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refugees, speak out! Show more

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Dear web developers,
there is a <noscript> tag, just in case any browser doesn't support JavaScript. It is there to be used. And yes, there are people without JavaScript
Sincerely,
Waweic

I have started editing the MusicBrainz Database today. It's an extremely rewarding feeling when really new, really indie music is inserted into your collection with the right metadata after you inserted it into the database

Quick idea for mastodon:

How do you think about an option for hiding posts from users that you follow in the federated timeline?

I often see someone in the federated timeline that I want to follow, but then realize I already follow the person.

That's annoying, just like seeing posts I have already seen. Especially on small instances.

I just would like to see new aspects of the fediverse in the federated timeline and not what I have already seen or will see.

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Friends don't let friends use JBIG2 compression on archival documents, unless they want their friends' scans to look like ransom notes.

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Someone tried to stream my music on Spotify and told me it sounded compressed & clippy and all the rest. I left them with a hint:

If you use Spotify to check out new music and haven't turned off "Normalize volume - Set the same volume level for all songs" in settings, then do so now.

The reason so many songs sound bad on there is because of that for the most part.

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Pleroma is already incredibly simple to set up. If someone wrote a script that condensed all the steps into one command it would be super helpful in making it so even people who aren't super into tech can get it done.
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I made a thing...

For #electronic #music lovers, I've been working on a new track called Battlestar Dreams (it's just a quick preview)...

soundcloud.com/user-703621048/

// original artwork by Mustafa DOĞAN

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@ajroach42

Hi, thanks for your ideas and insights 🙂

I'm not as well informed as you but I'm interested in mesh networks and more decentralised internet alternatives.

I've been thinking about communicating over the internet without DNS. It would be based on pairs or groups of trusted 'friends' that keep each other updated with their changing IP addresses. Your ID on the network would be a public key and you could connect to non-friends via chains of friends of friends.

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There are more hurdles than just storage though.

Computers expect networks to be connected to the internet. Phones expect networks to be connected to the internet.

When they aren't, computers and phones behave oddly. imessage, for example, won't work at all if you don't have internet on your wifi connection, even though you have a cellular connection.

You can't tell some apps to use the LAN and some to use the cellular connection.

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The Web was designed to deliver documents with light markup, and it's now used as an application layer, complete with arbitrary code execution.

The internet, and the web, are so big that they are resistant to change. They have inertial mass.

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I've written a lot, in other places about how the modern web is a trashfire. I'm not going to re-hash all those ideas here, but I'll sum up:

- Massive downloads for no reason
- Arbitrary code execution
- Tracking you constantly (advertising)
- Increasingly silo'd
- Tracking you constantly (NSA Panopticon)
- Bad Laws (we'll discuss this at length.)
- EME/DRM in browsers

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i often wonder how radically different architecture would look in an ideal society. would we continue to have skyscrapers, apartment buildings, large city centers, etc? or would things be more spread out?

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Worker co-op idea, take it or leave it Show more

Google,
this is a shame. I know that you don't like me making it harder for you to collect data over me, but I would still ask you to be somewhat polite. There can, of course, be pages without JavaScript! I may be picky about this, but I don't think that this is somewhat respectful.

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