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#philosophy question: do you think information can exist outside of an interpretation structure? for example, is the ink on a page “information,” or is it only once it enters a mind? (this is not really about the nature of cognition or any of that, we could be talking about chemical signals and insects, or protein markers in cells… just using text/reading as an easy example)

it's one of those cases where every single problem is easily fixable, except there's another layer underneath that prevents that easy fix from working. That layer also has an easy fix... except there's another layer underneath that

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I wish we would dream new dreams instead of yearning to retreat to a nostalgia-infused trad-core digital culture. New dreams matter, because this lost internet is a lie. Its aesthetics and traditions were conceived in the halls, offices and garages of the very companies that control, surveil and ruin the world. Why would we want to go back to the start, knowing where it goes and how it ends?

TIL that the scp command does not, by default, compress files it transfers, and that you need to add the -C flag to make it do that, and by doing that I have sped up my transfer speed about 40x, and without this knowledge I have probably wasted literally days of my life waiting for things in the past.

Forcing myself to adapt by putting away my main keyboard and using just my mini one and my speech to text.

Still not as fast as my typing speed but I'm at least way faster than on my phone's keyboard.

Today is #GAAD Global Accessibility Awareness Day. Here at Accessible Android, our mission is to raise awareness that Android is an accessible operating system and empower Android users around the world to get the most out of their devices. Since we launched in English, we have written 41 tips and tricks articles, added 43 apps to our app directory, and defined over 50 terms for our glossary. We are fully committed to do more for the community.

Does anyone know of a way to resolve the version of a post from yhe HTML URL without relying on the Accept HTTP header? Like an HTML meta tag or similar?

😫 Tired: Google deleting old YouTube accounts

😃 Wired: Uploading to @internetarchive

When Cerberus catches his own tail: Cereboros.

oh nice: an interview i did on behalf of cabal came out while i was traveling! we start with the general idea of the project and later dive into some detail on the new protocol development happening this year :3

youtube.com/watch?v=5s6IaF5Q3J

@michael "You may wish to consider implementing hCAPTCHA yourself to protect your own instance,"
Please note that if you do this, it will prevent many blind people from signing up onto your instance. hCAPTCHA does not have an audio version; instead, if you cannot complete the visual version for whatever reason, you have to give them your email (!), so they can send you a link to a site for setting an accessibility cookie.
This cookie frequently does not work at all. It has a time limit before you can set it again, so if it fails to set, or if you close the browser and have automatic deletion of cookies enabled, as you should, you'll just have to wait. And of course, it only works within browsers, not applications; Discord is an excelent example of a non-passable captcha.
Enabling application signups is a much more accessible way of avoiding spam. If this is something the admin team cannot handle, it is time for going invite-only.

check out this cool article on how to connect peers between different networks.

socketsupply.co/guides/#p2p-gu

I'm honestly so happy I sat down and made this car2dot library. It's made it so much easier to debug stuff.

npmjs.com/package/car2dot

The world is bad on purpose, friends

It isn't some principle of nature that makes the world bad

The cruelty is intentional

Which means we can fucking stop them

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