twistedonion @twistedonion@octodon.social
yes, I'm here from #metafilter because I already don't waste enough time on screens
@Leucrotta Just love a bit of Tom! Gospel Train for noise, in the colosseum for good old lovable husky Tom! Not as noisy but I always imagine singing “that feel” at the top of my lungs at 4 in the morning after a bottle of whiskey or two.
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These smoking cubicles in airports are so stinking, great design to encourage not to smoke. Feel like a zoo animal. Not that it stops me... god I'm so weak willed
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Starting to get into the whole 360 video streaming caper, last nights immersive tech ni meet up, sounds rubbish at the start but had the mic facing the audience... rookie! https://youtu.be/1S025juu-n0
@ardgedee yeah quite possibly. There wasn't a hint of fruit or sweetness. I was just expecting a bit of a refreshing alternative. Think I'll wait and try another one at my local coffee house.
@ardgedee bought it on a whim, not a fan of cold drinks but I half expected a nice filter coffee taste, but cold. This just tasted muddy... like instant coffee cooled down. Not pleasant in any way.
Do people really drink this cold brew coffee shit because they enjoy it? Love my black coffee but this... pure evil!
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(Like I said, I don't know where I'm going with this line of thought.)
Current notions of democratization of the Web are focused around how to equalize and liberalize access to privatized resources (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) or how to make alternatives to those resources (Gnu Social/Mastodon). But that's all about the complications imposed on users due to subscribing to specific tools.
Democratizing the building of the web now is probably impossible. The sites have become The Hard Problem.
@ardgedee won't take you long, the simplicity is something I miss. Back when the web had the potential to be a free form zone of individual communication. No ads, no "ai", no real analytics. Just markup and a hope that what you put out got read.
Anyone could learn a bit of HTML and get some space to create. Now everyone is guided through closed systems. Who leaves Facebook these days to explore the web? I'd bet it's a minority. Content creation is mostly done through a third party service now.
@ardgedee did you see Radiohead have resurrected their 97 site for the rerelease of ok computer. Blast from the past. Was one of the sites that made me pick up a book on HTML
Not a cloud! A rarity in Belfast, happy Friday!
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If you ever code something that "feels like a hack but it works", just remember that a CPU is literally a rock that we tricked into tinking.
One of my clients is a small #charity helping kids in #Madagascar, if you can support please do, you would think clean water would be a human right
http://www.adsumfoundation.org/latest-news/Clean-and-safe-water-programme-~-funders-needed
awesome little hamburgers
Some #typography #trivia as follow-up to yesterday's post of found #Lithography stones from the America satirical magazine Puck.
Did you know in 1881, they introduced what are now considered the earliest known #emoticons in the English language?
:D ... err ...😃 https://octodon.social/media/7UUVbOp39QI3txUCBFw
The Inequality Project: The Guardian's in-depth look at our unequal world.
'Over the coming year, the Guardian’s Inequality Project will try to shed fresh light on these and many more issues of inequality and social unfairness, using in-depth reporting, new academic research and, most importantly, insights from you, our audience...'
https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/apr/25/inequality-project-guardian-in-depth-look-unequal-world-equality
@bseymour it has just given me an idea of what to do with an old makey makey I have lying around, strips of foil or something down the side of the monitor to flip tasks. There's a weekend project that'll probably never get done!
twice now I've tried to support https://www.wikitribune.com - keeps crashing... really do like the idea and hope it succeeds!
