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Reading these old articles about Google Wave sure is throwing up some fascinating fragments of history

fragment of history, complexity 

"Cognitive science professor and author Donald Norman used to give students the Kobayashi Maru of design homework, asking his students to squish a CD player, tape player, clock radio, telephone and answering machine all together in an usable doodad.

The point was to fail, but also learn along the way that too much functionality defies a good interface."

(So, basically all things that smartphones can do today, minus the physical media)

i have a new theory called alive internet theory where i propose that the internet is full of real people and you can befriend some of them even and maybe actually kiss them and more

fragment of history, cloud computing 

"In cloud computing, companies are supposed to save money by using distant computers owned by others to run programs, store data and manage networks."

I have a standing quarterly donation to #kde, because it is my desktop environment of choice and it absolutely rocks. Use it daily and it doesn't get in the way. I've donated some things here and there to individual developers because their things made my life so much easier.

Please, donate to the free and opensource software you use. If you switch away from a paid thing, consider donating some of the money you saved.

uspol 

fedi people (including myself) like to meme with Sun Microsystems but the founders are still typical Big Tech people

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Mc

> In 2017, McNealy praised the 45th U.S. President, Donald Trump, for his free-market economic policies.[36] On September 17, 2019, McNealy hosted a fundraiser for Donald Trump's re-election campaign.[37][38]

Like, I'm evaluating P2P things again and GUN is basically instantly off the list of candidates because I cannot navigate their fucking website without being overwhelmed!

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The website for GUN (the decentralization thing) is the absolute fucking worst. What's wrong with the people who built this horrible thing???

(Don't go there if you are in any way photosensitive.)

If you live in NC and voted. 

Please check if your vote was just tossed out and challenge it.

You have until Friday April 18 ... so check now and let your friends know so they can check too.

thegriffinlist.com/

uspol 

Google Cloud is hosting professorwatchlist.org.
Cloudflare is providing DNS and DDoS protection.

Guess Google and Cloudflare enjoy being in bed with fascists now...

So, while I felt comraderie during my march as I moved with various organizations to stand up in the face of state oppression, the world at large still have some work to do.

Capitalism has put us in a place to keep focusing on the individual as opposed to the collective.

People keep focusing on who's protesting "the right way".

I'm not saying we should have bounce houses for kids.

But criticizing people for taking a step, for some their first step, is weird.

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Beste #Nederland|se bubble, wil je helpen om de account van deze mooie initiative bekender te maken? (Graag boost, en als je het leuk vind zijn ze ook dankbaar voor follows🌸🐝)

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mastodon.nl/@Kleverbergh
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Dank u!

#Nijmegen #regeneratiefbiologischelandbouw #landschap #landschapsontwikkeling #natuurbescherming #ecologischbouwen #biobasedbouwen

uspol 

the site is behind Cloudflare, but the actual server is 34.138.25.131

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The Rotterdam Lijnbaan Albert Heijn has a new side entrance. I’ve seen more inviting supermarket entrances 😶‍🌫️

Please obscure the faces of people in your protest pictures. The government and civilian fascist groups with with an Azure/AWS account have easy access to facial recognition services and DO use them.

fragment of history, google 

"Wave is designed to operate as a decentralized communication network. Individuals and organizations will run their own Wave-compatible servers which will all interoperate through a federated messaging protocol. Although Google has developed the underlying technology, the company intends to open it up entirely to the community and make it a vendor-neutral standard. There will be multiple competing implementations, much like there are today for e-mail services, and it will be possible to use and operate independent Wave services without having to rely on Google."

"yeah, I was making gender shitposts on mastodon, and all of a sudden, I was trans"

New blog post! I've started taking regular snapshots of Library of Congress linked open data (as part of a much broader data rescue and monitoring project) and took the opportunity to finally get to grips with #SPARQL, #RDF and all that comes along with it. I've started small though...

On fooling around with triples
erambler.co.uk/blog/on-fooling

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