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Back after giving myself a month away from Fedi.
I'll attempt to curate my experience much more, starting with this account and instance.
I want comfy things in my life - I don't need to be adding stress and angst from my online interactions. We can do better. We should do better. Including myself.
My interests cover #tech, #photography, #biking, #motorsport, #fountainpen, and other things I will no doubt need to add here when I remember.
I touch computers in my spare time and self host things. Oh yeah so #selfhosting I guess.
In my other spare time I renovate my house and do #DIY stuff.
Oh and I (used to?) play music. #Guitar I still have and sometimes play, #Saxophone I used to have a couple of decades ago, I had 6 months of Drum lessons, and played Bass for our school band in Rockquest in the late 90's.
I have never done anything that cool since.
Oh I live in New Zealand, Aotearoa.
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Profile pic by @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article591/cat-bird-fenestar-abstract-avatar-generators
#nobot #NoBots
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petersuber
petersuber@fediscience.orgTim Berners-Lee (@timbl) explains why he gave away the #WWW for free.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/28/why-i-gave-the-world-wide-web-away-for-free
"For the web to have everything on it, everyone had to be able to use it, and want to do so. This was already asking a lot. I couldn’t also ask that they pay for each search or upload they made. In order to succeed, therefore, it would have to be free. That’s why, in 1993, I convinced my #CERN managers to donate the intellectual property of the world wide web, putting it into the public domain. We gave the web away to everyone."
But he adds:
"Today, I look at my invention and I am forced to ask: is the web still free today? No, not all of it. We see a handful of large platforms harvesting users’ private data to share with commercial brokers or even repressive governments…Trading personal data for use certainly does not fit with my vision for a free web."
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@mike @ferds they also did https://youtu.be/WdGmydR715Q which i quite enjoyed.
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kaia
kaia@brotka.st
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nixCraft 🐧
nixCraft@mastodon.socialThe AI bubble is the only thing keeping the US economy together, Deutsche Bank warns: When the bubble bursts, reality will hit far harder than anyone expects https://www.techspot.com/news/109626-ai-bubble-only-thing-keeping-us-economy-together.html
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Reasonably sure Mastodon peeps like libraries and might like a peek at this wowzer I stepped into today.
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@fribbledom
Thinking about
> As a nice bonus, when I re-wrote [a Rust program] myself the resulting program ends up being over 2,000 times faster. This is with no algorithmic wizardry or special tools. I used a dynamic language with garbage-collection and relied on blog posts I found on the internet to guide me in designing the thing.
https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/lasso.nytpu.com/share/1CB5AD8F/
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muesli
fribbledom@mastodon.socialWannabe devs: "Garbage collectors are too slow, I need total control of memory."
Also wannabe devs: writing a todo app with 27 dependencies that eat RAM for breakfast.
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Felicitas Pojtinger
pojntfx@mastodon.socialMastodon now works on Servo 👀 That def. wasn't the case as of like a week ago!
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Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)
jaredwhite@indieweb.social🚨 **BREAKING NEWS** 📣
The creator of the most popular #OpenSource #Rails application as measured by GitHub stars (Mastodon), none other than @Gargron himself, has signed the “Plan Vert” open letter calling for Rails Core and the #Ruby community to cut ties with DHH.
The symbolic importance of this act *cannot* be overstated. This is HUGE. Mastodon is approaching Rails itself in stars with 49.1k vs. 57.6k.
This and more in my latest #RubyCentralTakeover update here:
https://jaredwhite.com/articles/ruby-central-is-not-operating-in-good-faith
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lain
lain@lain.com
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