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@florimond the amount I enjoyed working with JavaScript went up my a significant amount when I gave myself permission to ignore all of the modern React/Vue/Svelte/etc stuff and just write good-old-fashioned vanilla JavaScript that manipulates the DOM

Vanilla JS is so much nicer today than it was 10 years ago!

Honestly, anything with a frontend build system these days just makes me miserable

One useful way to describe your location is to use the amateur radio QTH grid (also called Maidenhead, which is falling into disuse). It is a shorthand way to give an approximate location that (with elevation) is precise enough to be useful for #weather but doesn’t invade privacy.

https://www.f5len.org/tools/locator/

#Vancouver #YVR #BCstorm

Also, more generally, consider that institutional organizations are *much* more vulnerable to hostile action than chaotic local collectives which do not have clear operators or representatives.

It pays to store a copy in some obscure organization that's difficult to figure out as an outsider, even if they don't have professional infrastructure to support it. Deliberate censorship is the bigger risk right now, not accidental data loss.

This is a public service announcement to never ever use Oracle

This deplatforming shit continues. A friend just got her paid flowcode site shutdown because she’s using it to help activists who arrested at black lives matter protests. Flowcode is kind of a linktree plus micro crm. They’re also being refused access to anyone who will process donations because although a legal defense fund for is entirely legal and constitutionally protected.

This is important, the right to speech and money shouldn’t be limited to those whose views are acceptable to the state or a few corporations that control retail fintech.

This is why I work on Nostr.

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Global Switch Day. February 1st 2025.

Spread the word.

X to Mastodon, Instagram to Pixelfed, WhatsApp to Signal, Facebook to Friendica, YouTube to PeerTube, TikTok to Loops

#GlobalSwitchDay

you should start a bog

In this time of search engine decline and AI flooding the net with trash...

...it's time to bring back curated information. Expert reseachers and tomes of information.

This is the age of the librarian.