Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

It's actually kind of uncanny to see the similarity between the disappearance of third places in the US, and the development of social media on the internet.

We used to have online third places - community-run spaces with some common interest in a topic, be it a TV show, a game, a hobby. Every space was its own thing, and the identifying characteristic was the community that built it. Forums are the most well-known example. You came there for the people, first and foremost, the topic was just the gateway.

Now we have social media that are entirely focused around the individual and their opinions and clout. And the community spaces that do still exist, are usually more like shopping malls - singular canonical subreddits that are sanctioned by the IP holder, controlled by them directly or indirectly, and expected to hold every single fan of the 'property'. No true mutual community, just a bunch of people in a room with a shared interest.

semi-related-ish ... someone here posted about their game being poached by game aggregator sites and adding a check to see if it's in an iframe and rendering something else. whoever that was, thanks for the tip!

Informal survey question: are you plural, and do you eat a lot?

(For 'normally', assume whatever you think is common; the exact quantity or pattern is not important here. If you're not familiar with what 'plural' means, please skip answering this one - I can't add a 5th option, sorry. Boosting is still appreciated!)

How do I get a mid-teen to understand data privacy, surveillance capitalism and why these topics matter?

Is there a teen-specific guide?

Thank you all very much for links etc.
The most recommended works are:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780765323118/little-brother by @pluralistic
https://nostarch.com/smartgirlsguide by @violetblue

as well as ' Government Surveillance: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)' https://yewtu.be/watch?v=XEVlyP4_11M

found a website where you can get free and personalized legal advice about your rights as an EU citizen called Your Europe Advice https://europa.eu/youreurope/advice/index_en.htm

it's an NGO with over 60 lawyers contracted by the EU commission. they also work with SOLVIT which will actually mediate in disputes between EU nationals and countries that aren't their home country regarding the violation of EU rights https://ec.europa.eu/solvit/index_en.htm and gently remind govt institutions of your rights as an EU citizen

i'm just leaving these here in case anyone ever needs these like i do right now

shower thought: why don't adults have sleepovers? It's not like we collectively agreed not to, we just *don't*. ​​

New programming font designed by Frere-Jones Type for Intel. Interesting.

"Identifying the typographically underserved low-vision developer audience, Frere-Jones Type designed the Intel One Mono typeface in partnership with the Intel Brand Team and VMLY&R, for maximum legibility to address developers' fatigue and eyestrain and reduce coding errors. A panel of low-vision and legally blind developers provided feedback at each stage of design."

https://github.com/intel/intel-one-mono

https://www.programmingfonts.org/#intel-one-mono

https://twitter.com/FreyaHolmer/status/1765680355657359585

Here's a different one. @michaela_p said it looks like angry caterpillar and like... I can't unsee it now

#trainspotting #trains #train

I think carving a tunnel through a 2400 year old tree and then charging people money to drive a car through it sums up US culture better than anything else

the adhd urge to use parenthesis in every sentence (because every thought comes with additional bonus content)

Has anyone else got a working setup for mu4e with Protonmail Bridge?

I used to, years ago, but I fear that they changed the workings of the Bridge software so that it no longer works with mu4e

(Tried to set it up and ran into problems but I'm not sure if they can be resolved if I tried harder or if it's just not compatible)