Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org

#OFFDEM will take place next to #FOSDEM next year.
A small group of folks are gathering to organize a nice cosy family event again. Thanks to @how and @natacha and their teams for organizing the last ediitons.

Orga is slowly forming and it is an early stage announcement. So, if you want to join for orga, we will start soonish :)

@EU_Commission We used to have a decentralised Internet in the 90s. It was called "the Internet".

i tweeted last week about how "if you're uncomfortable with being the admin of on-prem gear, moving things into the cloud doesnt make things better" - welp. here's your sign:

Only it has come to life. Stuff of nightmare!

Berlin being what it is, there is an art installation happening outside my door that looks scarily like my office cable box #charged #strausbergerplatz

Supposed AI-only 'Twitter', for the entertainment of humans in nihilistic fascination with our self-obsolescence.

Beyond Turing and computational rationalism, I do wonder how much of this is disaster vanity, the 'OMG we created a monster'.

How long?

https://chirper.ai/

Wahrheit über Dummheit

* Make software that works on older devices, the older the better.
* Make software that will keep on working for a very long time.
* Make software that uses the least amount of total energy to achieve its results.
* Make software that also uses the least amount of network data transfer, memory and storage.
* Make software that encourages the user to use it in a frugal way.

#FrugalComputing

VC's feces
n. pl. – electronic waste from abandoned investment schemes (i.e. bricked IoT devices, app-based juice squeezers, derelict bikes and e-scooters)

Perfect, I don't see problem. No cookies, no Ads.

"We’ve reached internet saturation point. Even so, we are ever more hooked on screen time. Can we find other ways of conceiving of and relating to the internet that leave space for thought?"

Read this piece by @AlbaLafarga for @CCCBLab. https://lab.cccb.org/en/no-thoughts-head-empty-would-digital-disconnection-be-a-utopia/

I’m quoted today in an EdTech article “Satellite Broadband Brings Internet Connectivity to Remote Locations” that explores how low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite systems could potentially help connect the unconnected and close the digital divide. A key question I raised was … will these systems actually be *affordable* to the people that need them most. I think there is great potential, but also great challenges.

https://edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2023/04/satellite-broadband-brings-internet-connectivity-remote-locations

#InternetAccess #Starlink #LEOs #satellite #Internet #OneWeb

This morning I woke up and the time on my (non-connected) wrist watch didn't match up with the time on my phone (or my partners phone and her smart watch). A quick search on the internet seems to confirm that the time on my Casio is the correct time.

We would have been an hour early for our bus, if it wasn't for my "dumb" watch.

I'm still unsure what made our phones change the time like this. They are both android, but a third android phone kept the correct time, so it's not all android phones...

We are in Mexico on holiday, and Mexico recently stopped with daylight savings, so maybe that hasn't been updated properly in android?

Changing my location to Belize, a country that keeps the same time zone and also doesn't change their clocks gives me the correct time. This will have to do as a "fix" for now... 🤷

1990s web experience

- Open site in browser
- Watch framework of site gradually appear
- Start reading site text
- View images once they load
- Click a hyperlink to more information on the thing you're looking for

2020s web experience

- Open site in browser
- Wait for Cloudflare to verify you aren't a bot
- Wait for background movie to load
- Dismiss cookie popup
- Decline to subscribe to their mailing list
- Decline to speak to a chatbot that promises it's a human
- Scroll infinitely looking for the information you want that's probably not there since it's all generated text intended for other robots to read anyway