tripu @tripu@qoto.org
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
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You know what’s awesome? Every time I use my 1970s Hi-Fi stuff I just turn it on and it works.
There’s no updates to download and install, no notifications to swipe away and no Bluetooth that needs reconnecting.
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Can't connect to the Force. #grickledoodle #starwars #internet #darthvader #cartoon #scifi #art #drawing #funny
More personal #stats of #2023, this time #tasks completed on #RememberTheMilk (#RTM)
/ Loistava
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My sincere wish for the new year is that every maker of how-to videos instead of writing concise articles gets demonetized.
Pocket sent that to me by e-mail a few days ago. I tried to find the same stats on https://getpocket.com/ to no avail.
What do #LinkedIn and #WhatsApp have in common?
(Yes, they are both horrible opaque tools with no respect for user #privacy, usability or web standards that we wish we could ignore altogether but we can’t because they are so popular. I mean apart from that.)
Answer: in both cases, one can hide a good part of their profile and their activity by tweaking the settings appropriately and by not giving in to threats of missing features in a passive-aggressive tone.
More (sometimes minor, sometimes questionable) “good news” of #2023:
Related: One hundred things that went well this year (some whimsical, some debatable): https://www.gapminder.org/news/100-positive-news-from-2023/
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Bring back self-hosted blogs, reinstall a feed reader, make your feed icon prominent on your blog. Blogs + Atom/RSS is the best decentralized social media system we've ever had!
And yes I am saying that as co-author of ActivityPub: self hosted blogs is the best decentralized social networking we've had
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I don’t think developers truly appreciate the fragility of software until their first run-in with an obscure file format for which the only converter in existence was written by one guy in college in 2003 and released as source only with no comments and requires applying a patch to a library to compile, but it’s not for a release version, oh no, it’s for a very specific SVN revision from a long dead server
@inwit indeed!
I was smart in the previous millennium.
#Electronics of my first trimester in #college.
There are ~ 21 ongoing #wars (conflicts consisting in the use of armed force, between two or more organized armed groups, and with ≥ 1,000 combat-related deaths in current or past year):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts
Without looking it up: how many wars are going on in the world right now? (Yes, the number is debatable. Think “armed conflict”, “armed force betwe...
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One hundred things that went well this year (some whimsical, some debatable):
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
