Waweic @waweic@pleasehug.me

#latestagecapitalism

those slaves that work in mines then, they might have been working for your electronic device.

Try to at least not activly contribute to slavery.
Get used electronic devices, or check the production chain and support companies like @Fairphone

Take position against anyone speaking out against support for refugees.

Occupy spaces that finance or profit from this slavery

Get some inspiration from the ICE protests

Get in l contact with refugees in your area

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

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.

just cancelled #netflix and I feel great

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.