Alex Schroeder 🐝 @kensanata@octodon.social

Hey everybody (yes, both of you @thaj and @kensanata ) who bought my game Petition, I've uploaded videos to teach you how to play!

See them at http://mixedsignals.ml/games/petition or on Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/301484236 and https://vimeo.com/301484823

Solo play vids up next.

Yesterday I was looking up cybergoth fashion but today the BBC has an article about an off-the-grid community near Ullapool and my ridiculous self is sitting here like "that sounds cool, I would be fine without the internet in my life, coolcoolcool"

Hello crofter friends let me live in your community, I am DEFINITELY a super strong swimmer and will not immediately drown and/or break my ankle upon arrival to your lands.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-45046023

#SolarpunkReporting

In 2014, when Sierra Leone was hit by the Ebola outbreak, three local software developers kept the country's infrastructure working by rewriting it to #FLOSS. They saved hundreds of thousands lives when companies like Google and IBM backed off, calling the project too risky.

https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7561-how_open_source_software_second_hand_laptops_and_hackers_helped_stop_ebola_and_stopped_an_apocalypse

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/30/software-developers-helped-end-ebola-epidemic-sierra-leone

And their own recollection of the events with some technical descriptions:

https://medium.com/idtlabs/how-open-source-software-helped-in-the-fight-against-ebola-788bb3ca2bf0

Hey kids! I decided to upgrade to Mojave a couple days ago.

The process erased the second internal drive where I archive all of my files.

I have a backup.

If you don’t have backups, GET BACKUPS.

Happy 50th birthday, #Forth language!

I just deleted all my #mastolists They really were too hidden to be useful. I hope there are some feature improvements to make it more accessible.

"I Found the Best Burger Place in America. And Then I Killed It." by Kevin Alexander https://www.thrillist.com/eat/portland/stanichs-closed-will-it-reopen-burger-quest

This is fascinating. The internet has so much power to concentrate attention, but being the focus of attention isn't always a good thing, as in the case of restaurants.

Ooooh there's a movie out called "A Private War" about the war correspondent Marie Colvin.
If there was a "Dark Saint of War Correspondents" Marie Colvin would be it.
She was nearly killed several times, seriously wounded a couple, and she was killed through a targeted assassination by the Syrian Government.

'Rich experience' ... 'make our site a richer experience' ...

Ugh! website makers need to stop with the capitalistic terms and experiences NOBODY WANTS.

An honest good experience would be NO TRACKING and NO POPUP/CLICK-TO-CLOSE shit in my face at nearly every fucking website I try to visit.

It's really getting tiring. I don't even like using the web anymore. A necessary evil.

Where is the the wardrobe door to the Narnia web, where no tracking, cookies, marketing, boolsheet exists!?

"In some places in the world if you have the wrong telephone number, or a particular telephone number in your contacts list, then a flying robot will drop a missile onto your house or onto your wedding. You don't even need to be a terrorist for that to happen. Just someone who bought the wrong refurbished phone in a local shop, or a friend or relation of the person with The Telephone Number. "

https://blog.freedombone.net/chatting-by-telephone

US Justice Department accidentally reveal that they're charging Julian #Assange. What an absolute joke guys. Just leave poor mate alone. #security #privacy
https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/indictment-wikileaks-julian-assange.html?m=1

Happy, International Day of Tolerance! 🙂

The typical climate/society discussion now:

It's not me, it's my neighbor.
It's not our country it's their countries.
It's not we poor, it's those rich monsters.
It's not we middle-class, it's the uneducated.
It's not us voters, it's the politicians.
It's not the left, it's the right.
It's not country folk, it's city slickers.
It's not the greens, it's the reds.
Etc, etc, etc.

This is the root of the problem, nobody accepts that 'we' is collective, that enviro is undivided.

We never will.

Extremely impressed with gitit, the wiki software that I am using as a personal diary/notebook for the past few weeks. I am using the web interface. It doesn't have too many features. The memory usage of the program is very low and it is very responsive. If anyone has needs to maintain a personal wiki, definitely give it a try.

“The one wonderful thing about blogging from your laptop is that you don’t have to deal with other people. You can broadcast alienated, disembodied, disassociated murmurings into a people-free void. You don’t have to run something past an editor, or frame your argument to an established group of subscribers. You just say what the hell you want.”

— Andrew Sullivan in Slate (2002)

It was a simpler time.