Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
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I only just now just discovered this site:
https://explainshell.com/
which along with this one https://regex101.com/ which I've used for some time have to be among the most useful resources out there for #sysadmin and #programming.
I am reminded of that old #Einstein attributed quote about not trying to remember everything when it can be looked up -
I certainly find that as I'm getting less #young I don't remember all the possible options to ffmpeg anymore. 😄
Extract:
There was a time when we did not build walls around our wells.
We knew the water was for the village, for the traveller, for life itself. [..]
Then, strangers came from across the seas. [...] and said, "Why walk to your own well? Our pipe gives sweeter water, and it is free."
And we, entranced by the ease, began to thirst for their water. We forgot the taste of our own. [...] To remember our own history, we asked their scribes for the telling.
They called this pipeline #Google.
There seems to be quite some #LLM #hallucination right now about a continental internet exchange for #Africa.
I think I might have come across the inspiration for those #hallucinations
https://the-numinous-scroll.ghost.io/reclaiming-the-internet-well-by-well/
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here is a thing I have been working on for many months --->>>>>>
👾👾👾Wobble Web visual && code editor for making small websites👾👾👾
It is still very much in progress, but I would love to hear from you if you try it out or have ideas! I will reply to this thread with more details :)
From the presentation of the 1st report of #Mexico's six year term headed by #Presidenta Claudia #Sheinbaum:
"The dark night of #neoliberalism, a model that established that the state should not intervene in development nor concern itself with the redistribution of wealth, but simply create a favourable environment for business, is now a thing of the past; the experience of those decades demonstrated that this idea was totally erroneous."
(my translation)
There's a QR code on a poster on the door of #PanConMadre. Seems to be advertising a multi-lingual get together; QR code has this url: https://qr.me-qr.com/gb0ucGae
Now, that seems to be some kind of MITM advertising serving service, (successfully blocked by browser), but I can click a "Skip ad" button and get redirected to this URL: https://www.instagram.com/luditalk/ in which there is a thumbnail that appears to mention a language exchange event in #Oaxaca. Clicking that leads me to this screenshot. 😕
#whatsapp is not public infrastructure.
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Hi journalists! Before I start targeted emails to journalists I've talked to before, I'm just going to put this out here and see if it works:
Now that Reflect Orbital https://www.reflectorbital.com/ has officially filed to launch their first satellite, does anyone want to write an article about what a stupid, useless, potentially destructive and harmful idea this is? I would be happy to be interviewed about all the ways this is a very very bad idea and why I'm absolutely livid that they're launching.
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"The Future is NOT Self-Hosted" https://www.drewlyton.com/story/the-future-is-not-self-hosted/
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Google's impact on our climate is so bad they can't even hide from their own numbers:
"Google’s own data makes it clear: the corporation is contributing to the acceleration of climate catastrophe, and the metrics that matter – how many emissions they emit, how much water they use, and how fast these trends are accelerating – are headed in the wrong direction for us and the planet,”
- Nicole Sugerman, Campaign Manager at Kairos Fellowship.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/02/google-carbon-emissions-report
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If you're on here and hearing your friends say they're going to #BlueSky 'cause they're “getting better reach” — remind them what always happens next.
They lure people in with engagement, then shadowban, censor, and sanitize once the politics get too real — especially when it comes to #Palestine.
Investing time and energy into these corporate-lite platforms is a trap. We’ve seen it over and over: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok — now BlueSky. It’s the same playbook with new branding.
Mastodon isn’t perfect, but at least it's not selling you out the second you speak truth.
Tell your people: don’t chase numbers. Chase liberation.
#FreePalestine. Always. 🖤❤️💚✊🏽
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When we do it: ‘shaping the narrative.’ When they do it: ‘disinformation.’
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I woke up at 1am and the auroras were amaaaazing!! It was a bit smoky, but the auroras were so bright it didn't matter. I just stood there, soaking it up, while a barn cat purred and rubbed on my legs, and Starlink satellites drifted through the storm. Eat protons, Musk!
I also recently got a used old phone that can actually take decent night photos (unlike my phone, and yeah, I should get a real camera, I know).
So! Enjoy my totally unprofessional aurora photos!
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Book Launch in Berlin at 19:00 on 31.05
at the Freifunk Wireless Community Weekend held at c-base.
Further details at https://www.networkcommons.org
Armin Medosch began documenting self-managed local networking initiatives with his book Freie Netze, published in 2004 (German only). He iteratively developed The Rise of the Network Commons in draft chapters published on his website The Next Layer before his untimely death in 2017.
'The Rise of the Network Commons' is a cultural history of wireless community network projects that spread from their origins in London, Berlin, Vienna, and Copenhagen to Spain, Greece, North and South America, and Africa. The movement drew together a panoply of technical, social, and artistic hackers in the development of new computational and social technologies. Medosch develops a twofold thesis: that involving non-experts in building a network commons has a profound emancipatory effect on the participants, while also contributing to a radical democratisation of technology. In community, we begin to shape future technologies to serve local needs rather than commercial interests. Only growing in relevance since it was written, The Rise of the Network Commons reminds us how we build the data/information/knowledge commons – by becoming sovereign neighbours of practice and expertise.
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El mapa d'allotjaments AirBnB a Barcelona és el mapa d'una plaga que no para d'estendre's.
19.422 habitatges
El 32.0% (6.222) operen sense llicència
El 75.2% (14.601) dels anuncis son de gent que gestiona més d'una propietat.
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Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
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