https://www.jwz.org/images/scaled/768/2019/ctyp_65699222328826997_fe5da4bde3.jpg Instagram’s most toxic contribution might be “Link in Bio”. In order to lock you in completely, they took the fundamental defining characteristic of The Web — the hyperlink — and destroyed it.
This dark pattern is the…
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I’ve been working on explaining computer things I’m learning on this blog for 6 years. I wrote one of my first posts, what does a shell even do? on Sept 30, 2013. Since then, I’ve written 11 zines, 370,000 words on this blog, and given 20 or so talks. So it seems like I like explaining things …
As part of the Techfestival last week, the Copenhagen 150, which this time included me, came together to write a pledge for individual technologists and makers to commit their professional lives to. A bit like a Hippocratic oath, but for creators of all tech. Following up on the Copenhagen Letter, w…
The drive to urbanization is an imperative of capitalism, this drive results in ‘a freezing of life’— a static world devoid of spontaneity, the result of land development and bureaucratic zoning laws optimized for rent seeking and increased land valuations, devoid of nature and where its residents have no ability to change their surroundings to suit their daily ways of living
AI can now easily (8 seconds) change the identity of someone in a film or video. Multiple services can now scan a few hours of someone’s voice and then fake any sentence in that person’…
I have a Google Alert set up for my name, to find new mentions of it online. Today I received a mail that my name came up in an article in the South China Morning Post (SCMP), as part of a photo credit. This made me curious.
An article on the amount of time elderly US citizens spend behind their com…
jakedahn (jakedahn.com)Back to Blogging
Hi Friends!
I spent my last few evenings learning about http://indieweb.org, https://micro.blog/, and trying to revive my personal blog. Things are still a little rough around the edges, so bear with me as I slowly customize the theme, and make things nicer.
I’ll write some though…
New York Times digitaal abonnement opzeggen?
Daar moet je echt moeite voor doen… Wat een ouderwetse zooi/dark pattern is dit….
Bookmark: Nadia Eghbal, Re: Writing Hypertext
"The problem with likes is it naturally draws your eye towards the most-liked stuff, instead of deciding for yourself what’s most interesting. It almost feels like I’d be taking agency away from the reader by doing that." Daar zit een mooie kern van waarheid in. Het hele interview met Nadia is de moeite waard, evenals…
It’s been a while since I posted any shell tricks, so I’m just dumping a few random but useful aliases out here…
Ben Werdmüller (werd.io)I’m back in the habit of reading my feed subscriptions at the beginning of every day. I love blogs: posts are typically more longform and thoughtful, and less led by trending topics on social media sites. It’s usually “here’s what I’ve been thinking about lately,” which is lovely. As Kev…
Bookmark: Things You Didn’t Know About GNU Readline
What is GNU Readline and where did it come from?
Wauw. Ik heb er nooit zo bij stil gestaan dat al die kleine functionaliteiten op je computer toch érgens vandaan moeten komen. Zoals Readline. Ik kende het niet, maar het is best een relevant onderdeel van je dagelijkse computerwerk, zeker als je code schrijft. En nog belangrijker: "Today, it is an important if invisible part…
Bookmark: Glen E. Friedman Looks Back at the Dogtown Days » Whalebone
An expanded edition of a book of Friedman’s classic photographs offers an up-close-and-personal look at the birth of modern skateboarding Glen E. Friedman has taken some of the most iconic skateboarding photos you’ve ever seen. And he was something like all of 14 years old when he took many of t…
Friedman is mijn persoonlijke held. Zijn foto’s en de invloed op popcultuur zijn onmiskenbaar. In dit interview vertelt hij wat meer over de achtergrond van zijn fotografie en welke skaters hém hebben beïnvloed.
On death and Stoicism.
Aaron Parecki has been playing around with sensors in his home. He lists the three principles he applies to how his home automation is set up: Manual override: Everything automated has to still have the ability to be controlled manually Keep it at home: No “cloud” services unless absolutely nece…
Tantek Çelik (tantek.com)While not a post directly about IndieWeb Summit 2019, this post provides a bit of background and is certainly related, so I’m including it in my series of posts about the Summit. Previous post in this series: Reflecting On IndieWeb Summit: A Start
At the beginning of IndieWeb Summit 2019, I gave a…
Bookmark: Eerste blik op PUNK ROCK & MOBILE HOMES van DERF BACKDERF | VEDA Dag 11 | Vlog 195
In deze vlog een eerste blik op Punk Rock & Mobile Homes, en fragmenten uit dat interview.
Stripjournalist Michael Minneboo vlogt de complete maand augustus vol, heel leuk om te volgen. Vandaag tipt hij een tekenaar die me enorm aanspreekt, Derf Backderf en zijn nieuwe comic Punkrock and Mobile Homes. De stijl doet me aan Robert Crumb denken en het onderwerp spreekt me zeker aan. Deze gaat op de wensenlijst voor de…
Last summer, we published a comprehensive look at the ways that Facebook could and should open up its data so that users could control their experience on the service, and to make it easier for competing services to thrive.In the time since, Facebook has continued to be rocked by scandals: privacy…
Source: womenlovetech.com Meet Amie. Amie doesn’t like being told she can’t do things, like taking the RFID chip out of her Tesla key card and implanting it into her arm. So she melted …
Bookmark: Leaked Draft of Trump Executive Order to ‘Censor the Internet’ Denounced as Dangerous, Unconstitutional Edict
“In practice, this executive order would mean that whichever political party is in power could dictate what speech is allowed on the Internet.”
Het feit dat er al een proefballonnetje is om de vrijheid van meningsuiting te beknotten op het web is erg genoeg. Ik vraag me wel af hoe een president dit kan bepalen voor het complete internet. Dat lijkt me toch vrij kansloos op iets grenzeloos als het internet.
Bookmark: IndieWeb Link Sharing
A pain point of the IndieWeb is that it’s sometimes not as convenient to share content as it is on the common social media platforms. Let’s improve that.
Snel en makkelijk iets delen is via Twitter of Facebook zo gedaan. Maar via je eigen site een notitie maken, dat vereist soms wat meer werk. Het leven van een Indiewebber gaat niet over rozen. Max geeft een mooi stappenplan hoe hij het aanpakt met een statische site. Wat me vooral boeit is de laatste…
mdp, tpp, and sent may not win you any design awards, but they’ll give you basic slides that you can run from a terminal.
