Alex Schroeder 🐝 @kensanata@octodon.social

Do we have a directory of Fediverse podcasters? Maybe we should start one? If there is not, add yourself here:
https://communitywiki.org/wiki/Fediverse_Podcasters

The Latvian Radio Choir singing Rachmaninov's All-night Vigil, Op. 37 "Vespers". The best music for crying and programming, both at the same time. Here I am, tears streaming down my face, thinking about some data import into an Oracle database. And I keep thinking: this is the time we live in. Crying, chagrined, as the world slowly turns into a swamp.

"I’m feeling small because all these giants are standing on my shoulders!" – me, when thinking about copyright

A reminder of why I think deleting old posts on social media is important: "I don’t think they have much value going back months and years. I never read through years of tweeting history! This only benefits your enemies, never your friends." https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2017-04-27_Record_Keeping

Hm, a simple static file server written in Go sounds cool…
https://github.com/ethanpil/sheret

Me using EWW in Emacs to read articles people on fedi link. Not bad! Specially since hitting R gives you a kind of reader view without all the navigation stuff at the top.

Wikipedia is awesome but I still don't know why the fly crossed the flat…

«The New World primary screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax), once a major pest in southern United States, has been eradicated from the United States, Mexico and Central America through an extensive release program by the USDA of sterilized males. The USDA maintains a sterile screwworm fly production plant and release program in the eastern half of the Republic of Panama to keep fertile screwworms from migrating north.»
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliphoridae

«At the end of each leg is a pair of claws, and below them are two adhesive pads, pulvilli, enabling the housefly to walk up smooth walls and ceilings using Van der Waals forces. The claws help the housefly to unstick the foot for the next step. Houseflies walk with a common gait on horizontal and vertical surfaces with three legs in contact with the surface and three in movement. On inverted surfaces, they alter the gait to keep four feet stuck to the surface.»
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housefly

On my blog, somebody suggested Wiby.
“… the web became saturated with commercial pages that overcrowded everything else. All the personalized websites are hidden among a pile of commercial pages. Google isn't great at finding them, its focus is on finding answers to technical questions, and it works well … many pages today are created using bloated scripts that … mask the lack of content available on them … the blandness of today's web.”
https://wiby.me/about
https://wiby.me/

Our flat has two balconies. Strangely enough, flies seem to a preferred direction: they always like to enter by the one balcony looking south east and end up in the room on the other side. Why can't they leave the way they came?

Is there a browser extension that unlinks the biggest corporate sites from all web pages? That would be interesting.

I compiled the Odysseus browser by @alcinnz and it was surprisingly easy to do on my system.