Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org

Old enough to remember when #YouTube was NOT Google, and was obscure enough we had to send direct links, because the usual wantonly dumb people with a (windows) computer and an (AOL) internet account did not know how to find it with a simple search.

This is a sub toot about people disparaging #PeerTube / #MakerTube and other #FOSS media streaming venues, for being relatively small, and still obscure.

@sundogplanets Maybe you already saw this article in Earth and Sky about Starlink space junk reentries every day. It quoted your Mastodon posts.

https://earthsky.org/human-world/1-to-2-starlink-satellites-falling-back-to-earth-each-day/

Still liking not using LLMs or genAI, in any aspect of my research, engineering or creative practices. Continuing to get high on interesting problems, developing myself in the process of solving them, or even not solving them and being augmented/extended/refined by insights along the way.

I don't see 'AI' tooling as empowerment. Quite the opposite.

Very pleased to have been a part of this project - a great collaboration.

My contribution, an article, was specifically on helping chart a pathway for climate-facing organisations to shift from big tech platforms to self-hosted and sovereign infrastructure.

You can download the book free, or pre-order in print.

https://tacticaltech.org/replaybook/

#climate #selfhosting #infrastructure

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. 😄

#linux #regex getting #older

here is a thing I have been working on for many months --->>>>>>

https://wwwobble.org/

👾👾👾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 :)

revolution is improbable

https://dmytri.to

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.

"The Future is NOT Self-Hosted" https://www.drewlyton.com/story/the-future-is-not-self-hosted/

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

#climate #bigtech