I made a Discord server last year for people on Micro.blog. Since the service for Micro.blog is currently a little unreliable, I re-upped the invite link: <discord.gg/3v4rvgKn>
I made a Discord server last year for people on Micro.blog. Since the service for Micro.blog is currently a little unreliable, I re-upped the invite link: <discord.gg/3v4rvgKn>
Oh, Craft hides syntax? That’s a shame. I’m with Snell and Gruber on this one.
(h/t Colin Walker)
Going to try my hand at CJ Chilvers’ interpretation of GTD.
I don’t feel confident in using software as my reliable capturing system. I’ll trial a notebook and see how it goes.
November by Max Richter (from Memoryhouse) is a piece of music I could listen to at any time of the day. 🎶
Patrick Rhone inadvertently provides a succinct explanation as to why I dislike roadmaps, pre-announcements, and hype culture in general.
Instead:
TIL you can liberate your audiobooks from Amazon.
We just think that surfing the web with a decent screen and physical keyboard is simply more productive and comfortable.
The folks at Mudita are saying the right things. The Pure phone looks promising but I’m definitely waiting for reviews before even considering it.
One day, in the future, I will have;
At this point I will have abandoned the world of personal branding and influencers and whatnot, and will likely post dispatches from my dusty old blog.
And I will be oh so happy.
(inspired by Jack’s astute observation — Wayback copy)
(update: part two)
Maique’s indecision regarding which photo service to use both makes me feel better about my own uncertainty and has me thinking about it seriously again.
I’m unsure if I want to post photos in more than one place, and if I want to see them in more than one place. 🤔
With the current freezing temperatures in mind; I don’t know if it will return but I was lucky enough to catch some of the snow from a few weeks ago.
Listening to James Nestor talk about the importance of breathing well took my mind, again, to my unease at the behaviour of certain parts of the Apple fan community who like to make cynical jokes about the Breathe feature on the Apple Watch.
Maybe we would all feel better if we spent less energy on desperate attempts to look clever in public and more energy on embracing such basic ideas as literally learning to breathe well.
I’ve returned to thinking about the internet and what it is, in light of working on what it could be. Most recently I posted about the rat-like presence of Google.
Of course this is not disimilar to worrying about S3, Azure, and even Google’s own server hosting. Then take a look at technologies such as React, massive software development-based sites like GitHub, and even the ties between the open web and mega-companies like Samsung with regard to open source…
The internet, much like the real world, shows many paths to living life connected to all sorts of awful people with very few options for small, self-starting groups of people to truly establish themselves free from the hideous behemoths our societies have built over the past many decades.
I’m not discouraged by this. I simply believe you have to gain an understanding of the mountainous obstacles that stand before you, should you wish to overcome them at all.
The main reason I’m attempting to live a life without technology built around invasive tracking (shunning certain websites, deleting accounts with Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc) is that I think about the day I will die…
I prefer to be remembered as something other than just data.
Protests and Power – Idle Words h/t @jeremycherfas
Maciej Cegłowski has done it again. Essential reading for every citizen in countries like the US and UK, no matter your affiliations or opinions.
For those of us who enjoy Micro.blog a lot (I love it tbh) but really don’t want the noise of certain discussion topics, you can use Gluon with its muting capability.
Gluon is great anyway so you can see more info on the website for the app.
The big updates to Micro.blog are brilliant. Amongst the many things I am still processing, the redesign for the web does such a good job of both putting better focus on the timeline and making it easier to access different features. So very good. 😍
One of the smaller notes of this preview for the upcoming Micro.blog updates that has me as excited as the headline features is near the end of Manton’s post:
… such as (finally!) editing replies.
🙌🙌🙌
Re-reconsidering my email situation. Going to give the rules and filters for Proton a good go before thinking about switching; I need to actually deal with my existing mail rather than hide that task with the false work of switching provider.
Time is a good decision-maker.
The Home Office has frighteningly little grasp of the impact of its activities in managing immigration.
– Meg Hillier MP, chair of the Public Accounts Committee
I know that I have blood on my hands by now.
– Sophie Zhang
A data scientist formerly employed by Facebook as part of its moderation efforts against corruption has spoken out. If you’re going to keep using Facebook, at least read about the cost of that decision.
It was impossible to speak to a human at Instagram … It is like they don’t want to be contacted.
– Emma Heathcote-James, via the BBC: ‘Scammer clone my business on Instagram’
A frightening and depressingly familiar story.