never gonna run around "

“And desert you”

The Grim Reaper sharpening his scythe for geriatrics Trump and Putin

And in civilized places, you can do it without fear of imprisonment

ofc this is Fedi so that’s just a list; there is no the list

so decentralized, so Internet

shit registration functions

… and there are some shit moderators here, just like on Reddit

… and there are some really high-value communities here, because of really good moderation – just like on Reddit

EDIT: But it’s Federated, and therefore much more self-healing in that decentralized Internet way

This. I am a Silicon Valley manager, been hiring & managing teams for 25 years. For the same budget I can bring on 1 developer in California, vs 2-3 in Mexico or India.

TBH the quality of engineer has very little to do with their nationality. It has a lot more to do with what school they went to. It depends most on how much fire 🔥 is in their belly.

wildlife conservation

I met multiple long term romantic partners from this exact thing.

Plus even if you don’t find someone, any time invested in saving animals is absolutely positive karma you can feel good about, even if it was just cleaning cages.

noop; noop; noop;

If you have a physical Dymaxion Map, you make each vertex a hinge so you can swing to connect the bits you want to be adjacent for the purpose at hand.

DYMAXION MAP OR GTFO

EDIT: details

It has less distortion of relative size of areas, most notably when compared to the Mercator projection; and less distortion of shapes of areas, notably when compared to the Gall–Peters projection. Other compromise projections attempt a similar trade-off.

More unusually, the Dymaxion map does not have any “right way up”. Fuller argued that in the universe there is no “up” and “down”, or “north” and “south”: only “in” and “out”.[9] Gravitational forces of the stars and planets created “in”, meaning “towards the gravitational center”, and “out”, meaning “away from the gravitational center”. He attributed the north-up-superior/south-down-inferior presentation of most other world maps to cultural bias.

I am 50+, remember paying quarters to play Pong and Space Invaders.

Built my kids a game box using Batocera Linux and ROMs from the 80s and 90s (Atari2600, Intellivision, Colecovision, etc)

I was thereby able to show them the True Magic and Wonder of Computers

I’ve been doing good with an older generation of AfterShokz

I just now searched NYT product reviews for “bone conducting headphones”

We recommend the Shokz OpenRun Pro 2 headphones for runners who want to hear their surroundings.1They offer a comfortable design that leaves your ears uncovered, producing more bass and less vibration than other bone-conduction headphones.1The hybrid design handles bass effectively, and may change your mind if you’ve disliked bone-conduction headphones in the past.1For swimmers, we recommend the Shokz OpenSwim Pro headphones, which have a built-in MP3 player and use bone-conduction technology for clearer sound underwater.2They’re also comfortable for extended wear and surprisingly stable during swimming.2Another option is the Philips Go TAA7607, which offers similar performance to the Shokz OpenRun but includes a red LED strip for visibility during dusk training.1

£100 is roughly the price point for mid-range bone conducting, outside-the-ear headphones. These rest against the bone next to the ear instead of inside the ear itself. You can get lower end options for more like £45

I cannot recommend these strongly enough!

1. Your ear canal is open to the air, not plugged up for hours
2. You can still hear your environment, great for biking/walking/running/not getting snuck up on

NYT did a whole article about it, here have a free one. 86 47! Epstein files!

Trump’s Oval Office Is a Gilded Rococo Nightmare. Help.

It’s all new people now sadly Edgar passed just a few years ago. But the new troupe studied and played with prior TD for years and very much has the same vibe

Their whole catalogue from 1960s to now is a perfect soundtrack for a thinking person’s life

And miracle mile and a bunch more