earnest 🌙 @earnestma@tech.lgbt

however, the decade did not go without innovation.

see, when you open a website, your mobile supercomputer still struggles to render, the fan spins up like a jet airliner before takeoff, as a friendly reminder that you forgot to install ublock origin

I was up late last night, wired on Red Bull and vodka, and wrote this response to @kev's post on #javascript not being so bad.

https://www.matthewgraybosch.com/2021/03/04/javascript-as-a-last-resort/

TL;DR: I prefer to use JS as a last resort, when less potentially invasive technologies aren't enough to get the job done.

Colleague sent me this

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Save your soul! DST is coming!!

For Snowflake volunteers: If you use Firefox, Brave, or Chrome, our Snowflake extension turns your browser into a proxy that connects Tor users in censored regions to the Tor network. Note: you should not run more than one snowflake in the same network.
https://support.torproject.org/censorship/how-to-help-running-snowflake/

Cool to see that Gemini uses an issue tracker now. Hopefully that will make discussions more productive and quiet down the mailing list.

https://gitlab.com/gemini-specification

> When you open a student's .txt file and see ^M at the end of every line

setting up CI pipelines is always a bit of an adventure

If someone has to understand the "ethos" behind your UX to be able to pleasurably use your interface, it's a bad ethos. Get a new one

Been hearing a lot about the evolution of the FF logo, but this was unexpected...

Data is gone. Couldn't fix the issue.

Lost like 20%, but my backups covered the most part.

Reminder that backups are important!

Mastodon is like a super position I think..

Simple and complex at the same time

Watch 'The Expanse'

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3230854/

New #blog post: “Keeping platforms open”

Web version: https://seirdy.one/2021/02/23/keeping-platforms-open.html

Gemini version: gemini://seirdy.one/2021/02/23/keeping-platforms-open.gmi

It’s a follow-up to my previous article, “Whatsapp and the domestication of users”.

Introductory quote:

Hard problems, by definition, lack easy solutions. Simply choosing (or creating) a platform that avoids user domestication isn’t enough if that platform can change. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance; in addition to settling on the right platform, we must ensure that it honors its users in both the present and the future. Keeping a platform FOSS and simple is more straightforward than keeping a platform “open”.

How do we keep an open platform from becoming a closed platform in the future?

Mstdn.social is one of the largest and nicest instances on the Fediverse, run by an enthusiastic admin called @stux

Unfortunately Stux has today found out that they are fired from their day job 😞

However, by happy coincidence, Stux had just set up a hosting company. If you need web hosting, domain names etc please consider using Stuxhost so that Stux can continue working:

https://stuxhost.com

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