Cory's rousing #enshitification talk mentioned how capital always imagined the web as a kind of interactive cableTV, a series of walled gardens, reminded me of this text of mine from 2013, one of many on how the internet cam to be centralized. #39c3
public.monster/~dmytri/scratch…
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Scratch-off the Facebook logo, and you’ll find the CompuServ logo underneath.Dmytri Kleiner
In the Netherlands we had a weird law introduced a while ago: to fight sodas the government introduced a tax on all drinks, with the exception of dairy (because, you know, lobby). For some reason it was exceptionally difficult to make a distinction between sodas and fruit juice, so they got swept up in the tax.
The food industry retaliated by adding trace amounts of milk to their fruit drinks. After all, there’s no legal distinction between a milk drink with added fruit flavor or a fruit juice with added milk.
So we got this kind of nonsense: fruit juice “with a twist of dairy” to avoid the tax. Dutch innovation at its best I guess.
Do they sell these in other countries though?
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There's a new FREE Thirteenth Doctor audio story releasing this week, it joins 9 other free stories released by Big Finish! Find out more in TARDIS Guide Weekly!
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@JEkis Before doing all of this, make sure that you uninstall whatsapp that you installed from microsoft store.
First download this zip file:
drive.google.com/uc?id=12Z3kjH…
Enable developer mode in windows.
Extract the wa folder from inside the zip file you downloaded to c:\.
Open powershell and enter this command.
Add-AppxPackage -Register "C:\WA\AppxManifest.xml"
RE: mastodon.n6.io/@graham/1157896…
Great presenter too! :)
I just found an interesting video segment on PBS about the old Eureka A4 Braille computer, featuring it singing, playing music, and more. youtube.com/watch?v=84C5SFRh81…The Computer Chronicles - Computers and the Disabled (1992)
Special thanks to archive.org for hosting these episodes. Downloads of all these episodes and more can be found at: http://archive.org/details/computerchroni...YouTube
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Morgen beginnen die „3 Tage der Pyromanen“. Ab 5.00 Uhr stehen sie Schlange vor den Geschäften und werden ihre Gehälter oder Transferleistungen in knallende und rauchende Objekte investieren, um dem „Gott der kleinen Penisse“ zu huldigen und ihre paarungswilligen weiblichen Pendants zu beeindrucken.
Die #39c3-Principles-Infobeamerfolie spricht von physical & psychological circumstances — physischen und psychologischen „Umständen“.
Hier der Reninder, dass wir dafür ein Wort haben. Es ist „disability“ oder „Behinderung“. Es ist kein böses Wort. Lassen wir doch einfach die ewigen Euphemismen für und in diesem Fall auch ganz besonders der Individualisierung von solchen Problemen sein.
I'm just making a note of this because I'm old enough to remember and a lot of people aren't – I saw someone claim that Google stole the name Chrome "from Firefox's internals", which makes no sense.
Back in the early 2000s, "chrome" was common programmer slang for "user interface". Like in general. Any user interface at all was "the chrome." I have no doubt Firefox's older source code refers to it as chrome, because I'm pretty sure I was referring to UI as "chrome" in my own university homework assignments at the time.
The term became much less common after Google Chrome launched because it became too confusing. Google's own claim is that the name was inspired by sports cars, and the programmers found it funny because having less "chrome" in the UI sense was an explicit goal. Whether that's true or not: they definitely didn't spitefully steal some secret Firefox codeword???
The above post is not to be construed under any circumstances as general approval of Google and everything they have ever done ever, and anyone yelling at me about how I'm a bad member of their religion because I said this SPECIFIC accusation is ahistorical will be blocked to the moon and back.
Jetzt mache ich sogar schon als Engel auf dem #39C3 homeoffice...
(Subtitle Engel haben keine dedizierte work-area, also an der Assembly arbeiten.)
my latest blog post, which feels kinda like a work in progress, but helped me organize some of my ideas about this somewhat cryptic klezmer's mutual aid society.
alte.klezmor.im/2025/12/28/som…
#klezmer #immigrationHistory #NYhistory #MutualAidHistory #MusicHistory #ResearchBlog
With the ice storm announced... What are your plans if you lose power for multiple days? At our old house we had a firewood fireplace. But we kinda have no backup plan here :/
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✔ Say you search for something and there's a list of smart results.
You have a toggle that enables something like 'strict keyword matching' - which means any result not having those keywords will be dealt with.
👀 Catch: Keep in mind that often search results can be indirectly related to what you looking for without containing those keywords.
Question is, how would you like them dealt with?
#askfedi #userresearch #ux #ui #linux #youtube #google #browsers #webdev #enshittification #firefox #chrome #writing #cooking #accessibility
I've built a tiny tool to migrate todo.sr.ht trackers to Codeberg. Maybe it can be useful to others.
codeberg.org/emersion/srht2for…
(It's very very slow due to Codeberg rate limits.)
FOSDEM 2026 Social Web Speakers
I have been trying to create a list for #fosdem26 and realized that (ironically) most of the people in the socialweb track ... does not have a fediverse account listed there.
I am also at fault, btw, so shame to me.
If you know someone who is presenting at #fosdem26 please send them my way. I will update this thread with the list of confirmed speakers.
The Fosdem 26 social web track List:
@pfefferle
@andypiper@macaw.social
@andypiper@flipboard.com
@evan @evanprodromou
@haubles
@mapache
@darius
@bjoernsta
@django
@resieguen
@openforfuture
@iusondemand
@cwebber
@tsyesika
@zzepposs
@melaniebartos
@Pepijn
@Floppy
@tobias
@mayel
@ivan
@hongminhee@hackers.pub
@samvie
@benpate
@neiman
@hongminhee@hollo.social
Social Web Track
fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track…
Boosts are also appreciated!
P.S. Special thanks to @liaizon for the suggestions.
Biais bibliothécaire mais quand tu entends : les BD c'est cool mais 25 euros la BD ça fait chier
Solution : go à la bib on est là pour ça (entre autre)
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in reply to Dmytri • • •A more in-depth look at the forces of counterantidisintermediation, not nearly as catchy a term as enshitification, but key to understanding it underlying logic
public.monster/~dmytri/mr-peel…
#enshitification #39c3
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Mr. Peel Goes to Cyberspace
~dmytriDmytri
in reply to Dmytri • • •And the underlying Penny Bags vulnerability of why federated alternatives struggle to displace platform monopolies.
dmytri.surge.sh/spark/
#enshitification #39c3
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What is Facebook?
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