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You guys who travel, go to gigs, try new restaurants, watch movies, meet friends, improvise, slack, have brunch, play sports… you don’t know what you have.

I found myself this afternoon with an unexpected fifteen minutes to spare, wearing my earbuds and listening to my favourite podcasts, next to a huge department store with blissful AC, and with a Starbucks right at the entrance. I even nailed the perfect order (espresso macchiato with a little extra hot milk, only €1.90).

It felt like a luxurious holiday in Maldives. Such is my routine these days. 🤣

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To future historians—not just of computing, but of humanity—the current period will be a dark age.

How was Facebook used by students in the 2010s? We cannot show you, that version of Facebook is not hosted anywhere.

How did MySpace look around 2009? We don't really know, the Wayback Machine only shows a limited amount of static content, and there may only be a few surviving screenshots

What correspondence did Vint Cerf have as president of the ACM with other luminaries of computing industry and research? We do not know; Google will not publish his emails.

What was it like playing Angry Birds on an iPhone 3G? We do not know; Apple is no longer distributing signed receipts for that binary.

What did the British cabinet discuss when they first learned of the Coronavirus pandemic? We do not know; they chatted on a private WhatsApp group.

What books were published analysing the aftermath of the Maidan coup in Ukraine? We do not know; we do not have the keys for the Digital Editions DRM.

How was the coup covered in televised news? We do not know; the broadcasters used RealVideo and Windows Media Encoder and we cannot read those files.

We have to ask ourselves how we are going to preserve and transmit knowledge about our age to the next generations. Knowledge about an age where information is produced, consumed and discarded within hours, days or months, or where it's only stored on the server rooms of a handful of corporations, with no guarantees that those businesses will exist in the future, and with no way of accessing that information unless a certain set of regulatory, hardware, software pre-conditions are met.

That's why projects like the Internet Archive deserve more recognition and funding. That's why web scraping should not only be a civic right, but a civic duty to the next generations. Otherwise all the knowledge about the great age of information will be transmitted orally - with all the distortions that such transmission implies.

deprogrammaticaipsum.com/the-d

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RT @ceolinwill@twitter.com

Open-source alternatives to popular products:

- Figma: @penpotapp@twitter.com
- Google Analytics: @PlausibleHQ@twitter.com
- Notion: @appflowy@twitter.com @Boostnoteapp@twitter.com
- Slack: @Mattermost@twitter.com @RocketChat@twitter.com @element_hq@twitter.com
- Zoom: @jitsinews@twitter.com
- Airtable: @baserow@twitter.com @nocodb@twitter.com
- Calendly: @calcom@twitter.com
- Mailchimp: listmonk

🐦🔗: twitter.com/ceolinwill/status/

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RT @NASA@twitter.com

It's here–the deepest, sharpest infrared view of the universe to date: Webb's First Deep Field.

Previewed by @POTUS@twitter.com on July 11, it shows galaxies once invisible to us. The full set of @NASAWebb@twitter.com's first full-color images & data will be revealed July 12: nasa.gov/webbfirstimages

🐦🔗: twitter.com/NASA/status/154662

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Dear Linux desktop apps, you have full authorization to create a folder in my ~/.config directory, you are even invited to stuff your data in my ~/.local/share directory, and let's not forget about that ~/.cache y'all! Wunderbar! Much freedom!

So, now, please repeat after me:

👏 I 👏 SHALL 👏 NOT 👏 MAKE 👏 A 👏 FOLDER 👏 IN 👏 YOUR 👏 HOME 👏 DIRECTORY 👏

Thank you kindly

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I needed to shave my beard in order for the stupid AI of my bank app to realize I'm the same person as the one on my ID card.

This is why we need crypto and self-custody. Not your keys 🔑, not your beard 🧔‍♂️ !!!

It feels great to stumble upon an post validating your own idea:

“I’m disappointed that no one has ever tried expanding the concept to things outside health care before. It’s not that I think it will work. It’s that I think it will fail to work in a different way than our naive opinions fail to work, and we might learn something from it.”

slatestarcodex.com/2013/05/02/

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Since our goal in #life is maximising {well-being, quality of life, happiness, flourishing, utility} both for us and in the universe as a whole (no...
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Even better:

“You can put a on anything if you try hard enough (number quality not guaranteed, see store for details).
Once you put a number on something, you improve your understanding and decision making (even if the number isn’t of prime quality). At the core of this belief is the idea that the world we live in is made of , however literally you decide to take that statement. Whenever a field of achieves any useful knowledge of that world, it is usually in form of precise mathematical equations or careful . Every science is an exact science, or trying to be.”

putanumonit.com/2015/11/03/002

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Everything is quantifiable, and should be quantified. Everything is a #measure or can be measured. #Science can study anything, and #mathematics i...

Real-life example of my point:

“Here’s the Economist’s 1843 cover story on how I used spreadsheets to make sense of dating and polyamory. Here’s the New York Times article on how my wife and I used spreadsheets to pick our apartment. Somehow the simple idea (not remotely original to me) of taking the simple tool of decision matrices out of the office and into life choices is enough for worldwide fame.”

putanumonit.com/2020/03/18/med

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Everything is quantifiable, and should be quantified. Everything is a #measure or can be measured. #Science can study anything, and #mathematics i...

de () ha dedicado la última media hora (al menos) a hacer apología de desobedecer las leyes, dando una plataforma y alabando a personas concretas que han sido detenidas, identificadas, retenidas durante unas horas y multadas por desórdenes, resistencia a la autoridad y otras faltas. Animando a la audiencia a actuar así para mejorar el mundo e incluso como antídoto contra la depresión. En , medio público. ¿Alguien va a dar explicaciones?

rtve.es/play/audios/el-bosque- — 3/7/2022

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