I think my philosophy when making software is that it should work for people with zero money or no bank account / credit card.
I know it's not a popular mindset to be in since money and profit is everything in the tech world.
I think it comes from growing up as a kid with no disposable income or access to anything but my shitty computer.
I'd rather support people with almost nothing than people with latest and greatest tech gizmos and spare cash for subscription services. 😅
DWeb Without P2P Browsers: Bridging Protocols and People by @akhileshthite
🎥 Watch the talk here:
https://archive.org/details/dweb-weekend-conference-2025-day-2-all-presentations-playlist/08+-+Akhilesh+Thite+-+DWeb+Without+P2P+Browsers+Bridging+Protocols+and+People+-+DWeb+Conference+Day+2.mp4
Also, check out some of the incredible projects and talks from the @dweb Seminar 2025, held at the @internetarchive 🏛 in San Francisco!
Explore the full playlist here:
https://archive.org/details/DWeb-Seminar-2025?tab=collection
lmao lichess gives you a full tutorial for various ad blocking options on the modern web
TIL that https://bird.makeup also has Instagram and Hacker News support! I really want the insta bridge so I can ditch the insta algo and have my usual cross app lists like I do with Matrix chats.
"LLMs allow dead (or non-verbal) people to speak" - spiritualism/channelling
"what happens when the AI turns us all into paperclips?" - end times prophecy
"AI will be able to magically predict everything" - astrology/tarot cards
"...what if you're wrong? The AI will punish you for lacking faith in Bayesian stats" - Pascal's wager
"It'll fix climate change!" - stewardship theology
Turns out studying religion comes in handy for understanding supposedly 'rationalist' ideas about AI.
I think many people misunderstand the purpose of code review. The purpose of code review is not for the reviewer to find bugs, and certainly not for them to ensure that the code is bug-free. Anyone who depends on code review to find bugs is living in a fool's paradise. As everyone should know by now, it is not in general possible to find bugs by examining the code.
The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be _hard to maintain_. The reviewer looks at the code and tries to understand what it is doing and how. If they can't, that means it will be hard to maintain in the future, and should be fixed now, while the original author is still familiar with it.
Im making a blog for #sciop because we keep doing dope shit and not writing it down. Putting a call out for guest artists who want to contribute fake GeoCities era banner ads
Switching to Linux, an analogy
@kianga reading this as someone that has never managed to run Windows for more than a few months and runs Linux ever since they started using computers (not counting macOS for a year) is very weird
I like, to use the same analogy, enter the apartment, spend the whole time trying to make the lights change to the precise color I want by hooking into its wiring and then giving up after a week of failure, installing like 20 locks on the door to make the landlord stop coming - after the previous 19 locks were broken, there's now a laser trap and a trap with hungry sharks and the landlord still somehow manages to get in
When I get tired of this and the electricity dying in the middle of me working or cooking and shutting down all of the lights and everything, spoiling the food in my fridge, I give up, blow the apartment up and move to my cozy cottage in the woods, which is currently resembling a Hello Neighbor house moreso than anything else, and some random thing collapses in an on itself every few days, and the breakers pop every month, but at least I can cook and work in peace. Mostly.
For anyone interested in contributing to an #OpenSource web browser, check out our "good first issues" project board to see if there's something you'd have fun working on.
What's fun about making a web browser is I can add a TODO to have this feature 😄
https://github.com/AgregoreWeb/extension-agregore-renderer/issues/14
New recording of me presenting how the #P2P stuff works in #CoMapeo by @awana.digital
Logged into twitter for the first time in at least a year and it was neat to see who was still posting regularly. Out of the hundreds of accounts I still followed only 4/5 posted this month, two were "popular" accounts that were now getting way less engagement, and others were folks that seem locked to specific communities (VR/Crypto)
Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Yap with me and send me cool links relating to my interests. 👍