Waweic @waweic@pleasehug.me

This has made me do a think

Why We Should Say Yes to Drugs
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/andrew-sullivan-why-we-should-say-yes-to-drugs.html

(submitted by pmoriarty)

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)...

https://soundcloud.com/user-703621048/battlestar-dreams

// original artwork by Mustafa DOĞAN

@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.

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.

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.

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

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?

A food truck or cart that sells coffee. Cheap coffee, not espresso, not milkshakes which happen to coincidentally include coffee in the bottom of the ingredients list, but coffee. Also water, tea, and cocoa. With cream, sugar, and alternatives available. Everything $1. Free beverages for houseless people.

Reclaiming RSS

“Before Twitter, before algorithmic timelines filtered our reality for us, before surveillance capitalism, there was RSS: Really Simple Syndication … As we move away from the centralised web to the peer web, it’s time to rediscover, re-embrace, and reclaim RSS.”

https://ar.al/2018/06/29/reclaiming-rss/

#ethicaltechnology

I love how Darwin Deez made a lyric #music video with code in it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h4ZtICxM0w

Un physicien, un ingénieur et un statisticien vont à la chasse.

Ils voient un chevreuil à 50m. Le physicien calcule la trajectoire de sa flèche en négligeant les frottements aérodynamiques, il est 5m trop court.

L'ingénieur reprend les calculs du physicien et ajoute un terme au pif pour les frottements. Il tire et il est 5m trop long.

Le statisticien s'écrie : "Ouais, on l'a eu !"

@andrioid That screenshot...

"import two heavy libraries to implement user-tracking like button"

🤣

If you ever need to demonstrate what is wrong with modern web development, there's your illustration! 😜

Schroedinger’s Immigrant: Simultaneously “taking our jobs!”, and “mooching free benefits!”

Republican cognitive dissonance is like watching a car crash in slow motion.

@horsemans if you want to go forward with your gopher.it plan and need a swanky domain, I've got a few "gopher" names at various tlds (gopher.town, gopher.cafe, gopher.cloud). I want them to go to a good person who will use them so I squatted before a bot did.

@leip4Ier I like some modern technologies too but the way they are exploited to make money makes me hurl... I hate corporativism.

DDoS is the most stupid way to attack someone. How much do you have to pay to buy a large enough botnet that might take down a service for perhaps 5-10 minutes until they mitigate the attack? Like, seriously...