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Today is a very good day to be listening to Zoë Keating, whose music is always a welcome campanion whether I’m working on some physical chores, admin tasks, or @til. 🎶
I’m Rene Ritchie and This… Is Rene Ritchie.
It’s great to see Rene building his own thing, especially as he is a person who speaks with such clarity, and care for different points of view. Both the tech media and YouTube scenes need as much of this as can be contributed.
Seeing people abuse pandemic-related hashtags and search on social media to literally endanger lives … it makes me thankful that Micro.blog doesn’t have search, hashtags, and “trending”.
For the price of saving lives we can all suffer the temporary burden of inconvenience.
The New York Times uses lots of cookies, of course.
Of the many they are willing to admit exist, there is one for “Remember opt-out preferences”… it will stay on your computer for 10 years.
This is what the web looks like in its broken state.
I’ve come to a realisation:
Micro.blog will very likely be the last online community for which I create an account for something approaching personal use.
That feels… weird.
Riot looks like a nice option for chat. It is even the chosen partner of Mozilla as their IRC replacement.
I like the idea behind Keybase but it is VC-funded. 😬
I hope people use more independent web technology, such as Micro.blog, and it helps them change their thinking about the monopolies.
Makes me sad hearing people say “Google Search just has everything” and the like. Ignoring long-term damage doesn’t help to prevent it.
The screenshot app I was relying on doesn’t have a proper iPad app. 😒
Also can’t easily find a cross-platform app for sharing links, whilst iCloud sharing continues to be underwhelming in this regard.
Looks more and more like Dropbox is the winner here.
Quick update for @til:
- Have mostly caught up with the Update posts. They’re now back on a good schedule.
- History page is fully updated.
- Will soon post the back-dated editions of The Macro Report.
- Other regular post types will soon return.
- Working on something new!
Another Who story being published tomorrow, this time from Russell T. Davies 😱😱😱
cc: @macgenie
I just wrote the @til Update post for the teacher-specific hosting subscription and it felt pretty damn good. Even better: updating the History page for it.
Speaking of chill, everybody is super cool on the NetNewsWire #socializing Slack channel.
Will Smith posted a 90-minute Lo-fi video to his YouTube channel and it’s pretty nice.