@erlend Are there enough solid users out there that this would be worth the effort? Like, are there a lot of queer furries actively making use of solid that aren't already on mastodon/etc?
Tomorrow's DWeb meetup will be hosted by @mai with talks by:
* Kevin Nguyen about our DWeb Node organizing work
* Bruno Vianna about DWeb+Coolab Camp
* @mauve + fauno of @sutty about Distributed.Press
* David Casey of Funding the Commons
* Guo Liu about ZuSocial Hacker House happening this month in Istanbul
We'll end with an informal hang on Gather.town
Hope you can join us !
I stumbled upon Standard Ebooks last year, and they're awesome! If you have a common type of e-reader for books, you can pick up books from them that have gone past their copyright dates.
I read some Voltaire and Herman Melville from them last year and their formatting is fantastic.
Gonna start pasting the entire bee movie script whenever a marketing chatbot pops up while I'm trying to read a page.
For reference: https://pastebin.com/raw/e90ZUNtD
Hopefully they get billed per word.
@makeworld Oh yeah good point.
For anyone curious here's an article about how bookmarklets work and an example of how to turn that script into one:
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-are-bookmarklets/
```
javascript:(()=>document.body.parentElement.style.filter="invert()")()
```
@todrobbins Lol! That's exactly what I use it for. I've had to use gmail cause of work and it's been a major sore every time I open my tab. :P
Been thinking of getting an extension or something together to auto-inject this based on domain.
Low key wish Github would stop adding features. The changes this year have made things way slower and more buggy. Now I have the pleasure of the "submit review" button not working anymore which is a pretty big chunk of my job. :P
It could be related to my ad blocker not letting them log every single action I take to their analytics though.
A German court has just declared a "Do Not Track" #DNT signal from your browser as legally binding, pursuant to Article 21(5) #GDPR. https://www.vzbv.de/urteile/gericht-untersagt-datenschutzverstoesse-von-linkedin
Useful bit of #JavaScript code I keep handy in my devtools buffer:
```
document.body.parentElement.style.filter = "invert()"
```
This will apply a color inversion filter on an entire page so that you can force a dark mode on sites that don't ssupport it. (e.g. Google's suite)
@j3rn @lpil Yup! All day every day. Usually with a head mounted display (I use the Rokid Max) or docked. I use it handhend to do web browsing and code reviews.
Been working on making my text to speech scripts work better for coding cause the on screen keyboard ist great for it.
love the keybinding customization. Got my setup with most functions at a my fingertips
The nature of life right now is that you can wake up on any given day and discover that a giant corporation or maybe just one very rich man has taken something important away from you,
and there's nothing you can do about it,
and there will be no consequences for them at all
i finally got the xreal airs working on my 2017 laptop (through an adapter) and now i can lie down and comfortable use my computer, and this changes everything
i really like this tech
making this setup mobile will be devine (the internal battery on my laptop is fucked so i can't actually close the lid or move it around easily)
lying down is the best way to use a computer and i don't think you can change my mind. up next is a foam mattress in my study room for comfy computer usage :^)
@jalcine @ajroach42 So! I helped operate one of the _early_ wireless ISPs (1996) and I have thought about this a _lot_.
I think it looks like a discord, more or less. That's the right social shape. Possibly several discords, since towns are too big to have cohesive _single_ social structures.
It looks like a library, too. Or a shared network drive. Or a simple web page. Maybe that looks like dropbox.
You need more radios than that if you're using wifi. The blind client problem is a _huge_ problem over larger-than-building-size distances: wifi nodes will talk all over each other if they can't hear their peers (which if you add distance or directional antennas, becomes true)
But it's still a small enough problem now that a single person with a tech salary giving up their Xbox habit would not struggle to fund the whole thing without difficulty.
The biggest problem now is getting people to use it, instead of centralized services. You have to either have it be a network of last resort, a hobby project with interested nerds being the main users, or lucky enough to make it compelling socially so that people abandon Facebook etc for it.
But it's such a worthy project. And a hell of a lot of fun.
With the technology that is available today, we can build a network that spans a neighborhood wirelessly, without infrastructure.
We can adjoin nearby neighborhoods with nothing more than the thoughtful placement of an antenna (and a radio, of course, and perhaps a solar panel and battery if required for the thoughtful placement.)
We can *easily* cover our small town. I'm betting we can do it with 3 nodes, but it might take as many as six. That's fine, every participant can be a range extender (and vice versa).
We can cover our community with a free to access network, all you need is a radio, and we should be able to build those for $30 or less.
Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.